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The only thing I didn't like about tonight's #bdnt is that I didn't get home in time for an improvised bedtime story. :-(
Jody Reale liked this
Kinda sad...took down the crib tonight. Our 2 1/2 y.o. is sleeping in her own big girl bed, our 5 y.o. long ago left the crib.
Parth Awasthi, Bee, yagami and 14 other people liked this
It's a right of passage for kids AND parents. But, don't worry, Hutch. Next thing you know, you'll be putting grandchildren in that crib!
- V Mary Abraham
In some ways, that's too true. Where does the time go?
- Hutch Carpenter
My husband and I have been swearing for 6 months that we are moving our daughter's crib out of our room and into hers! Yeah right!! LOL She'll be 2 in Sept!
- Dominique Pryor-Anderson
Another milestone passed!
- Anne Bouey
Thanks derikp - the gate is closed tonight. Just because little Annika might wander in the night.
- Hutch Carpenter
Dominique - when I broke down the crib, it was also the first time it hasn't been in our room for 2 1/2 years. My wife and I simply slept downstairs all that time. Yeah, pretty crazy, I'll admit.
- Hutch Carpenter
Thanks Anne. Kindergarten for Harrison next!
- Hutch Carpenter
Mmmmm good
Jeff P. Henderson, edythe, Aaron Hood and 12 other people liked this
Yes please.
- Hookuh Tinypants
Oh you bastid, rub it in why don't ya. :)
- JCunwired
I want to go back to Scotland now. It's been too long since I was there last.
- Ian May
Sorry. I felt it was good news that needed sharing :)
- Eric
Just poured myself some Glenlivet Nadurra with a wee splash to join you.
- JCunwired
Welcome to the party!
- Eric
No whisky here, just beer.
- Ian May
I have a beer drinker here. Playing cards.
- Eric
I am primarily a beer drinker. I do enjoy a good single malt on occasions though.
- Ian May
Ian, it's just a single malt kind of day.
- Eric
sad :(
- Elena
Dang - I meant to do that too, forgot and here I am drinking a coke. FAIL.
- iTad
Now, coke is one thing I NEVER drink :)
- Ian May
Jody Reale and Anna Barcelos liked this
Just as good lookin' then as now Pai!!
- Anna Barcelos
I had the same hairdo once.
- Jody Reale
Okay, eating Lean Pockets with chopsticks is different.
Jody Reale, Penguin, Karim and edythe liked this
not a comestible i can take seriously since Jim Gaffigan. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Karim
Why do I love Twitter but can't really get into friendfeed at all. I just can't do it.
Jody Reale and Sheila Scarborough liked this
give it a chance - admittedly it takes a little bit but it is an amazing community of people and an incredible information resource
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
No on Prop 8 - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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sean percival, Jody Reale and Derrick liked this
tell me what you think...too much?
- Erin @queenofspain
Mormons are hot.
- Derrick
lol Derrick
- Erin @queenofspain
Should focus on the fact the monies overwhelmingly come from members outside the state. Yes, it should point out the Church/State thing, too, but this is too heavy handed to sway any undecided, methinks.
- Michael W. May
Well, considering they sent me a mailer today falsely implying that Obama (and Biden) endorse Prop 8 and threw in a bunch of black pastors (when their church didn't fully recognize the humanity of black people in their church until 1978) telling me I should vote against my two black, gay sisters civil rights... It's a little difficult to have perspective on what's too much right now.
- Maria Niles
perspective. yes. I have zero right now, which is why I asked all of you. lol
- Erin @queenofspain
That mailer was absolutely evil. pure, unadulterated evil. coming from so-called 'righteous' ones.
- Karoli
OK - interesting you got it too Karoli - I was wondering if it was because I'm black or because I'm in Oakland with a large black population.
- Maria Niles
I didn't get it, but I heard about it last night from a list I belong to. It was intentionally targeting black voters in high density areas.
- Karoli
I'm not sure it will sway any undecideds, but I like it. I mean, honestly, what's next? Outlawing interracial marriages again?
- califmom
I agree w Michael May I love what Courage Campaign has done overall, but it isn't just Mormons that have campaigned for Prop 8- emphasis should be on money from churches, period going into this.
- Ginger Kenney
He did say that at Saddleback but "Senators Obama and Biden have made clear their commitment to fighting for equal rights for all Americans whether it's by granting LGBT Americans all the civil rights and benefits available to heterosexual couples, or repealing 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.' While Senators Obama and Biden oppose same-sex marriage, they support civil unions," said a statement...
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- Maria Niles
@Ginger Kenney - good point. Several churches also funding heavily.
- Maria Niles
Because it amends the state constitution. Many who are not gay marriage supporters oppose amending the constitution so that discrimination is mandatory.
- Maria Niles
Perfectly consistent. Prop 8 creates two separate classes in society (separate but equal) and then grants rights to one of them. You should oppose it too.
- Karoli
We have never, ever added a provision to the constitution that segregated a class of society and conferred rights on some, not all.
- Karoli
BUT it seems that amending the California constitution is the ONLY recourse for the Prop. 8 supporters when the California Supreme Court continues to subvert the will of California's citizens! Wasn't there an earlier ballot initiative that SHOULD have settled the issue until the California Supreme Court ruled otherwise?
- Thomas Ho
from fftogo
It was as illegal as what they're doing now. Prop 8 supporters would get more traction if they'd quit trying to force their will down everyone's throat and start being compassionate the way they are called to.
- Karoli
The video is DEFINITELY too much, and is by far one of the most hate-filled videos that I have seen in the 2008 campaign. And for those who believe that out-of-state people should not get involved in the politics of a particular state, do you therefore object to northerners going to the south in the 1950s and early 1960s during the civil rights movement? One can respectfully disagree...
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- Ontario Emperor
Regarding Obama - he has stated his personal views on marriage, but has also stated that he opposes enactment of this proposition. Biden's in a tougher pickle, because what he said in the vice presidential debate directly contradicted what he said on Ellen later.
- Ontario Emperor
My blog post on the video, as well as some other discussions of Proposition 8 - http://mrontemp.blogspot.com/2008...
- Ontario Emperor
Maria, that flier doesn't sound like something the group would distribute. Disappointing if that's the case, and I would hope the church and its members are not associated with it.
- Louis Gray
Yeah - as a Mormon against Prop 8 I think it's just a bit offensive that you're targeting just Mormons here. I know a bunch of other Mormons against the proposition that I think would agree with me. It seems awfully hate-filled. It's actually making me consider changing my mind, to tell you the truth if this is what's going to happen if it doesn't get passed.
- Jesse Stay
@Louis Gray - not distributed by church directly but by organization that many church members have funded about 40%. But, as I said to Ginger, other faiths as well. However, the flier was particularly awful and felt like a personal attack on my family. Plus, had an unfortunate incident when young with someone who justified her bigotry towards me with LDS teachings. So hard that morning to denounce video.
- Maria Niles
Have calmed down though and gotten perspective back. The video is definitely wrong and unacceptable for attacking Mormons. Fighting perceived intolerance with intolerance is wrong, period.
- Maria Niles
That commercial is way over the top. I have very mixed feelings about the Mormon religion, but I like every single Mormon I know. The Church may well be fair game, but I don't think the kids doing the door-to-door should be singled out like that.
- iTad
I don't get it... :\
Scoble, Alex Scoble, Brian, Vinay | विनय and 58 other people liked this
HA HA HA HA...is it Q?
- Josh Haley
ha ha! that's funny
- Susan Beebe
Ha. I love that "the Scarlet Letter" is given as a helper clue. High school English is so much easier to remember than the alphabet.
- Jandy
LOL...that's so wrong.
- Anika
Reminds me of the Hollywood Henderson quote before Super Bowl XIII when asked about how smart Terry Bradshaw was..."He couldn't spell CAT if you spotted him the 'C' and the 'T'..."
- Live4Emma (L4S)
lol
- ЯIИGҜIИG
I solved it but won't spoil it for you... tricky!
- Jemm
I could barely solve this puzzle and I'm not blonde :P
- imabonehead
@Mona I thought you are brunette but now...
- A. T.
Uh oh... does "strawberry blonde" still count as blonde?
- Ladyepiphanybug
My mom's fave blonde joke: The blonde picked out a puzzle and took it home. Five weeks later, after working on it with only the shortest of breaks for eating and drinking, she emerged from her apartment. Disheveled but triumphant, she ran to the doorman to tell about her success. "I put together the puzzle! It only took me five weeks, but the box said two to four YEARS!"
- Ladyepiphanybug
ROFL this is the first crossword puzzle I solved 100% thanks Mona!
- Gaby K. Slezák
Very cold, but very funny.
- Jill O'Neill
'untethered' at eyebeam - http://www.designboom.com/weblog...
Gordon Swaby, Carmen wBabby, mjc and 6 other people liked this
"‘dead star’ by michel de broin, 2008;" "‘not bicycle cover’ by jooyoun paek, 2008"
- edythe
from Bookmarklet
Doesn't that first pic look like a a bazillion eyes staring back at you?
- Yolanda
love that battery sculpture. looks like something murakami would've dreamed up
- Cee Bee
cee bee, it does have that murakami shape to it, definitely. i wish i could do something like that with my old batteries...
- edythe
It has the Murakami eyeballs.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Super Punch: More Halloween desktop icons - http://superpunch.blogspot.com/2008...
Jody Reale, Russellreno, tj hanton and Cee Bee liked this
"Iconfactory posted a new set of cute Halloween desktop icons. You can download them here."
- edythe
from Bookmarklet
AJ’s Moonlight Bakery Blog » Deluxe Scrabble Board Cake - http://ajsmoonlightbakery.net/blog...
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Neya, Russellreno, Jody Reale and 37 other people liked this
"This cake was designed to look like the Deluxe Scrabble board that sits on a wood base with wood trays and tiles. It’s a delicious combination of chocolate cake with chocolate cream cheese filling and white chocolate buttercream frosting. We had to play the game to figure out how to get these requested words on the cake: “Happy Birthday Maria”, “Beatles”, “tattoo”, “trees”, and “Obama”."
- edythe
from Bookmarklet
That is just completely fantastic. I wish I were with-it enough to make that for my pal's b-day. He'd die.
- Ayşe E.
Wow, that is a masterpiece...very GOOD replica!!
- Susan Beebe
Am I the only one that would have to cut it along the grid-lines?
- FFing Enigma
Tina, I definitely would.
- Rochelle
OMG I THOUGHT THAT WAS A SCOBLE BOARD
- Akiva
hee, akiva!
- edythe
That's a cake? lol
- Kol Tregaskes
How long it takes before they get sued by Hasbro?
- Jemm
@jemm: that would be so sad...
- edythe
@jemm @edythe Hasbro suing would be about average. So saith the competitive Scrabble player who's used to hearing about Hasbro enforcing their copyright.
- Great Scott! Needs a Ham
that's crappy.
- edythe
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough-Topped Cupcakes - http://particlesoftruth.tumblr.com/post...
ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!), Gordon Swaby, ·[▪_▪]· and 61 other people liked this
I wish one of these could somehow magically appear on my desk at this very moment.
- Vincent X
Cupcake fad dying? PAH! It's barely begun!
- Mo Kargas
WANT
- Mona Nomura
OMG you ppl are killin me with the cupcake talk!! oh gawd that looks so good. ah!
- Melissa Davis
from twhirl
They look loooovely! Yum. :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
NOMage.
- Melissa
WANT does not describe. I may just have to make these later.
- Rob Diana
woah!!
- Bonita Garrabrant
Oh. Wow.
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
Ahhhhhhhhh want, want, want!!
- Susan Beebe
How can you NOT like this concept?
- Nadine Schaeffer
Oishii
- Mike Reynolds
droooooool...
- Pete D
i'm gonna have to bribe someone to make these for me this week. wish me luck. lol
- Cee Bee
good luck, cee bee. ;)
- edythe
I can't believe I didn't think of that.
- Jody Reale
ya'll can have the cupcakes, I now am considering getting some Pillsbury cookie dough to munch on... a once fav snack
- Michael W. May
Oh. My. Gosh. Yummy! I just might make some of these tonight...
- Cheryl Jones
Advertising lesson 101 - http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2008...
Peter Ghosh, Jody Reale, InPerpetualMotion(Gina k) and 6 other people liked this
"IF you are going to advertise your “King Island Beef Gourmet Pie” in a full page spread in the glossy Herald Sun Sunday Magazine … DO NOT make it look like this!"
- FFing Enigma
from Bookmarklet
ewww.. what is that? ... im so afraid. Looks like it could be mangled blueberries but I'm not sure.
- Brandon
:/
- Mo Kargas
"king island beef gourmet pie" -- I'm even more afraid now...
- Brandon
Do not want
- Michelle M
Even if I wasn't a vego, that would still make me queasy. I know my partner eats these.
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
I just can NOT click Like for this, I'm sorry. UGH!
- Ladyepiphanybug
blech
- Bee
hmm, I thought that was black sesame; doesn't look like beef. would not eat beef it loooked like that
- clarke thomas
no shit, even though it looks like it....
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
Is that the pie before or after someone ate it?
- Kelly W.
ewwwwwww
- Peter Ghosh
So iTunes Genius is like having an annoying salesperson on your computer: "Sure you don't want more Hanna Montana, Gary?"
Jody Reale liked this
Somedays I realize I just have nothing to contribute.
Jody Reale, anna sauce and edythe liked this
Not true.
- Kyle Hebert
aww. :|
- edythe
This may be the universe telling you to change tack, look inward, take care of yourself. Don't always have to send your good energy outward. :)
- Ayşe E.
YES! Pegging your jeans is finally back. - http://www.fadedyouthblog.com/41576...
joneilortiz, Bee, kamla bhatt and 24 other people liked this
I was wondering when this would resurface. Now I know.
- Ginger Makela Riker
from Bookmarklet
I didn't ever realize it was here the first time
- RAPatton
Man if slap bracelets are next, I'm totally down. Rad.
- Mark Trapp
Oh no
- CJ
What are those shoes Bilson is wearing?
- RAPatton
here comes the Members Only jackets!
- Nathan Eckenrode
I am undecided, though I did like the "skinny jeans" phenomenon...
- JoEllen
I'm investing in hairspray companies preemptively...
- Jason Carreira
i protest. it's far too early to bring back the eighties. the wounds are too fresh.
- idnan
Never!
- Michelle M
Members Only jackets have been around for a long time. I think I see at least 2 people wearing them every time I go out.
- CJ
YES! My generation making its resurgence. Woohoo 80s! :P
- ·[▪_▪]·
Oooh, I dunno. Only Katie Holmes' jeans look pegged. The others look like they're just rolled, sans 80s peg action. I'll need more convincing. ;)
- Kevin Hessel
did pegging go out of style? next you'll tell me mullets aren't cool either.
- grant fox
It... went away?
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
In the immortal words of Darth Vader, NOOOOOOOOOOO!
- Shawn McCollum
I'm apparently incredibly immature because my first thought was "heh heh heh.... pegging". I'll go put myself in the corner now.
- Nine
Impressive, but will "pinning" them come back?
- Jason Shellen
Since I am a little short I have been doing a "loose" peg/cuff for years. ;-)
- Eric_T
yes, when you are quite short like me (and like Ginger -- 5' 2 3/4" FTW!), rolling up the pants can be a lifesaver...
- edythe
Bad idea back then, even worse idea now. It's up there with legwarmers.
- ::Kristen::
also, i must voice my love for those open-toe booties on the far right!!
- edythe
No thanks.
- iTad
Gah. Do not want. I do like the 80s shoes I saw at Target. Nothing says 80s like that fringe with little bow on a pump.
- Cyndy
I used to have a cropped jean jacket with leather fringe all over it. Awful!
- Michelle M
@edythe - Toupee tape works really well to "hem" pants. ;-)
- CJ
Hemming pants? Stitch witchery = WIN
- FFing Enigma
...but that's permanent. I like something I can remove (so I can wear pants with different size heels).
- CJ
Toupee tape sounds kind of scary. Not as creepy as toupee magnet though...
- Mark Forman
Hehe, it's just really strong double-sided tape. :-) I've been using it since I was in high school to fix my jeans.
- CJ
lmao, me and some friends were just talking aboug pegging jeans, over dim sum!
- Louie
In our neck of the woods it wasn't called "Pegging" your jeans it was called "French Rolling" and I remember explicitly the appeal was that, since bell bottoms or anything resembling a flared bottomed pant were such a taboo in the 80s, that's what French Rolling your jeans protected you from. It was about the taper, not the roll.
- Wm Scott Rees
lady catching snowflakes (534×800) [Star, photosight.us - 3/27/08] - http://photosight.us/showimg...
![lady catching snowflakes (534×800) [Star, photosight.us - 3/27/08]](http://photosight.us/showimg.php?y=2008&m=03&d=27&image=1584940.jpg "lady catching snowflakes (534×800) [Star, photosight.us - 3/27/08]") |
Nicķ, Yolanda, Mo Kargas and 8 other people liked this
Can anyone read the title at http://photosight.us/photo...? My browser doesn't have the proper font. Star's portfolio (11 NSFW pics, of which I like 5) http://photosight.us/ownpage...
- Mitchell Tsai
from Bookmarklet
no, mitchell. all i see is "portrait."
- edythe
Polly: Underneath the picture is a description/credits section which says the title is "À ñíåã èä¸ò" (which I'm assuming is in a font I don't have).
- Mitchell Tsai
yeah, i see something similar.
- edythe
100 Seinfeld quotes - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Jay, Jon Price, Danielle and 29 other people liked this
And you want to be my latex salesman.
- Mark Trapp
Ah hahahaha! Brilliant!
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Excellent
- Alejandro
Freak lol
- JCB
Coffee Table book on coffee tables.
- Russellreno
I love the "Moops" episode and of course, "these pretzels are making me thirsty!"
- Michelle M
I say it every time I'm in the iTunes App Store... "It's a Tip Calculator!"
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
There you go! I think you may have something here! :)
- Bill Sodeman
They didn't show my favorite from Kramer where he ends up screaming, "Or is your entire world just *crashing* down all around you?"
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
oh how i love seinfeld
- andy brudtkuhl
All of them were great, but I think a few from the intern episode would have been good.
- Shawn McCollum
loved this - but I could have done with more George - surely this should be the Summer of George.
- jeremy ettinghausen
lol
- Sarah Perez
The only way to get me off FriendFeed (points below) - http://www.photobasement.com/how-to-...
Allison Kipta, susan mernit, Vahid۹Online and 49 other people liked this
OW!!
- Yolanda
Who MAKES things like these? Seriously LOL
- Mona Nomura
Youtube it. Stat!
- Mona Nomura
LOL
- Aviv
This is SUCH a rudimentary idea but it made me laugh... =|
- Mona Nomura
The matching mouse really sucks :)
- Andrew Smith
Very cool
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Ya, what's up with that? > ppl from the bay being weird
- Mona Nomura
That'd be a pretty useless tactic for a Tablet PC user like me!
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
HAHA that's crazy!
- Alexandru Savu
=)))))))))
- Maryam Ardakani
:)))))))))
- mhmazidi
too funny
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
ROTFL!
- Mitchell Tsai
OUCH! Keyboard. FAIL.
- Bill Sodeman
I love the fact that WASD is covered....someone's trying to get over an FPS addiction.
- Justin Whitaker
The original title was "How to kick a gaming addiction" ha!
- Mona Nomura
that is awesome. unfortunately all that would happen is i would re-bind my keys :-)
- Chris Harris
Rare early 1980s product display photographs - http://www.idiottoys.com/2008...
David Muir, imabonehead, Mike Fruchter and 38 other people liked this
...btw please excuse all my old Tweets spamming your feeds. I blocked that "You" person so hopefully all my older crap won't magically appear. ugh
- Mona Nomura
from Bookmarklet
That model 100 (the one the guy has on the plane) seemed really cool 25 years ago -- kinda like a computing version of Flock of Seagulls.
- Dave Pelland
Oh nostalgia....
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Is that Vanna White on the very left?
- Mona Nomura
you ever watch the old TV commercials? :)
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
Look at that dual 8" floppy drives and compact dot-matrix printer hotness. Oh yeah!
- Louie
I think that's Sarah Purcell.
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
that's definitely sarah purcell. lol
- Cee Bee
I love the family huddled around the Apple II on the bed...classic.
- Live4Emma (L4S)
More retro love @ http://www.mobilecomputermag.co.uk/retro...
- Jules
I love the pic where the guy has 20lbs of hardware on his bed. Very ergonomic.
- Jonathon
for the guy on the bed: "yeah kids! see? you can touch a key, and it shows up on this screen! Neat!" because... that's all it could do
- anna sauce
*sigh* These pictures take me back to when I was a little kid, messing around on my dad's Commodore VIC-20. Typing takes forever when you're just a little kid and learned the alphabet not too long ago. Haha
- Louie
I love how pictures trigger nostalgia and how everyone shares their stories :) BTW I'm investing in the IBM clicker keyboard :)
- Mona Nomura
love how the guy using the DEC is typing away, staring at the printer...
- Jericho
Uuuuuuuugh the 80's I feel so lucky I was too young to remember them.
- Geoff Schultz {TF}
VIC-20! Oh wow, I'd completely forgotten that thing. With the whopping 5 KBytes of memory.
- DGentry
Don't hate on the 8bit and floppys Geoff!
- Mona Nomura
When floppies actually flopped (sorta)
- Michael W. May
...and we had to be veeeeeery careful to avoid touching the middle hahaha
- Mona Nomura
Now, I feel old ... luckily it will only last an hour or so
- Charlie Anzman
Wow, these pics are strangely old now... crap! I am geeky geezer!! ha, ha!!
- Susan Beebe
We had a Vic-20. I once spent many hours typing in one of those programs in the back of the book, only to run out of memory with just a few lines to go. I was so mad!
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
from NoiseRiver
Those are great! Brings back memories of what I wished for when I was 12 years old.
- Mike Reynolds
Twitter Just Pulled the Ace From Their Sleeve and Lit it on Fire - http://aureliusmaximus.wordpress.com/2008...
Pete D, Olaf, Mo Kargas and 45 other people liked this
Good post Marco. Although I came to help expose the podcast to more people (I was not here to build a castle), I find the conversation and interaction has been great. The problem of losing almost all followers though, makes it hard to kick start this thing again. Some people followed because I said something interesting, and now they will likely never follow again. It takes time to build those connections. Thank goodness for FF.
- Eric
thanks @cs - pretty much same here - once I saw the level of interaction and conversation here I was hooked but I have always like the fact that Twitter is much more mobile friendly (especially for those of us in BB world)
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
@Marco, friendfeed has a decent mobile interface, even for a crackberry. I prefer fftogo.com however and it looks decent on my Curve.
- Rob Diana
FF on Windows Mobile with Opera is very usable. Just signed up for Identi.ca, going to give it a try.
- Eric
@rob i've tried fftgo but for whatever reason wasn't thrilled with it - i need to give it another look. There is just so much more information on FF it makes it tough to take in and process on BB
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Probably the best headline of the day. Anyone else plan to beat it?
- Louis Gray
I've got nothing...Marco you win
- Anthony Farrior
I love articles that strategically use bold text to emphasize key points. Easy read. Good post Marco
- Bwana ☠
lol @anthony does that come with a prize? if so can I request the return of the people I was following on twitter? @louis i may just have to print and frame your comment ; ) a guy's gotta do something to compensate for the content!
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Good points here Marco. It's always been about your existing network with Twitter. That's what's carried it through the tough times. I expect Twitter will survive this issue though. People are losing followers, but I see numbers like "had 2,500, now have 2,100". The big numbers are still there.
- Hutch Carpenter
Okay guys this is just stupid. Can a few of you go over to the blog and comment? Is that too much to ask? I just went there and read the article because 25+ people liked it and a dozen commented but no one took the time to say a word on his site.. This is wrong in my opinion, make an effort to grow a guys on-site community.
- Roger Kondrat
@michael ty - @hutch ty and I hope you are right - but I do worry that this has now opened a door that can't be closed. If they communicate their plans to help people reconnect with lost subscriptions (if thats possible) and what measures will be put in place to prevent this from happening again I think they can pull it out. I think people were willing to deal with the intermittent outages so long as they could still communicate with their group later but if users can't rely on that...
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
its a definite black eye on anyone who just adopted twitter in the past 6 months or so, its basically taking money out of your pocket, taking expectations out of your hand. The service going down, I can take that, taking away what I earned, that sucks royaly. Like going into an WoW and seeing all your characters gone, well right then at that moment its well, I guess I can leave this...
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- Dan Rockwell
from twhirl
Roger - your comments sometimes verge into troll territory.
- Hutch Carpenter
@CS I totally agree. Its always that way i find.
- Roger Kondrat
I agree with you. This is a strategic blunder. Curious to see if this clips Twitter's wings or if it's got Phoenix on it's side.
- phil baumann
@roger you thoughtfulness is very much appreciated - I still wrestle with posting a comment on a blog or adding to the comment stream on FF. Not a big deal in my case - I am eager to learn, share and interact and love having the blog to log thoughts that take up more room than a FF comment box but my fascinations are far too broad to develop a focussed topic theme necessary to really build a core of readers so I don't worry about it too much. @michael none taken at all
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
the followers migrate to the same people here. if you cultivated fans you won't lose them
- NoahDavidSimon
Marco thanks for the post. As a user who has not "invested" much in twitter and actually only signed on due to Friendfeed, I'm very interested in how this plays out. Problems aside, the overall concept of twitter as a web/mobile/aim service is a great one that doesn't have a true (even ident.ca) competitor as far as I can tell.
- Jon-Paul Bussoli
@Hutch yeah I have been a bit Trolly the last couple days. Don't know why. On this though I just get a bit 'protect the little guy' and of course it was unfounded but a knee jerk reaction anyway. Sorry to those who felt my poor nature over the last 24hrs and thanks @Hutch for pointing it out.
- Roger Kondrat
@Marco I love your post really can’t comment much beyond that because it was like you took the words out of my mouth. But I will say this when blogs first came about they were said due to trackback, and pingback to allow for the first time a fluid single conversation to occur across multiple voices. Twitter did this really well in its own way too.
- Roger Kondrat
Roger - cool man. And there actually is a good rationale for bloggers wanting comments on FriendFeed. Read on if you like: http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2008...
- Hutch Carpenter
What is interesting is during the drama at Twitter everyone has focused on their pitfalls and has in my own opinion possibly missed another important factor in Twitters existence and that is the market has changed or rather is in the midst of a major transition. Conversations are now being initiated on Twitter and Blogs but they are being aggregated elsewhere. Initially this happened...
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- Roger Kondrat
Friendfeed and their kind (socialthing,etc) are where the micro-conversations are occurring. These sites are extending what Twitter started out doing so well but in the end it is and always will be a slow and inflexible service when compared to the new breed (FF SocialThing, etc).
- Roger Kondrat
excellent post Marco...I like your approach and analysis. The last 24 hours for twitter have been devastating. I can't even begin to imagine how the staff at twitter must feel right now. But as a customer, i know how I feel - NOT happy! First they screwed up the follower/follows counts and then sent tweets with my name on them (I did NOT write those) - so the twitter database is hosed! not a good moment for twitter to say the least.
- Susan Beebe
(1) twitter deserves what it got. forget the tech issues. they went fascist and decided to punish people for using the interface as best they could. they used a few uptight people in a mob to create a witch hunt against people who were importing feeds and had a lot of followers. They are getting exactly what I warned them about (2) they hoarded the technology and did not license it out. if they had licensed twitters technology out it would of been a very profitable standard. (more...)
- NoahDavidSimon
(3) back to the fascist issue. they promised free thought in a public forum and they never delivered. the block concept is a stupid idea. obviously I proved that with panopticons and they went to shoot the messenger. twitter's architecture is a public forum open to any viewer. In being such it betrayed itself and created its own *CANCER* by implementing a block. This will be friendfeeds...
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- NoahDavidSimon
I agree about the importance of the subscriber functinality
- Mark Dykeman
again... I believe in security. I'm not a purest, but I believe the elegance of a system should not be compromised. there are plenty of walled gardens on the internet. twitter was not supposed to be walled. ...and friendfeed isn't a good place for walls either. there are plenty of opportunities for elitism in life. despite some nut jobs, it is beneficial for there to be some free expression. people should be able to turn a thread off when they want to. We all deal with aggravations.
- NoahDavidSimon
back to (1) and the license issue. if it had been licensed then it would of never become over populated and different flavors of a good thing would of happened. ... maybe even a version of twitter with and without block. it just seems they are guilty of trying to contain the wind. they could of owned the wind's license for a while, but they were too greedy.
- NoahDavidSimon
@noah completely understand that there are plenty of things that need fixing - problem is that over a decent length of time a number of very unique communities have sprung up around the service - if the service dies those communities go with it - that is part of the reason for this http://tinyurl.com/5sxmzy
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
I can't remember a single service that has attracted more meta talk about itself... Twitter is not (at least should not) be a mission or business critical function to anyone -- its a social interaction vehicle... They are improving, and I'll bet in a year's time the "fail whale" will be just another internet colloquialism.
- Mark Philpot
my basic point is that it failed to capture the positives of the brand name. it failed to reflect the free spirit of the community. It failed to take advantage of its strengths. instead they plaid police man... and they weren't very good at it. Their product was not like facebook (which seems harder to copy).... being simple was twitter's brilliance and it's downfall because everyone else could make one. If they had early on started encouraging other people to start their own twitter it'd b different
- NoahDavidSimon
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