Lured by $1 beer and the prospect of "hot chicks" and "hardcore fights," thousands of Arkansans were duped last month into appearing as extras in comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's latest staged mayhem. Cohen and his confederates organized cage fighting programs on consecutive days in Texarkana and Fort Smith. Both cards ended with two male grapplers (one was identified as "Straight Dave" and wore camouflage) tearing each other's clothes off and, while in underwear, kissing down their opponent's chest. This man-on-man action triggered Fort Smith fans to throw chairs and beer at the ring, according to one cop present at the city's Convention Center. - Thomas Hawk via Bookmarklet

Sacha Baron Cohen is such a provocatuer! - Larry Kless via twhirl

Do you think that someone should tell him that there are lots of people in that part of the country who carry loaded guns? - Paul Denlinger

This is the clip - http://friendfeed.com/e/dcc4b0... - Joe Dawson

This is brilliant. - Nick Gerakines

"I have no idea what you're talking about... so here's a bunny with a pancake on it's head" - Adam Kazwell via Bookmarklet

This is so random, the first time I saw this I proper laughed out loud! - Joe Dawson

saw this shared by a few others, but it didn't get any traction. Maybe having the image will help? - Alan Le via Bookmarklet

Agreed. They got F wrong though. ;) - Hao Chen

Friends Reunited? - Joe Dawson

Friendster ;-)? oh you mean the other site that starts with friend___ - Alan Le

SO MUCH AWESOMENESS nice find - Mona N

this is a great idea - Alan Le

This is beautiful. - Chris Baskind

This is brilliant I'm going to do one. :) - sergiooooooo

I want to see Michael Jackson's!! - Joe Dawson

lol @joe I'd love to see it too - Dobromir Hadzhiev

That is my take, I blog on my family, sport, technology, music and anything I find interesting. I feel that creating several blogs wouldn't do justice but I have created a Tumblr blog to pull out all of my tech content to see how that works! - Joe Dawson

Thanks and that does make sense! How do you promote your blog is their a service or directory that is free? I had started a blog to really have stuff about everything and just create labels for the various things I post. - orionstarr

Great, question. I've wondered that too... I bet all bloggers have! - Susan Beebe

I really never started a blog to gain an audience per say. It is an outlet and a way of expression. I try and use a blog for productive things. Posting stories, photos, art, quotes and just anything. So I try and grow the blog with each post. I also add widgets like i-tunes mixes, podcast links, things like this to give visitors something to gain and use. - orionstarr

@orionstarr - that's how I started also. But then I found I talked about marketing a lot and realized there was a different audience. So I spun my marketing category into it's own blog. - Rob Williams

Interesting title... - Joe Dawson

it has like tetris blocks in the title lol - Chris Harris

I have experienced spam on Facebook a couple of times with friends accounts being used to distribute the messages. No where near on the level of MySpace, hence the reason I deleted my profile there a while ago! Twitter so far has been good to me as I haven't received anything yet but I am overly selective of who I follow!! - Joe Dawson via FriendFeed MT Plugin

I like the idea of sharing your stats. I'm liking and commenting this ;-) - Alan Le

Eagerly awaiting yours. ;) - Hao Chen

Awesome, Mitchell did all the work for us! - Hao Chen

it's friendfeed stats sharing day.. here's mine http://friendfeed.com/e/839c32... - Alan Le

Good idea. Mine http://friendfeed.com/e/bcbcc1... - LouCypher

Do you mean you are moving your blog to a new domain? Doing so is always going to provide a hit to your natural ranking. The trick to leveraging your existing position is to redirect all of your old URLs to their new location. Check out 301 redirects. It is generally thought that this passes on some but not all of your "link juice". This might not be possible depending on your old setup. This highlights the importance of getting your URL structure right early on. I've just changed mine actually but fortunately I only have about 3 inward links to http://www.wistop.com/blog so it's no big loss! But personally Id recommend the purchase of a domain name that you can stick with in the long run right from the start. Best of luck with your move! Let us know what your notice - all feedback on these experiences is useful for SEO research!! - Winston

I am exactly the same Ben, I originally started my blog to talk about my children and my nights out. It has evolved massively since then and I feel that dividing into two blogs may be beneficial. As I also don't want to lose my personal posts I feed my tech posts through a Tumblr blog!! - Joe Dawson

Our very own ProBlogger's story is a good example of diverging blogs. As you already have your own name .com then maybe keep that going as the personal one and set up a brand new project? Google might help you find a way to move posts, personally i'd do it by script - maybe someone with a db background has done it before and posted some instructions? - Winston

OK, just had a look at the wordpress schema. It's pretty basic! How technical are you? If you know what you are doing it's prob as simple as extracting the info you want from wp_posts and wp_postmeta. wp_comments too if you want the comments. It's one of those things thats "easy when you know how" but probably very daunting if you don't. Ask on the WP forum, someone must have documented this or written a little script... :) Drop me a line if you take the backend route and need a pointer. Cheers. - Winston

I'll drop a line later tonight - I should be able to handle most of the technical stuff. One thing about the comments, though - I use Disqus. - Ben Parr

Haha, I have a similar inbox situation this morning. Mike Fruchter's got reach! - Mark Trapp

Yeah. Agreed! - J. Phil

I only had 3-5 yesterday, bring on the followers! - Aaron Myers

Bjorn, same thing happens to me intermittently. I'd attribute it to facebook, but almost no one I know on facebook uses FF. Odd. Also. Congrats J.Phil, you deserve it! :) - felix

Thanks felix! - J. Phil

Different, but not better - Jeremiah Owyang

It's different level but serves it's purpose very well and to an extent increases my Twitter conversations! - Joe Dawson

Different AND better AND complimentary. Top right, search for "twitter vs friendfeed". It will bring up conversations about this topic. - John Samuelson

it is all very relative to what you are looking to get out of a social communication tool - I loves inputs and conversations so right now FriendFeed is perfect for me, I can't get enough noise, information or exposure to a variety of different personalities and thoughts. Others may want a much more limited amount of interaction so they pare down the number of people they follow and filter as much noise as possible or rely more heavily on twitter - Marco

@chris this is better than twitter... there's structure and organization than is lacking in Twitter IMO - Ron Emrick

I find this fascinating. I'm using Twhirl for FriendFeed, and I LOVE the way that a new conment puts the post back up at the top of the box so everyone can see it again. And I love how I can simply click on the @ and post a comment right inside the thread. FF offers an outstanding platform, I think. Better in many ways, but not replacing other goods like Twitter. If Twitter is smart, they'll incorporate some of this in their upgrades. - Lisa Creech Bledsoe via twhirl

F5 club members welcome. - Hao Chen

That just means you're not following enough people. :-) - Louis Gray

You know you are addicted to friendfeed when you create a room for the addiction (http://friendfeed.com/rooms/fr...) - Justin Korn

Justin: Joined! hehehe! Ok where's the 12 step program ?? - Susan Beebe

This is true, but I'm constantly looking for more content to add so this never happens. - The Kid

The internets leave me no free time whatsoever. - Chuck LeDuc

I do a lot of this! Used to be that I read. Like, actual books. Now more magazine articles and teh interwebs. But wait, I'm translating this as "time to myself" for some reason. Free time also means dinner, etc. w/ friends. I do that as often as I can. - Ayşe E.

kids, photo/walking, music (not playing), internet... but free time iis darn scarce - silpol

Watch TV, read when I can, go out to dinner and movies with friends whenever possible with crazy schedules. I volunteer at too many things, but I don't consider that "free time" cuz they're obligations, too (however pleasurable). I also travel to see distant friends when I can. Chicago in 2 weeks! Can't wait. - Louise Alcorn

When I'm not spending time outdoors with Planet Wifey, then I usually get down doing BMX freestyle with rest of the 30-35yo cats I know, photography, read Comics, play video games, and see just about every movie that remotely looks interesting (and all of that before midnight) -- after midnight is my creative time for writing, drawing, podcasting, etc. - Do You KNOW Clarence?

Hey FriendFeed, 99% of your users don't know where the store is because there's no link to it anywhere on your site. Help your happy users be your walking advertisements and make it more visible. - Louis Gray via Bookmarklet

I am sure if I walked in wearing one of these my partner would assault me. She hates my obsession with the site and doesn't understand why I frequent it so regularly! - Joe Dawson

Anyone can create a CafePress store with anyone's logo, and it's hard to tell who's reaping the profits. So I wouldn't use this as a way to "give back" to the service. - Paul Whitaker

Paul, this is the official store, not a fan site. - Louis Gray

Thanks for sharing Louis - now my baby can be a true Swag magnet ;) - Jesse Stay

Loren, your story currently only ranks #2 on techmeme - Tom Quinn

What story? - loren Feldman

Hope you got to cash at least one check from those dupes. - sean percival

Dinging FastWork.tv count? http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett... - Dennis Howlett via twhirl

@richard ty, "playhata" seems like a very reputable source for that info. - sean percival

how about twitter just get twitter right first? - Chris

+1 for Chris' comment - Slippy Lane

Amen! - David Silvernail

How about all the devs of the Twitter clones just join Twitter! - Joe Dawson

After an epic Wimbledon final, predictions on the US Open? - Joe Dawson

I just started allowing them, I use Seesmic - Summer

I've been eyeballing the Seesmic WordPress plug-in. How's it working for you? - Ed Healy

You'd think so but no. I hardly ever comment on Blogger blogs because the commenting mechanism and defaults are so useless. - Andy Roberts

The thing that would put me off is the sheer amount of time it would take to review and respond to video feedback. Has anyone who uses it found this to be a problem? - Winston

I allow for video replies through Disqus but I rarely get comments so it doesn't get much love! - Joe Dawson

I'm sticking with Twitter for now, but keeping a close eye on identi.ca . I don't really care much for Jaiku- but that's probably only because I've spent very little time on it. - Bec

ping all - lot´s of talk on plurk and sometimes twitter - Dieter Schwarz

Lyonel, my gut feeling is telling me that it's all about simplicity. - Alex Popescu via twhirl

Of course Lyonel :) - Mona N

Ping.fm.... - Joe Dawson

This is a dollar bill taped to the floor of FriendFeed's headquarters. It's a bit of social engineering. They figured out it kept people from tripping on the cord cover because people noticed the money on the floor. - Robert Scoble

Hahaha, now that is brilliant stuff. Awesome. - James Mowery via twhirl