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@Allen depends on the meds! - Steve Rubel

I go where the community is. So what's the best way to build a community here? - Tiffany Monhollon

dont worry steve they will be easy to take - Allen Stern

Allen, no injections! - Steve Rubel

That's why we dropped by the blog post, left a comment and then came back here. - Richard A.

Follow people, participate. - Richard A.

Great post, Steve. I agree. I much prefer FF. Another great feature of FF over Twitter is the customizable rooms. - Waynette Tubbs

can't say that i prefer FF over Twitter or vice-versa. i fear that twitter's simplicity is the key to its success, and adding any new features would turn me off. i was away from FF for a while, but back on again. my interest goes in waves. - Kevin Sablan

I also think your twitter experience varies depending on whether you're a big player or someone following the big players. Robert Scoble asks for something, he gets answers. John Smith might not get the same response. FF has a much better system to allow for others to get exposure. - Peter Spook

your post reminds me of a old presentation i did at a barcamp in austria - you should even add filtering via knowledge by social network graph to your idea - i've uploaded my presentation here: http://bit.ly/gosM - Andreas Klinger

custom domains would be awesome - Hans Kainz

FF is on fire and will have success, but I'm glad you're not the PM. Maybe I just have a problem with using the word 'blog' as part of the description, just like 'microblogging' poorly describes Twitter (and the clones). Twitter is elegant and simple, and also quite superficial which I think the mainstream audience will prefer. The engagement of the somewhat_early_adopter crew now on FF seems to have you drooling, but don't mistake that as the norm. - coldbrew

So you think it would be a good idea to have this like a big blogging platform??? i dont know... overboard a bit really I think... I would hate this place to turn into a bloody scoble blog - Rob Sellen :o)

I can it being a center for more in depth discussion and posting than twitter. I can also see it as an almost real time blog format, which Scoble is playingn with right now. Longer blogs? Not sure yet - Michael VanDervort

Friendfeed for me isn't a blog, it's "fflog" I COINED IT! - orionstarr

I agree about the participation side, but "Blogging Platform" it is not, unless the text posting adds more tools. - Jorge Escobar

If you add the things you suggest, you don't have a blogging platform, you have Tumblr. - Rex Hammock

Rex, except Tumblr does not have the community mojo that FF has. - Steve Rubel from IM

If the platform were to change as you suggest, Rubel, do you think the dynamics and "mojo" would remain the same? - coldbrew

Great article. I would say that what you describe is friendfeed is an aggregator of tumblr and twitter just on steroids. - Russ Jackson

It might become more complicated as more text finds its way into here. - Steve Rubel from IM

Once I thought of just directing my current blog URL to a Facebook page and be done with it. Luckily I didn't do that. But reading you now makes me think a time may come where I might considering moving my blog -or actually my blogging activity- entirely into Friendfeed. - Ignacio Rodriguez de R,

great post Steve, i think folks are sometimes too critical of the design - where if Twitter is the only comparison, it's night and day. Just for purely tracking my diggs, reddits, etc. it's useful... but that's such a small piece. - Jason Hoch

I've been saying this since Scoble was accused of neglecting his blog for twitter & friendfeed - sofarsoShawn

noteworthy conveniences at Friendfeed: 1) one can subclass a specialized interest and publicly share in a separate "room"; 2) one can easily incorporate single items from others by "reshare"; 3) searching under Everyone can bring up obscure but astonishing stuff; 4) resharing can be generalized in the room by subscribing to several external blogs/services; 5) an embedded player plays... more... - Adriano

I think if you can manage your FF wisely you not need to check your mails anymore... - Syed Akram

Steve! sorry to be smart assed. But I have not seen one blog post here right? They just link back to your blog imo. You are fleeing to friendfeed because of the noise ratio. I hate FF :) 3 reasons and boy there are more. The only conversation goes on with the A-listers. No conversation comes my way on FF. It does though on Twitter. Twitter gives the smaller fish a place to converse. It does not work here on FF imo. Scoble has neglected his blog by hanging out here. All just my valid opinion :) - DC Crowley

... Mike Arrington brought this up first and he's right. FF and jsut video's for Fast company will not get Scoble the exposure he used to have. 3/. FF cost to much time to stay on top of stuff. I have a life and hallelujah a job that needs attending. The attention required is too much. - DC Crowley

DC: you are totally wrong. Most of the conversations here happen with non-A listers and I can prove it. My "best of" is very diverse. - Robert Scoble

Frightening, just today I have blown the dust from my FF account. It is far more flexible than twitter. - Matthias Faller

Steve, I would *love* to see this "FriendFeed as blogging platform" happen. Ever since Facebook updated its platform, it's been hard to convince my "normal" friends to hang out @ Friendfeed because it's just too hard for them to grasp. Heck, Twitter is hard enough for many of them to understand. Here's to *selling* it as a blogging platform. Just might work! ;) - Barbara K. Baker

I hadn't seen groups until today - Bwana ☠

ooh pretty. - Rob Thomas

Looks like groups came with Laconica 0.7.0. It's very cool. Worried a tad about groups syntax translating for people who use the Twitter bridge (like myself), but that's not a big deal. They're moving very, very quickly in surpassing a lot of Twitter's functionality. Been spending much more time there as of late, and trying to bring others over. - Jared Smith

Wow the mashup image looks purty ... I would love something like that. - Brandon

I'm reading the article and it looks phenomenal. - Mona Nomura from IM

Great article but it didn't mention some of the nice attention to detail stuff implemented in the taskbar like color hot-track and progress bar animation inside of the task item. You can see the color hot-track feature in a screencast that i just did. http://friendfeed.com/e... - Alan Le

What's color hot-track? Nevermind LOL What's progress bar animation? *edit: OOOH I see it now. It's like Window's version of the doc's magnification and powering up the genie effects. Nice. - Mona Nomura from IM

the funny part is that one of the pictures showed he downloaded the it crowd via bittorrent, yeah! very very very funny. - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

Wow, looks good. Is Microsoft finally catching up? I'm all for usability races. :) - Meryn Stol

While it is an improvement over the previous taskbar, I personally prefer Mac OS X's expose to manage multiple windows. Dock has never been more than eye candy for me anyway. (I'm a Quicksilver user so I rarely use it) - Bwana ☠

the dock is the dumbest peace of launchy thing ever!!! - sofarsoShawn

Say your peace about the piece!! - Mona Nomura

I like the Mac OS but I've always been a fan of the Windows task bar. So much easier to navigate. - solipsisticnation

looks like..KDE4 taskbar. - Jeremy

Looks are deceiving. - xero

Am probably in a minority, but I've never liked Windows task bars and find them clunky. I'm with Bwana on Expose and I find the Mac Dock easier to use. User preferences are always interesting. - Sally Church

As soon as I switched to a Mac, I had no idea wtf I was doing on Windows for so long but I AM excited for Win 7. :) - Mona Nomura

I haven't been a big fan of the subtle ways the Win7 task bar does some things, especially in relation to pinned vs not pinned apps. But I think it will be really good in the end and better once I learn to use it instead of using it like the old one. I've never thought of the Windows taskbar as clunky though. But I have seen people change the settings to make it that way, never figured out why. - xero

The taskbar is an improvement... but writing this long article about it is a bit too much... What do I use it for? Starting my favorite browser... We live the web, don't we? - Aad 't Hart

I thought the article was too short actually, but I do user experience stuff. - xero

I don't get Areo Peek on my VM so that's a bummer - Outsanity

that's like a pen, ink and watercolor drawing. Beautiful. - Karoli

The original image (1024 x 685) is even more impressive. Use the link to access the work of this cool local photog. - Dave Martin

I'm remembering Wisconsin so well. I went to college at Beloit, which is about an hour away from Madison. The snow could be intense there, and intensely beautiful, but COLD! What a great picture! - Cathryn Hrudicka

@Cathryn COLD it is, Feb is typically filled with Ice Station Zebra moments, grey skies, bitter cold wind chills. 15 here yesterday which is actually too cold for it to snow. - Dave Martin

Ahhh... Atlanta... :) - Scott Lockhart

Beautiful! - ursi

That is gorgeous! - Lon Cohen

"Vury attractiv." -gwb - david beckwith

oh wow very nice...*off to write a post about this* - Zee.

Ooooo looks good, i'll stick it on at work, dont use Reader so much here at home. - Simon Wicks

is there any way to use it in google chrome? - Alessandro

Looks great, diggin' on it. - Andrei M. Marinescu

Just installed it at work, do like! :) - Simon Wicks

Love the spanking cleanliness and of cos Helvectica. - Jonathan Kong

This really, really bothered me at the time. It still does. Makes me sick even thinking about it. - DeWitt Clinton

I just wan't to ring her neck! The media showed clips of her saying rotten, stupid things. They didn't make it up!” - BEX

@BEX Let's not "ring" anyone's neck. Our man is in the white house now, and it's time to start acting like it. Time to focus on making positive changes rather than stirring up hate for irrelevant people who have no power. - Joshua Allen from fftogo

"... likely to further damage Mrs Palin's credentials as a future presidential candidate. She is already a frontrunner..." WTF? Serious?? - Tai

The lipstick/polish on that pig/turd will wear off... - abacab from fftogo

She's fullfilling her destiny as a punchline! - Dave Winer

Just because Obama won, doesn't make her any better of a person. The two things are completely unrelated. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

I don't get maps from Brightkite information? - Stowe Boyd

Thanks Benjamin, I'll just wait for the fix from FF since this hasn't been an issue in the past with any other services. - Scott Beale

The spurious maps should all be gone now Scott. Please let me know if you see any others. - Paul Buchheit

This is always in my top 3 movies of all times. So awesome. - felix

I'm with felix. Rushmore is a damn fine film. I've watched it dozens of times and it hasn't gotten old. Bill Murray gives an amazing performance. - Kevin D. White

I've seen it twice and it's never clicked for me the way The Royal Tannenbaums did. I figure I'll keep trying it until it takes; I'm sure it will eventually because it feels like it's supposed to. - Akiva Moskovitz

yes, bill murray should have been nominated for an oscar. i love this movie. - edythe

While we're all here talking about the love :) I'll post my top three Wes movies are Rushmore, Darjeeling Ltd and then Bottle Rocket. Liked but didn't love the other two. How about y'alls? - felix

Of the three I've seen, I like them descendingly: Royal Tannenbaums, Rushmore, Life Aquatic. - Akiva Moskovitz

I loved this movie, esp the music. Oh Yoko! - Dave Winer

Good shout Dave the usage of music in Rushmore made it an instant classic. - Toby Graham

oh, so true -- not only is the film a small masterpiece but so is the soundtrack - edythe

+1 for the music - Steve Lynch from Alert Thingy

Life Aquatic is my fave - I seem to be in the minority - Brian Newman

I have watched this movie so many times, it's a little scary. It's amazing to see how young Jason Schwartzman was in this movie. Finest Wes Anderson movie in my opinion: he doesn't "try" as hard as some of his other films (RT) and it shows. "So, this is where it all happens." "Where what happens?" "I wouldn't know." - Jennie Lin

to me, this is still wa's best. although i really do love Bottle Rocket. Then perhaps Life Aquatic. It isn't so much that Life Aquatic is a fantastic movie, but I think it suffers less from "cuteness." I prefer Darjeeling Limited to Tenenbaums. Tenenbaums is last for me, i think. - edythe

@edythe And yet they're all great films - Kevin D. White

Great film. The DVD package on the Criterion Collection is not to be missed. I am still so in love with Olivia Williams who played the character of Rosemary Cross. - James

The data is Creative Commons licensed, too. - DeWitt Clinton

Since the whole "In Rainbows" Debacle, I won't listen to Radiohead. - Joe from twhirl

Those interested, the ruby script is here http://github.com/gtcaz... - Bwana ☠

The fail whale... it feeds. - Andrew Dobrow

I've gotta ask, what is the urgency to completely shut down the account? Why not just leave it out there as inactive? - Mike Doeff

I'm not shutting down the account, I'm getting the tweets and leaving the account inactive - Bwana ☠