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I do, I'd say Twitter probably has the best shot right now. FF is still over the head of too many, they dont know (and dont want to know) about rss - sean percival

I really hope with the continuous feature additions and improvements to FriendFeed, it would soon have a universal appeal. There are so many Nay-sayers but I'm behind them 220%. :) As for Twitter - I don't really use it anyway, so it doesn't make a difference. Although I would LOL if they were to start charging monthly fees. ie: Threaded replies are only for premium accounts haha - Mona Nomura

This weekend I excitedly told an engineer-friend (hydrologist) about meeting the "inventor of RSS" last week. And he said "what's that?" -- Bastard. - Brian Hendrickson

Twitter will go mainstream as people always want to be noticed. Friendfeed has a harder road because it is not about the user, it is about the information. If Friendfeed goes mainstream, it will be in a much different way, like a major research or news tool. - Rob Diana

FF will go mainstream as soon as people realize that it's *not* about the information, it's about the conversation. Twitter in its current form is a megaphone broadcasting system a la FB status updates, without a realistic and understandable method of replying. FF on the other hand not only let's you share information, but creates a method to *discuss* it. It's biggest obstacle for going mainstream is the UI. - FFing Enigma

Tina, I mostly agree about the conversation, but the conversation is typically based on the information at this point. I think the amount of information that passes through will be too much for most people until better filters are in place. I admit, I tend to be very pessimistic when it comes to growth and mainstream adoption of most tech. - Rob Diana

I am all for both apps hitting mainstream fast. Both serve excellent online communication needs. Twitter provides broadcasts and quick short replies; whereas FriendFeed provides the ability to share information and generate conversation / feedback regarding that info., which can blossom into an entire community around that topic. Twitter's challenge is stability, scalability and UI. FriendFeed's challenge is search, organization and UI. - Susan Beebe

Rob, I can only base statements on my experience of course, and they're going to be affected by who follows me. With that said, my most engaging conversations on FF have usually been around a topic tossed up as a status update/question, not a link to an external post. Also, unlike FB and TW which offer a one to one conversation model (excepting FB groups), FF automatically offers a one to many conversation model. - FFing Enigma

FriendFeed will go mainstream because it's a better medium than email for sharing links and news. I wrote in detail on this here: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

couple quick comments: not everything needs to "go mainstream" to be a success, it is ok to fill a niche & some things are not products but rather features best integrated into or augmenting something else - i think friendfeed fits both these criteria (current and future) and i see that as a good thing personally... - mike "glemak" dunn

@Mike - I've been thinking this too lately. What is "a success"? Is Apple a "success". They only have about 5% of the market of computers, yet I think there is a lot more media buzz about Apple unveiling a revised macbook than there is about Dell or HP introducing a revised 1050e or whatever they call them. If you get 1% of Americans using your product, that is 3 million people. That is a lot. - Robert Felty

What is mainstream? 25% of US population? 10% of RSS/tech geeks? 1% of the world? 10% of people who would pay for this service? FF's current UX won't scale to a large population having lots of real conversations here. But it does serve a good niche (or two or three) right now. But what % of the world has/wants to have conversations like this? Mainstream would drive FF to be everything to everyone. Would we (as early adopters) still like it then? - David Lee

I have a radical idea... how about Twitter just finds a way to make some money. Mainstream is great... but completely misses the point... - Brian Roy

I am "mainstream", but I've been on FF for a year as of tomorrow. - Anne Bouey

Has anyone else noticed the push the major media give to some services and not others? How often did Television Programming (news, sitcoms, talk shows) talk about "googling" something; did you ever hear them talk about "yahooing" or "asking" anything? Then it was myspace, myspace, myspace followed by Facebook. Makes me wonder if those who own the media heavily invest and then push their investments. - Internet Strategist

Internet Strategist: media people just want to be cool. It's easy to understand why they push certain stuff. I do the same. I have no investments in anything. - Robert Scoble

Will Twitter and FriendFeed become mere commodities, fed to the masses by media moguls, to sell their product ? Because that is their job. I think Twitter is becoming more mainstream, more noticed and talked about - but not generally understood. How would it be affected by advertising and ten times the traffic? FF will take longer to catch on, even though it is better. Twitter plants seeds that can be grown in FriendFeed. - Chris Loft

frankly i don't think Joe the Plumber is really that interested in such a mass of content/dialogue, Facebook is about as much feed as an average person can handle. FF/Twitter are downright manic for them and they don't have/don't want the mental faculty to deal with the multiple perpetual conversations/topics - it creates more anxiety than fun and if it's not fun it's toast. Neither will get double digit % of the population using them - Bob Sonin

OTOH, is text messaging considered mainstream yet in the U.S.? (I realize we lag way behind the rest of the world in this.) I don't think the "mainstream" can handle more than one technological breakthrough at a time :) I still know people who are even just getting used to using a computer. - Victor Ganata

@Bob I think Twitter is so powerful that it can be used for many different purposes. Imagine a multi-dimensional Twitter with single or more refined services. For local councils, government, media companies, business services, geeks, gossip, etc. Each with their own customised Twitter serving their needs. This is where Twitter will produce an income stream; hiving itself off into customized services, without the noise. - Chris Loft

i dont think it is a "we dont want it to go mainsteam" it is more of a "the technology isnt quite ready for it to go mainsteam, we couldnt handle all our friends and family and colleagues nattering on our feeds, we can barely handle the information flow at the moment". We need better filtering, a better way to have several spheres in parallel on these services. - Iphigenie

(translating my previous comment in pragmatic speech:) I am happy to have all that crowd happily segragated on facebook sending each other quizzes, i dont want them coming on my FF and twitter. I love them to bits but they are, well, embarrassing! I don't want "what peanut character are you" on my friendfeed, and it will come with the mainstream - Iphigenie

hmmm, this bubbled up so I re-read it. man, that was a great old post - Sarah Perez

By old you mean 9 weeks, right Sarah? :-) - Louis Gray

Just remember what comes with being mainstream...tons of spammers. - April

FriendFeed should go mainstream. Despite our selfish desire to want to keep it to ourselves, it is a smarter way for news and information to be disseminated that would benefit all once they are aware of it. - Thomas Hawk

No question, when a service hits critical mass, the conversation will change. Look at YouTube - people are always bemoaning the boorish, illiterate nature of the comments there. Will we stick around when Scoble or Louis pose an interesting question and half the comments are spam and profanity? - Laura Norvig

I don't want FF to go mainstream because then it will probably be blocked at work like FB, Myspace, etc... - Josh Begin

some ppl should think what this service is about: aggregating the feeds of people you trust and like aka friends as in friendfeed :) - Chris Hofmann

@Chris, that can be seen as the basic service, definitely, but the ability to converse about an item is what is giving this site stickiness and added value. At least, IMO. - Laura Norvig

thanks for the link. noiseriver seems pretty cool - Valley from NoiseRiver

it's ironic because the people who talk about leaving friendfeed because of the political discussions are the very same people who contribute to the very heated and inflammatory remarks in political discussions. its only when they get called out and get a dose of their own bullshit that they cower and cry about it. just leave if you can't take it. no need for a grand exit - Cee Bee

+2008 @Cee Bee - MiniMage, enterRUPPted

Hiding from viewpoints you disagree with is not going to help your case. One of the huge problems with the America and its media is that you can go all day avoiding dissenting opinions. Watch Bill O and Fox News if you're a conservative, Maddow and Countdown for the libs. Seeking out and listening to "the other side" will make anyone less of a dick. - Jon Anderson

@Jon I'm hiding from all political discussions, not because the viewpoints differ from mine, but because they are senseless, childish, and disrespectful - Shey

@cee I don't know who that was meant for--if anyone in particular--but that's a heavy hitter. Geez. I could be included in that number of political tweeters by talking about Obama, the excessive use of maverick, standing behind senior citizens to vote, and my favorite tweet "whoever the next president is better have an "S" on his t-shirt, but an "O" will do." But noiseriver.com still seems cool. - Valley from NoiseRiver

@shey you're right. some on the info can get kinda ugly. - Valley from NoiseRiver

CeeBee: Shey seems always very mild and measured in his comments. Unless you think something that diverges from your viewpoint is inflammatory ... - Oldengrey (Jay)

Can't fault a guy for wanting to avoid the screed. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

jay, i'm not talking about shey. he's not leaving nor has he made any official announcement to do so. more importantly, he never puts things out there simply to get a rise out of people nor is he insulting to others. that's some people's m.o. here until they get it flipped right back and end up making an ass of themselves. - Cee Bee

The Hide button is my friend. Otherwise, I'd have ground my teeth so hard, they'd have turned to dust by now. - Akiva

Play whack-a-mole with me and click "hide" on everything related to politics! - Rochelle

in the process of writing a post on the level of political hate here and on twitter - Sean Reiser

I know exactly how you feel. I put a moratorium on discussing politics on FF. It's pointless. - Mattie Kenny

lol - i read this as "the politics of friendfeed" and thought, really i'm not seeing that - then reread the "on" for the ah ha moment - concur shey - mike "glemak" dunn

The Politics of Dancing by the Re-flex? - AJ Kohn

AJ: The Politics of Dancing by Paul van Dyk. - Rochelle

I had started on one, Shey. - Rah-PM 2012

I skim by and ignore what I don't find interesting... - Ian May

@Abby it would take a lot more than that, I'm here to stay :) - Shey

I read that as "I'm here to Shey" - Scoble, Alex Scoble

I like hearing the differing viewpoints and getting to know you all better. - Jack&Cleo

Glad to see you'll be around Shey. FriendFeed isn't the same without you :) - Mike Reynolds

lol +1 Alex! Thanks Mike :) - Shey

I love it. I remember being at Ronald Reagan's rally in Silicon Valley back in 1984 and he only had 40,000. - Robert Scoble

That is hella people. - Derrick

Derrick: that is a landslide brewing. I saw it last night at a Silicon Valley concert when the crowd erupted when the camera zoomed in on Neil Young's "Hippies for Obama" pin. - Robert Scoble

@Robert, lets hope so. - Jeff P. Henderson

Scoble: Please stop with this landslide stuff. I think a lot of people hope that you're right, but if people pick up on this landslide thing, there's a chance that they'll feel less compelled to go out and actually vote. - Eric Florenzano

Robert, I'm so giddy, I can't stand it. And never before in history, have I been so involved with the political process. Rallies, monetary donations, volunteering. In these days and times, I feel like I can't afford NOT to. - Derrick

Hold the giddy for the win. The GOP meme about the landslide is intended to mobilize their base. Voter suppression stories are flooding my wires right now, there's still much work to be done. - Karoli

Chris: walking around a neighborhood in North Carolina showed me that, yes, this is a real landslide. It's happening not just on the elitist coastal states, but nearly everywhere. McCain's home state might not vote for him. Imagine that! - Robert Scoble

While we don't know whether or not it will be a landslide, each of us can help. Urge your family, friends, and your friends friends to vote. Particularly those between 18 - 30. I'm 48, and this is the most important election of my lifetime on many different levels. Urge people to be a part of what will be written in the histories as a turning point for America, ask them to become a part of the solution. Lets MAKE it a landslide. - JCunwired

I'm with you, Karoli. I'm also crazy nervous. We can't sit back and rest now. Much work to be done, there is. - Derrick

Nor may Palin's home state vote for her. Anchorage Daily News endorses Obama today. http://www.adn.com/opinion... - JCunwired

I'm still worried the Repooooblicos have a plan to hack the election. - Dave Winer

Evidence of the rising tide in Virginia, as Robert describes in North Carolina. I've been to Wytheville, VA many times, and would never have announced myself as a Democrat without my foot on the gas and grinding through gears. Today, its a different place altogether. I would never have believed it. http://my.barackobama.com/page... This IS happening all over America! - JCunwired

More evidence of Robert's prediction? McCain in NM yesterday spoke to about 1,000 people. - JCunwired

Me too Dave. Especially after McCain said he could "guarantee" victory on Meet the Press today. Scary. - JCunwired

Yet another HUGE crowd turns out for Obama. Haven't heard of a single large turnout for McCain, but I hear people are lining up for his - Mike Reynolds

Me too. Lots of reports of voting machine irregularities with early voting. In NC, if a straight Dem ticket is voted but Pres not voted first, votes are negated. - Karoli

yes, though when I saw full quote, I thought it was less scary. He was posturing. But still scary, yes. - Karoli

The Ballot in NC has prez first, then straight ticket for the rest, then non-partisan positions. The polling place I went to did a great job making sure folks understood. - kevin

I'm worried that the McCain camp has a wildcard - that Obama might not have been born in the US. I think there should be a popular movement to amend/change the law that states that the US president must be a US-born citizen. - Tokyo Dan

Hawaii became a State in 1959. Obama was born there in 1961. His mother was and is an American citizen. You think that is not enough? - Dennis E. Hamilton from twhirl

Can someone born in Puerto Rico run for president? - PC Easy from twhirl

Of course being born in Hawaii is enough. But there's hearsay that Obama wasn't born in Hawaii. He might have been born in Kenya. Haven't you heard this? This may be the reason McCain is so confident. - Tokyo Dan

Being born in Hawaii is just as good as being born in Panama, so I doubt that McCain would want to go in that direction.... - Bora Zivkovic

Within 24 hours I know Joe the Plumber's income, plumbing license status and voting record and Ashley Todd's Twitter, Myspace, Facebook and Youtube accounts, yet months later people still think there is something hidden when it comes to ACORN, Bill Ayers and Obama's birthplace? - Rob H.

McCain is confident because you're not supposed to act like you're losing even when it's obvious. Hillary Clinton was confident past the point where there was no chance for her to win the primary. - Rob H.

extraordinary. and a sign of how much we need change. - susan mernit

Eric: are you saying I have influence over the outcome of the election? How flattering. Mind if I use your quote in my PR? :-) - Robert Scoble

I thought women still gave birth in their houses when McCain was born. - MiniMage, enterRUPPted

@Tokyo: there us no such law. the law says to be president you must be a natural born citizen NOT that you have to be born in the USA If you have an American citizen as parent that's all it takes ; the presidential exclusion clause means you can't be something else and apply for American citizenship then become president .... Everyone screaming from the soapbox to see the original Hawaii certificate is either simply misinformed or one of the group deliberately misrepresenting the truth - David HC Soul

My mother gave birth to me and my two brothers at home, and she's younger than McCain, let alone me! - Ian May

Thanks David. That's reassuring. - Tokyo Dan

He's bigger then NCAA Football, he's almost as big as NASCAR. - Will Higgins™

Morgan: go read the Wall Street Journal or watch CNBC. They are far more negative than I am. - Robert Scoble

Morgan, if you read the post you will see that it is not meant as surprise, just that very few people are reporting it. - Rob Diana

i know of two more companies with recent funding as well... will get announced in next few weeks - Jeremy Toeman

Jeremy: there were five funded last week. This week there'll be some acquisitions of some very profitable companies. - Robert Scoble

Hrm....for some...this is bigger than the Powell endorsement - Rah-PM 2012

"Google employees have contributed $487,355 to Sen. Obama's campaign and $20,600 to Sen. McCain's as of Aug. 31. Mr. Schmidt hasn't donated to either." - Roshan Vyas

Do you think he'll be better at this than Carly? - j1m

Wow, those donation numbers seem extremely one-sided even for a Cali-based tech company. - Rob H.

@Rob I think this talk http://www.youtube.com/watch... won him a bunch of supporters at Google. Up until this talk, I hadn't decided between Obama and HRC. Note the Secret Service presence even then. - EricaJoy

That makes sense. I wasn't aware he had spoken there. Of course, it gets a one sentence mention that I apparently missed in the article. McCain spoke there too; I suppose he didn't go over as well. - Rob H.

@Rob To be fair, all the candidates did. However Obama had a really good message on technology and you can imagine how that resonated with a crowd full of Googlers. - EricaJoy

Wow, Google favors Obama by about 48-to-2 in terms of $$$. - Mike Reynolds

C'mon Randy, Fox "News" is almost universally recognized as very right-biased. And all the talk about socialism is crap... just because of a 39% tax rate (we've had that, and higher, before)... taxation by its nature is spreading the wealth, the gov needs money to provide for the common good and some are better able to contribute than others. Ask Warren Buffett, even he agrees. - Tinfoil 2.0

@logical ... yeah wtf. It just goes to show you how uneducated people are about taxation. - Brandon

@Randy -- Fox News is one-sided... You have a serious slant on your world view if you think otherwise. Not that I have an issue with partisan coverage, as long as your realize what you are getting. - Aram Zucker-Scharff

I have heard some bad things about Fox, but I don't really watch it. I do know that I have never seen MSNBC do an hour long special all about Obama's ties to domestic terrorists...just sayin - Rah-PM 2012

Very strong post. Ohh and any time you wanna move to Australia, you're totally welcome :) - Mo Kargas

Nope. Not getting involved in yet ANOTHER thread about this! - Akiva

I don't have a problem with taxation. I do have a problem with over bloated government and bureaucracy that seems to grow more and more. Government rarely does anything efficiently, including spending our money. I am sometimes considered a tightwad by those that know me, but I'm not, I like to get value for money as much as possible, and I've never believed that government gives you that in return for the money it takes from you. - Ian May

Ian, right on! I hope that whoever gets elected takes on the bloat and the special interests in a big way. I want value for my money too. And I want to return to a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. - Tinfoil 2.0

me neither. such tripe, really, particularly coming from an echo chamber participants like Scoble and Winer, who have routinely insulted folks with different political ideals than their own. People in glass houses, and such. I'd go into the substance of the post, but when the premise is flawed, there's not much point. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Mark, I'm curious... what's the flawed premise? Seriously. - Tinfoil 2.0

Wow, feel the love... Sorry it had to come to this. - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge

I agreed with just about all that Robert said in his article. My only worry is that when Government takes on the job of wealth distribution it 'loses' a lot of the money it distributes along the way. - Ian May

I don't question folks being American or not, nor do I question people's patriotism. I do question their logic, though. Every election we go back to the voting polls because the country is doing a crappy job - economy, environment, war, veterans affairs, social security, pork spending, education... nothing they do ever works. Yet, we're going to elect the next president on how much MORE they are goiing to DO. It's insanity... keep doing the same thing and expect different results. - Douglas Karr from twhirl

you forgot to say, I think the US spends too much of their taxes on the military, I am not an American. - David Lynch

I find it absolutely hilarious that some people consider Obama's platform "socialist" - even in a fairly moderate country like Australia, Obama would be considered to be right of centre here :-) - Warren

1) America is a melting pot. For in sense alot of people arn't american. I mean my main roots of family is set in Germany. That is what's great about this country. 2) I would believe Obama has alot of "Red" Ideas in there. Being he wants to take money from people and give it to less fortunate is almost making breadlines in sense like Russia. One of my friends is pretty much a socialist and he loves Obama. 3) There is bias everywhere. Some people are on Obama's(TV) side and others on Mccain(Radio). - ЯIИGҜIИG

I think Robert here is making a point. His point being that his country is so different to what he'd like it too be that it does not look like his country. And he is not wanting to be a part of that. Is that a definition of Palins un-American america? No. It us simply an expression of the desire for change. And wether we agree or not ( or even don't belive in the system as I do) he makes a good point. - Roberto Bonini

Roberto: my real point was that there's too much name calling going around just for telling people what you want to see happen. And WAY too much name calling for stuff like your religion. - Robert Scoble

Hey I agree with you 100% Robert. It's a really bad problem. Wish it wasn't do prevalent, but it's human nature to put down those who you disagree with. - Roberto Bonini

Wow, already 2 result on Google for "I'm not an American" http://www.google.com/search... - Mark Krynsky

Andy, Scoble is most definatly not banana :) - Roberto Bonini

Close. It's: "Fox News. We Distort. You Recite." - Christopher Galtenberg

Wow, look at all the conversation this awesome post generated!! Nice job Robert… I concur!! Looks like we’re gonna have to CHANGE this country; don’t move. I love America and want it to GROW up and face the music. No more greed, self-centered-ness, lack of vision or discipline. We must adopt a completely different strategy going forward to better manage this rich and diverse country.... more... - Susan Beebe

Some people may not have noticed, but certain elements in the GOP base - Congressman Bachmann is just the public face of it (but now she's lying about what she said. She's got Alaskan Fever!) have been exhuming McCarthy. That's what Robert's post was about. And it um, used an ironic style. - Rick Powell

fantastic post! - Jennifer Wilbur from twhirl

Tell your employer that they should "redistribute" their wealth instead of investing in business (hiring more employees, paying more, etc.). More welfare is not what we need. - Spencer

I'm a George Will republican, but I am not buying the blind "less gov't" argument. Would less gov't have met our needs on 9/11, Katrina, the housing bubble, and the credit crisis? Prescription drug care, yes. The others, come on. - Christopher Galtenberg

Didn't my government just take a bunch of my money and "redistribute" it to shore up the banking industry? Now, I respect that people who earn a lot of money work very hard for it. But I also respect the teacher who works very, *very* hard (providing an invaluable public service) for about 15% of the pay. If *some* money doesn't trickle in the direction of the teachers--and others who do important work for little money--then what's the incentive for good people to fill those critical jobs? - Robert Clockedile

@Robert C. Good point. Funny how it is OK to redistribute up but not down. Either you are philosophically against it for anyone or you are not. You can't say it is OK in some cases and some it is. I didn't hear these people making an uproar about "redistribution" when there was a tax cut to the top or bailouts of many different kinds. - Rolf Schewe

good post! I guess the comments give a good cross-section of the current division in the US society :-( One thing that will never cease to surprise me is how little americans know Europe... - Antoine Bertier

One thing that will never cease to surprise me is how non-Americans will gladly and breezily generalize Americans. Maybe one day we'll get credit for our diversity of thought and deed, as well as race and creed. - Christopher Galtenberg

@Christopher Galtenberg: it seems diversity of thought is no longer valued in the US, and even actively discouraged, so much so that Robert feels he has to write about it ! And my generalization of americans, comes only after reading dozens of comments generalizing Europe as socialist (by the way look at http://www.politicalcompass.org/euchart and then take the test!) - Antoine Bertier

Robert is giving an unhealthy amount of credence to the views of a minority (<20%) of our population. Talk to 2 sets of people: young folks on a college campus, and middle-aged folks having lunch at a local cafe, and you'll see that really none of Robert's stereotypes hold water. This is an open, warm-hearted, patient, and thoughtful society - Christopher Galtenberg

May I have a sip of your tasty [MILKSHAKE] to wash this down with? - Brandon

What? - iTad

mm mmmm, this IS a tasty burger - Josh Haley

What ain't no place I ever heard of, they speak English in What? - Rah-PM 2012

w-what?? - iTad

Say WHAT AGAIN! - Brandon

W-w-w-what??!? - iTad

lol - Brian Bufalo

Say what again, I dare you, I double dare you MuthaTadder, SAY WHAT ONE MORE GOD DAMN TIME! - Johnny

...what? - iTad

PEW PEW PEW! - Josh Haley

*super ninja dodging* WHATcha gonna do now, tough guy? - iTad

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! - Yolanda

*does the Pillbury doughboy giggle* - Shey

lmao! - Carmen wBabby

HAHAHHAHAHHAHA - Mona Nomura

LOL! - Bee

The scissor lips in the first frame make him look not cold but like he is a dough boy paper shredder. - Pete D

Lhasashisapoo! - Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ

Greyhound, Samoid and Golden Retriever. - Nir Ben Yona from twhirl

My dog, Chewbacca the Yellow Lab! :) - Jericho

Maltese. I had two. One passed away recently. - michael parks from twhirl

Boxer - Carmen wBabby

Boxer - Jeff Quinton

Pug, French Bulldog, or Bull Terrier. Something with a weird nose. - Steve Lynch from twhirl

Hot Dog - Owen from twhirl

Shihtzu. :) - Lindsay

Black Lab but Yellow tastes good too. - Andrew Smith

my late australian cattle dog RIP http://tinyurl.com/4wsb68 - J450N

beagle! - Alisha

Lab. - The original Kevin

Old English Sheepdog. Bearded Collie. Corgi. Oh, and I suppose the Welsh Terrier. - Nine

Jack Russell - shaun mclane

Golden Retriever, great family pet! - Kol Tregaskes

black lab - lisa-k

"someone else's" - Josh Haley

+1 Josh, lol - Scoble, Alex Scoble

Top - Todd Hoff

Rotweiller - Steven Perez

Rhodesian Ridgeback - Andre Maltais

Beagle! - Louis Gray

Cairn Terrier - Benjamin Golub

Shih Tzu - Chris Rivait

Pomeranian - EricaJoy

Living - Jim Goldstein

Sheltie - Bob Gannon

Australian Cattle Dog. Red or Blue, I'm not fussy - Duncan Riley

Hmmm... maybe it's my squirreliness, but I think grapefruit are both easy to eat and tasty. Mmmmmm... - Jen (SquirrelGirl)

I can't stand grapefruit. It might be the only fruit i've ever tasted that i can't eat. - ·[▪_▪]·

That's too funny. It would be great to see some sort of mashup of everyone's take on that chart. I happen to love grapefruit and find plums far too messy to bother with. This humourous chart could also work well with all sorts of items. What about usability and information as the axis and then throwing on twitter, FF, IM clients, etc? - Troy Forster from twhirl

Oranges should be at the top of the Y axis. X axis is accurate. - michael brashier

@txsean i think i have tried those. I've tried supposedly "different" grapefruit and they all have a similar disgusting aftertaste to me. - ·[▪_▪]·

Alt Text: "Coconuts are so far down to the left they couldn't be fit on the chart. Ever spent half an hour trying to open a coconut with a rock? Fuck coconuts." - Tim Hoeck

Ever tasted or smelled Jackfruit? That has to be the at the bottom of the pit of tasty. - Troy Forster from twhirl

Durian. So far off the chart that if the chart is on your computer in your living room, the durian is on the exact opposite side of the earth. - FFing Enigma

Did anybody else notice this is from 205 days ago?? - Virtual Bird's Eye from twhirl

txsean been diggin scobleizer history - ·[▪_▪]·

Grapefruit is the whiskey of fruit. It hurts a bit at first, but it's worth it. - Andrew Warner

Carlin: "And now a message from the National Apple Institute: "Fuck pears" - iTad

I'm morally obligated to not like this, due to my love for pomegranates. - i80and

I love that - Calvin Robinson from twhirl

Durians truly stink. However, citrus fruit of most all kinds except for those easy-peel clementines or satsumas, are just messy. Period. - Ian May

True, Ian, but getting into a durian is similar to getting into a coconut: it practically requires a wood splitter and a mallet. All that work just to release that stench. - FFing Enigma

grapefruit is nearly $3 now at my local grocer so yea, eff grapefruit - Cee Bee

I'd still rather have a built in ladder with wheels, just so I could ride and yell "weee!" - RAPatton

RIP Mitch Hedberg, "Escalator Temporarily Stairs" http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Daniel J. Pritchett

That's cool!! - Lindsay

Definitely Want - Rah-PM 2012

Total awesomeness. (Hee, RAP!) - Ayşe E.

makes so much sense - Josh Haley

Hmm -- not exactly sure this makes sense -- it would seem you lose three shelves at the bottom to gain one or two on top? - Brian Sullivan

Brian, the bottom three shelves can be filled with books. - Mark Trapp

FF isn't good for my personal finances, people keep sharing things that I'm wanting to drop money on. - Eric P

That would be the implication but looking at it and noticing that the picture doesn't include books or anything on any shelf nor a real person in the picture I am thinking that it will not work if the bottom shelves are filled. - Brian Sullivan

Brian, the shelves are on gliders, why would they not work if you put something in them? - Mark Trapp

Because you have to insert your feet into the shelf to safely ascend and descend - Brian Sullivan

Brian, they slide out, like stairs. The riser of the stairs would start at the opening of the shelf. - Mark Trapp

Maybe -- but the fact that the picture doesn't show anything real leads me to think otherwise --perhaps it is just a poor choice of illustration? - Brian Sullivan

Brian, the picture doesn't show the guy sticking his feet in the shelves: I'm not really sure why that would be an option. You don't stick your feet over the tread and into a riser in any other staircase. - Mark Trapp

Brian, normal bookshelves have just one horizontal shelf between rows - this looks like it has two, one at the top of each row to step on and one at the bottom of each row for the books to rest on. Brilliant concept. - Deborah Fitchett

looks like a lunch cafe! no? - imran

If I didn't know any better I would think this was a Hawaiian Restaurant. - Percival

You're going to have a lot of people looking for some sweet Hawaiian roast! - Mike Lewis

Looks like a dry cleaners - Ryan

Car wash anyone? - Fleagle

So Louis Gray actually does have super human strenghth? I knew it! - Jesse Stay from twhirl

Or a computer-literate octopus :) - Johnny

There's something special about those babies, can't put my finger on it - Jesse Stay from twhirl

maybe we need a Little Known Facts of Louis Gray meme...kidding. - Anika

I'm seeing you publish 24/7 too. - Andrew Warner

Faboo, that meme is here: http://friendfeed.com/rooms... (Not endorsed by me) - Louis Gray

HA! You want the "Louis Gray Super Kickass Social Network Following Power" (http://blog.justinkorn.com/index...) Good luck to you and let me know when you find it! - Justin Korn

Just cranked out my second blog post for today: http://staynalive.com/article... ;) - Jesse Stay from twhirl

I'm going to have to wait till tomorrow to read it in Google Reader...well done though! - Justin Korn

Think you forgot the twins in that list... - Andy Davies

Yep, your #1 ennemy is TIME - TiTi

Okay.. Justin! It's time... You and I are going to write 5 consecutive posts breaking down the "Louis Gray Super Kickass Social Network Following Power".. and I'm talking BREAK DOWN.. step by step.. scrutinizing everything - Kyle Lacy

Louis is a force. He's like... the blue light saber guy. You can't be Louis! Get your butt back down to the droids and scrub off all that carbon scoring! - Chris Brogan

Don't forget the twins as well as children aren't easy especially when there is two babies!! - Joe Dawson

+1 Joe. +1 Chris. I am just a lowly droid - Kyle Lacy

True story - I inadvertently entered a search term as a FriendFeed entry. Because of its embarrassing nature, I deleted the entry a minute or two later - but Louis had already saved a screen capture of it. I guess blackmail provides money for baby clothes :) - Ontario Emperor from fftogo

don't forget the twins! - acedanger

I'm convinced that there is more than one Louis Gray. He is a living Multiplicity. - DGentry

Louis is really 12 people in one - Louis Gray is the 'parent company' - Charlie Anzman

And on the eighth day, God created Louis Gray. - Shawn Farner

I think Louis *is* the internet. - Jesse Stay from twhirl

No, what you wish is that you had a job that allowed you to be on FriendFeed + blogging all day :-) - Duncan Riley

+1 Duncan - Kyle Lacy

+2 Duncan... - JA Castillo

I thought Louis Gray was Sarah Palin... - Andrew Feinberg

If Sarah Palin even KNEW Louis Gray, she'd have all the experience she needs. - Shawn Farner

Louis is a clone! There are multiple Louises...Loui? Louis's? :) - Sarah Perez

The trick is never to sleep, or to sleep with your eyes open. Both are acceptable. - Steve Spalding

Sarah, Louis is a "royal we", so it remains "Louis" ;) - Jesse Stay from twhirl

+3 Duncan - Igor Poltavskiy