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I’m looking for a sofa or living room chair that isn’t the usual foot lower than regular chairs. Do such things exist? What are they called?
Roxie Staudt liked this
To what end? Because of tallness?
- Meg V. Meg
I think so: I never feel comfortable and resort to squirming or sitting in regular chairs when I should be living the high life on a cushioned seat. I see a lot of deep sofas a such, but never raised stuff.
- Mark Trapp
Is it a fireworks holiday today?
Mark Trapp liked this
How should I rearrange my apartment?
- Meg V. Meg
Every time I go to Apartment Therapy, I end up at The Kitchn. It's useless.
- Meg V. Meg
Seriously, fireworks left and right.
- Meg V. Meg
Part of me is intrigued by the challenge of crafting the most boring ffeed around.
- Meg V. Meg
:)
- Derrick
Big Bang Theory on, thank god.
- Meg V. Meg
According to the Wikipedia, it's the 1,655th anniversary of the battle of Strasbourg, which would be reason enough for fireworks, but it's also the 1,562nd anniversary of Pulcheria's ascension to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire, Uruguayan independence day, the 96th anniversary of the creation of the National Park Service, Belarusian independence day, and the 32nd anniversary of Zimbabwe joining the UN.
- Mark Trapp
My money's on Belarus. Thank you, Mark Trapp!
- Meg V. Meg
29 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2091 deletions(-) — Today was a good day (for code cleanup).
Nothing beats a 4-insertion day.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
The ban on tweet aggregation on other social networks will definitely create a consistent UX for me: I’ll consistently stop using Twitter.
Spidra Webster, Gimminy, Stephan Planken and 4 other people liked this
What happens on Twitter, stays on Twitter.
- Meg V. Meg
Unless it's a government request. Then it leaves Twitter 63% of the time.
- Mark Trapp
Touché.
- Meg V. Meg
"In the end, I’m encouraged by the example of Jesus, who was blistered by his critics for dining with..." - http://marklr.com/post...
“In the end, I’m encouraged by the example of Jesus, who was blistered by his critics for dining with those some considered sinners; and by the recognition that, if I only sat down with people who agreed with me, and I with them, or with those who were saints, I’d be taking all my meals alone.” - Cardinal Dolan, on why he invited both presidential candidates to the Al Smith dinner.
- Mark Trapp
Dear people creating form validators: the ‘+’ character is valid in email addresses; please read RFC 5322 §3.2. Kisses, Mark
Roxie Staudt, Goro Prask, Ha3rvey #teamMonique and Stephen Mack #TeamMomo liked this
A few years ago I had to phone someone from the state because his form wouldn't allow four-letter domain suffixes (and we had been .info for a few years by then).
- Betsy #TeamMonique
Slightly related rant: people, please update your zip code files. My zip code split *years* ago and there are still websites that don't recognize my new zip. And some websites refuse to update their list, even after I notify them; e.g., petfinder, whom I told two or three years ago and hasn't updated yet.
- Betsy #TeamMonique
ZIP code lookup off of old data during validation? Oof. If it's critical that the ZIP code exist, they should just query USPS's database. But even then, you screw over people outside the US who don't have ZIP codes. I always try to use the least restrictive validation possible on forms: checking for XSS/SQL injection/etc. and letting people use whatever they want. If they don't want to enter real data, that's their prerogative: just confirm the data before submit and/or let them change it themselves later.
- Mark Trapp
Okay Portland, you broke 100° F today. That’s enough of that.
Welcome to the New Global Climate Order.
- Spidra Webster
SPOILER ALERT
- Akiva
Spoiler alert: my apartment is as hot as Hades right now.
- Mark Trapp
"Quick question: How much of a man's heart do you have to eat to fully absorb his Klout score?" http://twitter.com/badbana...
o_O
- John (bird whisperer)
3/5
- Meg V. Meg
I'll tell you, but first you'll have to connect via Facebook and/or Twitter, and then agree to let me post on your timeline.
- Mark Trapp
did you know that L. Ron Hubbard was a poet, lyricist, writer, master mariner, composer, performer, horticulturist AND a photographer? he did it all!
Mark Trapp, Eivind, Kelli H. and 2 other people liked this
He is like Tyra Banks!
- Chris Z.
You forgot Eagle Scout.
- Meg V. Meg
from fftogo
You are not in LA right now, right?
- Meg V. Meg
from fftogo
heh. no, i'm not. just reviewing the latest books they are trying to donate to the library.
- holly #ravingfangirl
Awesome?
- Meg V. Meg
IT'S HIM.
- holly #ravingfangirl
There's a whoooooooole lot of controversy surrounding this movie. The Church of Scientology is pissed.
- Akiva
He also goes well with a tuna casserole!
- Mark Trapp
With the crushed up potato chips on top? Aaaaah, bliss.
- Akiva
This is the most consistently eventful nature cam I've ever watched: http://explore.org/#!...
jambina, Christina Pikas, Starmama and 6 other people liked this
THE BEAR NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING
- kendrak
dude, he is scanning scanning scanning scanning doubletake scanning scanning scanning
- Meg V. Meg
and he's caught 2 fish in the last 15 minutes
- Meg V. Meg
the bird left
- kendrak
perhaps I should not have gotten your hopes up.
- Meg V. Meg
Dang camera zoomed away just when the first bear was mangling the fish. How am I going to get any writing done tonight.
- Heather
Yum, sushi.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
Have now managed to get my friend Margaret totally hooked on Bear Cam
- Hedgehog
ooh, nom action going on right now!
- Marie
LOL, stupid salmon.
- Marie
INORITE
- Meg V. Meg
There are eight of them now.
- Meg V. Meg
Jump, bear on the left! Do it! DO IT.
- Mark Trapp
Worst video game evar.
- Meg V. Meg
Looks like the salmon have settled down for the evening?
- Meg V. Meg
They came back - there are 8 again, and one just caught a fish. Go bears go.
- Marianne
10! eesh. and they are getting overcrowded and smacking each other.
- Marianne
Wow, what a find!
- Amit Patel
Now I don't need to go to Alaska.
- Amit Patel
If you haven't registered for Quora, the answers are blurred out. It turns out this is all done client-side, in CSS…
AJ Batac liked this
That's a really silly policy. And a highly suspect implementation.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
I've not registered because it requires a Facebook account…
- Amit Patel
Quota requires a FB account? I don't think it used to, because after Quora blocked me due to name issues, I appealed using Facebook account that I had later modified to appease G+ blocking me.
- Tinfoil 2.0
from iPhone
Quora originally required a Facebook account, but then they opened up to allowing Twitter accounts, and finally local accounts. The local account option is somewhat buried, though: you have to click on "I don't have a Facebook or Twitter account." Do Quora pages show up Google's index? Seems like a form of cloaking.
- Mark Trapp
Quora just stooped to Experts Exchange level sliminess.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
I'm moving Fury to a certain new journo-blogging platform and need an icon. Which one speaks to you? http://twitter.com/kfury...
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Louis Gray, Micah, Morton Fox and 3 other people liked this
The bomb or the flame
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
What Alex said. I love those old-fashioned bombs. Remind me of every silent film comedy or cartoon I've ever seen...
- Spidra Webster
Bomb. It says "fury" to me.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
I like the satellite because it hearkens back to *old* fury.com which now only persists in the blog's favicon. But yeah, the bomb is a leading contender.
- Kevin Fox
I didn't know that was a satellite. I "read" it as a bee.
- Spidra Webster
If you could iconify a storm or Samuel L. Jackson, either of those would also work well :D
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I *do* like the cheese icon because I want to see how many people think it's supposed to be a pie chart or cake when anyone who knows me knows it has to be cheese.
- Kevin Fox
For the record, the first one is 'wind'. Not a single person liked that one.
- Kevin Fox
Didn't know it was supposed to be wind.
- Spidra Webster
I liked 'wind' although I thought it was 'trombone' and I've never connected any of the brass instruments with the emotion of fury. But I will now.
- Mark H
I like the flame, because when I think of "fury", I think of fire. Also for the alliterative potential. Fox, Fury, Fire, Flame. Feter Fiper Ficked a Fair of Fickled Feppers.
- Mark Trapp
I like the strawberry. When I think strawberry I think critters eating them and that makes me furyious.
- Todd Hoff
I LOVE LAMP (but flame is really good too).
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
What Stephen Mack said.
- Bruce Lewis
from iPhone
People, Kevin's moved on to round 2! http://friendfeed.com/kfury...
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I tried to take the L back to the city, but then an insane woman was discharging fire extinguishers and throwing them in trash cans (in the tunnel where I was walking from the airport to the L), so instead I took a cab with a stranger from the tunnel (and her dog Molly) who turned out to live 4 blocks from where I was going.
John (bird whisperer) and Mark Trapp liked this
Why does Wikipedia insist that it's 'L' and not "L"?
- Meg V. Meg
It's been a very strange day.
- Meg V. Meg
Have they booked you on a new flight? Sorry you're caught here with the storms.
- Hedgehog
No worries! My flight's at 8 in the morning. The crazy fire extinguisher lady has distracted me from any potential annoyance.
- Meg V. Meg
Apparently it's because the Chicago Transit Authority uses 'L', and the bureaucratic machine that is Wikipedia has decided that the CTA has exclusive rights to specify what it is called: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Mark Trapp
Fascinating.
- Meg V. Meg
TIL about ETags. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Now if only servers and browsers would use them to avoid duplicate downloads. (@meangrape @samuelclay)
Bruce Lewis and Stephen Mack #TeamMomo liked this
That bit about tracking seems nefarious.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
It's not that clearcut: it's currently functionally impossible to use ETags effectively for most non-trivial web server configurations due to how they're constructed by Apache and IIS (possibly other servers too, but I don't have experience with them). Yahoo! has a brief overview of the problems: http://developer.yahoo.com/perform... but the current best practice is when in doubt, disable them because improperly configured ETags are worse for web performance than avoiding their use.
- Mark Trapp
It drives me nuts when the lyrics pages are clearly wrong.
Tinfoil 2.0, Derrick, Kirsten and 2 other people liked this
I AM OPEN TO THE IDEA THAT I AM MISTAKEN but seriously, this is not right
- Meg V. Meg
Wait, you mean to tell me that the Beatles didn't write a song about a girl with colitis going by?
- Mark Trapp
What's that one Perl Jam song where he just mumbles most of the time? (no, the answer isn't all of them).
- Blake
Smells Like Teen Spirit?
- Meg V. Meg
Tried to save a graphic, accidentally made a Pixar. Don't know what to do with these billions of dollars in revenues now. #firstworldproblems
Anil Tortop, Rodfather, Laura Norvig and 12 other people liked this
Oh no! :(
- Eivind
I mean the taxes alone!
- Micah
Finding Nemo was better. *kanyeshrug*
- Steele Lawman
True facts: the Pixar image format was designed for the Pixar Image Computer. The Pixar Image Computer is what Pixar made and sold before technology advanced far enough so that it could start making the type of films it wanted to make.
- Mark Trapp
I can't get over the fact that Microsoft PR decided this was the *best* picture of the shoot. - http://www.appleinsider.com/article...
Peter Fedin, Louis Gray, gryzzly and 16 other people liked this
Seriously, click through to see the full size.
- Kevin Fox
from Bookmarklet
he looks über creepy.
- Jonathan Disher
Consider the source material.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
"UNCLE FESTER WANTS YOU!"
- Spidra Webster
What's with the stairs? They couldn't find a neutral background for a picture of the CEO?
- Mark Trapp
N-Y-Ceeeeeeeeee! What is it about yoooooooooou?
- Josh Haley
Those stairs were edited in afterward. They went through a dozen different background images; it's hard to find something that makes Balmer look good. Stairs do it.
- Andy Bakun
This is begging to be captioned.
- Andy Bakun
"The weird thing is, I nodded to Ballmer and climbed the stairs. He never turned his head -- BUT HIS EYES FOLLOWED ME THE WHOLE TIME."
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
I can imagine him yelling "Developers, developers, developers" right after this photo was taken.
- imabonehead
The only thing that would make the picture more awesome is to see Bill Gates maniacally releasing mosquitoes from a jar up on the stairs.
- Josh Haley
Is it mean that I want to put a lightbulb in his mouth to see if it lights up?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Embalmer and the Stairway to ________.
- Adriano
I'd say "Stairway to Seven" but I'm too late.
- Kevin Fox
Why won't Mitt Romney answer a few simple questions? http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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DiGiorno's Pizza And Cookies Combo Is Watershed Moment In American Obesity - The Consumerist - http://consumerist.com/2011...
Kelly, Elena, RAPatton and 6 other people liked this
"DiGiorno is rolling out a new combo box that includes both frozen pizza and a batch of Toll House chocolate chip cookie dough. While you heat up your pizza, why not also make a side of cookies? The only thing this is missing is a side of lard dipping sauce. Yes, you would dip both products in it."
- James Ferguson
from Bookmarklet
Yet, it will likely sell.
- Derrick
I don't get how this is so bad. Nobody is forcing you to eat the whole pizza and all the cookies in one sitting. The lard dipping sauce is a pointless joke. Gonna heat up the oven, use it for both.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
I will try to mix the two.
- James Ferguson
I'm with m9m, this looks highly convenient to me.
- Jandy
i think i just gained 15 pounds by reading this thread.
- Hieronymous Boosh
m9m, So a meal which consists solely of carbohydrates/sugar and fat is good? Problem is most people WILL eat the whole thing.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Everybody has a pizza night sometimes. And you can add a salad. And you can eat the cookies another day. Just sayin.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
I don't see the big deal either. it's like Papa Murphy's that has the cookie dough for sale right there at the register (for those of you who have Papa Murphy's).
- holly #ravingfangirl
I don't see the big deal. Most people eat much worse for a super bowl party or pizza night. It's not encouraging people to eat it every meal.
- Trish R
There's serving sizes printed on the packaging for a reason, folks.
- Akiva
Nutritional facts label from DiGiorno Pepperoni Pizza: http://www.dietfacts.com/html...
- Jeff P. Henderson
Nutritional facts label from Nestles Toll House Cookies: http://www.dietfacts.com/html...
- Jeff P. Henderson
Akiva, who eats only one serving of pizza or cookies?
- Jeff P. Henderson
Perfect case of "This is Why You're Fat", but not because it combines cookies and pizza, but because it plays to the very real notion that there are people who, after making it to the frozen food aisle to get their frozen pizza, can't be bothered to walk the extra 30 feet to the other aisle and buy a box of cookies. "It's so convenient!"
- Mark Trapp
Jeff, I do. I pay strict attention to serving sizes. I've lost over 20 pounds because of it. When snacking, I try to stick to around 100 calories regardless of serving size. So, for example, when I eat some Reese's Minis, I eat half the serving size.
- Akiva
+1 Akiva
- Todd Hoff
Akiva, you are probably in the minority. And congrats on weight loss! I don't think the general population is as adept at counting calories or eating one serving of food. I think that is obvious by the rapid increase in the obesity rate in the US. I have found as I get older it is way harder to lose weight than it use to be. I've lost 8 lbs since 1-1-11 with a goal to lose 22 more....
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- Jeff P. Henderson
I like both these things. Now if they had made a pepperoni pizza on a chocolate chip cookie...
- Jason Toney
Jason, here you go... http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes...
- Jeff P. Henderson
I bought this tonight, except it came with a thing of frozen cinnamon sticks with frosting. I felt GUILTY and also HUNGRY.
- Rochelle
Published works containing 'sup with' which meant 'to eat an evening meal with' prior to 1999: nearly 100%. Number of tweets with that meaning today: almost 0.
Morton Fox, Stephen Mack #TeamMomo, John (bird whisperer) and 2 other people liked this
Sup with that?
- Mark Trapp
Evidence: http://books.google.com/ngrams...
- Steele Lawman
Excellent, thanks, Steve. Mark, inorite?
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
FriendFeed could really use a spam report button. I try to check back every once in a while but seeing spam everywhere that I can't one-click destroy makes my visits short. If wishes were horses though, right?
Surehy Breter, rob friedman, Rochelle and Stephen Mack #TeamMomo liked this
Where are you looking? My feed is pretty free of spam.
- Spidra Webster
I never get any spam.
- Friar Ticket to Ride
You could use hide for one-click destroy, no?
- Ross Miller
Spidra, Friar: everywhere. http://friendfeed.com/friendf... for example is full of it.
- Mark Trapp
Ross: not for comments :(
- Mark Trapp
Look at my wish, my wish is amazing...
- Josh Haley
There are a few people deputized to remove spammers. I know Alex Scoble and Akiva are, so I usually DM Akiva and then he nukes the spammer.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
You can report spam here http://friendfeed.com/friendf... It's not one-click, but...
- Spidra Webster
Spidra, Stephen: yeaahhhhh.... I know I can write up a post to report spam, but every other site has spoiled me, and that seems like a bit of a bother. :/
- Mark Trapp
Johnny: just an example. I see comment spam on ex-FriendFeeder posts, too. If the solution is to unfollow anyone or anything that gets spam, the terrorists have already won.
- Mark Trapp
Good point, Mark, but at least it's better than nothing?
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I block spammers when I see them, which isn't often.
- Bruce Lewis
Stephen: Perhaps. Maybe someone (read: probably me) could create a user script or browser extension that adds a spam report button to everything and auto-submits a report to the room.
- Mark Trapp
Well, it's a good deal cleaner now. I have to say that in the areas I hang out in on FF, I see very little spam.
- Spidra Webster
In the last 15 years, I've waited in line overnight twice: For the original iPhone and for Star Wars: Phantom Menace. Glad one was worth it.
Bruce Lewis, Micah, Anika and 4 other people liked this
I agree: 1999 was the perfect time for a movie about interstellar trade disputes.
- Mark Trapp
^ IT'S A TRAPP!
- Micah
Strangest email I've received in a while:
Starmama, Rachel Lea Fox, Larry Hosken and 6 other people liked this
"Dear Mr. Fox, Please thank me for sharing your FriendFeed this afternoon! Please send an e-mail today, and I will chat with you very soon. Love, Mark"
- Kevin Fox
Might be a broken English FF CAPTCHA password reset problem help desk 'call'.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Hey I Just Friended You, And This is Crazy, But I Shared Your FriendFeed, So Thank Me Maybe?
- Kevin Fox
Did you thank him?
- Brian Johns
My reply: "I don't understand what you're talking about."
- Kevin Fox
For the record, this was not me. I only close emails with "Very truly yours, Mark <3".
- Mark Trapp
What advice do you have for me?
Morton Fox, Kirsten and Stephen Mack #TeamMomo liked this
be awesome.
- holly #ravingfangirl
Don't eat yellow snow.
- kendrak
Be just and fear not. http://www.rockymusic.org/showima...
- Jason P
Never spit on your shoes
- maʀtha
Wear sunscreen.
- Yolanda
(Martha, why would I spit on my shoes? nevermind, maybe I don't want to know because then I'll be tempted to try it)
- Meg V. Meg
Remain calm, collected and cool. Wicked cool.
- Chris Z.
Don't trust whitey.
- Steele Lawman
stay the course
- Jason - The Opaque
Don't let it whup ya.
- Stephen le Francoeur
Be happy, be healthy, Eat Cheerios.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
Don't trust advice from the interwebs.
- Todd Hoff
Be selective in what you get pissed off about, because most things aren't work the energy you exert in being pissed off.
- Chris Z.
Last December I did a workshop on blogging for environmental studies academics. Not surprisingly we talked about the wisdom of confronting serious policy & political issues online. One of the profs put it rather nicely, originally in Spanish but apparently translated into: No enemies, no honour. In other words, be brave.
- John Dupuis
Learn to bowl without irony. Change something. You’re never too old to wave at firetrucks. Do something. Stop putting it off. Don’t be afraid of the deep end. Be lucky. Tell your friends you love them. You can’t be friends with everyone. Get started. Lean on me. Know time is precious. Don’t trust a profile pic. More times than not, you will be judged by your shoes. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. Good Advice - Easy to give, tough to follow, easy to find on the internet.
- Blake
Go easy on yourself.
- Marianne
Drink good beer.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
Always fornicate between clean sheets and spit on a well-scrubbed floor.
- laura x
Always look for the white man getting rich -- that's whose fault it is. You can make a pretty good estimate of a person's character from the nature of the things that make them angry, and from the way they treat people who are in no position to help or harm them. And finally, never take advice from weirdos on the internets.
- Bill Hooker
When the new data spinners in the Edit Universe project room start working—fabricating their worlds on the huge organic comp systems—if you see the "Abort, Retry, Fail?" prompt, *always* choose "Retry".
- Mark Trapp
Look before you leap.
- Tinfoil 2.0
from iPhone
He who hesitates is lost.
- Tinfoil 2.0
from iPhone
When the thought police come knocking on your door, think "I'm not home."
- Le Slip Anglais
Learn to appreciate all that you have. Don't take anything or anyone for granted. In the blink of an eye, it could all be gone.
- April Russo
Go with your gut.
- Chelle Chelle Ro Ro
Evacuate your bowels at every reasonable opportunity. (Also, I'm copying Blake's advice and putting it on my wall.)
- Louise "Weezy" Alcorn
¡YOLO!
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Many hands make light work.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Don't talk back or you'll get grounded.
- Rochelle
Never argue with an idiot. Someone may not be able to tell the difference between you.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
That explains why I never argue with myself....
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
The problems in every relationship (work, love, family, etc) are caused by differences of expectation, usually caused by a lack of communication. Don't blame or take blame for uncommunicated expectations. Communicate clearly about those expectations, and then move forward.
- Eric Sizemore
Smell the milk if you're not sure.
- Chelle Chelle Ro Ro
Always listen to the elders... like say... ^^
- Blake
So several hundred completely naked people on bikes just rode by my apartment. Ah, Portland.
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Apparently, I'm mistaken: the naked bike ride is *tomorrow*. Tonight was some other major bike ride with lots of people screaming and playing bad music. Hard to tell what's what at night. It's all part of Pedalpalooza 2012: http://www.shift2bikes.org/cal...
- Mark Trapp
Yup. World Naked Bike Ride tomorrow. I think enough of my fellow citizens that I'm *not* participating.
- Spidra Webster
Blame FriendFeed - http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...
WoH: Professor MOTHRA, Francisco Euzebio da Cruz, Pat Hawks and 26 other people liked this
"Remember: I blame FriendFeed for this, and Robert Scoble, Steve Rubell, Dave Winer, and all the rest of the puppets and ex-Techcrunch analysts who, by appearing to rationally debate the pluses and minuses of FriendFeed versus Twitter, suggest FriendFeed even exists in the absence of Twitter. Nik Cubrilovic doesn’t help either with his cogent (except for the Rails part) analysis of Twitter’s scaling problems. Nowhere in this debate (most of it mercifully hidden forever behind the FriendFeed black hole where conversations go to die) was there a word spoken about the fatal Track bug until Jack hit the Off switch. Now, in the cool clarity of no pulse whatsoever can we begin to rationally approach a solution. Forgetting that Hillary has shown no indication of processing the similar lack of pulse in her White House aspirations, let’s put the blame for all this squarely on the parasite API suckers and their dark master FriendFeed. Good."
- Paul Buchheit
?
- Paul Buchheit
I accuse my parents (a little MST3K humor)
- Mark Dykeman
My guess is that a good deal of folks who are otherwise technology experts haven't yet mastered the "Hide" option, and seeing Twitter in FriendFeed makes them feel it's simply an echo chamber for Twitter. Hiding Twitter, and/or utilizing the many other sources that are not Twitter here in FriendFeed makes it more valuable.
- Louis Gray
Someone pass around what Steve Gillmor is smoking. That is some heavy stuff he's got in his stash. I think I counted 10 words he seriously made up for that post. And why is friendfeed to blame for the XMPP/Jabber shutdown?
- Mark Trapp
WTF? This guy reminds me of Gary Busey, but angrier, if that's even possible.
- April Buchheit
This article simply doesn't make any sense. Please reword for clarity.
- Eric Florenzano
This is very amusing :-)
- j1m
I was afraid when I saw "?" there. And now...no comment... :S
- Erhan Erdoğan
Is he kidding? I hope he's kidding. FriendFeed exists with or without twitter. In fact, I would love to see twitter removed from FriendFeed altogether. Guaranteed there would still be plenty of conversations revolving around the links shared, the pictures posted, etc.
- EricaJoy
I don't follow Twitter at all on FriendFeed. I find it somewhat ironic that one of Steve G's big passions was (is?) "Attention Metadata" and FriendFeed via likes, comments, etc is actually a service that makes great use of attention metadata!
- Robert Seidman
I enjoy that this Friendfeed post has more comments than his post on TechCrunch.
- Mark Trapp
This is the most buzzword-laden web 2.0 rant I have ever read. It's like he is making words up to describe stuff every other paragraph or so. And.. what's this jab at Clinton in the middle? How random.
- Phil Glockner
FriendFeed direct posts are really similar to Twitter in my mind.
- Hutch Carpenter
@Paul can you share the percentage of FF users that hide twitter posts?
- EricaJoy
Gillmor refuses to realize that the comment feature of FriendFeed does indeed add value that Twitter lacks. That's probably the key reason why I MOVED MY conversations to FriendFeed! Also, the sharing feature is the reason why I like FriendFeed! IF I merely wanted the 'stream of consciousness' of Twitter, I would just use Twitter! I think that FriendFeed 'exposes' the 'chinks in Twitter's armor'
- Thomas Ho
from fftogo
It sounds like Gillmor hasn't given FriendFeed nearly enough time if he thinks it's only "Twitter, but slower". I have a great time on here with Twitter hidden half of the time. If anything, let's blame Twitter for so much noise and/or so much conversation due to their issues
- Andrew Dobrow
FriendFeed can definitely make it without Twitter...so many conversations occur without Twitter being involved at all.
- Chris Rossini
That... made no sense to me. Still dazed from the insanity of it all. I see more conversations here on links and such than on tweets. And really, why is FriendFeed to blame for the Jabber shutdown? Seriously!
- dgw
Hilarious
- Aviv
Twitter is probably the least interesting feed I see on FriendFeed.
- Adam Thorsen
funniest ever on tc
- kosmar
This whole article was most undirectional article, I have read in recent times. I read it twice, and can't make out, what he want to say.
- Varun Mahajan
Adam, same here. I personally find the vast majority of twitter messages to be extremely boring and of no use to me.
- Aviv
Where are these "siloed conversation spamyards" to which he refers? You could say that about any chat system (if I understand his rather obtuse meaning) and FF discussions are quite cogent and open. (And seem especially so if you've ever spent any time in the Digg comments.)
- Nicķ
I usually keep the Twitter FF feed open. FF is definitely NOT the only app pulling on Twitter's API. Hundreds of sites, clients, etc?. Twitter had (maybe has) time to distinguish itself. Just 'come clean' with regular community updates. (PR time?) So far it's been lame. In the meantime, there's no doubt Friendfeed will continue to increase it's pull. Twitter put the API out there. THEY need to deal with the results, whether they were ready or not
- Charlie Anzman
FriendFeed is what you put in to it. If you add all your Twitter friends and nobody else, FriendFeed will appear to be Twitter with siloed conversations, but in that case that's exactly what you asked for. If you don't add a thousand people as friends and convince a thousand people to follow you then you won't see any of this 'spam graveyard' Steve talks about. You get what you ask for, and irrelevance is what you get if you add irrelevant friends.
- Kevin Fox
It's also worth noting how much FriendFeed thrived when Twitter had its difficulties this week. That would seem to put a hole in the argument that FriendFeed is primarily a downstream service to Twitter.
- Kevin Fox
Yea Cat fight !!!!
- viki saigal
OK friendfeed is NOT twitter. Its something else, and I like both. (sticks out tongue)...via feedalizr
- Photo Larry
He shouldn't drink before writing for TechCrunch
- Alejandro
man, I honestly care jack shit about what people post on Twitter, but I find FF incredibly useful. Gillmor is seriously off his rocker with this post (which is the least legible I've seen on TC in a long time).
- Chieze Okoye
4 years passed, all the comments are still valid. #humdaybumpday
- Ahmet Yükseltürk
Friendfeed Is Going To Kill Google Reader, Not Twitter - http://www.loiclemeur.com/english...
Jeroen De Miranda, hiroshimo, Dimitar Denev and 27 other people liked this
Interesting. Very interesting.
- Warner Crocker
Very True Loic you made it very clear how easy it is to follow the comments!!
- Paul
FF only works as a feed reader if you like "river of news". If you don't, then it isn't good enough.
- Ian Betteridge
from twhirl
I will not follow you on that one. A think both have very different missions. GReader really is a tools while FF is also a communication device
- Eric Sausse
from twhirl
it has already replaced it for, right now I'm going through some 4 days old posts in gReader, I tend to stop by there less and less
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
from twhirl
With out google reader or twitter, FF would not be what it is today. Remember it's a big circle jerk. I do not see FF killing google reader nor twitter any time soon.
- Mike Fruchter
when will we be able to like comments? :)
- Tim Hoeck
FF certainly doesn't have enough people talking about every single topic I subscribe to. I'm glad you guys aren't preachers at a church, the end of the world would have supposedly been last week.
- Shawn Farner
For me, Google Reader is an even more essential part than Twitter of my FriendFeed experience. So ... as said before... FriendFeed will _not_ kill Google Reader or Twitter, etc. What is happening, however, is that often, the items in Google Reader are arriving after I've already read them via FriendFeed.
- Louis Gray
These things always go on through June. Then we have the killing. Or something like that.
- Michael Markman
Eric Sausse, you have a good point, you cannot add just a feed in Friendfeed, they first need to be registered there and added their feed. But FF could add that very easily, adding feeds from people who are not in FF. Then it would put pressure on them to finally jump into the bandwagon
- Loic Le Meur
I agree with Louis & others - GR feeds FF for me.
- R. Ferguson
You can "just add" a feed in FF -- check out the imaginary friends feature
- Brian Sullivan
FF lets you publish your *filtered* google reader shared items, together with other stuff, to make an impression of you and your interests. That's how I see FF: almost a snapshot of a personality. For me GReader is a tool that you can use to filter items into your FF.
- IanBlackburnold
Brian Sullivan, thanks I was wondering the imaginary friend thing! now I know. Here we go, no need for Google Reader anymore...
- Loic Le Meur
yeah, I wont use FF for all of my feeds, I am subscribe to way too many and have already my routine with it. FF is more of a discovery + conversation experience for me
- Gilbert Corrales
from twhirl
Ian, right: I don't want people to form an impression of me based on my subscriptions to D:Listed, TMZ, The Superficial, and Perez Hilton, unless they are really really important, then I'll share the story. And now I've tipped my hand. But anyway: there's a community for feed discovery already: Tuluu. GReader + FF is about what's interesting from the feeds.
- Mark Trapp
I'm with the GReader feeding FF crowd on this one. I use GReader to get the news I want and FF to share it and create conversation. FF is a great discovery tool but I still read a ton of stuff in my feeds before it appears on FF. The UI is set up better for conversation rather than just information digesting IMO.
- Devlin Dunsmore
@devlin I agree... i'm finding it very hard to read pages and pages of link/comments on FF.
- Gaurav Sikka
I hope FriendFeed doesn't kill Google Reader. I find them both vital but I couldn't substitute one for the other.
- Kevin Fox
Again, this isn't going to happen. Services don't always have to exist just to kill other services. Especially ones that do different things
- MG Siegler
its funny season on t'internets
- Jamie
FriendFeed adds much value for me, but the only thing it's killing is time and maybe Scoble's marriage. I wish Loic would work on something more productive like getting Apple to make Seesmic videos work on the iPhone!:-)
- Robert Seidman
We like having a choice for everything we do, but on the other hand, we expect (and sometimes hope) one choice to kill another. No wonder the world can't live in peace all together ;)
- Turker Keskinpala
I never liked Google Reader's UI, but I feel right at home with FriendFeed.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
So true, but time flies too fast when im on friendfeed, i cant stop reading and sending messages! Great conversations though!
- Scott Purdie
going to have to disagree ... couldn't possibly get through all my feeds via FF - just too many for the FF interface
- timepilot
Google Reader is a feed reader, FriendFeed is a feed generator. Sorry, they serve completely different purposes (at least to me). No killing here.
- dgw
friendfeed doesn't allow me to categorize sources, nor can I tag or flag specific feed items in a way that makes it easy for me to refer back to later. for al the hype about friend feed being where the "conversation", it seems like a really poor utility for that. I see that on this blog post alone, the "conversation" is distributed across friendfeed through google shared reader posts, twitter references, disquss comments. The techcrunch "Twitter" post is even a better example. fractured conversation.
- bernie
agreed FF no replacement for reader
- ben rogers
from twhirl
When will folks realize FF is something NEW? IT isnt goign to kill much of the other stuff.
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
would love keyboard shortcuts for FF too
- Loic Le Meur
FF is useful as a human filter on the old echo chamber of tech but could never replace a feed reader. gReader shared items into FF is part of the signal for me, but, not a replacement. Much like RSSMeme and it's FF filter. And then there's the twisty bit where I read FF via a feed readier in the first place ...
- Ashton
I'm still new to FF, but I like the search function that Google provides to even the oldest of the feeds. Not sure I would want the number of feeds I subscribe to coming through to FF. I like the combination of posts and conversation along with a few updates from other services like flickr or Digg. I think the 'conversation' would be seriously degraded with the addition of a number of RSS feeds. I would need to see how well FF handles growth before moving from Google Reader.
- Brenda Young
I think you were right. #humdaybumpday
- Ahmet Yükseltürk
Search for zerg rush in Google. I'll wait.
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Only fools zerg rush in.
- Micah
Why can't I like comments here?!
- Mark Trapp
EnderRain - http://marktrapp.com/project...
One of the most annoying "features" of Minecraft are Endermen's reaction to weather effects: if they get caught out in the rain, they take damage (great!) and randomly teleport within a 32 block radius of their location (boo!). This causes situations where endermen will randomly appear in your normally ultra-secure lair and steal your stuff. This mod disables this behavior, and comes in two flavors.
- Mark Trapp
Google+ has deleted my blog images - Google Groups - https://groups.google.com/a...
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People losing years of photos from Blogger/Picasa, when signing up for Google+.
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
Just happened to a good friend of mine. Another reason I don't want to put all my eggs in one basket. :(
- Amit Patel
Whoa.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Much as I'd like to plug a competing photo sharing service (one with blogging built in), I bet Google is going to recover those images.
- Bruce Lewis
Bruce, it doesn't look like it: https://groups.google.com/a... and https://groups.google.com/a...
- Mark Trapp
Whoops. Maybe not.
- Bruce Lewis
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