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We are trying to describe what community managers do. Your thoughts?
Tim, Jason Shellen, Лиова and 22 other people liked this
Being the champion in Rod Beckstrom's analogy of the decentralized organization
- Bjoern Negelmann
Therefore being "relentless in promoting a new idea" (the idea of the community) and "inherently hyperactive"
- Bjoern Negelmann
@brianoberkirch check out The Four Tenets of the Community Manager http://www.web-strategist.com/blog...
- Jeremiah Owyang
Discussing with community leaders
- Igor Poltavskiy
Community managers mediate between community members!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Well don't community managers manage communities?
- Wayne Schulz
My favorite part of the role is sifting through all the great feature requests and recommendations, getting free user feedback on how to make your product better.
- Adam Darowski
http://conniebensen.com/blog...
- joshuabacker
Suggest they be called something else. You don't MANAGE your community, you serve it.
- shelisrael1
I like Shel's answer! ;-)
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Smartly ride herd on the cattle, the cowboys, the ponies and the coyotes--y(ou can tell I've been in Colorado too long from this answer, can't you?)
- susan mernit
Shel, we agree the term isn't a good one. In my case, HR needed to have the term manager in the books for the title. We all know the real rules of engagement.
- Jeremiah Owyang
Damage Control.
- Geoff Schultz
Ask HR. Are they Human Managers? (well in a sense they are). By parallel the title could be Manager, Community Relations
- Michael Markman
Found enough good stuff in links & commentary here & twitter to do a (gasp) blog post on this. You remember those, right?
- Brian Oberkirch
Most companies I've studied are horrible at bootstrapping community. They don't know how to get one going. But they are fairly good at managing things that are already built. So, a community manager is someone who keeps an already-existing community happy. Who listens to the community and takes care of problems. Who finds new content and other things for that community, IE, who feeds that community. Here on FF we're ALL community managers due to the distributed nature of how FF works.
- Robert Scoble
@Robert I couldn't agree more. Been on both ends. Was moderator for a huge board for a couple of rock stars and did exactly as you say. That community thrived because they wanted to be there. Nothing I did generated that. I only maintained it. I sure learned the difference when I tried to start communities for several other orgs!
- Melanie Reed
Way back in the day I "managed" several mailing lists (I still miss majordomo, btw), most of which were very focused. It's really more like herding cats than cattle. A largely thankless job that you do because you have a passion for the topic at hand. Community managers, if up to the task, can keep the channel clear of enough noise for the community leaders' signal to get through.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
They hang out in the community and rep the company and its products. Apologizes if the company screws up. Encourages people to choose the company's products over the others. Helps people find the right person in the company to work with. Retains their humanity, and generally takes the customer's side whenever possible. Quits if the company acts in an unprincipled way, so they act as a guarantor of the honesty of the company. A canary in the coalmine. Best if it's the CEO of the company.
- Dave Winer
We call the roll Community Gardener since they need to plant the right seeds, ensure water & sunlight and a healthy environment. That includes tending to weeds, ensuring that things that will pollute the healthy growth of the community do not take hold.
- Austin Hill
The Real Community Manager is Proselytes Maker
- Lora Lufark
good CM projects his passion for the subject into the primordial soup, infects people with ideas and said passion, and catalyzes community formation per se. That's the fun part. Then it's onwards to herding cats.
- Michael Bravo
Amazon, Google Partner for Mobile Music Store - http://blog.wired.com/music...
googlezon is coming! your life = owned
- joshuabacker
Status Updating Service Ping.fm Now in Open Beta - http://mashable.com/2008...
I cannot say enough good things about ping.fm
- joshuabacker
The Five Douche of the Week Award | InsideTransit - http://insidetransit.com/bus-dou...
funniest thing i've read today
- joshuabacker
from Bookmarklet
No, Seriously: Microsoft Patents Page Up & Page Down - GigaOM Daily - http://daily.gigaom.com/2008...
The tyranny of microsoft continues!
- joshuabacker
from Bookmarklet
Can someone please explain to me why voting is voluntary...
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Why would you want people voting at the flip of the coin? How do you make compulsory voting informed voting?
- Mark Trapp
ah because we are not in Communist China?
- Fred Grott
Fred, I'm in Australia, we are so not communist. Plus 19 countries have enforced compulsory voting: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Cyprus, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Fiji, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Nauru, Peru, Singapore, Switzerland, Turkey, Uruguay... China does not have compulsory voting...
- Johnny Worthington
Mark, I love this reason, except it allows those people off the hook. How can you justify living in a democracy, and all the benefits that come with it, without even participating in the most basic function of it?
- Johnny Worthington
I believe that when voting is compulsory people engage with the political process more, and do become at least somewhat informed. And non-compulsory voting doesn't necessarily mean informed voting either. The political system of the day doesn't stop people being dumb or easily manipulated.
- Michael C. Harris
Michael, indeed.
- Johnny Worthington
I have mixed thoughts on the matter, despite living in the country that does have compulsory voting. I get the engagement exercise in that it forces people to think, but on the same token having scruitineered in polling booths for over 10 years, 5-15% informal vote and plenty more who'll number their papers 12345 in order. That, and isn't there some irony in forcing people to vote in the free society?
- Duncan Riley
I don't think our two parties here in the US would want this to happen.
- Alex Scoble
Duncan, my second favourite reason. 'I have the right not to vote'. My problem with this is the 'right' they are exercising is only afforded to them due to the political system they live under. I beleive that voting is a responsibility, not a right. If someone will not even take the time to at least engage in the running of thier country, how can they justify to accept any assistance from that government such as welfare, health care, infrastructure or protection under the law?
- Johnny Worthington
Duncan, overall, informal votes are lower than that in Australia, http://www.aec.gov.au/Voting...
- Michael C. Harris
Quoting Rush's song Freewill again: "If you choose not to decide you have still made a choice." Not voting is the same as voting for all the winners in an election.
- Alex Scoble
Alex, but then what right does that person have to complain about the choices that winner makes?
- Johnny Worthington
Because free speech is a right granted by the 1st amendment to the constitution.
- Alex Scoble
I feel ya John, but you know the pesky constitution and all.
- R. Ferguson
Even though that person chooses not to involve themselves in those institutions charged with defending and administrating that constitution. Sounds like freeloading to me
- Johnny Worthington
They may have the right, but is it just for them to exercise that right from the safe seats?
- Johnny Worthington
Yup, the constitution protects everyone. Even criminals and miscreants. Democrats, Republicans, and independents alike. Kooks and sane people. It applies it to all citizens equally. Or at least that's how it's supposed to work. :)
- Alex Scoble
Sorry for the rants, just heard a story on the radio about a 26 year old man in Zimbabwe who had both his arms broken cause he voted for the opposition. His wife was shot in the head, killing her and her unborn baby, because she choose to as well. I am so passionate about democracy and when I hear of people taking advantage of all the freedoms and rights provided to them without having the balls to even stand in line on a Tuesday, it gets me worked up.
- Johnny Worthington
Yeah, most of us don't understand how important our rights are and how bad it is to live where those rights don't exist. I understand the first but can only imagine the second.
- Alex Scoble
so you become informed...and then vote for the lesser of 2 evils
- clarke thomas
Yup, always choose between the lesser of two weevils.
- Alex Scoble
Or Ralph Nader :P
- Johnny Worthington
Had similar discussion with a friend the other week, his plan: "I will forfeit my right to vote if i don't have to pay state/federal income tax anymore." Thoughts?
- joshuabacker
Then he also has to give up the services those taxes go towards like policing, health care, welfare, roads, water, electricity, sanitation, schooling, subsidized food production, subsidized oil and gas production and importation, communications and bailouts that let the bank his house is mortaged with stay open... so... good luck with that :)
- Johnny Worthington
you making an incentive to not vote Joshua?
- Noah David Simon
Social Networks: The Case for a "Pause" Button | 43 Folders - http://www.43folders.com/2008...
João Almeida, Bill Sanders, Candace and joshuabacker liked this
"... FriendFeed, which has quickly become the platform of choice for the web’s least interesting narcissists — and the slow-witted woodland creatures who enjoy grooming their fur..." LMAO, how rude.
- Phil G
from Bookmarklet
Sounds like someone who hasn't got anyone subscribing to his friendfeed if you ask me! :-)
- Slappy Line
ha ...good find
- joshuabacker
I'm going to respond to this sort of stuff the same way I respond to people in games I play who get nerd rage "It's just a game"...in this case "It's just the internet. Have a good time!" Maybe some people need to get out more.
- Candace
+1 Candace :-)
- Slappy Line
Agreed, Candace. It doesn't affect me personally, but I wonder where all the vitriol came from. The field is crowded with fat targets for that sort of disparagement.
- Phil G
Because it's the internet. I've seen this on a smaller scale in the online games I've played. Kind of like the Penny Arcade comic. Take a normal person, give them anonymity and look what happens. Hiding behind a keyboard and monitor gives people the ability to lash out more than they would anywhere else. Why? I don't know but, it happens *everywhere* you go on the internet.
- Candace
That has got to be one of the better one-liners I've seen recently. I agree with J. Phil - it's rude, but it's funny!
- Bill Sanders
Have you ever typed out an e-mail to someone with the way you would LIKE to respond? Not sent it, just typed it.
Didier Lahely, cjmart, Jeff P. Henderson and 6 other people liked this
Yup, then caught it in the Outbox (my Exchange account's always full) and did the righter thing.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
from fftogo
oh yeah!! :)
- (jeff)isageek
yes, people should do this more often...from emails i've been copied on it looks like actually sending the 'real' response still happens a lot...just writing it out is a good stress release/reality check
- joshuabacker
Many, many times.
- Tad
+1 joshua
- Hao Chen
No...?
- Mona Nomura
Yes
- Yolanda
I do that a lot, and then send the email to myself.
- Trish R
Absolutely. It's good "therapy" to get your thoughts out. I always, always, always do one thing after hitting Reply however. I delete the e-mail address so it doesn't get sent accidentally.
- Kevin C. Tofel
yes! And be afraid to type "enter"...
- Didier Lahely
from feedalizr
When you work in customer service its an almost everyday thing. Why is it that people don't feel the need to indicate that they are at all socialized and safe to be around humans when they are emailing a company? Odd.
- Aaron Krug
Who hasn't?
- Jonathan.Rivera
The Columbus Dispatch : Ailing singer pledges refunds - http://www.dispatch.com/live...
edythe, Arash, Baard @ Pixum and 3 other people liked this
"After a subpar performance Monday night in Value City Arena, Neil Diamond yesterday apologized and offered refunds to the 11,000 people who attended the concert. "Dear Fans in Columbus," the singer said in a statement, "I haven't let you down before, and I won't let you down now. Until you hear from me again remember, You are the sun. I am the moon. You are the words. I am the tune. Forgive me. I love you. Neil." Diamond, whose voice was extremely hoarse throughout the show, said yesterday that he is suffering from acute laryngitis. Ordered by doctors to rest his voice, he canceled his two other shows this week -- today in Green Bay, Wis., and Friday in St. Louis. Some industry veterans said they'd never heard of a performer offering refunds because of the quality of the show."
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
I have to give him respect for trying to go on and praise for offering the refund.
- RAPatton
Ditto; class act both ways
- Michael W. May
+10 Neil Diamond
- sergiooo
very cool man
- William Harryman
Is there a life lesson you can't learn from Neil Diamond?
- joshuabacker
FriendFeed Poll: Your #1 Favorite Fruit and #1 Veggie.
Josh Haley, Adrian, ha3rvey (wants confit) and 2 other people liked this
tomato, tomato.
- Hao Chen
peaches, broccoli
- ha3rvey (wants confit)
You know, I just hate tomatoes for some reason. As a sauce, just fine. But I can't eat them pure or especially in liquid form.
- Ben Parr
Also: Strawberry, Spinach (I'm not gonna count the potato)
- Ben Parr
banana, asparagus
- AJ Batac
Banana. Peas.
- Nathaniel Payne
Grapes, Broccoli
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
heirloom tomatoes are pretty awesome. I had a heirloom tomato pizza with mrsth last night.
- Thomas Hawk
white nectarines and cucumber
- carlotta fancypants
Mango, Potato
- Benjamin Golub
i'm with hao on this
- Cee Bee
banana and cucumber
- AJ Kohn
Kiwi and Stephen Hawking
- Jim Goldstein
red grapes, squash/zucchini @ben TOTALLY with you one tomatoes @jim wow
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
ajbatac... hehe...
- A.T.
coming from my island (Guadeloupe in the F.W.I.) : Carambola & Breadfruit...and now I am starving...
- Olivier
Avocado
- Leslie Poston
Strawberries and Potatoes
- Sarah Peterman
Mango and Tomato -- @Leslie I LOVE avocadoes -- I guess they would be a fruit?
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
oranges and... uh... does candy count?
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
blueberries & palm hearts
- mike "glemak" dunn
Pineapple and Tomato .... it's hard to choose, I have a lot of faves.
- ChaCha Fance
honeydew, asparagus
- andy brudtkuhl
Banana and runner beans
- Timothy Griffin
Apple. Potato.
- Chris Luckhardt
bananna, broccoli
- sergiooo
fruit:mangosteen. Are mushrooms considered a vegetable? if not, then I pick broccoli.
- Alan Le
fruit: tie: strawberries & pineapple, veggie: corn.
- Trish R
cherries, peas
- Mitchell Tsai
all:all-(radishes+lima beans)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
fuji apples + potatoes
- Mona Nomura
peach + asparagus
- joshuabacker
Tomato, Brussel Sprouts
- Geoff Schultz
chocolate-dipped strawberries, asparagus (without chocolate)
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
from fftogo
Permsimmon, artichoke :P
- Andru Edwards
Blueberries and Cauliflower
- Blake N. Cooper
Banana, cucumber
- cjmart
Graham Norton and Stella McCartney. (if anyone gets this joke, don't let on)
- Slappy Line
Mango and, oh, I dunno, sweet corn?
- i80and
rice (hope that counts) and mango (no, really)
- Josh Haley
FriendFeed our shiny toy, just got a lot shinier.
Joe Dawson, Erhan, Susan Beebe and 18 other people liked this
anyone else having trouble with greasemonkey scripts that worked on old friendfeed? filter by service was awesome
- joshuabacker
I'm trying to correct the highlight your comments GM script now... looks like some of the css classes names might have changed, so it'll take some modifications.
- Tim Hoeck
just seeing this i likey!
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
How? Deal me in...
- Helen Sventitsky
Tim, give me a sec, I might have the class name... Edit: change whatever the GM script uses to .comment.owner . ".comment.owner { background-color: #ecf2fa !important; }" as a UserStyle works in both versions of FriendFeed.
- Mark Trapp
I'm down with this. awesome job!
- Kyle Lacy
I used it for all of 5 minutes. Now I'm back on the old. The changes are subtle. Maybe too subtle? I feel like I just put on a new pair of glasses... off kilter. Did the new one seem more cluttered to anyone else?
- Yolanda
they actually have a filter by service ..now.. but its playing tricks with me :(- http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Peter Dawson
Yolanda, there's a lot more going on, but I think they cordon it off pretty well on the right hand side. It is jarring, though: I'm really disliking the lack of underlines on links. That seems like a rookie usability mistake: I wonder what the reasoning is, as I don't pretend to know more than Kevin Fox and Paul Buchheit on that :-P
- Mark Trapp
Adding your friends to lists, is like tagging bookmarks. This will be a massive undertaking.
- Mike Fruchter
Seriously, Mike. I got through about 30 or so and gave up. I'll probably tag people when I do things like hide or comment rather than tagging everyone upfront.
- Mark Trapp
Mark, That is a good strategy. I think I might do the same. Tagging the top 25-50 people on my feed, the rest I will tag as I go.
- Mike Fruchter
Mark - that's what I'll do too. Tag people as I can.
- Hutch Carpenter
I'd rather tag discussions. I don't know about you but many of them are real interesting and I wish I could tag them according to the subject, so that I can find them easily later in time. At the moment I just save the discussion link in my delicious. I've also posted a comment about getting the chance to edit the new entries and to add video and photos to the comments.
- Niki Costantini
I agree Niki, I would like to see a follow thread, but most people are using liking/commenting to track threads. See Mike's article on using Liking as a bookmark: http://michaelfruchter.com/blog...
- Tim Hoeck
We just hit 100,000,000 Facebook users!!!
Kol Tregaskes, Diana Valerini, Torsten Eckert and 43 other people liked this
sez who ?
- Peter Dawson
Congrats, man! That's a magic number.
- John McCrea
Congratulations. Is that registered, 30-day active, or what?
- Paul Buchheit
Is thee anyway to validate that number?
- Scot Duke
Congrats!
- Bret Taylor
Paul that must be registered.. with about 20-25% getting reactive after they made their UI upgrades
- Peter Dawson
Mazel Tov! Now print out that social graph.
- Phil Wolff
that's awesome dave, very exciting stuff
- joshuabacker
I guess that means they will be shutting Facebook down in 6 days.
- Alex Scoble
I guess now its worth $20B .. :)_
- Peter Dawson
but isn't facebook just a little bit sort of boring these days?
- Thomas Hawk
Hahah +1 Alex
- Kyle Lacy
Facebook is still the most useful new web project for me. I keep up with all of my old friends and current friends there. It's only boring to people who like to be on the cutting edge of the web.
- Andrew
Holy Cow!! Congrats on reaching 100,000,000 Facebook users - that's simply awesome!! yeah!! very impressive milestone!! :)
- Susan Beebe
That's fantastic. Congrats!
- Stu Andrews
from twhirl
Congrats to Facebook!!!!!
- Charlie Anzman
Seriously... Buy the 100,000,000 member a Facebook hummer.
- Kyle Lacy
Sweet! Congrats guys.
- Jesse Stay
Kyle, what's a Facebook Hummer?
- Eric Eldon
I realized... Yah. Facebook Maserati?
- Kyle Lacy
Just so long as it wasn't a fake account ;)
- Jesse Stay
from twhirl
Haha. A Spammer wins the Facebook Maserati!
- Kyle Lacy
maybe there's a "drive a maserati" app i can invite them to? that's pretty similar, right?
- Eric Eldon
+1 Eric. haha.
- Kyle Lacy
More than MySpace?
- Igor Poltavskiy
Great! Now I'll just sit back and wait for 100,000,000 invites to take the 80's Quiz Challenge! I am so stoked.....
- jerry
Integrate Relevant Tweets into Your Blog with TweetRemote - http://mashable.com/2008...
it would be great if this could work with all the hashtags
- joshuabacker
Managing Data in the Clouds - http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008...
Mike Fruchter, Guillaume Lemoine, Niclas Strandh and Neill Adamson liked this
Good tips, but the "do not's" i think can be headed off by choosing the right person for the job...one of my favorite tips, and it might have come from one of your posts chris, is to post frequently and on a variety of industry topics to engage your community over the long term, then they will most likely be there when you need them (sales, pr, product feedback...)
- joshuabacker
Sly & The Family Stone – Dance to the Music - http://www.last.fm/music...
joshuabacker, Robert DeBord, Tom Teuber and 2 other people liked this
Rekin, no it is totally free.
- Mike Fruchter
Rebkin, that's odd. Are you clicking the favorite button? Also I have found sometimes last.fm will log you out. If you favorite a song while logged out this could explain why.
- Mike Fruchter
This is the first song I chose to play on my first day on the air at WCMF in Rochester, NY....December of 1970 (!) I still crank it up to 11!
- Tom Teuber
Good memories Tom, definitely a classic.
- Mike Fruchter
this song has been making it into movie soundtracks a bunch lately :-)
- joshuabacker
14 Simple Things to Boost Your Online Productivity - http://www.makeuseof.com/tag...
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Mihalcea Razvan, Mahdi Ebrahimi, Hisham Sadek هشام and 45 other people liked this
"6. Stealth Kiwi - If you’re not big on self control, let Stealth Kiwi do it for you. It blocks all “recreational” websites, but allows you to take a 10 minute break every hour. (GreaseMonkey)" --Hey, Alan? Is that what you were using to block FF? LOL
- Mona Nomura
I keep telling myself that I need to organize my bookmarks better on delicious. I still never get around to it.
- Rob Diana
@Rob organize your bookmarks? In what way? I just tag them as I make them and if my tagging scheme fails on lookup (usually does the job 90% of the time) then the search on Del.icio.us works fine...
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
My diigo bookmarks are a hot mess LOL Sorry to the people who've added me =|
- Mona Nomura
look at FF once a day for only 10 minutes...
- Pokai
but I don't WANT to be productive when I'm online. I'm online because I'm trying NOT to be productive.
- Nine
But Nine, what if your work IS online... :|
- Mona Nomura
Why organize when you have search? ;)
- Phil G
It is online, actually... but I still prefer wasting time.
- Nine
As far as organizing the most used icons on Windows, forget the desktop, I really like Rocketdock. Gives you that Mac dockbar feel. And it's free too.
- TDavid
If I still used a Windows Machine TDavid, I will totally use Rocketdock :) Thank you for your input.
- Mona Nomura
I don't see the point of icons now that I use a Desktop Launcher. My desktop is blank.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
rocketdock just changed my whole game up...thanks TDavid!
- joshuabacker
See? THIS is why I LOVE FriendFeed :)
- Mona Nomura
Lindsay, I try to be organized, which means I use tags similarly to folders. The problem is that I also tend to be lazy and use existing tags that I already have. So my tags become useless. Sometimes I like to browse through my bookmarks to see if there is something I want to re-read as well.
- Rob Diana
Watching Science Channel: A show is on right now that is showing us how close we are to all the technologies in Star Trek that we thought were complete pipe dreams...In actuallity we are less than 100 years away from most of them.
FFing Enigma (aka Tina) liked this
Most of the technologies we might actually see in my lifetime.
- Alex Scoble
That's why I like Isaac Asimov: all the tech he thought was 300 years out that we already have.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I don't have cable Alex, what are some highlights? Am i going to be trading in my car for a teleporter before gas shoots up again?
- joshuabacker
They talked about how close we are to fusion energy (50 years off from production reactors), building space elevators (20 or less years away), teleportation, cloning (pretty much here now), ability to make just about anything at home using a nanotechnology personal factory (within 50 years or so) and a bunch of other technologies that I don't remember
- Alex Scoble
Bah - if I live 50 years more I'll be nearly 90.... Hopefully the projections were conservative! :)
- Tad
Tad, I would imagine making it to 90 is not all that far-fetched for your (our?) generation.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Brand Equation ftw! - http://wrongdistance.com/...
Guillaume Lemoine, John LeMasney, Cecil Sandus and 38 other people liked this
i want that t-shirt :)
- Mona Nomura
very bruce nauman...very cool
- joshuabacker
total hotness :)
- Mona Nomura
So that's how post-its are made!
- Daynah
You eat Post-its, Daynah? =O
- Mona Nomura
Flickr Photo Download: Bell Harbor crazy Gnomedex 8.0 laptop panorama 2008 - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
HealingBrush, Krishnan Subramanian, (jeff)isageek and 16 other people liked this
this may have been shared already, but it's awesome.
- Duncan Riley
from Bookmarklet
all sorts of awesome!
- Mona Nomura
Epic...
- Johnny Worthington
Apple should buy that pic for advertising
- Jason Carreira
Must've been right before he started? :)
- l0ckergn0me
eric rice is in the shot http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3276...
- johnpiercy
Did you see this? http://flickr.com/photos...
- Mona Nomura
no ,, thats sweet ... I need to learn stitching ...
- johnpiercy
a little surprised by the sheer number of MacBook Pros (note: I am using one now), would of expected some UMPCs or is that an Australian geek thing?
- Nick Cowie
Nick, didn't see one the entire time I was there, aside from the little Dells Chris was giving away. We own an EeePC, but I'd never take it to a conference, too hard to work on over 2 days
- Duncan Riley
awesome
- joshuabacker
Duncan, was at a Library Unconf on Friday, saw 1 other MBP and 5 UMPCs. UMPC and iPhone popular in "play with gadget" session
- Nick Cowie
What's up with the 2 guys sporting a fez? Did a couple of Shriners get lost and decide to sit in?
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Denver Democratic Convention Protesters chant "F**k Fox News!!!" ON LIVE TV - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Marshall Bose, tim, Ňicķ and 7 other people liked this
"Don't you believe in freedom of speech?" Apparently, they do.
- Chris Baskind
This is some of the worst reporting. "I will agitate, get some valid responses, but ignore those and instead focus on the stuff that will sell more Crest."
- AJ Kohn
Hilarious... did you notice the reporter at one stage saying "don't you believe in freedom" after an anti-war message. So completely biased they cant keep their mouths shut.
- Duncan Riley
OMG! This is hilarious! Love Love Love it!
- Sarah
Even the setup was yellow: "far-left groups." The reporter said Cynthia McInney was running for "president of the Green Party." She's the Green Party nominee for President of the United States. And, of course, the report's general slant was that the protesters intend violence.
- Chris Baskind
My mom (big fox news fan) caught this and called me irate
- joshuabacker
notice also the line "leftist groups" in the graphic.
- Duncan Riley
They should just toss a hammer and sickle up and be done with it.
- Chris Baskind
Mainstream media can't believe their reporting could be irrelevant! Wheeeee
- Kate Foy
August 24, 2008 - Slight Video Change - http://letstalkfitness.com/blog...
adolfo foronda liked this
keep it up allen!
- joshuabacker
thanks - just trying to find the right format - especially since i dont have a webcam
- Allen Stern
Bacon Tattoos: Holy Do Not Want, Batman! - http://skullsandbacon.blogspot.com/2008...
CW™, Laura Norvig, Jessie and 12 other people liked this
The bacon meme lives.
- Russellreno
It's time for breakfast Mona.
- Mike Fruchter
That up there, makes me not want to eat bacon. EVER lol
- Mona Nomura
lower back one is uber-disturbing (not that the others aren't, but i'm just sayin...)
- Morgan
I love bacon but not a tattoo person.
- Mark Interrante
Did you see the one with P O R K in the lip? GROSS
- Mona Nomura
Some people just take it too far... What's next? Naming their firstborn Bacon?
- Ray Metzen
What's wrong with that, Ray? :p
- Mona Nomura
Bacon for a boy; Bacona for a girl. :)
- imabonehead
Baconette?
- Mona Nomura
I was thinking Baconette.
- Tad
I don't know waht these people are thinking. That is going to be on them... for... the... rest... of... their... lives...
- Mona Nomura
put more pork on your fork
- johnpiercy
because that's what i wanna see when i'm digging into her...
- Caroline
put more pork on your spork
- Mona Nomura
only you would actually search these out. LOL!
- Admiral Anika
That's a first... The bacon tramp stamp
- Outsanity
can we please assume these people are pig farmers and not nutjobs?
- Admiral Anika
well that's me in the left and right...? :p
- Mona Nomura
that first tattoo is a landing strip for your equipment
- johnpiercy
Not the thing I want to see when I'm ready to pull out, ya know?
- Outsanity
Ew Outsanity! TMI!!!!
- Mona Nomura
@foto your John deer?
- Caroline
The middle photo is ok. People put weirder things on their arms. Faces, names, cartoons doing drugs or "it"
- Outsanity
the middle one looks like Bacon Lovers support ribbon...we should put together a fundraiser!
- joshuabacker
Strands Invites: I Have Them For You - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
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I begged Drew and have many... many... invites. Drop your e-mail in here or e-mail me at louisgray@mac.com, and I'll get you in to check it out. Not familiar with Strands? Click on the headline.
- Louis Gray
I still cant get mine to work, Drew has promised to fix me up though. I'd heard of the lifestreaming side but I still remember them as the music service
- Duncan Riley
Duncan, I just sent you an invite in English. They didn't have the option for "Australian". :-)
- Louis Gray
thanks for the invite Louis :)
- Matt Hooper
thx Louis
- Duncan Riley
Louis: How is it different from http://chi.mp/?
- Mona Nomura
Can you see the irony here...we are getting invites for a rival service on friendfeed
- Varun Mahajan
Messed with it earlier. Looks neat! Now, I can take a break before you deliver another new goodie?
- Charlie Anzman
Looks pretty neat so far. Had a bit of trouble getting it to recognize my Google Reader shared items feed, but I'm willing to believe that's just a case of PEBKAC, and will evaporate once I've had some sleep.
- Derrick Burns
I left my comment and waiting for my invitation ;)
- Alemsah Ozturk
I don't wanna leave friendfeed. Maybe the gang will introduce some more sorting and filtering options here soon....
- Slappy Line
@Slippy, it's not about leaving FriendFeed. Trust me, I'm not going anywhere. It's about finding new places for community and interesting features. Strands, FriendFeed, SocialMedian and others all have unique benefits.
- Louis Gray
Marcantonio, I sent the invite to your GMail.
- Louis Gray
We definitely know there are some issues, and we're working hard on them. Special thanks to Duncan for kickin' the tires and letting us know whats up. Please do the same everyone!
- drew olanoff
Can you please send one invite to alexander[dot]popescu at GMail? Cheers
- Alex Popescu
Alex, you are covered.
- Louis Gray
Are there any still available? Just emailed at your mac address.
- Kim Mahan
Kim, you are covered.
- Louis Gray
thank you for the invite. that site looks really neat and really does what FF should be doing, but better and better looking.
- Admiral Anika
Louis: I can barely keep up with the streams in friendfeed and google reader as it is. :-)
- Slappy Line
Dan, you should be in. And Slippy, come on in, the water's warm.
- Louis Gray
Thanks Luis :)
- sergiooo
@louis : thanks, just registered, it's working fine except for the google reader shared items which return an error when trying to add it
- Olivier
Hey Louis can i catch an invite? thanks! joshua.backer [at] gmail [dot] com
- joshuabacker
For Google Reader, you need to do the RSS URL, not the shared items link, for example: http://www.google.com/reader...
- Louis Gray
Yes Josh, I got you.
- Louis Gray
Yeah, that Google Reader URL threw me for a bit last night. Strands seems fairly nice: if not a bit slow.
- Chris Baskind
ok got GGReader feed into strands
- Olivier
I'm curious to see that too, if possible : eric {ta} senterre {tod} com
- Éric Senterre
@Louis Thx for Louisgray1:)
- Igor Poltavskiy
Rejaw new features - http://picasaweb.google.com/lh...
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good point Mark...the next twitter-esque micro blogging service to take off will have to be seriously awesome to supplant the ground twitter has covered...but my money is on identi.ca forcing twitter to truly open up
- joshuabacker
Nothing will supplant Twitter. Nothing will come along that will make the entire Twitter user-base up and move. Someone could create the absolute perfect micro-blogging, opensource, media-embedding platform that never went down, but it won't supplant Twitter. Know why? Everyone is too lazy to rebuild their network. They can't bear to leave their homies on the sinking ship. Plus, it's too deeply entrenched. It's like Windows.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
To some extent ... have to support Rahsheen. They all keep going back ... including everyone that said they wouldn't ... but I never say never ... and it's great to mix things up once in a while
- Charlie Anzman
"like" for Rahsheen's insight...
- JA Castillo
Only a sith deals in absolutes
- Bwana ☠
Twitter is king.
- Ernie Oporto
??? I'm confused. Did someone delete a comment, Charlie?
- Mona Nomura
I don't mean to paint everyone on Twitter as "lazy" or stupid or anything. I don't need the Twitterati Army breathing down my neck. Their software is inferior, but their numbers are great....LOL
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
HAHA @ Rah! I just don't think (for the bajillionth time repeating this) a service that requires a 3rd party app to be intuitive is useful. But again, Twitter IS the pioneer :)
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
Ok, I'll do it Rah. /me paints everyone on Twitter as "lazy"
- Bwana ☠
LOL, better watch out, Bwana.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
What app you talkin about, Mona? Twhirl?
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Ya just gotta love Saturday nights on FF - It's a whole different deal
- Charlie Anzman
Anything to manage @ replies and DMs. Everything is all over the place and it's hard to keep up! Plus, for some odd reason, people are one sided and very elitist on Twitter. All that exclusion/exclusivity BS I HATE. Were all the same on the Internet. Pixels.
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
Well said Mona .. now you're wanted in the Green room to introduce Mike http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Charlie Anzman
What do you people have against Twitter. Twitter is great, it does what it is designed to do. And does it damn well most of the time. Sure it goes down sometimes but overall its excellent.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
I agree, Matt. Twitter serves its purpose and for a free service, it's great. However, I don't think its design was made to handle volumes and myriad streams of conversations, thus needing various 3rd party applications to manage the information overload. And that is the sole reason I firmly believe it's unintuitive. Even people who WANT to be involved in their community, cannot, since it is near impossible to keep track of everything. Especially if you have 10k+ followers. To each their own :)
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
True, it may have not been designed to handle such a large mass of users. But, I think that they have been doing a good job on fighting that issue. But, if you want to get really technical what it really boils down to is money. You have to have A LOT of money to run any kind of social networking site. Especially when it becomes as popular as Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, etc.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Maybe that's the other beef. How can they have gotten so big and not made the money to keep the thing going?
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Actually, I believe the inflexibility is more amongst the lines of Twitter based on RubyonRails, and the framework with a non proven track record to handle large-scale territory. :) Rails proved useful, since Twitter was able to be released quickly, but I truly think the dev team wasn't anticipating its popularity. With the new dev additions, I wonder if we're going to see Ruby at Apache anytime soon... But in the meantime, you can find me at Rejaw :)
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
ugh, Sorry for the redundancy. It takes me a while to type on my phone LOL Matt, now that Twitter grabbed people's attentions, hopefully they WILL be granted the proper funding needed. It's just too bad that as great of a community Twitter DOES have, it seems extremely one sided, since information management is so inefficient. And to me, that's not ok. But again, to each their own :)
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
geez. what if it were possible to connect with your twitter friends even if you preferred rejaw or ff? is rejaw going to peer with identi.ca? as soon as lockin is the main thing a tech product has going for it, i'm outta there, that's why you don't see me posting very often these days on twitter.
- Dave Winer
Is that possible from a development standpoint? How would peering work? That concept sounds so incredible...
- Mona Nomura
I'm listening. All we could do is to create a superior product, and to keep the faith that the better experience will spread little by little. It could take months or years to reach the tipping point, but that's okay as long as it keeps growing. We heart you guys - our community. We heart how our community is developing on Rejaw.
- Kenn Ejima
By the way, I understand that some people want things like peering, federation, or standard, whatever it means... because you have too many alternatives out there. I know it's just overwhelming. But from a developer's perspective, it's ridiculously early to start even thinking about that. Integrating Rejaw with identi.ca is like integrating IM with email. As you go higher in the...
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- Kenn Ejima
Thank you, Kenn, for taking the time to respond. I still can't believe there are only four of you behind that entire site...
- Mona Nomura
It's always great to see a developer answering questions here, especially this early in the game. Thanks Kenn for dropping by and keep up the good work!
- Charlie Anzman
Farewell to the ‘@’ - We Welcome the Meta Revolution - http://staynalive.com/article...
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jesse I appreciate the thoughtfulness you've been putting into the last few posts re: the direction of microblogging services...my one reason for keeping @ and # would be to keep up with the speed of conversation...come to think of it being able to create contact groups in these services and being able to ping groups with a single @groupname would be great too
- joshuabacker
joshua I agree - it's the whole command-line vs. gui thing. If these things are provided via an API, you could do things like groups, etc.
- Jesse Stay
from twhirl
(and thanks for the kind words Joshua!)
- Jesse Stay
from twhirl
Have you ever experienced the dreaded "Team Games" at corporations? At a previous employer we had do a do a treasure hunt, it was supposed to be team building, but it became an ego game and very competitive. We saw the 'dark' personalities of some. true colors perhaps? Have you had this experience?
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We did an amazing race-style search around the city of Richmond. Turnout wasn't great, but got to see some historic sites around here, and the puzzles were challenging. Company that sponsored: http://www.ravenchase.com/
- Kim Mahan
a treasure hunt does sound like torture...but I'm a big fan of corporate league sports (softball, basketball, etc...)
- joshuabacker
Hi Jeremiah, as 'team games' are part of my work, I can tell you that just like any other work, they can either be facilitated in a way that does bring out the worst, or that brings out the best in teams. Good facilitators know how to establish safety, trust and increased co-operation all while having fun (in a non-cheesy way...things have changed, trust me!) However, they also know how...
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- Leif Hansen
Interesting Leif, glad to meet an expert on this.
- Jeremiah Owyang
NP Jeremiah, let me know if you have any Qs or ever need any facilitation in the realm of teambuilding, collaborative brainstorming, etc. or are working with a company specifically looking into issues of how to prepare for and innovate in response to upcoming sustainability topics (peak oil, peak water, peak food, healthcare, etc.). My partner Jay Kimball (8020vision.com) has an amazing presentation on this, and I add the more interactive, experiential learning, fun element - http://www.sparknw.com
- Leif Hansen
this was a peculiar teambuilding thingy I found: http://www.actiondays.co.uk/...
- Niclas Strandh
Diane, so sad for me to hear those stories when the need to add a dimension of interactivity, fun, is so healthy and needful these days for groups. They're like other fields though: The person who "tried counseling" or had a bad spiritual mentor/leader, or hey, who "tried friendfeed" but subscribed to someone's inane comments rather than quality stuff like Jeremiah's.
- Leif Hansen
I was in a work related scavenger hunt once. Our team found a bar and .. drank pints for the rest of the day. Our morale hit an all time high. No one noticed we had disappeared.
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
I only participate for the free t-shirts and food ;)
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
To Geoff’s point, when I asked the staff recently about ideas for our offsite, several people mentioned a scavenger hunt that the company did several years prior my coming aboard – and all were positive. Rumor has it that all the items had either something to do with beer or bars. We may have a theme here. ;-)
- Bill Sanders
My department was subjected to a long weekend of "wilderness team building"... we already pretty much disliked each other; "team building" in the woods crystallized it into deep antipathy. The problem was that our department did not need to function as a team to be effective; trying to shoehorn us into a "team" was nonsense. But some bosses get off on all the touchy-feely stuff.
- Allan Jenkins
Yeah, beer can be a great binder...though often its v. short term and/or superficial. Wow, any positive team experiences out there? Touchy feely is an 80s Org Dev mentality towards it all, surprised that that is still either being offered or perceived -though for tech audiences, sometimes anything besides sitting in front of a screen for 8 hours isolated is considered 'touchy feely' ;) It's really about increasing trust, communication skills, mental paradigms that are more productive, and good fun.
- Leif Hansen
Team games work when there already is a positive foundation. They tear apart when there isn't. Forcing "teamwork" on people that don't like each other is a disaster waiting to happen...
- George Smith
Good point George. As 'positive foundation' is fairly relative though, I might tweak it slightly and say, *some* team games can tear apart when there is a lack of a strong foundation --however, others can actually help to establish a stronger foundation (which is, at bottom, trust/respect/etc.) And yes, anything 'forced' is practically destined for disaster -that's where many leaders in an Org or inexperienced facilitators fail.
- Leif Hansen
Is There Less Funding Or Are Startups Just Cheaper? - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
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Thanks for the post @Rob Diana, I had been hearing in the mainstream news that tech funding is historically an area not affected by recessions since there is such a low barrier to entry and potential for a high ROI, but there is definitely more going on from the start-up side as to what type of funding is most attractive in this economy
- joshuabacker
Joshua, granted it is not "scientific" research, but the trends definitely point to something happening. The cost of cloud computing could change everything as well.
- Rob Diana
Green tech seems to be getting plenty of funding, I think thats often at the expense of online startups
- Steven Cains
I agree Rob, Cloud computing has had a huge impact on one of the project I am working on. It actually makes the project possible. Cloud computing also means more competition for startups, but with a hurting economy people seem to second guessing startups.
- Sheraz Mahmood
Fix New Facebook (remove ads) - http://userstyles.org/styles...
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"Combination of All-In-One Distractions Remover For New Facebook + Some experimental code to make the page fill in the gaps used by the advertisements."
- Chris Messina
from Mento
awesome, i had been running a script on old fb and was waiting for a new one
- joshuabacker
getting ready to watch the USA/Spain basketball game. Should be a good one since these are considered the 2 best teams.
Enjoy the game ... Goin' to grab some sunshine!
- Charlie Anzman
me too jeff...been looking forward to this game since the olympic schedule was posted
- joshuabacker
Michael Phelps eats 12,000 calories per day - Fourth-Place Medal - Olympics - Yahoo! Sports - http://sports.yahoo.com/olympic...
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Breakfast: 3 fried egg sandwiches, 2 cups coffee, 5-egg omlette, bowl of grits, 3 pieces of french toast, 3 chocolate chip pancakes
- (jeff)isageek
from Bookmarklet
omg, only two cups of coffee?
- Mladen Srdić
he's a fish disguised in a mans body
- AJ Batac
mmmmm. paaaancaaaakes!
- Tim Hoeck
ordering the entire mcdonald's breakfast menu is going to be called "the phelps"
- joshuabacker
lol @ "the phelps"
- Mladen Srdić
AJ Batac: i would say he is a black hole in a man's body.
- Mladen Srdić
hollow leg
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Enough to feed a small family...
- John Duff
goodness he will need endorsement contracts just to feed himself...LOL.
- R. Ferguson
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