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for the record, currently installed on one of my machines: windows, SliTaz, FreeBSD, Slackware, Vector (light), Mint, Sabayon

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I keep meaning to try arch, revisit the other BSDs, and perhaps give opensolaris another whirl... what, me, addicted? - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

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I wanted to have triple-boot Windows, FreeBSD and Linux on my main portable some time ago. I gave up on that and just opted to have multiple machines. I wanted to have my netbook dual-boot Ubuntu and OS X, but gave up on that, as well. Have you played with OpenBSD? - MiniMage, sheeple of FF

not in a very long time except a for playing with BDSAnywhere - although I was very tempted with 4.5 and might just jump in when 4.6 comes out. To put all 3 on a machine does take a lot of planning, what with BSD's slices being so different (is OSX similar in that regard?). There's a good step by step somewhere, including allowing to store user files on a shared partition/slice, but... more... - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

I was mostly trying with BootMagic ages ago. I then moved to virtual machines, but I could never get X to work in a Linux or UNIX VM. I concluded I just suck and stuck with dedicated machines [now tempted to slap another 2.5GB of RAM in this desktop and try again]. - MiniMage, sheeple of FF

I have virtualbox and quite a few work, x and all - the ones that don't I suspect 5 minutes reading the settings would fix it. Not enough ram on my machine to do anything but explore (or take screenshots to document install process etc.). Although if your main OS is a unix or linux, you can just run the other distribution in any generic VM and have the X server started, but not log on... more... - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Are you sure you have enough OS on that machine? - Richard A.

It's not all on one machine... SliTaz and Mint are on the mininote (although Mint will go, probably - put it on to get access to debian packages to test apps, but it is too monolithic for my taste) - FreeBSD is on the server. Vector and Sabayon (and windows) are on the gaming laptop, and Slackware (and windows) on the old Desktop PC. - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

I like simplicity, i.e. BSD, Slackware, SliTaz (I'd have a BSD based OS everywhere if it wasn't for drivers). But one challenge of simple, ground-up distros is figuring out what apps and tools to use - it can be a major pain since you dont know what will meet requirements and have to search, install, get frustrated, repeat.... and do it for windows managers, desktop tools, lots of app... more... - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Drivers are a huge problem - anything that is closed and only offers binary drivers wont be available to BSD or Solaris- that's why I am so keen on open hardware and open source drivers - eg your Audigy. It's not BSD's fault, they are not given binary drivers, and not allowed to reverse-engineer-guess even a basic driver. Stuck! As for multiple OSes, I just treat them as totally... more... - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

I agree that this is annoying - I'm not sure why they all come with a good "grub detection" script - most "complete" ones I found were grubconfig (old, on freshmeat) and whatever they did on PCBSD. I have started recently to read up on all the different boot processes 1) because installing the windows 7 has put a boot loader layer somewhere that I cannot figure out how to remove,... more... - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Louis Gray

Twitter's Cap of 2,000 Following In Action!

August 11, 2008 from email - Comment - Like - Share

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As mentioned earlier today, Twitter seems to have capped your ability to follow at 2,000 people, which just so happens to be exactly where I am. The goal, in theory, is to stop marketing-oriented spammers, but it could be another way to reduce stress on the system. So what should I do now, delete "less favored" people, or wait for Twitter to figure this out? - Louis Gray from email

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Maybe it's the legacy talking, but I'm really not bothered by this. :P - l0ckergn0me

I can see why they do it, but it does suck for the people who do it legitimately and are not using stupid mass follow scripts. - David Risley

I'm not super-concerned either, but it does answer why all of a sudden, I started getting these errors last week. It could be part of their "Making Progress On Spam" initiative via the blog, but it hasn't been spelled out all that clearly. - Louis Gray

let blame this one on Scobles... :)- - Peter Dawson

Louis, I think cap is more of the architecture the system. Making it into a more robust platform. Now watermarks have been set, it becomes easier to build consistency of experience and application behavior. <Edit > wait for Twitter to figure it out.. Marketing spammers are targeting the 'stupid' one that have the auto follow !! - Peter Dawson

gotta like it, if I'm the one you are trying to follow! - Ben Hedrington

I don't think there should be limits like this, but I guess everything can't be infinite - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

I honestly am indifferent about it; Twitter is going to hell and i tried my best to convert it; oh well, Hell has cookies - Gordon Swaby

I"m only following 49... with 106 followers.. - Ian May

so what do you think, Louis, is benhedrington worth going to the mat for? - Nathan Rein

I'm sure I can find someone to unfollow in exchange for Ben. - Louis Gray

Twitter needs to build in groups functionality a la tweetdeck for following 2K+ to even be practical. - Nicholas Molnar

Louis: You need to convince the new people to head over here :) - Justin Korn

I'm just curious what the rationale is for following that many people. - Paul Rodriguez

Well, maybe that's why Louis always seems to know what's going on before anybody else. - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

I've noticed that most of the time I get followed by somebody with a big number, it tends to be marketing play. It triggers the email to you and then you go look and click on their bio link which takes you to the pitch. Very irritating. I always block em. - Mark Schulz

@Paul Rodriguez, I was wondering that too. I wouldn't have even guessed there are 2000 interesting people in the world </cynicism>, but what fascinate me is that i'm following like 83 people and only about 14 of them tweet regularly. I can assume most of those 2000 do not tweet regularly. Add in the fact that I'm a WAHM to two toddlers, and do other stuff, there'd be a lot of stuff I'd miss. - Anika

New profit center? Sorry, but now you'll have to join Twitter Pro .... - Charlie Anzman

Info restrictions suck:( - Igor Poltavskiy

Very interesting. System limits is going to be a topic that we all work through in this early phase of the Social Web. It seems to me that it's reasonable to cap the number one follows to 1,000 or 2,000. On the flipside, one would clearly like to enable a very high number of followers. With respect to bi-directional connections, the real number should max at 1,000 to 2,000... - John McCrea

This is awesome! Incidentally, Scoble (@Scobleizer) is still following over 30K. - Vincent van Wylick

So where is the point following 30k people? You might as well hit the main timeline. The only thing that is bad about this limit is that it was not there from the beginning. - Alexander Kohlhofer

@kevinrose: 56K+. Losing 54K+? - Igor Poltavskiy

so what's going to happen to those who follow over 2000? - Wayne Sutton

you follow two. thousand. people.??? never mind twitter; there may be a law against that. - jeneane sessum

I like the new limit. I cannot see how anyone would be able to legitimately follow (and pay attention to) more than 2,000 people. Frankly, even that limit seems higher than it needs to be. If it helps keep Twitter a little more stable, go for it. - Dennis Metzcher

Couple thoughts: the limit impacts the ability to use the service as a direct message router -- for some people. It also reinforces the need for dectralized microblogging -- so if you want exceed the limits you can do so on your own infrastructure. Lastly, nothing prevents you from following everyone or a subset of people through RSS/feeds. - Chris Messina

Are we sure that Twitter has set a 2,000 limit are or we cranking up the rumor mill? I've seen image before with respect to my own account - an account which just reached 1,000 followers today. According the Twitter rep who contacted me, I got - ahem - put in "Twitter Prison" for "Aggressive Following" My ratio of Followers to Following was kinda out of whack - at that time I had only ~800 people following me while I was following ~2,800 - They suspended my ability to follow more people. I removed 2K. - Vincent Wright

I don't understand the motivation for following 2K people if you're not a spammer... someone explain? - Jason Carreira

Jason: For a entrepreneur/VC/angel networker, it would be very easy to hit 2,000 contacts (assuming you used Twitter like a rolodex). From one networking meeting, I might pick up 0-100+ business cards (more at conferences), and during a heavy season I could be doing 7-10 meetings/week. As a angel, I might want to follow 5,000-10,000+ projects/people. Anyone might have a really good project 2-10+ years down the pipe... I've got cartons/boxes of 3-ring binders of business cards in plastic sheets. - Mitchell Tsai

@Mitchell @Charlie - Rumors aside, do you think the cap is a gesture towards monetization? Going after the power networkers? Seems you would have good cause to pay for a Twitter Pro, or would it just not be worth it? - joneilortiz

I use Twitter as both a professional development tool (following people who say useful and interesting things abt health / edtech / social media / libraries ...), a personal tool (friends and folk who are amusing), and a reference tool (following a lot of news streams and information resources). You can hit 2000 fast. A friend says that people are imagining new ways in which Twitter could be used, but Twitter seems bound and determined to force them back into some small box of how it "ought" to be. - Patricia F. Anderson

I would happily follow more than 2000 people, heck I am almost there. And I don't need to see every message. With Tweetdeck it's manageable. I see some Friendfeed users here have thousands to tens of thousands of subscriptions, should we also say it's good to have a cap here? No, please no. I understand that perhaps it has to do with monetization or stressing the system less, these are alas viable reasons. - Jacob

Bwana ☠

Swine flu hits Germany, WHO calls emergency review (AP) - http://news.yahoo.com/s...

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Robert Scoble

Mini-Scobleizer 3.0 will "definitely be a boy" we just learned. Due late September.

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Congrats! - Simon Wicks

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Definitely congrats bud! - Tyler Hayes

Congrats! - zach 2.0 should be here to deprive me of sleep in june - Zach Scott

Congratulations! - Martin Bryant

Congratulations, Robert! - Jolie O'Dell

Congrats! - Raanan Avidor

Great news Robert, congratulations! - Bill Musgrave

congrats from all the family - Nick Halstead

Congratulations! - Atul Arora

right on man!!! just spent all weekend devoid of pc/bb/social sites etc with all my time spent on/with wife and our two kids (8 1/2 yr old son and 5 1/2 yr old daughter). BEST WEEKEND ever!!! Most incredible ride you'll ever take bro Congrats!!!!!!!!!! - Ted Bradford II

Congratulations to you and yours! Happy news :) - Andy Bold

Congratulations man ! - Yaron Orenstein

Congrats! - Teri Temme

Congratulations to you and your family! - TechFuga

congratz! :) - Meriç Dağlı

Robert - Best wishes to you and the family, from over the pond!! - Jim Connolly

Congratuluations! :-) - Maria Reyes-McDavis

Congrats and best wishes !!!! - Nir Ben Yona

congrats robert!!! scoblezier v3.0 :D - Apostolos Papadopoulos

congrats!! scoble 3D ;) - Charles Ying

Congrats Scoble :) - Roberto Bonini

Congratulations! Sounds like you're well on your way toward leaving a legacy. - Colleen O'Donnell Pierce

Congrats, best wishes to you and your clan. #MiniScobleizer3.0 :-) - Willem (@wim66) ☠

The theme from My Three Sons comes to mind. :) Congrats! - Kim Larsen

It's a boy! Congrats - Christian Anderson

Congratulations!! - Tom

Good ! Congrats - Christian

Congrats to the both of you! - drew olanoff

Congrats Scoble - Harmen

Awesome! Congratulations you're a machine!!! - sofarsoShawn

Nice one. Would appear you want a team of some sort. ;-) congratulations, Robert. Really great news. :) - Sheryl

Awesome Robert, congrats! - Allen Harkleroad

Congrats Robert then you don't have to buy that shotgun to keep all the boys off your porch :-P - Rasmus Lauridsen

Congratulations! Robert. that's really great news to start the week :) - Tweet Feeds

Congrats Robert! - Steve

did you already pick out a mac for the new baby? :-P - Allen Stern

One more and you got a basketball team! :-) - Dave Winer

Congratulations to the family! - Anne Bouey

Congrats! - Thomas Hawk

congratulations! - Lisha Sterling

Have you read Nick Hornby's About a Boy yet? If not I will send a copy as a shower gift. - Bill L

You got to choose a Persian name for Scobleizer 3.0, congrats - Shakeel Mahate

Congratulations! I love the numbering scheme. My parents did that too. - anna sauce

Congrats Robert! - Ryan

right on! - michael sean wright

CONGRATS ROBERT! Give him a name then register the domain immediately =) - Alp

Congrats! Boys born in September are awesome, I know this firsthand. :-) - Trish R

Congrats RB we need as many of these as you can manage - Thomas Power

hey congrats Robert! - (jeff)isageek

Congrats, Robert! - Andrei M. Marinescu

Congratulations! Two boys are twice the fun! - Martha

Congratulations Robert! - Diego Espinoza V.

Another boy? Wow. At least you have experience there... - Louis Gray

Felicitaciones - Alejandro

Congrats! - Brandon Mendelson

Congrats - while you're waiting, check out MiniScobleizer 1.0 here: http://www.iphonelife.com/blog... - Patrick Jordan

That's great news! You better get him a Friendfeed started... - Gregg Le Blanc

"Mini-Scobleizer 3.0" is a great name! - KyleHase from twhirl

Thanks everyone! - Robert Scoble

Congrats, Robert Scoble - rob

Congratulations :) - YusufOzanTasdemir

Congrats :) - Ozkan Altuner

Congratulations! - Herb Hernandez

Great news! Congrats. :-) - Rutger Blom

Congratulations Robert. - Daniel Rowley

Congratulations! - Nicholas James

Congrats & may he have your wit & warrior spirit!!! - Roney Smith

Congrats, Robert! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Congrats to you and Maryam Robert! - jcunwired

Congratulations, Robert & Maryam :-)! - asiriusgeek

Congratulations. - Kevin Nordmand

congrats are you gonna install firewire to keep the kid updated on a daily basis I think they do that in the doctors office now. LOL - Gary Prechtel

I recommend naming him after a tree: Filbert - Gabe

Congrats!!!! - Steve Rubel

Congratulations! - 321

Congrats, Robert! - Bret Taylor

Congratulations to you both! - Sharon McPherson

I can't wait!! - Mona Nomura

Congratulations! - George Hall (Australia)

Congratulations! - Michael Fidler

Congratulations - Russ Jackson

Congrats to the family! - Eric @ CS Techcast

Great news. My son will be a year in early September. Can't wait to see pics in the fall. - Sally Robinson

Grats, man! - Neal Jansons

Congratulations Robert!! - Ken Camp

Congrats Robert! - atanas

congrats!!! - Loic Le Meur

Great news! congrats!! - Gerald Neo

Congratulations! - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF

Babies are just the coolest thing ever. One of my favorite things is that when they start talking, they love to point and say "BABY!" whenever they see anyone even a smidgen smaller than they are. Love that. - Kathy Fitch

Sheryl will want to squish a baby Scoble next time we're down your way. hehehe - Ken Camp

Congrats to you and your family! Wishing you the best. - Larry Roth

Congratulations Robert - you must be proud! - Jesse Stay

Congrats! Enjoy every second of the process! It's life-changing :) - Peter du Toit (S.Africa)

Congratulations - Violet Mae Lim

Three boys in this house. It's fantastical! Congratulations again, Robert. Even though it would mean one more web login, I'm holding out hope you'll utilize my social site for baby birth prognostication http://bebepool.com - we could all participate, it would be fun :) - Micah Wittman

On second thought, it might bring the server down :O - Micah Wittman

super-congrats, Robert!!! :))) - Alberto D'Ottavi

woot, congratulations. - Carolyn Chan

Very nice to hear, big congratulations! - Johan Mellberg from twhirl

Where are the ultrasound pics? BTW, congratulations. Maybe this one will defeat the Matrix. - Victor Panlilio

Victor: the doctor printed some out but I didn't shoot them yet. - Robert Scoble

COngrats ... - Amani

Adopt me Robert Scoble! - Alp

Congratz! - Thomas V. Fischer

Congrats!!! - Ravindran Navaneethan

Congrats dude! - imabonehead

Congrats!!! - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Congrats! For a moment I thought your 3rd clone is about to go public. :-) - Nenad Nikolic

Congrats! - Cristian

Amazing! Congratulations Scoble!! - Zee.

Congratulations, Robert! - ♥patricia♥

Congratulations Mr. Scobble : ) - Mark Harai

Congratulations Mr. Scoble and Mrs. Scoble! :) - Tony C

Congrats Robert!! - Larry Hawes

Awesome, Robert! Congrats!!! - David Cook from fftogo

Congrats! And the other two Scobleizers are? - Kirill Bolgarov

Congratulations to both of you. - Michael Lehman

'grats!! - Julian

That's three Sept boys I learned about today, a friend is having twins. Congratulations!!! - Rick Bucich

Felicidades! - Janet

Auguriii!! - Lucio Riccardi - CantorJF

Congratulations to everyone involved. :) We were told that our second child was going to be a girl, the hospital staff were certain. You know what is coming — yep, it was a boy. It was the biggest shock of the night. The second biggest shock (a few moments earlier) was me having to deliver him at home with instructions over the phone from the emergency services. Good luck! :) - Chris Marshall

Congrats :D - Baard @ Pixum

Mazel tov! - Mitch Wagner

Sweet! Congrats! - Brian Bufalo

Congrats! - Gavin

Thomas Hawk

Top 10 Tips for Getting Attention on Flickr, All Fresh and New for 2008 - http://thomashawk.com/2008...

July 28, 2008 from Thomas Hawk's Digital... - Comment - Like - Share

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Good article. I guess you've got to work smart to get noticed on Flickr. - Adam Christie

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Very good advice, Thomas. A comment on no. 6 ("Groups"): I remember Flickr staff mentioning that not only photos that are in too many groups (more than 10-15, as a rule of thumb) get penalties for their Explore rating. Allegedly, this is also true for photos that are in the *wrong* groups, specifically the ubiquitous "post 1, comment x" groups. So not all photo critique groups might be good when you want to get your pictures into Explore. - Ole Begemann

Ole, I hadn't heard that certain groups penalized photos but have seen Flickr staff in the past mention that posting your photo to too many groups will reduce it's visibility with their algorithm. - Thomas Hawk

Re: no. 5 ("Explore"): more criteria that seem to influence whether a photo makes it to Explore: the presence of EXIF data, geotags, title, description has a positive influence; faves and comments from people who are not among your contacts seem to count more than from contacts; faves and comments from popular photographers count more than those from nobodys; a photo that gets 2 or 3 faves within minutes after uploading is more likely to make Explore than one that gets faved 15 times within 24 hours. - Ole Begemann

Thomas, I'll try to find a reference for this. - Ole Begemann

Good point on EXIF data Ole, yes, photos in Explore are required to have EXIF data. My own guess as to why this is is that if a photo has EXIF data it is more likely to be your own photo vs. something you simply ripped from the web. Not foolproof of course but I'd guess that this policy is in part due to a desire to increase the authenticity of the photos promoted on Explore. - Thomas Hawk

If you look at the photos in Explore, the only "Leave a comment" groups that I see with any regularity are TWTME and 1-2-3 groups... what makes them special I'm not sure, other than they're amongst the largest groups in general. But you see very few of those award groups or "leave x comments" groups in the photos in Explore, so I suspect that Flickr must be penalizing them. - Eric P

Thomas, that's a great refresher on the original article. Some great tips. - Tom Quinn

And Thomas, throwing reciprocation in as a "bonus"? It should have been #1 or #2. The vast, vast, vast majority of comments and faves that I receive are from people whose stream I previously visited. The only real exception to that is when a photo is high in Explore, which results in a torrent of views/comments/faves from strangers. - Eric P

Yep Eric. Reciprocation is very high. Bonus tip might not be the best place for it. It's very important. Faving back when people fave your work, commenting back. Adding people back as mutual contacts, etc. All encourage activity on your photostream. - Thomas Hawk

Eric, participation groups don't penalize your photo from Explore best I can tell. This photo http://www.flickr.com/photos... from a few weeks ago was in the Deleteme Uncensored critique group and was #3 on Explore as well. - Thomas Hawk

In fact just searching flickr for the save10 tag from the DMU critique group along with "explore" brings up a number of photos: http://www.flickr.com/search... - Thomas Hawk

Good post, *IF* getting attention is important to you, as opposed to using it as a vehicle to just share photos with people - Eric Rice

After I read your original article on Flickr popularity a while back, I began reciprocating every comment received. That worked very well. - Tom Harrison

Eric, true. Some people have no interest in their photos receiving attention. I do think that the majority of people posting on Flickr though do appreciate when their photos receive some attention. Lots of people do not though. I have friends that only publish private photos that their friends can see and opt out of every public aspect of Flickr. I think these people though are the exception rather than the norm and think that Caterina's quote is pretty typical of the most active users on the site. - Thomas Hawk

Thanks for digging my article Aaron! :) http://digg.com/arts_cu... - Thomas Hawk

Alright, I found something. Flickr staff member acknowledged almost 2 years ago that "groups that force people to comment/fave on certain photos with no choice" do in fact hurt your Explore chances. Also, "weight of comments and favorites from contacts is quite low in interestingness calculation." (http://www.flickr.com/groups...). A very old post and the algorithm has changed since then but we can probably say that the gist of it is still true. - Ole Begemann

interesting Ole. I hadn't seen that. I think it would be difficult for Flickr to manually track every group that encourages tags and comments as participation. Per the links above though, photos in DMU have definitely made it into Explore anyways. - Thomas Hawk

Yeah, I have no idea how they maintain a list of the "bad" groups. Further below, SilentObserver mentions his business is writing algorithms to filter them out automatically, though. - Ole Begemann

Here's another good summary of nearly everything the community knows about the Explore algorithm: http://www.flickr.com/groups... - Ole Begemann

Here is an example of tagging. I did not know this woman was a celebrity until after got this shot. It appears on the first page of the image search engines and it has received over 12,000 views. http://flickr.com/photos... - Russellreno

So far I got 3 (!) photos into explore. Their common factor? They all were faved by you (TH) soon after I posted theim. - Guillaume Lemoine

Flickr used to say "who" faves your shots was a part of the Explore algorithm. It wouldn't surprise me if the algorithm weights faves by different people from the Flickr community differently. For instance, Pro accounts where people actually have paid for the service might be weighted higher than non-Pro accounts. More active users might carry more weight with their faves then less active users. Just speculating on this part. - Thomas Hawk

Thomas - I don't think that participation in all groups gets a penalty, just that there are some groups that are penalized as far as Explore is concerned. I simply don't see Explore photos in "Post 1, Comment X" groups - so either there's no explore-worthy photos in those groups (not likely IMHO), or Flickr is penalizing the photos in those groups. - Eric P

such a great post Thomas, thanks for writing it - Dobromir Hadzhiev

As a note to certain groups penalizing your photos...I had a photo (http://www.flickr.com/photos...) that went to explore spot 150 or so. After, I added it to a few groups to see if I could bump it higher. It had the opposite affect and immediately dropped off. I can't say which group exactly did it or if it was the number of groups I submitted to, but adding to groups definitely does come with some sort of penalty. - Justin Korn

If you use FeedBurner, you can splice your Flickr photos into your blog feed. I have it splice my last two photos and I find those have at least 5x the number of views as the ones that aren't in my spliced feed. - Mike Hussein Cohen

Awesome post Thomas. I signed up for Flickr a couple of years ago, but only started using it more regularly after the purchase of a digital SLR camera - so this post is particularly relevant to me. I am still patiently waiting for that first comment/favourite on one of my photos to truly experience the emotions as described by Caterina Fake. - Jeff Smith

Thanks for this post, Thomas. Great tips! - Eric Johnson

Great article Thomas... I was also wondering about what my friend calls 'Shooting for the 75'. That is, a great majority of people only ever see a 75 x 75px thumbnail of your photo. When he processes, he always does a square crop to test how it looks in the frame. Would you like to see proportional thumbnails as an option? - Johnny Worthington

I actually really like the square thumbnails. Heck I really like the square crop period. I think I'm cropping more and more of my photos 4x4 these days. Maybe it's just that I've always loved medium format photography so much, not sure why I'm so drawn to the square crop right now though. I much prefer Flickr's square thumbnails actually. Still would love to see larger sizes on FF like SmugMug's thumbnails. - Thomas Hawk

you're right though. Frequently it's the thumbnail that draws people into a photo. A good looking thumbnail is more likely to be selected by viewers for clicking through to full size viewing, commenting, faving, etc. - Thomas Hawk

One of my very first Flickr experiences was someone in a critique group cutting me down for a square crop. It was a rose in a perfect spiral petal pattern, could only be cropped square as far as I was concerned. LOL...I didn't change it either. - Karoli

Haha, that's funny Karoli. so much of the criticism in critique groups on Flickr is so lame. You should have seen the deleteme critique group ravage a Henry Cartier Bresson photograph who is probably considered by most photo historians as the greatest photographer who ever lived. Read some of these comments on this photo for a laugh: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Thomas Hawk

I used to work to get photos into explore. I think I probably take better pictures now, but I don't have the time at the moment to put in the work. Lots of community building and commenting went into the mix. I confess, there's a real rush to hitting the front page. I had three in the top 10, and it was a lot of fun. - Karoli

I have been doing a lot of panoramic shots over the past year and I have started to play around with vertical cropping. Taking a portrait photo and cropping a really tight vertical crop: http://www.flickr.com/photos... It's all about how the picture looks to you in the end. Square, circle or hexagon, it's about the sensory reaction :) (and now I'm going to square crop for this week just to try it out, thanks guys) - Johnny Worthington

Thomas, those comments are a hoot! I met some nice people in some of the critique groups, but it didn't take me long to know the critiques weren't helping. I do love Flickr's community...even if I haven't spent a lot of time in it lately. - Karoli

yeah, the attention from Explore can be fun. But I'm pretty unimpressed with a lot of the photos there. I think Flickr could do a much better job with that algorithm. I do find filtering explore just by my contacts though produces more consistently interesting photographs for me. I use this script to do just that: http://www.drewmyersphoto.net/flickr_... - Thomas Hawk

Agree on the photo quality on Explore. Seems like a lot of the same sort of gimmicky stuff lands there. Looking forward to trying the script. - Karoli

Thanks for the article, that opened my eyes up a lot - Alex Carpenter

Hey Karoli, here's you and your daughter by the way. I uploaded this to Zooomr a while back when I was taking a break from Flickr but uploaded it tonight on Flickr. Great fun on that photowalk. http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Thomas Hawk

Hey, cool! Thanks for the pointer. It was a great photowalk, would love to do another sometime soon! - Karoli

Here is one more way to get attention: Comment on this post with a link to one of your photos. I received a hit today from the comment about. http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Russellreno

Good stuff. Worked for me: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Demetri Mouratis

TwitterFun: Paul Whitaker

Reason for twitter downtime - http://blogs.sun.com/lskrock...

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Hehe... This looks like something that may've actuallybeen on the site back in the day. Can anyone confirm? - Paul Whitaker from Bookmarklet

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That's the reason of all Twitter's problems:) - Igor Poltavskiy

I think I have seen that on the Twitter site before. - Jake (aka Jawee)

smart kitty - tohuko

Rishabh Mishra (p248)

The English language needs a compiler that throws an error whenever somebody tries to communicate in lolspeak.

December 2, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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gcc -x english -Wall -Werror - i80and

Appetite: Matt Harwood

Stainless for OS X Leopard - http://www.stainlessapp.com/

September 28, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"Stainless- A multi-process browser for OS X inspired by Google Chrome." - Matt Harwood from Bookmarklet

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interesting - will take a look - Zee.

Typing from it now, Zee. It's a very basic demo as they warn, but very quick and light. Perfect for when you need to check something but don't want to launch chunky Firefox or others. - Matt Harwood

There are people who don't keep a browser open at all times? Wow. - cecily

Interesting, I hope that some of their ideas could improve other browsers. I wonder if they do things in open source way or hide behind closed source (might be that WebKit license requires publishing of modifications; or am I wrong with that?). - Daniel Schildt

Cecily - I would (and usually do) but Firefox, Safari, Webkit, Opera... all creep up to huge memory usage and need to be closed. It frustrates me to the hilt! - Matt Harwood

Any Mac OS X users willing to share the user agent string? - Jake (aka Jawee)

OSX FF3: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1 - Capn' One Eye - adrift

Safari: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_5; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.20.1 - Capn' One Eye - adrift

@Capn Longman: I meant the user agent string of Stainless. :) - Jake (aka Jawee)

Interesting. But... meh. - l0ckergn0me

bumping to confirm duplicate...:) - Zee.

Mark Trapp

Show World: Morphing Country Sizes by Statistics - http://infosthetics.com/archive...

November 12, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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From Information Aesthetics: "In an approach similar to the very popular WorldMapper method, Show World adds the novel factor of animation. The online maps illustrate various census and world statistics from various non-governmental organizations by morphing the size of countries accordingly. Instead of land mass, the size of each country represents the data for that subject, both its share of the total and absolute value." - Mark Trapp from Bookmarklet

Mike Fruchter

Google Launches Forum Search - http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs...

November 5, 2008 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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Dobromir Hadzhiev

& The Not-To-Do List: 9 Habits to Stop Now - http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog...

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Louis Gray

This is going to sound odd... but I have FriendFeed real time open in a new mini-window to the side of my browser, and there isn't ENOUGH activity. Maybe a slow Friday... but it's not overwhelming at all.

October 17, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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I can scroll down to the bottom, and want to hit next, because there just isn't enough data to consume. - Louis Gray

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A sign to add some more friends? - Vinay | विनय

Vinay, that might be it. But for now, I think I can consume more by going list by list and page by page. Also, your comment hasn't hit the realtime yet. I wonder if it misses things, or what the lag is. - Louis Gray

That's cuz I'm working hard today. - Steven Perez

Friday afternoons are almost always slower. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

No way, that's weird. How many people are you following Louis? But Lindsay is right, Fridays are slower in the afternoon - Susan Beebe

Susan, I follow 421. I know that's less than you do, but it should include some of the most active people (myself not included). - Louis Gray

Louis, I follow more, and I get about 1 or 2 per second. - Jesse Stay

Louis, I put out a blog post. Isn't that enough for one day? http://friendfeed.com/e... - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

Steve Rubel

13 tips for longer laptop life | Underpants Office - http://underpantsoffice.com/2008...

October 23, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Rishabh Mishra (p248)

Steve Ballmer: "We're not going to have products that are much more successful than Vista has been." - http://www.reddit.com/r...

October 21, 2008 from Reddit - Comment - Like - Share

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Reading only the title, I really hope not. May all their products be even more rejected by the market than their Vista flop. - Marcos Marado from fftogo

I would find it kinda awesome if Microsoft ditched Windows and created a Unix-like OS. Of course, that's unreasonable, but everything works in my fantasy world. :) - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

Adnan

SlicknesS GNOME-Look.org - http://gnome-look.org/content...

October 18, 2008 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

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I'm not a Gnome user, but that looks pretty awesome. - Jake (aka Jawee)

slashdot

Why the Kill Switch Makes Sense For Android - http://tech.slashdot.org/article...

October 18, 2008 from Slashdot - Comment - Like - Share

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Rishabh Mishra (p248)

Penguin tutorial: Notes on creation - http://www.isc.tamu.edu/~lewing...

October 18, 2008 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

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Describes how Larry Ewing first drew Tux (the penguin known as the Linux mascot) using the GIMP. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

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+1 for the GIMP, I'm using it to spam friendfeed with BIG pictures! ;) - directeur

lol. I've seen those big pictures. Why are you posting them to FriendFeed? - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

:) I just like to shout some ideas. And I know for sure that people _notice_ pictures - directeur

Yup. They're like billboards or banner ads. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

i use the gimp exclusively - Tyler Gillies

I use it with inkscape :) - directeur

gimp & inkscape ftw! - imabonehead

i like using inkscape to create stencils - Tyler Gillies

I use Inkscape to create new images, and use the GIMP to edit non-SVG images. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

Appetite: Zee.

DoesFollow - Quick way to check if someone follows someone else on twitter - http://doesfollow.com/

October 18, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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what's the point? Qwitter I could understand, but this? - Rahul Das

i just used it now to see if a friend i knew was following someone else who just tried to add me - Zee.

Thanks for the share. I find it interesting how social friendships change over time. Some remain subscribed yet others drop you when you talk off-topic. - Czar

Brandon

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Simpons inspired? - RAPatton

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haha no, it was something else. :) - Brandon

Heh. I got a dozen warm glazed krispy kremes for the office this morning. - Steve Lowe

I prefer the donuts that are light and airy over the cakey ones. - RAPatton

@rap does that mean you don't like apple fritters? - Brandon

Ooh apple fritters nom nom. - Mark Forman

They use to have two stores here in the Denver area. Now only one. - Paul W. Swansen

Scrapple Jacks? Oh, wait. That's further north... ;-) - Lisa L. Seifert

More donuts. yum! - lisa-k

*drool* - Her Lindsay-ness

Who else is in the mood for Krispy Kreme now? Why does it have to be 40 minutes away... WHY??? - Zach Flauaus

I prefer Dunkin Donuts. This is torture at 5pm though. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

This is torture at 3:30 pm. And I don't usually like donuts. - L.J. Leng

Arrgh! I wish this thread would quit showing up because it's been making me crave KrispyKreme for 2 days now!! I don't wan't to hide it either. - Her Lindsay-ness

I'm so glad that KK is not what I crave when I crave doughnuts. :-) Er, sorry for bumping this, Lindsay... - Lisa L. Seifert

Lindsay, are you in agreement that when it comes to doughnuts, different restaurants have different "best kinds"? With KK, it's their hot-off-the-oil-river plain glazed. With Dunkin' Donuts, it is their boston cream. - Phil G

omg those look really good! - Justin

I think i need to hide this but I can't... gah - Brandon

Recent run in with the cops? - Paul W. Swansen

who bumped this? I wish I could hide my own stuff because this makes me want KKD in the worst way. - Brandon

want!!!!! - Carmen

I gave this a "like"....but don't tell my bosses... - Live4Emma (L4S)

Duncan Riley

One number is evil, one number isn't :-) - http://skitch.com/duncanr...

October 14, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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It's just the question which number you would have liked most... - Ton Zijp

Charlie Anzman

xkcd on DRM = GOLD - http://pixelbits.wordpress.com/2008...

October 14, 2008 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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That was a particularly good one. - Cyndy

Simon Phipps

OpenOffice.org and archiving - http://blogs.sun.com/webmink...

October 14, 2008 from Simon Phipps, SunMink - Comment - Like - Share

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Kevin Rose

FWIW: late apple rumor, was just told "I've seen a slim Apple Air like laptop w/a black bottom" sounds like a prototype to me...

October 13, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Dobromir Hadzhiev

Google Employees Watch In Horror As 60 Percent Of Their Stock Options Drown - http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...

October 10, 2008 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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Andrei Savu

Wikipedia adopts Ubuntu for its server infrastructure - http://arstechnica.com/news...

October 10, 2008 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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That is awesome. Adoption by one of the biggest websites should help Ubuntu be viable as a server platform. Still, how are Ubuntu servers better than Debian servers? - Jake (aka Jawee)

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Jake, that's a good question. - Hassan Ibraheem

agree with Jake - Marcos Marado

Ubuntu and Debian share a lot of features but Ubuntu is more cutting edge. Both are easy to config and very stable. In the future I think the gap between Ubuntu and Debian will increase but for now they are similar. - Andrei Savu