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Louis Gray

Family Togetherness Time

July 1, 2008 from email - Comment - Like - Share

Kimitake, Johnny Worthington, M. Serdar Kuzuloglu and 106 other people liked this

Look at them sleeping. So daggone cute! - Hutch Carpenter

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Looks like Dad got a bit of schwag, too... :) - Mark Dykeman

awesome! - Thomas Hawk

Where are the FF onesies?! :-) - JA Castillo

The FF onesies are way too big. My "biggest" kid is five pounds. When these guys get 3-6 months, let the schwag wagon roll. - Louis Gray

FFTwins FTW! - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Link bait! :) - Andrew Baron

@Louis you are such a product pimp ROFLMAO .. god love ya and yer family :) - Steven Hodson

awwwww - Michelle Trent

Do they have FF accounts yet? - Johnny Worthington

aww gorgeous :) and the babies too! - Allison

LOL that is alll kinds of win - Mona Nomura

I've always thought it's important to establish brand awareness early on. Good job ;-) - Jonathon

So, what are their domains and RSS feeds? I need to add them as imaginary friends for now. - Rob Diana

Peace. That's the word that comes to my mind :) - directeur from NoiseRiver

good thing they are always this happy. right! - Tim Connors

I want that shirt! - James Hull

totally got a cool idea for new schwag... two items: for new Moms, a friend feed shirt with slots for easy feeding of infants... and for new Pops like Louis, nipple with bottle attachment inserts with one nipple coming out of the first f and the second nipple coming out of the second d... saweet! - Rob Reed

FF schwag and twins! best picture of the day! - Sarah Perez

Cute as a button. Akiva you crack me up. :) - Mathew A. Koeneker from fftogo

@Rob Reed: Awesome! - April Buchheit

Kinda wished I had some FF schwag to wear with the newborn on the way. - Randy Hall

The first marriage on FF cannot compete with this. - Russellreno

Congratz. - Bill Bittner

Mega awesome ;) Congratulations to you and your family, like the Friendfeed t-shirt ;) - Mario Olckers

Tiny... little... eentsy... lumps of yum. There, my estrogen has officially shown itself. - Carla Thompson

No way - they have FF onesies??? How do I get my hands on one of those? - Jesse Stay

The Gray family Babies!!!! Sarah and Mathew look sooo cute in your arms! and sooo tiny my goodness!!... still LOL @ Rob's wacky comment..whoa! - Susan Beebe

cool beans! workin on those biceps! - TheMacMommy from twhirl

So cute! - marinka239

bring on the schwag, very cool pictures indeed - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Bump for good times - Jesse Stay

Louis Gray

I TCP/IP but mostly IP

October 9, 2008 from email - Comment - Like - Share

Darren Heydon, OnuRC, Andrew Speers and 166 other people liked this

Thanks to Ana and the FriendFeed team for the baby tech gear! - Louis Gray from email

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haha Brilliant BRILLIANT! - Zee.

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha - Mona Nomura

awesome - Yolanda

How can you not Likey this? - Charlie Anzman

Awesome! Got one in an Adult XL? - Anthony K. Valley ©

:D Adorable - Mo Kargas

beautiful baby - johnpiercy

We've taken to calling Matthew "Bubba". This outfit, though still a bit roomy, is a 6-month outfit. He's just past three months. Hog. - Louis Gray

totally freakin love it - Dustin Harris

Get the outfit here: http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts... - Louis Gray

Best post title today. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

It's when you check for "packet loss" that there's an issue. - Chris Brogan

"Technology doesn't solve everything - humans do!" ;-) - Jesse Stay from twhirl

Yeah, heart feels like it's smiling. - michael sean wright

THAT IS FUNNY!! very cute indeed! IP ...ha, ha!!! - Susan Beebe

Thanks for that - I needed a laugh this morning :-) - Tim Chemacki

I am still giggling about this. - Mathew A. Koeneker

Hehehehehehe. - Roberto Bonini

FFundercats moment of win tonight :-) - mandyvan

I LOVE this. - Mona Nomura

Oh holy crap. FFundercats hoooooooooooo! - Akiva Moskovitz

LOVE - Johnny Worthington

I tried to re-LIKE this. :-D - Lisa L. Seifert

can we talk about a hand me down program for these shirts for me in a few months? :D - sean percival

TCP/IP. What's THAT? *non-tech type here* - Derrick

The source. I bow. - Josh Haley

Derrick: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Rochelle

What? This one is back? :-) Here is an UPDATE: http://www.thegrayeffect.com/2008... - Louis Gray

This was raised from the dead in order to have you accidentally participate in the FFundercats Moment of WIN... - xero

Tonight's ffundercat podcast "moment of win" - Michael W. May from twhirl

Louis, do you listen to our podcast? - Josh Haley

bad louis --retroactively - Amber, Random Time Lord

:) - Josh Haley

I have seen this in person - Jesse Stay

the "technology generation" :) lovely baby! - HollyHobby

pcnerd37

Just great, now I have to go to my grandparents on Saturday and remove the PC MightMax malware from their computer and whatever else it has.

September 3 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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that does not sound like fun - Joshua Smith from twhirl

Akiva Moskovitz

SOUNDERS WIN THE U.S. OPEN CUP!@ FIRST TROPHY!$ GO YOU #SOUNDERS WHOOOO

September 2 - Comment - Like - Share

Joshua Smith, tinypants - Hagitha of FF, Rodfather and 6 other people liked this

#spoiler - Akiva Moskovitz

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Ahhh crap, I was going to watch this... oh, wait... I can't :( - Johnny Worthington

Thanks for ruining it for the rest of us, asshole. - Sparky

:) - Akiva Moskovitz

Uhhh, is this a sport? - Matthew DeVries

Sports don't have time outs for ad breaks - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

So sex isn't a sport then? - Sparky

American football has TV timeouts... and it IS a sport. THE sport - Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)

Yes and Yes to both Sparky and Jeff. :) - Mathew A. Koeneker

Hooray! Real American football, ftmfw!!! - Bren, Not Grinchy from iPhone

Oh... THE American football played mostly with the hands... The one where they have one set of guys to run into the opposition, then they have an ad break while they swap sides, then they have another set of guys to have the opposition run into. - Johnny Worthington

Yes..that Football. ;P - Mathew A. Koeneker

You mean handegg? - Akiva Moskovitz

Handegg - Johnny Worthington

Johnny, don't you know? Those guys are *athletes*, that's why they can only play one side of the ball. /sarcasm #istheNFLstillinbusiness? #arenttheyallinjailyet? - Bren, Not Grinchy from iPhone

You mean the one where they wear shoulder pads cause they like to hit the other guy hard but can't take being hit that hard themselves? - Johnny Worthington

I forgot a hashtag: #handeggsucks - Bren, Not Grinchy from iPhone

For the record, I'm a big fan of American football. But proper football is way better. - Akiva Moskovitz

I like Gridiron, I do, but it ain't all that and a bucket of pigs ears compared to football (IMO). It's the World Game no less. - Johnny Worthington

Remember, for most Americans, the rest of the world might as well be on another planet. If it ain't UHMERRRRKUN, then it ain't SHEEEEYIT. - Akiva Moskovitz

Uh, I'm pretty sure Salsa and Soy Sauce are the top 2 condiments in the country. - Matthew DeVries

I thought ketchup was? - Sparky

It's a complex game:) - Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF) from iPhone

There are more professional ping pong players in China then people in Australia (20 million +) - Johnny Worthington

Matthew's right but salsa's as American as tacos. - Akiva Moskovitz

Golf's pretty huge too. - Matthew DeVries

And the Beatles. - Matthew DeVries

Alberta Clippers are always big news here. - Matthew DeVries

http://guanabee.com/wordpre... - Matthew DeVries

Thomas Hawk

This is my parents property on fire in Big Tujunga Canyon. - http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos...

August 31 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Jason A. Samfield, Rob Michael (Atmos Trio), Kamilah Gill and 136 other people liked this

As of Saturday my parent's home was still there when my dad left. He stayed on the roof with a hose fighting it by himself. The firefighters helped him fight it for a while. They used a pump to pump water from the swimming pool to fight it but eventually the firefighters gave up. The neighbors house burned down. My dad was able to save our house, at least as of Sat. afternoon. It may be gone now. He was going to try and hike back in on Saturday night in order to bypass the roadblock by the Sherriff, but wasn't able to get back in there. - Thomas Hawk from Bookmarklet

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:( - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Oh! I'm assuming they're ok if you had time to snap this pic. I'm sorry to hear that! :( - David Cook

So sorry to hear that, the place is gorgeous. :( - EricaJoy

not my pic. Associated Press pic from Yahoo news. My brother found it and sent it to me. - Thomas Hawk

:( - chaz2b

That's the neighbors house. My parents home is on the property burning in the background. - Thomas Hawk

Oh, well that still sucks! - David Cook

bummer - MikeAmundsen

I'm so sorry! :( - Michelle Martinez

:( So sorry to hear that, Thomas. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

I think the house may be ok. Well see. On Sat. night when I talked to my mom she said that he'd been able to save the house fighting the fire from the roof. But a storage/garage type structure on the property burned down and 3 cars were lost as of Sat afternoon. The whole thing could be gone now though. - Thomas Hawk

Oh, Thomas! Many prayers, warm thoughts (warm = the affectionate kind, not the fiery kind), and hugs to you and your family. I hope everyone is safe! - Ladybug Heather

Oh, man...I am sorry to hear that, TH. Thoughts & prayers to you and your family. - JA Castillo

My thoughts are with your parents. - vicster

they are all safe. my mom was in ventura giving a seminar and my dad stayed until the fire burned through the property on the canyon. There were still hot spots though that could have flared up. He left on Sat. afternoon after saving the home and the fire burned through the property. I think he wanted to get to town as there's no phone/electricity up there to let everyone know he was... more... - Thomas Hawk

Oh, sh*t!! That's awful. Glad to hear your folks are OK, Thomas. - Andrew Terry

Oh, jeez. :( - l0ckergn0me

oh no... this fire season is so terrible. my thoughts to your parents, Thomas :( - Melissa

Good luck to your parents, TH. - Stephen Mack

Yikes. - Akiva Moskovitz

Sending good thoughts your parents way, Thomas. *hugs* - Mol, Santa Claws

I'm so sorry, Thomas. You and family are in prayers, I'm so glad to hear that you are all safe. Your father is a very brave man. Please let them know I am praying for them. - Melanie Reed

Wow. Keep us posted. - Louis Gray

:((( - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕

please keep us posted - Joshua Smith from twhirl

i hope everything is alright - sam b-r

You have a cool dad Thomas. Instead of praying, I turned a fan on in the opposite direction of your parents' house. - Edward Zwart

:((((((((((((((( - AJ Batac

So scary. Best wishes to your folks. The worry must be unbearable. - Kathy Fitch

I've lived in Altadena/Pasadena for the bulk of my time in Los Angeles, nearly ten years. It's really scary to know that some of the homes that are being lost are undoubtedly friends or relatives of friends and people that I know. - Derrick

Hope everything turns out good for your parents, looks terrifying - Kim Landwehr

Hope everything turns out alright, with no more property loss, for your parents! - Rene Wirtz

:( - Roberto Bonini from iPhone

How scary and terrible! I'm glad that your parents are ok, though!! - Susan Dennis

I'm so glad everyone is ok. I'll keep your family in my prayers. - ChiliMac

I'm glad everyone is safe. Is this the worst fire season in recent years? - Bryan R. Adams

yeah. this is the worst fire since the fire that burned through there maybe in 1977 or so? I remember that one too. It was pretty bad. This one seems worse though. The other thing that's terrible are the floods that follow the fires the next winter. - Thomas Hawk

Scary things fires like these. Glad to hear your family's safe though - at the end of the day that's more important than the house. - John

Really scary. I saw a wildfire up close for the first time this weekend in Yosemite. It's not something I hope to be near again. - Kevin Pedraja

Amazing pic, but terrifying. Glad you are safe! - Gemma Leanne Goode

So sorry to hear this. Good to know that your parents are safe. - Anne Yeh

ohhhhhhh shit! that totally sucks :-( - Ralph Reijs

Thomas I am so sorry. I hope their house is ok. Gosh, I feel bad for you guys. - Jim Williams

I talked with my dad on the phone for the first time today. He seemed fine about it all. He said it was exciting actually. He was the only one there fighting the fire for a long time. He said it was really quiet except for sounds of the fire. He'd hear a tree fall and yell "timber." He was in pretty good spirits all things considered. He's pretty sure the house is saved and hopes that they might escort residents back in in the next few days sometimes in this part of Big Tujunga Canyon. - Thomas Hawk

I'm sorry to hear about this, but I'm glad everyone is okay! - Michael Fidler

It is a story all to familiar for us Australians and thankfully my family and I have never been caught up in it ourselves, but have come very close. Glad to hear that your folks are ok and in the least have a story to tell. Everything is replaceable except your life and these types of events bring people to that realisation faster than they would like unfortunately. - Travis Koger from iPhone

Hope they're OK.......ds - David Sanger

WHOA! I hated the CA wildfires ..that was something I'll never miss again... augh - Susan Beebe

Man ,, TH.. Im so glad that the folks are ok ... tell Dad to leave the firefighting to the young guys ,, hope that the folks are safe and that the weather can drop some rain to assist in this disaster ,, - johnpiercy

TH .. all that matters is that the folks .. are safe ,, homes can be rebuilt .. best wishes sincerely jp - johnpiercy

he's a pretty crazy but resourceful old dude actually. the firefighters were there helping him for a while but they bailed on the property figuring they couldn't save it and he stayed and fought it off himself. - Thomas Hawk

Hope the house is okay. Glad to hear the folks are safe. Cheers! - Helen Sventitsky

Can't think of anything more scary than having to run from your house as it's being surrounded by fire. Very glad everyone is safe though....that's what is important. - Bonnie Foster

So tough. Hope the house made it - but mostly glad everyone is safe. - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF

damnit man :( - Mattb4rd

wow :( - Joe

So glad to hear your folks are safe, TH. Wow. Praying for the firefighters and rest of the people caught in this horrible fire season. :-| - Lisa L. Seifert

OMG! that's really dreadful! glad to know your folks are safe. and stunned that the fire looks so beautiful in this image! - B.L. Ochman

OMG. It looks almost Photoshopped. - Zachary TG

Wow. - Nicholas James

so sory :((( - mamisinga

oh. I hope your folks are safe. - Anna Lynn M.

I'm sorry :( - BeeLing

Yeah WOW. So brave for your dad to fight the fire all by himself. I'm glad to hear he's ok.. I feel a little sorry about their house, it's beautiful :( - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

So sorry they have to go through this. Thank you for sharing the story, Thomas. - Micah Wittman

I was listening to a story on the radio about how quickly you can be engulfed by a forest fire, specially when certain types of trees literally explode raining burning chunks around, honestly, it sounds very risky to stay behind and fight these yourself. - Ray Cromwell

Thomas, I hope your parents house makes it though the fire OK. I'm glad to hear that your parents are OK, regardless of what happens to the house. - Jeff P. Henderson

I feel for you Thomas because I've been there just over 6months ago. All I can say is (unfortunately) you're in for a shite of a year ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Peter Renshaw

glad to hear your folks got out - terrible to see the devastation! - Kate

Truly saddened. Truly. - Jeff "RESPRES" Turner

glad to hear they're OK but gutted for you TH - Phill Price

Sorry to hear about your troubles Thomas, but I'm extremely glad your parents are safe and sound. Looks like you guys are having a really bad season - Mo Kargas

sorry you guys are having to go through this shit. And I'm seriously impressed by your dad! major balls. - vijay

that's an awful experience... - Rick Cogley

Hope everyone is ok. - Alternating Reality Books

Sheesh* Scary Poop Batman - hopefully Everybody is OK* I saw that on the Front Page o the Paper this morning + U never think it's somebody U know* - Billy Warhol

Wow! How is everyone? - Mitchell Tsai

I didn't want to click on the Like link because it's almost like saying I enjoy watching Thomas Hawk's parents house burn down. Hope everyone is safe ;-) - James Robertson

I am sorry to see the fire was such a danger to you and your family. I sincerely hope your Dad didn't manage to sneak back in - he just endangers himself and the fire fighters.. It is better to have your Dad around than a house. - Bill Rawlinson

I'm really sorry to see and hear that......... - Kevin Montgomery

That is so scary, but the biggest thing is that you know where your parents are, and they're safe. - mark zero (Jason)

My parents went back into their property yesterday afternoon. They were letting some residents back into Big Tujunga Canyon. The house survived but there's a lot of work still to do. The pipes from the water pump to the spring burned up and so my dad's trying to repair those to get water back to the property. Electricity is still out and probably will be for at least a few weeks. He's... more... - Thomas Hawk

It's going to be hard for the whole community now Thomas - it is the same in Greece where there were really devastating fires close to Athens these past few days. At least your parents are safe - all the best. - Sofia @ SoMaFusion

Louis Gray

26 new people are sharing items with me since the last time I checked into Google Reader. I give Feedly and Edwin Khodabakchian all the credit.

August 30 from Gmail/Google Talk - Comment - Like - Share

Iván Abrego, Mahendra (SkepticGeek), metalerik and 15 other people liked this

How do you use Feedly LG, can you share your screens please? - Thomas Power

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Thomas, once I get Photoshop to work, I'll share screens. :) - Louis Gray

Liked in anticipation of screens! - Zach Landes

Louis, have you tried Skitch? I've found it to be much faster to deal with for blog post screen shot editing than Photoshop. I use Photoshop only for the heavy stuff. - Jesse Stay

and btw it works on Snow Leopard - Jesse Stay

Thanks Louis. I think that the real credit should go to the quality of your share items feeds and your enthusiasm for Google Reader. I think that platform needs a few advocates like you and jenna to really flourish. - Edwin Khodabakchian

Louis, you should do a series of blog post to recommend who to follow on Google Reader (like you do for Friendfeed). Mahendra (http://friendfeed.com/skeptic...) is trying to get the ball rolling on Google Reader people recommdation - Andre P. Siregar

Well, to be fair, I think you found me first - but I don't know how? ;) - Gary Walter (gwalter)

Andre +1 - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Helen Sventitsky

Sitting at a noisy Tahoe Burger, recalling being forced to stop and smell the roses - http://bigstarlet.posterous.com/sitting...

August 30 from Posterous - Comment - Like - Share

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Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ... - Helen Sventitsky from Posterous

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gorgeous, Helen - Michael W. May

fantastic :) I love it - آریـوبرزن

beautiful pictures - Joshua Smith from twhirl

Thanks all! That traffic jam on the eastern Sierra on Hwy 80 provided some great photo ops! - Helen Sventitsky

BreakingNewsOn (BNO News)

LA Times: The fire burning in Angeles National Forest is approaching Mt. Wilson observatory and the TV transmission towers.

August 30 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Dammit. - Derrick

That's not the James Dean 'Rebel without a Cause' observatory is it? - Andrew Leyden

There is a webcam running apparently on top of the observatory. http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~obs... - Andrew Leyden

Robert Scoble

Fun photos as I hung out with @Rex7 @not12x and @prebynski at MotoGP qualifier. Here's my best photos:

August 29 - Comment - Like - Share

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I'll post more photos over on Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Robert Scoble

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Photo #1: Valentino Rossi practices this morning (he came in third in qualifying today but is #1 in overall points). Photo #2: Valentino shows off on way to pits at the end of qualifying. Photo #3: Jorge Lorenzo, Rossi's teammate and #2 in points, rides his way to a second-place finish in qualifying. Photo #4: Dani Pedrosa leads the way, he had the fastest qualifying time today. Photo #5: Lorenzo takes the turn toward finish line at Indy. - Robert Scoble

Jorge Lorenzo not George. - Dave Winer

The Doctor is in - Peter Mullen

Dave: thanks. I fixed that. This is an amazing team to hang out with. Over on Flickr I'm uploading some video of the garage too and more photos but uploads from the hotel are going slow. - Robert Scoble

really nice shot, tremendous - Brian Hendrickson

Robert it would be neat if you cropped one of your images so that it fit the full width of FriendFeed - Brian Hendrickson

Brian: thanks. It's one of those that I learned from Chase Jarvis: shoot lots of photos and maybe one comes out. :-) - Robert Scoble

Brian: yeah, these images are all as they came off of my sensor. No cropping, photoshop, or manipulation. I'll try to crop a few of the ones on Flickr. - Robert Scoble

I have the top one as my desktop right now. It's quite sweet. By the way, all my images are in the public domain so you're welcome to do anything you want with them. - Robert Scoble

Scoble, the Fiat/Yamaha people are great -- they treated me like a king. You're lucky -- maybe we can go to one of these together. I love the sport. You're getting a real treat. - Dave Winer

Dave: yeah, they are treating us very well. Plus they let me drive the Fiat 500 and that's very cool! - Robert Scoble

These are some amazing photos Robert! - Jason Hansen

Here's a picture of me driving the Fiat through a car wash: http://img408.yfrog.com/i... (They are bringing this car to the US next year). - Robert Scoble

Here's a visit to the Fiat/Yamaha garage: http://www.flickr.com/photos... you wouldn't believe how many people want to get in here (huge crowds wait outside for a chance to meet Rossi). - Robert Scoble

Robert, do you care if I take the first photo and optimize it for a 1440 x 900 wallpaper? Obviously you would get 100% credit for the photo. - Jason Hansen

Jason: absolutely. They are public domain, no credit necessary (although I do like it). - Robert Scoble

http://twitpic.com/fs3gd me with @rex7 who is a famous Twitterer with 70,000 followers (lawblogger). - Robert Scoble

these bikes were sooo fast! I was surprised Robert could catch them on the camera. Great pics!! - Rex Gradeless

It is amazing that he got any pictures at all. When they go by the bikes are just a pack of loud blurs. - Dave Winer

This is what it looked like where we're sitting: http://twitpic.com/fq8wm - Robert Scoble

Great pics, Robert. How about some of Colin and Nicky? It is the USGP, after all. :) - Terrence Dorsey

That's where we sat for the F1 USGP a few years ago. Good views and lots of full-throttle noises. Me likey. - Terrence Dorsey

Robert: http://www.theglitch.ws/2009... Thanks! - Jason Hansen

the bratwurst there were amazing too! we ate all the food too fast to take any photos! :) - Rex Gradeless

To give you an idea of how hard it is to shoot these pictures, I did a short video of our spot on the final turn with the 600mm: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Robert Scoble

Very nice. I'm impressed your camera got that. - Hunt from iPhone

The rest of my photos and videos are up at http://www.flickr.com/scoblei... now. - Robert Scoble

The doctor! - tab thinks you're awesome

Robert Scoble

Eat your heart out @chasejarvis @thomashawk @kk check out pics of #indy motorcycles at 140+ MPH (in the rain). More details and photos:

August 28 - Comment - Like - Share

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#46 is Valentino Rossi, #1 in the world right now. #99 is Jorge Lorenzo, #2 in the world. I'm here to study innovators and these two are at the top of their game. The team behind them is doing interesting stuff with social media, too. - Robert Scoble

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Nice! - Luke Kilpatrick

600 mm F4.0 lens FTW! - Robert Scoble

More about Rossi here: http://news.google.com/news... - Robert Scoble

just awesome! - michael sean wright

It is a lot harder to shoot these than jet planes. The pictures don't do justice to just how fast these things are going. This is turn 1 at Indy, by the way. - Robert Scoble

Envious much! Being able to see The Doctor at work. Amazing! - Steve Farnworth

Thomas Hawk would be jealous. I snuck through another team's garage (with permission) then got kicked off the track after 20 minutes of shooting. - Robert Scoble

These are practice runs, tomorrow the racing starts. We're doing a meetup at the track, by the way, at 1 p.m. -- if you are here, call me. 425-205-1921 will be fun. Another meetup is at 10 p.m. tomorrow night in downtown Indianapolis. - Robert Scoble

These guys drive faster in the rain than I do in my car. - Robert Scoble

Robert: Are these shots are only a percentage of the resolution of the camera? I can only imagine the full detail of the shot. 1600x1067 resolution feels like it doesn't do them justice. Nice work. - Luke Kilpatrick

Luke: yeah. The full things are over 5,000 pixels across. I'll put up full res ones on Flickr. - Robert Scoble

nice pictures scoble - Joshua Smith from twhirl

Really nice work! What lens are you using? - Bill Sanders

Joshua: thanks. You didn't see all my failures, though. This was the hardest shooting I've ever done. It's amazingly difficult to get good photos of things going so freaking fast with such a long telephoto. I have no idea how the camera people on TV do it (except they have huge tripods). - Robert Scoble

hot. - Drea

Bill: a Canon 600 mm F4.0 with a Canon 5D MK II. - Robert Scoble

<insert envy here> missed you last night at the panel btw... - Bill Sanders

By the way, all these pictures are in the public domain. My gift to you. Bill: yeah, sorry I wasn't there. I heard I took some abuse from Guy Kawasaki, though. Tell him that Yamaha's are beating the Kawasakis here. :-) - Robert Scoble

SWEET!! - The Catz Meow

Very nice. I think you are almost ready to go shoot some NASCAR. - Jeff from iPod

Fiat, by the way, is on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Fiatont... and FriendFeed at http://friendfeed.com/fiatont... - Robert Scoble

Jeff: NASCAR goes slow compared to these bikes. :-) But I would love to catch some NASCAR action someday. - Robert Scoble

Thanks for the "social media compliment" Robert. We all share a big passion and are simply trying to share the best content we have. - Marco Massarotto

@Robert ... ummm darlin' depends on what track they are on. Right now they can get up to 205 on a super speedway WITH a restrictor plate. (eg. Taladega & Daytona) Before the Restrictor plate was required... they would get speeds up to 220 mph. (Yes I am a HUGE NASCAR GEEK!!) - The Catz Meow

Great pictures! - Tamara

So I guess the shots of me catching a wave was like shooting fish in a barrel compared to the speed of these shots. Looking forward to seeing the full res shots, I wonder if you can tell the type of screws used on the bikes :) - Luke Kilpatrick

The Catz Meow: I was just yanking your chain. The MotoGP is running about 205mph too. These bikes are amazing. Especially when you consider the rain. Those tires are awesome. Yeah, Luke, shooting you was a bit easier. - Robert Scoble

Marco: thanks for the access and being great hosts. I'll upload a lot more to my Flickr account shortly. - Robert Scoble

But cars are huge compared to these bikes. Easier to get focus on a large target. Astonished that the 5D handles that well... - Holger Eilhard from iPod

Nice. I'll be out there tomorrow. May see you at a TweetUp - Mike Nelson

Holger: I love my 5D. It's an amazing camera. By the way, these have NOT been altered in any way and are straight off of my camera. If I did a little bit of processing on them they would look even more amazing. - Robert Scoble

@Robert Oh yes I am well aware of what these bikes can do... I did my Motorcycle mechanic apprenticeship for Vance and Hines Racing back in 86-87. I used to watch them at Laguna Seca when I was stationed at Fort Ord. - The Catz Meow

Can you tell I really LOVE Speed and things that GO FAST? - The Catz Meow

The Catz: yeah. And these things DO. I will shoot the turns tomorrow (on the back of the track the bikes go through a series of turns, which make a lot better pictures than just all-out speed). - Robert Scoble

Robert: next up: some nice HD video maybe? :) - Holger Eilhard from iPod

It's very difficult to shoot video at the paddock, organization won't allow videocameras, so it's gonna be a tough time for Robert to share some video, but, you know... you never know, he's Scobleizer :-) - Marco Massarotto

Holger: I will try to sneak in some video here and there, but Marco is right, video is hard to shoot on these tracks. Plus, I can't use the 600 mm and get video worth watching. - Robert Scoble

Robert: How come you can't do video on the 600mm? Too much shake? - Luke Kilpatrick

Luke: yeah. - Robert Scoble

Beautiful photos of a great team. I think race photographer would be my dream job. - Stephen Masiello

Stephen: I met the official photographer today and he wasn't willing to give up his media pass. Sigh. - Robert Scoble

Nice. I was there last year, soggy then too. Didn't have a 600. Use a slower shutter speed while panning for that blurred feeling of speed. - Jeremy Tanner

Jeremy: yeah, I'll try that. First I just had to get used to capturing these things. How slow? I bet 125th of a second would do the trick. - Robert Scoble

I just posted some more photos over on Flickr; http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Robert Scoble

Guy only had a little fun at your expense. Something about not being sure that all those egos could fit on one panel - even with you missing. We'll get you back for another one soon. Enjoy the trip - looks like you are having a blast. - Bill Sanders

Great lens choice for the conditions & targets. - Bryan Duke

You had me at "motorcycles." - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Robert, very good job you are doing there. Chase commented earlier that he IS jealous. - Johnny Sewell

The full resolution shots are awesome. Great detail, you can count the links on the drive train for the bike! amazing. - Luke Kilpatrick

Scott Kelby - eat your heart out !!! - Alan Morris

Good work, Robert - James Myatt

Josh Haley

This is the universal sign for "DO NOT PASS ON RIGHT"

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Oh My God. Is the truck itself even tilting?! This is the universal sign for "Get the Heck of the freeway or die!". - James Kuypers

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I would say that this is the universal sign for get the hell off the road. Even if it came down on the right, anybody driving behind would also be taken out I would think. - Travis Koger

nor the left - Mac Sharp

Wow! - Anne Bouey

This is the universal sign for "Impending Traffic Jam during cleanup" - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

If there is any good news, it is that the driver is approaching a Stop sign, it appears. - Louis Gray

I've never felt comfortable passing any truck with any load :) - Steve Borgman

YIKES!!!! - CoreyTess Trujillo

This delivery couldn't come a moment too soon - them clogged internets are gonna get new tubes. - Micah Wittman

1UP Micah - Josh Haley

(O) <--- New tube just assigned to Josh, but don't saturate yer new bandwidth all at once =) - Micah Wittman

I'm not entirely sure how to respond to that. Did I just get goat.se-ed? ;) - Josh Haley

Yuk. Look what the justice system did to you, good sir. Just innocence lost. You've been hardened. - Micah Wittman

I am in recovery still, yes. :( - Josh Haley

*REDACTED. UNFUNNY POLICE NABBED IT* - Micah Wittman

wow - سینه سرخ

I AM NOT GETTING ANYWHERE NEAR THAT THING - AJ Batac

That's the universal sign for "That McDonald's job is looking really good right now." - John E. Bredehoft

Holy crap! - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Just read Micah's comment. If this is being delivered to Ted Stevens, that truck is going to have to take the highway up to Alaska through Canada. The Mounties may object. - John E. Bredehoft

Road closure in 3... 2... 1... - Jason Huebel

LOL! - Randy

LOL! - Joshua Smith from twhirl

Love it. - Laura Wynn

That's a winner, Josh. That dude's about to, uh, lay some pipe.... - Rob Schieber

har har har @ Rob - Mac Sharp

One never knows. the delivery may be the next drive-way after the stop sign made on 10 to 14 wheels instead of 18 - the rig hasn't tipped yet - Mac Sharp

Obviously a very conservative truck driver, leaning oh so far to the right. See what fear and loathing that would bring? Must be listening to r*u*s*h (talk show dude, not band) - Rob Schieber

Alex Scoble

Things I've learned about planning a wedding: Start with the guest list first. Your guest count determines your choice of venues...your venue determines a lot of other things (usually caterer, DJ, and possibly some other things)...

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Go to a wedding show BEFORE you book anyone...there are deals to be had and people who can clue you in to services you didn't think about. - Alex Scoble

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Definitely agreed. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

If you can afford it, hire a wedding planner...Going it alone CAN be a difficult process. - Alex Scoble

I've been to quite a few weddings where the priority was keeping it simple and the couple planned everything themselves. Had a great time. I've also seen couples have a meltdown, but those folks had their priorities a bit out of whack. - Jason Wehmhoener

Don't sign a contract without READING it...If the business promised you something that's not IN the contract, get them to amend it. - Alex Scoble

When you do your budget, take that number and double it...Unless you absolutely know what you are doing and have priced stuff out, chances are it will cost twice what you thought. - Alex Scoble

The DJ makes your night...find a good one that will energize the crowd. If you paid for someone to sit behind a laptop and serve up songs, you got took. People should be dancing their asses off. If they aren't, you got took. - Alex Scoble

Don't pick weird food just because you like it. Pick good food that 90% of the crowd will like. Your strange choice for meat or your "interestingly spiced" mashed potatoes? Trust me, don't do it. I'd recommend bringing the most finicky eater in your wedding party to tastings, if they like it...you are good to go. - Alex Scoble

If you can afford to have someone do it for you, whatever it is, do it. Trust me, it's not worth the grief of doing 200 of whatever it is, just to save a few quid. If you can't afford it, then by all means, gather round the family and friends and have a party. Of course if you don't have a lot of family and friends that can help you, you probably can't afford to DIY. - Alex Scoble

Not a big fan of 200 person weddings myself. Smaller and more intimate is way more fun for me. YMMV. - Jason Wehmhoener

Yeah, you don't have much control over the size of the wedding. That's pretty much dictated by the nature of the families involved. - Alex Scoble

Heh, unless you elope. - Jason Wehmhoener

That's very true! - Alex Scoble from IM

I actually have a bit of a beef with the "wedding industry". They're selling a very expensive product that has gotten ever more elaborate over the years. Weddings weren't like this until recently. - Jason Wehmhoener

Of course, I'm speaking overly generally. Weddings vary quite a bit from one culture to another. - Jason Wehmhoener

There's nothing elaborate about my wedding...and nothing about my advice will make your wedding more elaborate, but yeah...things do seem to be getting out of hand. - Alex Scoble from IM

And yeah it varies greatly depending on where you live...From what I understand, it's quite a lot cheaper to get married in Wisconsin than in Portland, for instance. - Alex Scoble from IM

Nadine has funny stories about encountering weddings on the street in China. It's good luck there to have more people at your wedding, so they pull people in off the street. You can party all night with families you've never met! - Jason Wehmhoener

Hehe, yeah, I've heard that in India there are services that allow you to rent guests to fill up your reception. - Alex Scoble

also: do what you want to do. not what's cool in your area - for example - a lot of people will have a catered reception with a full meal. that can add up very quickly. we had an evening wedding (7ish) with a dance reception after. much cheaper! - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

Yeah, that sounds cool...I think a lot of details like that really depend on who you are marrying, hehe...I like that idea now that I think of it...Feeding 200 people sure is expensive. - Alex Scoble from IM

Veronica

Did I miss something? Is today National Pipe Bomb Day?

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Good catch Veronica - Ray H from iPhone

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Is that for real? Will tomorrow be a Molotov cocktail? - Joe

That is currently on google.com right now. I have no idea what it's supposed to be. - Veronica

An electromagnet and a compass, I think. - ha3rvey (sup homepants)

think erick took a lot of shit for pointing that out earlier http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... - MG Siegler

Hans Christian Orsted from MAKE http://blog.makezine.com/archive... - WarLord

Well, my mother is very confused and wants to know why Google is showing her pipe bombs. - Veronica

It's a link. - Robert Kenney

Thanks MG, I missed that TC article! - Veronica

Really, the only part that looks like a pipe bomb is the battery, but it is a strange drawing of a battery. - Logan Hall

The clock(compass) doesn't help for people who are unfamiliar with the workings of a pipe bomb. - Veronica

Yes it is Veronica "National Pipe Bomb Day" Now slowly step away from your computer... - Larry

it's okay Veronica, you're only required to read mine. - MG Siegler

*phew* - Veronica

That's not a pipe bomb, its an electromagnet and a compass. Maybe some commentary on 3rd world technology? - David C. Cooper

Hehehe. It is quite obscure - they really should at least have some sort of explanation for this kinda stuff - if only to stop the images getting them into trouble. - Amy

Isn't this in the new 3GS? - Fee501st

It looks like your standard electro magnet to me. Perhaps it is michael faraday birthday? - Geoff Schultz

Looks like its Hans Christian Ørsted birthday http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Fee501st

Oh I read the comments! My guess was more fun even though he was born in September. - Geoff Schultz

oh hehe :) - Fee501st

I saw this update on twhirl and started laughing. I was also thinking the same thing when I saw Google's logo today. - Chris Olin from twhirl

^^ LOL... nice way of looking at Google's image. I'm liking Bing's quality images more & more. - david4

you use a Mac? Seriously? - Pedro Marques

I thought the same thing... - Dave Gray

I noticed it, but didn't pay attention earlier. LOL. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

It does look kind of questionable.... - Kamilah Gill

a battery, wire, a nail, powering a clock lol how is that a pipe bomb. Where is the explosive - MarkRushow

Mark, don't be a smartass. To average people who aren't familiar with electromagnetism and have been fed a steady diet of fear for years, their first impression could easily be "that thing with wires and a stick of dynamite and a clock is a bomb." Not everyone, but some people. - Veronica

Anyhow, this post was meant to be funny, not social commentary. Strange how these things happen! ;) - Veronica

It is all about context. - Joe

Good thing I missed this thread. I would have really screwed this one up. *drinks diet pepsi* - Dave Friedel

google celebrates birthday of hans chritian orsted, discovered link electricity and magnetism - Adri Munier

hfdhb - imadothmani

Excctly what we thought in the office, thought it looked odd. - Najeeb Mirza from iPhone

ok, wth?? Subliminal messaging maybe? geez! - mocha59

Hey, Veronica, sorry I missed this when you first posted it. But when you see an unexplained Google graphic, click on it. I did, which is how I found out about Ørsted. :) - Craig Roth

WOW!!! - Ned Garcia-Mathews

it looks like electro magnet, you see, batery, iron and compass.. - siniradam

Perhaps somebody is trying to create anomolies in the earth's magnetic field. Hey look - is that the Aurora Borealis? - Nick B.

haha nice - madeline

Leo Laporte

Leo is excited to learn more about how Facebook will use Friendfeed. Please don't change it, though!

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I don't have a good feeling about this one ... - Boris Gordon

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I think FF will certainly change (or, worst case, cease to exist). - Brett Kelly

maybe FF can just be the test box and we're all beta users, then port what works over to FB ... everybody's happy? yeah, it'll never work. - John

My guess is FF will pretty much freeze it's feature set and code base. FF engineers will start working on adding functionality to Facebook, and at some points 6-12mo from now, FF will go the way of Pownce. - Ken Sheppardson

I think the probable outcome is the Feedburner scenario; it still works, they just stopped innovating. - Gerardo Capetillo

when will they realize we do not necessarily want everything linked together. it is not always about trying to hide your idenity has it is just using different social media tools for different purposes. - R. Ferguson

I think Facebook will just kill Friendfeed - Terry Cleary

That's the spirit. I'm tired of the "when are we jumping" posts - this is the right attitude. - Jesse Stay

That's because you're "pro-Facebook", Jesse... of course you'd be tired of the anti-Facebook backlash. - Ken Sheppardson

FriendFeed = labs.facebook.com - Mike Doeff

I don't have a good feeling about this either. Hopefully FF and FB get better, only time will tell. - Kolomona

Does this mean I'll have to log onto my facebook page? I've been ignoring fb since January. - Dale

I like Friendfeed the way it is too but I just wish there was better desktop cleint support. Hopefully Tweetdeck etc. will have more reason to add FF support now. - KyleHase

Facebook is going to just "flop" friendfeed, i can see it... but i would hate to see it end that way, friendfeed is that social networking site that really matters, and us "true" early friendfeed users will alway remember it as the best site ever! - Bryce Campbell

Ken, I'm not just "pro-Facebook". I understand it. I know the team. I also understand FriendFeed and somewhat understand their team as well. I think I'm more qualified to say that than anyone. - Jesse Stay

I don't see this as a good sign for FF....innovation will be geared for Facebook, FF could be a FB labs sort of thing, but it's not the same. I have yet to see mergers or acquisitions not kill off or turn whatever was eaten into a dead pile of junk. Time Warner -- AOL anyone? - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

FriendFeed will change about as much as Flickr changed after Yahoo took over. - Gus

I think that this will end up seeing FF becoming the central feed for FB. Possibly something along the lines of the public timeline for Twitter, but with FF becoming the public timeline for FB. - Andrew

Andrew, exactly. I think Facebook desperately needs and wants something like this. I don't expect it to go away. - Jesse Stay

Somehow I don't believe that FriendFeed will survive this. Let's enjoy it as long as it's still around. - Patrick Harms

Yahoo! bought Flickr and Delicious. Conde Nast bought Reddit. Those are still around and in good form. Let's hope FriendFeed gets better instead of disappearing. - Jeff Harbert

When something that you use is bought up by a giant I think that you feel that you lose something.Looking forward to seeing the outcome.Ger - gerald miller

Agreed, don't slow it down - Marc Cooper

wel see - Ranjit Wassan

I'd love to see Mike be right - FF = labs.facebook.com - Keep the innovations happening here on FF, and see those innovations find their way to the Facebook feed. While that would necessarily mean that FF innovations would have an eye towards how those would work on Facebook, really, where's the harm in that? - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Rob: After this acquisition, who do you expect will be tasked with continuing to innovate on the FF platform? The former FF team? That's not consistent with what's known about the situation. - Christopher A Carr

Given that the code of the two platforms is completely independent right now, I really can't imagine why Facebook would want to divert engineering effort to extending FF. - Ken Sheppardson

I just don't think FB can pull it off. They have so many 'brokens' in FB all the time - Lee Kent

Leo Good Day, Sir. I'm on here an hour and I like it, I'm a big Twitter fan. I think it's exciting personally, a lot to like and some cool features like direct ermail back to someone if you have email alerts. Facebook, seems to me, will only make it better. Cheers and thanks for all you do, I'm a fan. - Paul Roberts

Don't you think they will change it, Leo? I'm not as excited about this as you are. I like friendfeed but I'm not much of a facebook fan. I don't know if I can learn to love it. I guess I'll try. But I don't know if it's gonna happen. I think friendfeed as we know it is no more. - Lise

Arleen Anderson

I am SOOO tired of Twitter having issues! I wish more of my friends there were here on FriendFeed!!!

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You need to start telling them about FF, I like the format as well, because you can follow the conversation. - David Cole

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Hello! - Chris

depends on how much longer FF sticks around for... - Kim

Chris subscribed to ya! Mahalo! David - I DO! I tell them at least once a day to join me here for a more in depth conversation. I even stopped one conversation cold this morning and told him it belonged here not on Twitter. - Arleen Anderson

Kim - sadly it is a concern. I just see FB messing up FF in the future... and people don't want to keep jumping networks. - Arleen Anderson

I so agree! Tired of Twitter Twissues! - Jeff Hurt

FriendFeed is a MUCH better communication arena, but it's just not as "catchy". Very little customization. - Nick Armstrong

My Twitter is running soooo slowly. - Jason Pollock

I'm here :o) - Kimberle Kelly

Sadly, no need to tell anyone about FF anymore - We've been sold out :-( - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Jason! Chrome says Twitter... that link is BROKEN! LOL! - Arleen Anderson

Jeff, Nick, Kimberly... Twitter's twashy twerrible architecture will be the death of it! - Arleen Anderson

This IS getting kind of old! - Stephen Kruiser

Jennifer sadly I agree... but there must be something we can do! - Arleen Anderson

So what could we do @Arleen? - Jeff Hurt

Okay let's go get everybody HERE where we can have real discussions... then we can plan our Long Term strategy for Citizen Journalism! They won't do away with this FF for at least a few months! - Arleen Anderson

All ideas for saving a FF like community (or if we must plan a mass migration) post HERE! - Arleen Anderson

yeah FF is cool, hope it doesn't change now that FB bought it, hope it gets better...not sure why twitter keeps going down,but FF seems more reliable&works w/twhirl, FB doesn't - Patty from twhirl

At least we have each other here... @ least 4 the time being on FF... How're you, Arleen? - CarolAnnB

Oh Me 2. I feel like I'm to loud for the small room. LOL - Carol Rambo

...maybe Twitter's just gotten too big to be supported by just one company? imagine if all telecom service was run by just AT&T. Twitter needs legitimate competition, so that it's millions of users (and growing) don't constantly get inconenienced by inevitable systems problems, hacker attacks, etc. - .LAG liked that

I believe it will be a bi difficult to get everyone over here...Worth a shot though. We ARE going to need to make a change since it seems that Twitter is impotent in running a dependable service. - Alonis

This has been bugging me today too, Arleen. Of course the last time it wasn't an issue with them so much as it was an outside attack upon their servers. - Harold Paxton

Patty, CarolAnn, Carol, Lag, Alonis... we have a finite (and unknown) amount of time to DO something. FF has a simple reliable platform that works well for connection and discussion. But, w/ FB it will eventually be integrated and get cumbersome like FB is! So... we need something else ya? What do you really want/need most in a network community? These guys only care about real time search and how much $$$ they get for that. - Arleen Anderson

Twitter is working again.... - Claudia Rahanmetan

Hey twitter is working fine now check out :) - cheth

Yay! Now to reload tweetdeck. - Harold Paxton

Mahalo Arleen, yes I do believe we need a better platform, this is why I do jump in with both feet on some of the app's. I'm always looking. I do have a lot of tech's that I follow as do you. I'm interested, if you find better, you will let us know, right? LOL - Carol Rambo

FF seems like the best alternative right now to twitter,as long as it doesn't change,not sure what else is out there similar to twitter - Patty from twhirl

I hang my head in shame as I bounced over to Twitter the minute it was up... problem is: though I ADORE and value the awesome conversations with you here... there are others I don't want to ignore on Twitter... so split... damn FB for buying FF! - Arleen Anderson

Okay, I'm kind of feeling like a Yo-Yo with twitter today. - Harold Paxton

Why Harold! Are you a Twitter Yo-Yo or a Twitter Ho?? *giggle* - Arleen Anderson

I'm trying to use friendfeed for the week and seeing how it works out. I just wish there was more apps for it. - Robert Alex

LOL Thanks a lot, Arleen! I think I may be both!! Looks like Twitter is working on the web side of things for me. but the tweetdeck is problematic. - Harold Paxton

Robert I found with the grouping ability and the discussion threads - there's no need for much in the way of user apps here. It's so simple clean and USABLE! Do use the grouping features both for "friends" and "Groups" and have fun with real discussions you can follow! Harold, TweetDeck doesn't work w/ my follower count. I tweet via the Web! - Arleen Anderson

Thanks for the advice to, Robert, Arleen. That's helpful for me too! - Harold Paxton

Do you have any groups you recommend? - Harold Paxton

Harold, I'm in te Hawaii group of course to see my local Ohana! And with the BlackBerry group cause I have one, and with Backlink free and Audiophile... but those are just my personal interests. I also like tech stuff but am in many on Facebook. I organized my friends here in groups depending on what they talk about most. - Arleen Anderson

I do enjoy the groups feature a lot. That only may get me to switch. - Robert Alex

Okay. Thanks, Arleen. I appreciate the info :-) - Harold Paxton

So Robert is asking people if they're leaving FF. Without a plan guys we got same 'ol same 'ol... so WHAT is important to you?? - Arleen Anderson

Roger that Arleen, signed up 15 minutes ago as "backup." I echo your sentiments exactly. - Paul Roberts

FF more important to me as aggregator of my other content but as Twitter has issues I'm liking the communication interface I think twitter still be my primary - WarLord

Welcome to FriendFeed Roger! - Arleen Anderson

Yes, I intend to periodically post a tweet that says, "FEED ME! http://friendfeed.com/tekee" - Ted S

I LOVE Ted's tweet! Works! I didn't know I wasn't subscribed to you and now I am! - Arleen Anderson

you are not alone in that... - Dan

I am a member but haven't really used this too much. Does it work like Twitter? - Beverly Monical

Beverly, yes, but with threads and no whales. - Marco Neves

Yeah, FriendFeed is so much faster in posting, too. I love it. Let's start the next wave in social media! Twitter has jumped the shark. :) - LisaGemini

Paul Buchheit

After signing the papers :)

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What's with the fists, Paul? :) - April Buchheit

congrats Paul - Zee.

I thought it would make a funny picture April. - Paul Buchheit

Secret backyard meetings FTW. :) - EricaJoy

What? No lawyers in suits? Mark's setting a pretty low bar on the dress code for this sort of thing...:) - Tomas Remotigue

Our lawyers were wearing shorts actually -- no air conditioning at their office on Sundays I guess. - Paul Buchheit

Zuckerberg's the only one from FB who could be bothered to show up? - Andy Bakun

American big business such a formal affair - Robert Higgins

Contrary to popular misconception, lawyers don't actually enjoy wearing suits. Haul us into work on a Sunday, and we'll definitely be dressing comfortably. :) - Brian Chang

Andy, the person on the left is Vaughan Smith from Facebook. Sanjeev (the fourth FriendFeed founder) is not pictured because he was boarding an airplane. - Paul Buchheit

Paul, that's so awesome. FB's an awesome company to do business with. - Jesse Stay

Congrats. Happy for you guys. - Tsega Dinka

Must have been exciting, congrats. - sean percival

Congrats, and thanks for having us here. Much success in whatever comes next. - Chris Baskind

Yeah, wishing you guys all the best, its been good fun hanging around here thanks!! - Mel Buckpitt

Congrats to you guys! - Jack Wilson, K4SAC

Congratulations you guys!!!! I love the Teak Conference Room table :) - Susan Beebe

:-( - Jim Hearts FF

Hey Paul congratulations - FriendFeed has been leading the way since its inception. Are the photos you've posted copy-protected or could I use them in a story on the deal? - Mitch

Mitch, feel free to use the photos. - Paul Buchheit

where's the ...friendfeed shirts then?? ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)

SWEET!!! Congratulations! - Chad Lester

...congrats.can't wait to see what happens with both FF and FB as a result of this. - .LAG liked that

Please try to keep Friendfeed like it was if they let you. Either way, congrats on the financials! - Josh Haley from iPhone

Congrats and best wishes for the future. - Jeff Stannard

For $50m you could at least have hired a photographer who doesn't shake so much. :) - Rodrigo Jaroszewski

FF was the cutting edge whereas FB is quickly becoming the mainstream. Unfortunately, the mainstream does not necessarily equal innovation and pushing the envelope. We all suffer when innovation is chilled. But on the other hand, congrats to the FF crew. They made their money! - laosan

Congratulations guys! - Diego Barros 

I think the Tiger suit would have been more appropriate! But hey....shorts in a backyard is pretty cool too. - Drea Lester

Congrats! - Christopher Golda

Whatever the outcome, Friendfeed is terrific. Congratulations. - ashish

LOL, click through if you want to see pics of newly rich geeks in casual wear.. -> - Alex Schleber

Hahaha! Funny Alex.. - Bill Heslin

congratulations! keep the innovation coming... - ozlubling

VERY happy for you guys. Possibly even owe you one or two. Are we getting FriendPhone next?? Think Mark should seriously think about 'Friendbook' :) - Charlie Anzman

Congratulations to you and your team. - Maria Niles

just showed the pictures to my students and they were like, "they look like normal people!" Congrats on the deal, onward and upward! - xxx xxxxx

Congratulations, Paul -- to you and everybody at FF. - Eric Johnson

Congrats Paul, Bret and the rest of the team, this is awesome news! The big question on everyone's lips is: Who gets to have http://facebook.com/paul? :) - Fenn

Congrats, and thanks for taking us all on such a terrific ride! Big ups. :) - Pete Delucchi

You've done a great job! You deserve this and more... Congrats! - Ricardo J. Valle

now this is what a deal term meeting should look like - file under inspirational - - mediaeater

Congratulations to everyone at FF. Whose house was the deal made? - seman

I am sad .. !!! I do not know .. why .. for me its not good news - Nayan

Congratulations! - Made Adi

*cough cough* Douchebags! - Mark Wilson

++Mark - David Cook

Awesome! Congratulations! - michael silverton

Ouch . . . just a tad bit of salt in the wounds of some of your more loyal users. I've got a poker if you want to inflict a little more pain - Lindsey is Fierce!

hey, congratus Friendfeed team!!! - K.D.

+Lindsey - Kamilah Gill

I call this pic... "Six Happy Dudes & 1,000,000+ Pissed-Off FriendFeeders" - Brad Williamson

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! - Mathew™ one of a kind

Looks like Mathew™ has found a UI bug by flooding contiguous characters. - Jay Cuthrell

I don't get the negativity - did no one realize FriendFeed was a business? The object of a business is to sell eventually (either privately or publicly). We should be celebrating their success. This is a huge win for them, as well as Facebook. I personally think it's a huge win for the "loyal users" as well. So now we stab them in the back when they do something huge? - Jesse Stay

Not to mention we know *nothing* about what this will mean for both services. These guys haven't let us down yet, have they? - Jesse Stay

Congratulations to all of you!! - Steve de Mena

The FB/FF deal rocks. Total win for users and developers. - Steve Gillmor

My comment is because they can see by the flood of responses people are not happy and this post is just a smidge tacky. People are upset and feel betrayed and they haven't addressed that, not that I expected them too. This is pretty much inline with the way they've handled every other major change but before you only had a handful of disgruntles users whereas this time I'd say the majority are upset. - Lindsey is Fierce!

Facebook announces the acquisition of FriendFeed http://facebookmania.net/en... - Vincenzo Piromalli

Congratulations guys.. and good luck! ;) - Vincenzo Piromalli

Congratulations Paul. I hope for nothing but the best for you and FF. - Martha

We should start a PhotoShop meme on this. - Ben Hanten

Millionaire meme - Bill Heslin

Lindsey, I'm with you completely. Bad timing. Too bad there weren't photos of money being thrown in the air. - Ben Hanten

++Ben - David Cook

Congratulations Paul, you should have got more, but I guess $50m is nothing to sneeze at. Have a great wedding anniversary too, I'm sure you both deserve it. Much happiness - :) - Chris Loft

Congrats! The hard work paid off - Becca

Those are the kind of business meetings I could get used to - no suits... but selling to Facebook? Hmmm... Good for someone of course but I suppose we'll see where this ride takes us. - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge

congrats on building an amazing product and incredibly passionate community! I was mad at first, but then realize that the technology was most likely sold, not the community. I'm hoping ff community will stay somewhat untouched and features that have been built into ff will be ported to fb. - Derek Coatney

Congratulations, FriendFeeders! I'm anxious to see what changes this will bring. FriendFeed is my favorite site to visit, so hopefully y'all will find a way to maintain the FF spirit somehow. - Keith Pelczarski

http://friendfeed.com/against... - Mathew™ one of a kind

No matter the type of big change, there are those who will not like it, often simply because it's change. I for one am very pleased that two of the services I use most are joining forces, and am eager to see the new developments that come of this acquisition. Congrats to EVERYONE on the FriendFeed team. You all deserve it! You've done a great job with a small company. Now lets see what you can do with a large one :) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Nicely put, guruvan. - Anne Bouey

What I wonder is ... a 50-million dollar deal and no one has a camera capable of taking a clear photo? :P - Nicholas Kreidberg

Congratulations - Steve C

@Jesse Stay re: "the objective of business is to sell eventually" : Ummm, the objective of many businesses is to become profitable by providing a valuable experience to their users. Businesses that feel they can't do that are the ones that sell. - Shane Gibbons

LOL! ♫ ♫ "ooh, take the money and run"!! ♫ ♫ ;) - Vincenzo Piromalli

Congratulations to everyone involved. Well done. - Darius Dunlap

This is a very sad day in friend feed history. It is horrible because I like friend feed for how it's different from face book. I use facebook but I find it really annoying and I wouldn't use it if my friends and family weren't using it. So if Friend Feed becomes another facebook then i donno if I will keep coming to friend feed. - Colide81 (James) from iPhone

Grats. :) - Joshua Schnell

Congrats to the FF staff, but you'll have to pardon my lack of exuberance. I have mental pictures of being forced to use the FB UI and it makes me sad =( - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Very happy for the Friendfeed team. These pictures say it all. - Christian Burns from iPhone

Congrats -- may the FF UI stay alive! - RateBrain

Where are the photos of everyone celebrating? No beer or champagne? - Shane

Great match-up guys ! The Fabulous Friender Boys ! - Let's see some integrated mashups and extensible apps and FF UI. Given Google and Twitter a run for their money... Looks like they are going to have to "hook-up" now ! - Mike Schmidt

Congratulations Paul and the team! Hopefully we'll still get the same simple UI for FriendFeed. I'm sure however that no matter what you do, things will turn up nicely. - Ovidiu Predescu

Enjoy! - Paul Mayne

NOOOOO! I _LOVE_ friendFeed and this will change it forever. Yeah - this will improve Facebook. Great deal guys - I can not wait to see how this works out - Ric Johnson

Congratulations! :) - İdris Cin

hayırlı olsun - Sinan İŞLER

:O :( - ★amin.m★

congratulations to both parties. intuitively, it feels like the right move. - ray

Congratulations guys :) - Yalcin Parmaksiz

So the deal was done at night in someone's back yard. Weird. - Andy C

Congrats Paul, Bret and the rest of the FF team. Your smiles are priceless!! - Mohamed J

Hayırlı işler... - Onur Selek

Congratulations gentlemen! - Mutimba

Congratulations Paul. Yes, I do hope Friendfeed users and community are "treated right". - Paola Bonomo

shit all FF VC's and CO-FOUNDERS! YOU DID THE SHIT! you can safely accept all spam "app" invitations on FB. - Ahmet Alp Balkan

Ahmet: I'm disappointed to even be on the same service as you and I really can't wait until you leave. - Robert Scoble

Congrats! Maybe you'll make FB usable again... - Eran Kampf from iPhone

cngrtlti.ons I hope you will understand what i mean! - Atif UNALDI

Great vibe :) - Sharel from FriendFeed API Example

@Scobleizer: Come on you're a genius and can not realize future of FF? Turkey was one of important countries which is using FF! They asked no one about this! We hate fcking morons and stupid people on facebook, and I'm sure that this post will be real, just read it: http://ff.im/6pRmM - Ahmet Alp Balkan

But Ahmed you are still being an ass about it, trying to rain on their good times. Go find a hole under the bridge where you belong. You can be sad and not have to come out all bitchy about stuff. Clear thoughtful comments instead of going all into "fuck you" mode. - Rasmus Lauridsen

OK, that's great. I hope you can be successful at Facebook Dev Team and enjoy spending that money. - Ahmet Alp Balkan

Ahmet: I hope this helps with your inquiry -> http://friendfeed.com/about... - Clifford Kennedy

@Clifford, haha LOL. - Ahmet Alp Balkan

Bilseydik biz alırdık :) - Hamdi Yaman

wohoo, lets celebrate that ff owners for selling the land they have hired us - now we have to find another place - MobilAdam

very nice FF! Amazing team! - @RecruitingDiva - Sangeeta Narayan

valla kelepire gitmiş, fotoğraflardan belli.. - Mücahit Yılmaz

Who took the pic? - Marco Massarotto from iPhone

@MobilAdam + 1. - Ahmet Alp Balkan

@Mücahit +1 :D - Hamdi Yaman

böyle önemli bir iş için fiyat açıklanmadı ama 50 milyon $ deniyor. Bu kadar lakayt bir ortam olur mu yau. Uzaktan baksan gençler eğleniyor dersin - Fatih Hayrioğlu

Şİmdi yorumları okumadım ama çok kişisel bişi söyleyeceğim. Bu gençlerin milyon dolarları çeviriyor olması durumuna şaşıyorum. Bizim memlekette bu seviyeye gelecek mi veya? Kaç sen uzaktalar bizden bu gençler? - mustafa can

Bizim şirket sahipleri konunun belli saatler arasında, belli kıyafetlerle ofiste oturmak değil, yapılan işin niteliği olduğunu analdıkları zaman gelir tabii. Ama bence bu gavurların dediği gibi "When the hell freezes over". - özlem ercan

bu postu türkçe commentlerle doldrmak süper fikir.. sarcasm diil ciddiyim - MobilAdam

Bakmayın böyle güldüklerine arkada buyuk yatırımcılar olmasa batar gider bunlar..Adamların yatırımcıları işi biliyor... - Zeki Pehlivan

tebrikler.congratulations.gratuliere !!! - muratt

Sorry but as an FF user, I've just tried to express my thoughts about this acquisition: http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs46... - İbrahim Özdemir

Congratulations! :) - Ruben Sanchez

Great result Paul. In such a short time, millions of users, 1 new interface and a marriage with internets' celebrity. This is a period which you should write down to make it as an on-line business case. You people are really wise businessmen. Nice job, congrats! :) - Olcayto Cengiz

Not happy happy congrats bullshit from me-I used FF. - frankiecarl

Frankie, a lot of us use FriendFeed and are concerned about where things are going from here. As I said in my comment above: I'm happy for the staff but displeased with who they chose to sell to. I'm perfectly capable of feeling both emotions at the same time. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

@Tina ++++ - Shevonne

wonderful so normal so ordinary so simple - Thomas Power

MZ looks like he has just returned from the gym - Joe Dawson

These guys represent the most talked about entreprises (Ok even more so by geeks in the case of Friendfeed) and they're still in their 20s. We're talking millions of dollars and look how relax they look and casually they're dressed. - lelapin

Awesome, nice to see they are actually in fact human still. - Robert Schultz

Congratulations, Paul! - Bill Sodeman

Great photographs showing the very reason why 99% of all people start their own business - money! Well done and good luck for the future. - David Jagger

this is so great! congrats paul! im really happy for u guys! - Jason Pollock

congratulations guys! - Liam Daly

congratulations from me, too! mind to stay (y)ourselves. ;) - Valentina*

L-O-V-E the attire, guys. Did you end the evening with a nice barbecue and a dip in the pool? - Giulia B.

Yeah yeah, you worked hard, you got the payout, well done guys. Now. Down to business....where's OUR share? ;-) - Slappy Line

"Hi my name is Mark, I do $50m deals in my shorts!" - Simon May

Congratulations. I'm sad for us and extremely happy for you and your team. - Arleen Anderson

congratulations...can't wait to see the success of the collaboration! - Katy Barrilleaux

We better run away! - Constantine

Congratulations. I'm sure that this acquisition will be beneficial for both parties. - Volkan Özçelik

the one in the green shirt is hawt. just sayin'. - Jessie

eew, that causes diseases - Jim Norris

congrats Paul & evereyone ! - Thomas Mader

Is that Mel sitting on Paul's left? http://www.youtube.com/watch... - j1m

CHA CHING!!!!! - sofarsoShawn

congrats guys - well done!!! - Gerd Leonhard

supper! - Ahmet Koldaguc

Business is Business and we can only move forward with social-media applications as we herald a new interactive platform. Albeit thanks to the Mothers of all Mothers, Google. Frank Burns - frank burns

Robert Scoble

New blog post: you are SO unfollowed! http://scobleizer.com/2009... I'll follow on FriendFeed anyone who comments here:

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Follow me! - TheHenry

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TheHenry: I already am! :-) - Robert Scoble

Please don't unfollow me!! :) - Carlo Nasuti

oh yeah! I forgot! lol! #fail - TheHenry

Very interesting approach Robert. If it is working for you that is awesome though. Hope all is well. Give Roc a big hug for me. - C.C. Chapman

Yo... - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Not too much unfollowing please. - Tim

i'm in - Tai Hsia

Can you follow me? - Giorgio

ok I'll allow you - Derry O Donnell

What's going on here? - Andru Edwards

I think you're already following me Robert. - Andrew Leahey

well ok ) - Denverken

Lead, follow, or get out of the way. - Robert Kenney

* - Michael J. Carrasquillo

[comments here] - Nick Humphries

I will comment here! :) - John Ptacek

Great blog appreciate all of your "likes" that I would not have noticed before. Thanks for all the time you spend educating us. - Gary Prechtel

auto-follow always seemed like a bad idea. people can always msg you but your stream will get totally cluttered if you dont do a little bit of housekeeping. - William Kapes

"baby I'm a star" -Prince (off purple rain) - Michael J. Carrasquillo

novel approach, seems sound - Danny Ayers

Consider me available for following. :-) - Eric D. Wilson

Okay, I'll bite.. - Tanya

Bring it Scobleizer. - Todd Pringle

I agree, Twitter is much better this way. - Ryan W

I appreciate your work, and your passion for social media. - Evan Travers

sounds simple... - Mateo Yadarola

Scoble follow me baby - Jadito

Oh you are getting quite a response here!!!! I'm commenting so you'll follow me but the thing is you're going to LIKE following me because you'll learn all about Sedona through tons of videos and you'll love it so much you'll want to pack your camera and head out here! =) - SedonaTV

Thanks for the mentions, Robert (and you know I'm not commenting just for the follow - I just like to follow you, which is what counts!) - Jesse Stay

Guess I might as well delete that overpriced twitter app I bought last week. - Shea from iPhone

Actually Robert, now I've seen you've tidied up your twitter, I'll probably follow you there again too. :-) - Tim

hey follow me scoble - Andy Jenks

joining the crowd - good move Robert. - Adam

Meh, who cares really, not like you read everyone you followed. Plus unfollowed you anyways, not like you have to say that's interestined except friendfeed spam. - Steve

follow me - Tai Hsia

welcome to Boulder - Andrew Hyde

@scobleizer just created the most important tech follow list on Twitter. - Christian Anderson

aww shucks, and here I was thinking it was just me who you unfollowed. - Jess Sloss

I underwent the same situation, Robert - I unfollowed almost everybody on Twitter who duplicated their accounts here on FrF. I got a tempest of fury for this action. web3 is too personal still )) - massagin

Scoble in Boulder = Trouble. - Jim Halligan @jim

I feel fortunate that you're still subbed to me on FF. I haven't even noticed whether you unfollowed me on Twitter. But you following me, still hasn't gotten me the chicks. :P Always fun seeing your posts, long as you don't block me, it doesn't matter if you follow me or not. :) - Arlan Koizumi

I did the same thing some weeks ago after avoiding twitter because it got too noisy. It was instantly better. But in the mean time I started to use FF more and I like it better here so I hardly go near twitter now. - Murray Barton

You already follow me here on ff, which i use more than twitter. - dthree

What's up? - Kevin Whalen from iPhone

Hey Robert, so for following >1,600 is it that right way taken by Philtro and Filttr? - Martin Adamek

I'm glad you mentioned Loic, he caught a lot of flack for doing this earlier. - Steven Cains

Hey Robert - fight the tweetspam ! - Michael Neale

Don't think you are following me on Twitter anymore..please do and best regards - Karma Martell

I'm still trying to figure out the following... so I'm watching how you do it scoble. - Matthew Schrock

Good plan. I'm looking forward to your results. I'm trying to figure out all these social media elements. I would appreciate your Twitter follow. - David Stanley

hope this new approach works for you! - timepilot

Oh, so now you are only easy on FF. - James Watters

Odd internal response, I don't follow everyone who follows me cuz of the very noise you talk about. And, there's no good reason for you to follow me since I'm unlikely to deliver news of interest to you. And yet, here I am, posting on FriendFeed so you have the OPTION of following me, a stranger who is not the same kind of SMART as you. Who'd have thought... - Della Mauler

Interesting statement about original content value of FF independent of twitter. Twitter is where you keep your noise level down... - James Watters

This seems like asking for trouble to me, Scoble. But, it's your time and bandwith to do with what you will. Since only a handful of people (by that I think I mean just one) follow me on Twitter, it's pretty easy for me to weed out the bots. The people I follow are my internet nerds (mostly the Rev 3 crew) so I know their interests are in line with mine. Hit me up for some edifying conversations about Lost and video games, Robert. - Jeremiah Green

Here you go Robert! [also via twitter: @Scobleizer Therefore: only approx. 1.7 million "active" human @Twitter users contribute 50%+ of all activity, right? #engagement] Regards, @AAinslie - Alexander Ainslie

The green avatar is so disturbing mate. :) - Jordan Windebank

I'll lead, you follow. So where are we going? - Tom Sheppard

I was sad to see you unfollowed me, but now you may follow me again, so all will be well in the world. - Jodi

following the leader... - John Munro

You're still following me - does that mean I'm a smart feller? ;) - Brett Kelly

so glad I mail Robert a business card every month :) - Christian Anderson

Della: the thing is here I can follow you and put you into a list and watch you less frequently than some of my other people. So everyone wins. But only here on FriendFeed. :-) - Robert Scoble

Some of us have been doing this from our start. Kind of cool, eh? But our numbers don't grow quickly so we were tagged as "slow." Nice to see you catch up with us! Also, this may shock you, there sre folks who follow and communicate with only 3 folks on twitter and they are HAPPY! Imagine.... - lynda spangler

Yay. Now he will follow a librarian. - joe is...

Follow this dot!!! . - Bwana ☠

I've long thought the entire Twitter "etiquette" of always following who follows you to be a bit of a folly. I'm following 114 at the moment, and the stream still moves too fast for me to keep up with. - Darren Landrum

Comment! - anna sauce

ok - Vasu Srinivasan

Good test, count me in... I don't follow tons of people, I follow a few prolific Scoble-types and the rest are more focused in areas I'm interested in. - David Ziembicki

I'm not following tons of people, just a select few. More to follow on FB when facebook has completely integrated Friendfeed-funcionality. ;-) - Wolfgang G. Wettach

I only follow people I know or have something interesting to say, did you really have 160000 people that said something worthwhile??? - Gerard van Schip

Well I commented via your Blog so instead of repeating myself I'll link to comment http://disq.us/1ms9 - Keith - @tsudo

Gerard: everyone says something worthwhile once in a while. The trick is to see it when it happens. Here on FriendFeed, by the way, you have a better shot because good stuff usually gets liked and commented on, so it pulls up higher into my view. - Robert Scoble

come join us here folks http://ff.im/6dUHN xxx - Mark

Okay. But will you read and comment on my stuff? - Mellissa Claus

Robert, I posted this after Loic's decision and it looks like it will need another update. http://www.knowthenetwork.com/blog... I think there is value in stating your follow policy. - Keith - @tsudo

cool - Zach Cheatham

Hello? - Vicky

following all the discussion of you unfollowing everyone on twitter has made me think about doing the same thing and starting fresh. - (jeff)isageek

not unless we beat you in the Ashes - Mark

Nice post Robert, and no surprise it's an improvement. ;o) I have seen it for me too. - Rob Sellen :o)

1 thing I find Robert still worth following @Scobleizer when I am not on friendfeed & on my Hootsuite or PeopleBrowsr. therefore not much affected, not much 2 bother me, ego not gone at all. luv your post Robert it is a frank posting - polou/indigo_bow

Follow me Robert, I promise I'm not annoying. :) @cluteman - Greg Clute from iPhone

You've piqued my curiosity. - Kathy

Robert, thank you! I follow you and enjoy your "likes" and your energetic takes. I also enjoy your Building43 interviews! I am a constant FriendFeed user now. Thank you! - Tobin Truog

This made me realise I must be more active on FF and comment/post more :-). - Mats Pettersson

I think I'll give FriendFeed a go! Never tried it, but looks easy and I need to understand the interwebs better. @CodeSamurai_Com - CodeSamurai

butt-kissing is not a prerequisite for being followed, he will follow you anyways :D - Mark

Count me in! (Please??) - Ricky Maveety

lol @mark. ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)

You can follow me, but since you follow a lot of people, you probably can't pay attention to the stream of tweets. - Alex Knight

Alex..that's the WHOLE point he did this... ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)

IMHO 1,647 is still way too many people to follow. - Alex Knight

I will NOT get baited into ... ah CRAP. I follow very few people on twitter, mainly only to find info from Android developers (my topic of choice). If you mention anything about the food you are currently eating, etc.. you will probably not be followed. If you post 80,000 times a day, you will not be followed, since Twitters interface sucks (not so for FF). Also, no offense to other social users, but if you resend your FF/FB/<insert other social site here> entries to twitter, I probably won't follow. - Tim Hoeck

http://socialspark.com/blogs... Chris Pirillo is Scum. - Mark

good move IMO - Joanna Nicol

Love the post, love the response. - Chris Rogers from BuddyFeed

nice hanging out at with beach w/ you last week! follow moi!!! - Raina Lee

I always feel like scoble's following me - Rodney J Woodruff from iPhone

Don't forget your Dunbar number, Scoble! There are only so many people you can have meaningfully connect with online. - Steve Lynch from twhirl

Mark is right. No butt kissing. Ew. - Robert Scoble

"I always feel like, somebody's watching me..." - Wizetux

Comment!!!! Ohh wait but you already follow me... - Amit Nangare

Follow me, if you aren't already....please. Thanks, - Steve de Mena

here is my comment ZOL - Shane Gibson

Comment? What kind of coomment, Robert? :-) - Mitch Featherston

Whoop there it is! On Twitter @jimgoldstein - Jim Goldstein from iPhone

Oh..Oh... Mr. Kotter...Mr Kotter..follow me! - Scott Booher

Glad to see you're writing more than 140 characters on that blog. Doesn't that feel liberating? Maybe we should be allowed character# based on your metric for powerful/smart/newsmaker - Noah Bloom

You already follow me here on FF, for which I thank you. So, I'll just say thanks for the phone call the other day. :) - Jeff Harbert

I'll take a follow! - Jeff Weber

@shaunhess - Shaun Hess

Ok, so follow me again and I will follow you back. Thanks! - Audrey

Robert - I fail on most of your criteria so I'm not expecting you to follow me. The thing is I don't care if you follow me back - this is social media and everyone has their own choice. I choose to follow you because you entertain and inform me. The relationship is 100% one way and I am more than happy with that! - Pon

Robert - Last night at GDGT Party the person at the Blackberry booth said: 1) She had 'heard of Twitter, never friend feed' uses neither 2) Is SCOBLE is coming tonight 3) Wow, your Blackberry is really "archaic" and find out when contract lets you upgrade. F-D UP? Booth babes need primers. - Liza

Interesting theory... people who comment more apt to contribute? - Mark Philpot

I know someone else who tried this strategy last year, with similar results. I've been debating it. Once I got over 3K followers on Twitter life just got weird. Started to spend X amount of time every day blocking porn spam. - Patricia F. Anderson

Liza: yeah, sorry for not coming to the party. I went and saw Obama's CTO instead. - Robert Scoble

Steve Lynch: my Dunbar number is higher than yours is. :-) - Robert Scoble

Nice summary Robert on the whole Unfollow thing, but would it be too repetitive if I re-post on my FF? - Keith Rowland

What is the best friend feed aggregation strategy of non-friend streams (eg RSS, twitter, etc)? Imaginary friend per service, then add to lists? Multiple services per imaginary friend or 1 to 1? Or add the services to a group? What are the considerations? - John Brown

Keith: you can repost anywhere you like, thanks! - Robert Scoble

I'm in! - Craig Shipp

still wondering how you are able to handle such a big load of subscribers here and e.g. so many followers with twitter o_0. I am already (sometimes) lost with the few i got till now. Lately with one sweep almost 40 to 50 contacts in twitter disappeard and i have no clue why ... boah, how are you handling the noise? Hell, with so many ppl in, you might have a terrific noise? Or you wear just good headphones ;)? - Ronald

I very much agree that being choosy is the key to Twitter. I'm not nearly on the scale that you are, but in my experience, freely following people (whetther they follow me or not) and then mercilessly cutting back on them over and over again results in a kind of darwinianly better and better signal to noise ratio. - Tim Maly

Touche! - Steve Lynch from twhirl

Count me in - Johnny

Hi Robert - Randy Allen Bishop

Liked the blog post and totally agree. I've been meaning to do something similar. What I do is occasionally prune and then add some "better" replacements, so my total is always 2000 follows. - Bora Zivkovic

I don't see how anyone can manage so many users without groups. Then again, with groups you could just make an "ignore" group. - Oscar M. Cantu from iPhone

Great blog post. I totally agree on the noise level. I figure I have blocked a few hundred accounts on Twitter, and my noise level has dropped dramatically. Thanks for the follow! - Tony "Frosty" Welch

Hello Hello! - Sam Goldfield

Robert - I figured you were in DC from FF, but she had NO IDEA what a CTO is. Point is, she was eager to give you a Blackberry, but not me, and I wish I had a Scoble costume to pretend for 5 minutes. - Liza

@Robert I think you are starting another mass follow again. - Steve Chou from fftogo

Steve: that's not the problem. As long as spam doesn't enter the system I can deal. Keep in mind here I can choose how I follow. I can put you all in a folder that I never look at, if I wanted to. - Robert Scoble

my feelings were hurt that you unsubscribed to me on twitter, but i agree with your methods - Brian Appleby

I'm in! - Chris Rossini

Brian, yeah, but I follow you here. So there. - Robert Scoble

really doesn't matter as long as i can follow you, that's the beauty of these services - Brian Appleby

How did you come to follow so many to begin with? I get annoyed with ppl and unfollowing is easier than sifting through their garbage constantly. - R1CC1

Autofollow was a horrible idea to begin with. - David Chieng

I kind of tired to keep an eye on who follows me now,the ones I'm following is much more important.:-) - Steve Chou from fftogo

Whoa lots of comments I'm following you longtime lol - Edgar Rodríguez from iPhone

Robert: we need more intelligent spam-follower-filtering on Twitter! We need to fix this. - Steve Lynch from twhirl

@David +1 I think auto follow is such a bad idea to begin with,and people like Robert now even need to pay to unfollow these people. - Steve Chou from IM

How much did SocialToo charge for running the unfollow script? - Shane

I'm in! - rich brant from iPhone

I heard its 25 dollars. - Steve Chou from IM

I've always been very picky in who I follow on twitter. I follow 40 people, and I can't guarantee that I see every single tweet. I don't scroll back usually, unless it's my "Real Life" column in Tweetdeck that couldn't fit on my screen. - Tom Ribbens

My birthday is also January 18th, therefore you must follow me Robert! ;) - Chris Luckhardt from BuddyFeed

Thanks Steve! $25 is pretty reasonable. Wonder if anyone else will be jumping on the bandwagon - Shane

Haha....I also threw the devil horns for Scobleizer...that should count for something. ;) http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Chris Luckhardt from BuddyFeed

OK, let's try it! And what about Twitter? - Alexei Zheglov

Thanks for your post. Last time I checked you follow me here on FriendFeed. OK not to follow me on Twitter. - Pilgrim Five

Smart way to clean house. - Jeremy Chone

u have already subscribing me although i am just a-staying-at-home mum =)). thanx scoble. u are really a nice geek. haha! - zʍıɔ

Let's do it. - Kate

this is like an awesome commentfest - Edgar Rodríguez

You can follow me, but I never say anything. Oh.. wait.... - James Macgill

follow me! - Tate DA FF MVP from BuddyFeed

Sometimes the tortoise beats the hare after all... building organically based on getting to know people and interactions tends to avoid the ghastly spammers, seo peeps and bots - Sally Church

Tap, tap... is this thing on? - Yanik Falardeau

This is the best place to follow you. On twitter you only see post headlines, but friendfeed is where the conversation takes place. - Michael Fidler

Ah crap. You're already following me :) - Jason Nunnelley

I'm outside your sphere, but bootstrapping is bootstrapping right? - Travis Bedard

Tuesday night for the first time in 2 months I UNfollowed everyone on Twitter who wasn't following me. Since you had UNfollowed me, yup I unfollowed you. My Twitter account is so /FUBARed! It only goes to page 506 to show who I'm following and after that it is BLANK! I don't even know if they show in my Home stream. So Robert, I value what you say. Know I can tweet profusely - but it's as @replies to others with the occasional micro-blog thrown in. Question, what DID I do to cause you to UNfollow me? - Arleen Anderson

I hope you'll follow me... - Shane Tilton

Follow me, eh? - Joey Gibson

Trying to fill out those dropped Twitter follows? - Jamie Elgie

Scoble: Have you convinced Guy Kawasaki against his "follow everyone that follows you" mentality? - Kevin Pruett

please do what you must to have the most effecient feed mr scoble, the random will still creep through the cracks, ;) - chaz2b

I still haven't really adopted FriendFeed, but I will get interesting here in time if you follow me. - Lance M. Brown

How are your cleanup efforts coming along? - Jennifer Ruggiero

Oops - I also meant to ask, Robert: how are you managing to follow the couple thousand that you are now re-following on Twitter? You must be using groups, I guess...any other methods? I find ~500 people to be a near max in terms of how many folks I can fully read. - Lance M. Brown

Following your inspiration, I unfollowed almost 100 people last night and blocked about 1000 spammers, cam girls, MLM marketers, and the like. Twitter is more like it was a year ago, its almost like I gave my Twitter account an enema and it worked. Thanks for the original idea. - Mark Edwards

Excellent! - Don Strickland

Robert, I started out only following those I know and those I am genuinely interested in. I've only followed back a few of the people who've followed me. I have a second account that I decided to experiment with. I followed about 700 people on there. It has had about double the followers of my main account consistently. I am about to try some new tricks there with an auto-follow script I'm writing but I think I will stay the course with my main account. - Paul The Raven

Robert, I tried the "follow everyone" (almost) method for a short time - then I'd unfollow about once-a-week. Now I try to schedule a "follow new" once a week. TweetDeck's group feature makes following lots of folks bearable. So does FF, but you've been saying that for-ever! - Kathy E Gill

I am just taking it slow. - Rick Cogley from iPhone

Hey. - Kreg Steppe

I will follow you if you follow me (Genesis) - Keith Barrett

I may not be smart, but I'm smart enough to follow you! - John Pfaff

It occurred to me (and surely to someone before me), that different definitions of "following" might be a big factor here. If I'm following someone, it means I'm following along with their updates. But others might see themselves more as becoming part of a person's "following". Not that they are necessarily reading the person's stuff, but they are willing to be considered part of that person's inflated Twitter posse, as part of the influence-trading aspect of Twitter. - Lance M. Brown

Robert, I think that the biggest thing that changed is not that you were "wrong" (to follow everyone) before but that the Twitter population has changed so much. A year ago, pretty much everyone on Twitter was real, and interesting - now there's so much automated gaming the system going on that the signal to noise ratio has gotten unbearable. So I think anyone who cares about more than... more... - Matthew Blaisdell

I can't imagine how it would happen technologically, but it would be great if there was a way to ditch followers who weren't actually reading your tweets. - Lance M. Brown

Enjoyed recent posts and look forward to more from you! Keep it up. - One Degree Connected

I don't want to be left out please!! - Jannifer @wordsforliving

All right, I'll bite :) - although I'll say that I did the mass-unfollow-thing months ago - long before it was cool. - Justin from Nambu

Your most active followers are on FF. No loss.If you really wanted to make a bold statement you ought to have blocked all of your followers and started from scratch. - Benjamin Taylor

Been a while since I put you and Shel On the record...Online - Eric Schwartzman

blah. - imabonehead

Good article Robert. I honestly enjoyed the perspective. I found the same to be true, but on a much lower scale, of course ;-) - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge

i'm in! - Criz

I don't get it - so now you are using Twitter kinda like a normal person, and its some kind of miracle that it works better? - Nick Lothian

I'm impressed you can keep up with 1600 people. I have trouble enough with the little amount I have. I did find that making FriendFeed imaginary friends and putting them in groups for those I'd like to read occasionally (but not on a regular basis) has helped a lot - Tamara

Follow....how about some promotion! - Bob DeMarco

i'm in - Joshua Smith from twhirl

9/11 Was an Inside Job - bill giltner

Stop it, or I will have to get a restraining order. - Sriks7

Hey, Robert! - tomit from iPhone

In my mind I'm important enough to follow ;-) - Jonathan Callahan

Hello Robert....Whatever your favorite genre is...http://listen.grooveshark.com/#... - Michele Lorito-Chase

Looks like you have a lot of work to do following everybody. - Corbett Barr

now i'll have to write something interesting... - Robert Littlejohn

me! i offer nothing but the warm feeling of having accepted a ff reject. - Marco

ok. so how will you filter the noise now - Kfir Pravda

Ooo, I've won the lottery. You'll follow me now. Wheeee! (how do you have the time to go through all of the names by hand? VA assistance?) - Peggy Dolane

Great :) - Baard @ Pixum

Interesting trend on twitter - I always wondered what sense it made to follow tens of thousands of people, too much noise. I'm finding it hard enough to follow 2900 (looking to cull even that down as I mostly tweet about 30 people!) - Tia Singh, Life Coach

211th comment: WTF - Geer

Good :) - ★ Soner Gönül

I like your ability to influence so many people. I'm following you (mostly here - on FriendFeed) because it's one of the ways to learn how you do it (but, please, do not follow me if you do not see anything you could learn from me :-). - Hanna Wiszniewska

I would come up w/ a better vetting process. - Joe

why would you do that? - james

got to get a pic up so i can fit the criteria, I only follow 45 people and some of them are on thin ice ( Im lookin at you Scoble) - James Hunter

"Where in The Net is Robert San Diego?" (cit.) :-) - Luca Perugini from iPhone

I'm not kissing your arse,but i do learn a lot listening to you. - Paul Downing

@scobleizer why would you randomly follow people who comment in this post when you just got done knocking FFollo and having to unfollow a gazillion people on Twitter? - Bryan Zirkel

Bryan: because I'm following people one by one and putting them into lists on my screen. Autofollowing means you aren't doing ANY of that thinking. Also, autofollowing will get you spammers, if they ever show up (and they will). - Robert Scoble

@Robert: Read your blogpost and that's indeed what I look at to follow people too. No autofollow and even close friends have to tell something interesting for me to (keep) following. Friends who are new to Twitter (no tweets yet) get the benefit of doubt. - Patrick Mackaaij

If you follow me, great, but if you don't I'll understand. :) And I ought to do some pruning myself... - Grant Bierman

Let's give it a try. :0) - Toma Kazakov

I still don't understand how you want to follow someone who just writes a comment over here. Well, this is not the first time. I did not understand why and how you followed 100k people. I find it hard to properly follow 100 people. - Sumanth Kolar

Sumanth: obviously there are degrees of "following." When you read the New York Times, do you read the entire paper word for word? I don't. Same when I'm following. I only get random slices of some of my lists. Others, which have 500 people on them, get 100% read. - Robert Scoble

I'm still here . . . although tired after teaching all day. Louis Gray came to my PR class at SFSU and WOWED the 50 students [except for one who thinks we are making too much of social media] We won't be following him. - Shari Weiss

I like cheese! - Paul Puri

really? - clockwise from iPhone

Shari: Louis wows me too. Glad to see the class is getting into it. - Robert Scoble

He he :) - Richard Holas

I still like the "stranger stream" of Twitter vs "friend feed" of other applications. I don't feel the need to read all tweets from everybody - and tools let me check my fave tweeples. I think mass unfollowing destroys some of the social contract - Robert you are lucky because you are well liked and can do some risky things but companies for example (not Brands of One) would be in... more... - Laurel Papworth

As @charleneli predicted back in January, 2009 will be the year of de-friending on social networks. It's here. - Mark Evans

Laurel: yeah, you have to navigate these waters carefully if you are representing a brand, that's for sure! - Robert Scoble

you can put me on your boring list... - Charles Tanton

i will not get followed back: not powerful, don't have a brand, not a news maker... but i kinda understand the reasons - Dani Martínez

I still think it all goes into how you use twitter. If your using it as a communication tool it depends on if you are looking for broadcast or 2 way. Its interesting to watch as some of the bigger names turn back from the broadcast and go back to the 2 way. - Luke Kilpatrick

@Robert so when you're taking in information from FF do you have a feed of several dozen/hundred "key" people and then categorize the rest, or are you mainly searching? Do you utilize groups at all or mainly just rely on what comes across your feeds? I guess I'm curious as to how you're using FF to collect information. - Bryan Zirkel

I have found Twitter becomes noise rather than a conversation once the following/follower thing gets over a certain mark. I think this is the dirty little secret of Twitter - if it just turns into white noise, rather than a filter, then it becomes less than useful. - Michael Liss

I'm interested in how we'll all feel over the next few years as social networks continue to change and more people and organizations get on them. Obviously, many of us are getting fed up with spammers and are unfollowing them on Twitter and Facebook. I am also having a hard time keeping up with new subscribers on FriendFeed because I know less about them from their profiles and have to... more... - Cathryn Hrudicka

BTW, I feel like I'm finding lots of interesting new people to follow from these discussions that Robert and others are holding on FF. Cool! - Cathryn Hrudicka

Am I too late to comment and get followed? - Hichame Assi

I'm definitely around :) - KyNam Doan

Aren't you following me already? If not, you should be! LoL - Thomas Ward

I'm definitely late to be followed. :D - Faraz Mullick

I don't get it but ok :) - Parvez Halim

LOL! I follow those I find interesting and which can give me useful information. And hope someone follows me for the same reasons. - Flavio

Very interesting post - I've always thought that you guys who follow loads of people must get completely swamped by noise! Like you, I've found it useful to follow companies I use that have interesting products like Zoho and Evernote as a way of keeping up to date with their latest innovations. Excellent idea spelling out your "follow criteria" - it needs to become standard etiquette for social networks so that people don't get offended when they aren't followed back :) . - David Meredith

aren't you doing the same thing here, that you did in Twitter? Choose carefully who you follow, filling your brain with pollution doesn't make you smarter - Allison

Just finished reading the Mashable post on your unfollow exercise. It's attracting attention from all the other big names now. - George Hall (Australia)

Very interesting indeed, I only to unfollow a few, cause I just never had auto follow on.. So now I just unfollow the ones I'm bored of.. - Jaap Willem

Seems like a good idea. Although Louis Gray also has a few valid points on his latest blog post why it might be a mistake http://bit.ly/19UKxk - Silver Hage

I've never understood the auto-follow procedure on any social network. Even on Facebook, where it is obligatory, one can still lower the noise by simply hiding the updates of those who want to follow you, but perhaps also have little personal connection and therefore can be hidden. - Noah Gray

It seems like the unfollowing was the easy part. Choosing who to follow again must have been a chore. I think it is crucial in twitter (and FriendFeed for that matter) to have a clear out every six months or so otherwise you get bogged down in an information feed you don't really care about. - Chris Nixon

I can totally understand why you had to do this. I'm following 2700-ish folks on Twitter and I need 3 groups to manage it (using TweetDeck). I feel I am keeping up with most of my local community and the general tech community at large though I'm sure I'm still missing quite a bit of stuff from people who are not in the 3 groups. I also wonder how much more I can actually handle. - Ken Seto

Um... well, I made something of myself, but then I didn't like what I made, so now I'm doing it all over again. Not sure how that fits with your criteria! Plus, I really don't have a brand or any influence to speak of. I do look great in boxers, however. - Mark "DerBingle" J

OK, OK, changed my picture. Instead of a green clock (a clock is my personal brand) I put a picture of myself. A lot of people told me to do that.... - Bora Zivkovic

I am still looking for info on holographic technology being used for news delivery. Perhaps it's a technology that hasn't even been invented yet or is sitting on a shelf somewhere. What say you? http://specialdee.wordpress.com/2009... - Denise

Hoping your new look account has had the desired effect. No need to follow me, I'm not the interesting type, I'll just be glad if your insights, links & content continues. Congrats & good luck - JanLawrence

Here's what's interesting, Robert, I've noticed an uptick in followers even if you reply or RT or like someone's tweet, not just if you follow that person. Then again, perhaps that's the intent - if you like or RT someone's idea, that's a kind of stamp of approval. - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Hej hej! - Peter

The Scoble Pendulum.. How long till we go back to FOLLOW!! FOLLOW!!! FOLLOW!!!! ? :) - Adrian Scicluna

I did a purge on Facebook for the same reasons a few months ago. It's under 300 and it's people I actually care about. I've come "this close" to running a purge on Twitter but haven't yet. Maybe this will spark me to do it. I've kept FF tight from the beginning. - Rob Williams

moving from FB to FF ... fewer, longer, more meaningful threads. welcoming your follow. cheers - marc calamia

ok, you´re following me already :-) - Torsten Eckert

alright - follow me... - thx in advance Robert Scoble... - Nilesh

All that commenting in the past counts for nothing? - Kevin Gamble

Hey Robert... Great post... On FriendFeed, I increasingly put people without meaningful and valuable content on a separate feed that I rarely check... Its a more "sensible" way to unfollow, i think... I only unsubscribe if I get pissed at someone etc. I wish, FF gave users the option to only unsubscribe from comments and likes (but keep the main feed). This would be a good tool to control the noise... - Onur Kabadayi

I agree with Robert (duh!). I very briefly made the effort of checking out the new follows and deciding whether to follow back. I think once I hit a thousand I shifted to a model of occasionally saying, "If you want me to follow you, talk to me." Hit two thousand and quit saying anything or checking followers. I don't care if they follow me as long as they either say useful things like real people or don't talk at all. I've never autofollowed back. This strategy works for me. - Patricia F. Anderson

I have a large difference between people I follow (around 2000) and people who follow me (around 1800) - I choose people who are important sources of information. People choose me if they think I am an important source of information to them. I never thought it would have to be a one-to-one relationship as to who is useful to whom: some are informative, others are good listeners and learners. I learn from people I follow and I hope my followers learn from me. - Bora Zivkovic

I also think that those of us who follow larger numbers of people don't use the stream in the same way. It is more dipping in and out of the stream, trusting that the important stuff will be repeated enough to float to the top, engaging with conversations of the moment. I wrote a blogpost on this earlier this year: http://etechlib.wordpress.com/2009... - Patricia F. Anderson

Someone told me twitter can be separated into two types. (id say at least two) - Kay Proskin

Scoble, I am beginning to think you are a cult leader :). Look at all these comments! I am using FF more and more these days... Useful for eGuiders.com that's for sure. - Marc Ostrick

I'm not sure your following me. - Amit Morson

Hey Scobie :D Follow me ! - paniaguai

I like Robert. He was one of the first people I followed on Twitter and brought me to FF. But I don't understand why people are desperate to have him follow them. Status? Some kind of virtual autograph? - Tech Introvert

What the heck. Follow me if you like. I'll be as entertaining & informative as I can. - Aaron Schaub from iPod

Been considering doing the same. Your post just might be the flame that lights a fire you-know-where to get it done. - Kate

I only follow a few people and keep losing track so lord only knows how you managed to even begin to keep track of a conversation before friendfeed came along - Iain from BuddyFeed

Well done! Who need followers that aren't reading your tweets anyway. - Sean Rasmussen

I just want a toaster! - ZuDfunck

I'm considering doing same once I'm more confident in my use of FriendFeed. I RT'd this and it resonated with at least one of my followers. - Tony Hollingsworth

'Hand-crafted personal network' is the meme of the moment, and whilst I can see the workmanship, where's the value going to be for you, Robert, in following this rag-tag (no offence people :) ) of folks from a gazillion different verticals. (OK, so they're mostly life scientists). - Andrew Spong

I use to want to be Bob Dylan. Now I am not so sure. - ZuDfunck

um..... - Spencer

My take: you can't be an authentic, credible voice to your community if you let 'sex & dollars' spammers hang on to your coattails. Spam followers matter.... in a bad way. Allowing them to be associated with you diminishes your potential value to genuine followers. It's a pain. It takes time. It's worth doing. More on this, if interested: http://tr.im/vJwb - Andrew Spong

I'll have mine to go. - ZuDfunck

Hope to see more "old fashioned blogging", like it better than tweets. Tweets are bound to disappear into oblivion the moment they're posted. - Willem (@wim66) ☠

"Spam followers matter.... in a bad way." - I certainly agree with this. I block pornbots just as quickly as they follow me. I'm less vigilant about the commercial follows, but usually they go away by themselves after a while. - John Craft

You're already following me here (don't care about twitter tough), so i just hope you don't un-follow, even though you probably don't understand what i'm talking about most of the time, since it's in portuguese. - Diego Sana

So what happened to the advantages to following so many people you always talked about? - Bas

Thanks for connecting here, still learning all the advantages of FF - carece

@Andrew Regarding spam followers and the idea that allowing them to follow you somehow dilutes your credibility, I just have to disagree. To me that places the burden on the wrong person. I don't have time to waste pruning those who follow me, unless they are overtly annoying.My stream is public, they can follow me anyway. What matters to me is that the spammers leave me alone. If they don't, I block them. If they keep quiet, I don't care. - Patricia F. Anderson

What is important is not who follows me, but who *I* follow. - Patricia F. Anderson

Follow me if you want, but I gotta warn ya, it's scintillating stuff! - Pierce Presley

Funny my twitter feed is much noisier but I have been very selective on who I follow. I have tried to make the feed relevant and actionable. At times I post things that seem out of the norm on my twitter feed but that is mainly for the few people who follow me that don't get it but I am trying to keep up their interest level. I also control who follows me, yes this breaks the model but I think the follow everyone model was broken and reckless - Richard Gallo

Am I interesting? Dunno. I'm often controversial, tho. ;) BTW, we met in person at a Pittsburgh Blogfest, but I really don't expect you to remember that. - Eric Williams

Enjoyed the post. I just started Twitter a few days ago to get away from Facebook. I like friendfeed the best - can't wait until it becomes more mainstream. - Robby Parker

Awesome move. Consider that my comment please :) - Charlotte Barker

friendfeed is definitively more evolved that Twitter. Conversely, user bases of Twitter is still its real (and unique) point of strenght... - Marco Castellani

Don't want you to follow me (unless you find my stream of interest) but it's quite interesting the number of people that comment to get you to follow! - Ben Drury

Hey Robert! So, I would like to talk to you about a social media company I'm working with right now. They launched a few months ago and their trajectory and momentum is pretty amazing. Oh, and I started unfollowing the noise in my Twitter after I commented on your blog post. - Gregg Le Blanc

Great ideas. I've been selective (though it fluctuates) about following people/accounts on Twitter since I joined about 2 years ago. I can't take too much noise. - Joe Lance from twhirl

I'm asking the same thing Bas asked... what about your video on the benefits of following so many people? I took a stab at that method of madness by starting to follow all kinds of people, and following anyone that followed me... but I always felt like I was missing good content from good people because of all the "spam". I started to use TweetDeck to create groups/columns for... more... - Timothy Federwitz

@Patricia - reminds me that I should probably review all my twitter followers and thin things down. :) - JA Castillo

thanks - Keith

I like conversing with interesting people. Sometimes that means commenting to get followed, @cogiva. ;) - Eric Williams

Hi Scoble! - Pete Gilbert

I did almost the same thing - unfollowed about 1000 from my 1500, no attention is way better - Maarten den Braber

Couldn't agree more. It's about time we all grew up. BTW Don't follow me. :-) - Gee Ranasinha

Robert what's the deal with Twitter? - stockmanmarc

Your post makes good sense. I didn't auto-follow & still find folks to unfollow because their noise gets too loud. - Debra Ellis

Very clever. I imagine the signal to noise is sooooo much better. - Chris Brogan

I've been thinking about unfollowing a bunch twitter folks as well. I'll look at SocialToo again. My initial experience with SocialToo wasn't good. However, it was during their infancy. - Ron Hudson

I don't blame you at all. Leo was all over that yesterday. - Daniel B. Honigman

why would simply leaving a comment prompt you to follow me? - David Wescott

You're not going to change your mind and mass unfollow us are you? - walidmREALTOR

Sup! :-) - Jon Winters

I suspect it identifies you as a real person interested in dialog, David. - Eric Williams

Followers are currency and you have plenty to spend - Lee Odden

Bob, did you do anything on Twitter recently ? Did you massively refollow people ? Seems like you screwed up Twitter : down for a while... ;-) - Enikao

Follow me! @carloscomputers - carloscomputers

very cool timing with just before twitter goes down hard! well done Robert! @crbrowning - Colin

@davidorban - David Orban

I've followed you and have really enjoyed your posts. I think I would miss that - Tom

Good to hear that your experiment has stopped the spam @lindsaydavies - Lindsay Davies

ciao Robert! - alex

Your ego is amazing. You make it seem like it is a special deal to be followed by you. I'm glad there are many very bright, talented people here who follow others, regardless of class, education, social status and not based on some snobbish criteria. - RuthNH

DON'T follow me! I write in Italian :-) - Lorenzo Strambi

Here I be - Robert

Wow, this is a lot of comments. And kudos for following Followable people who have something interesting to contribute to your day. I'm glad you did it, because that means you'll find AND share more interesting things. This, in turn, makes you more followable too. Thanks for seeing the light, so to speak. - ax0n

You killed twitter. - Melissa Pierce

and now with twitter down, many will flock to here! - Mark V. Fusco

I love rob - Mark from iPhone

Did this take down Twitter this morning Robert? - frank barry

That must of taken a long time :-) I've always been a fan of twitter, but I must say they have struggled in the last few weeks. We are working with their API on a project and their seems to be an issue every other day that causes problems. Do they have what it takes? - Chris Nadeau

I follow under 200 people and it's great. I can't imagine 1k+ . I add about three or four a month. - Mike Janicke

I unfollow people when I find I ignore their tweets/updates. After reading your blog, I think we ALL need to be more judicious. - Janet Barker-Evans

Is this why Twitter is down? LOL! Can't check to see if you unfollowed me. Hope not. You, Shel Israel, and Jeremiah Owyang were some of the very first people I followed way back before Twitter even had 100,000 people on the service. -- It's been a fun ride but, of course, the spammers always show up to make things difficult. - Brenda Young

How do you really know if you should be following someone until you follow them for a while? Sometimes I don't start talking to someone until I see a common interest, then I tweet back and we start talking, but that could be months later. I don't follow everyone back, but I follow back those that interact. I will unfollow once I see that won't happen, or I don't like their tweets. - Nadine Gilden

Twitter is victime of it own success, they have to re learn how to scal better, but more important they have to learn to share better. - abdellah

looks like you'll need to follow at least 343 people LOL - Shari Weiss

Friendfeed takes over for twitter finally? - Thomas Resing

@Patricia I don't want potential followers to be put off by who is following me. I wouldn't want them to think I care more about have n+1 followers than I do about what they're going to see if they review who I've allowed to follow me. Not to cull spammers suggests I care more about my experience than theirs. To a great extent, the quality of their experience will determine the quality... more... - Andrew Spong

1600 ... isn't that a big number too? It could be you'll think again before you follow every one here :) - Mario Gastaldi

Hi... do I get a follow? - Jason Mayoff

If you are already following me. Will you double follow me? :) - Brady

Hi Robert!! :) - Zaneology from Nambu

Still waiting for my Building 43 t-shirt. Not that I'm bitter or anything. ;-) - Donna Tuttle

Be sure to come by Dallas when you swing through Texas! - Zaneology from Nambu

Respect your opinion Robert but we'll have to agree to disagree. Yes I despise all the FakePornSpamBots who follow me. I block as many as I can, but can't keep up. Our views differ regarding what is important to SEE! I treasure home Home stream! I read it, refresh, read, refresh and in minutes I have the pulse of the world... at least MY world! EVERYONE has something of value to share at some point. If I UNfollow tens of thousands, I will miss so much worthy of consideration. - Arleen Anderson

Just another reason why it's good to diversify, I can still read your posts here. :) - Luis Sandoval

Cheers! - Jeff Wiant

Funny. I was catching up on news on Friendfeed for some odd reason. Great post; plenty for new and long-time users alike to consider there. - Alex Howard

I'm still waiting for the ultimate tool to manage my followings - I can only manage to keep up with about 1/3 of those following me. I'd love to see something that can tell me what friends of mine also follow those that I am or those that are following me. Maybe it's out there and I missed it? - TheDiva Rockin

Anyone interested in assessing the quality of their followers should check http://tweetblocker.com. It's pretty chastening. I aim to improve on my C rating. http://www.buzzom.com is a fun, fast way of decoupling yourself from non-reciprocal followers. You can select individuals to purge, or flush 50 random non-reciprocal followers at a time. - Andrew Spong

Robert, your timing could not be better. ;-) - Dave Martin

Great post, with perfect timing! Dang it, Dave Martin just took it off my lips. - Vadim Lavrusik

/me waves - Kevin Johnson from iPhone

I hereby rename this comment thread neoTwitter <waves at followers> - Andrew Spong

Awww, you gotta admit, saturation, the level of influence that you have, because of your high follower, count, is a tool of mass destruction. Seriously, did you think if you recommend an online service that people would not try it out? Was this an asassination attempt - Peter Murphy

I'm glad i'm not the only one who misses /me actions from IRC, Kevin. ;) - Eric Williams

With today's Twitter outage your timing is pretty stinking good, Robert. :) - Chris Cree

Now to get the rest of the world to follow that same logic when it comes to follow/unfollow! I only started being more selective as Twitter (and everyone else) started getting aggressive with spammers or anyone that even remotely did a single spammy tweet. Now if only there were the same contact management tools available for the other social networks as with Twitter. No matter what though, I'll continue updating my status when I eat a peanut butter sandwich! (With Fluff of course!). - Paul Monaco

Twitter couldn't handle the mass unfollow load, blew up... - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

I've been followed by Robert Scoble :-) - David Finch

Follow iPolitics - Jacob Kobi Gamliel

Now I think that it is time to think about a way to make money using Twitter. - abdellah

@Mark, +1. When in doubt, the default delegation of blame goes to Robert. - Dave Martin

what is critical mass for twitter? Too few and nobody interacts, Too many and spam bots overwhelm, Is it 1K or 2K needed to get a real experience? - WarLord

Hmm can you unsubscribe from "comment notification via e-mail" in FF on a *specific* topic? This one :-) - Patrick Mackaaij

Of course I thonk it is a different experience if you hand follow reading each bio from the beginning then these mass purges are unnecessary - WarLord

I thought you already followed me. lol - Duane-PreppyDude

Not sure if you do, but here I am... - Aron Michalski

I am intrigued how RT addict will RT now?!! (ps: FF please don't post this to my twitter) - abdellah

I have been keeping my twitter account private a majority of the time lately b/c I am going through a divorce, but I really kinda like it. Have been reducing followers as well as the number I follow. - Jackson Miller

You should follow me here in FF and on Twitter too! - Karthi

hopefully most of us have proven our worth beyond commenting on this single thread - andy brudtkuhl

I like the way you operate, Scoble. Thanks in advance for the follow! - Dr. Frank Ramblings, Ph.D

Nice way of doing it... - Charles

No need to follow me unless you are actually going to engage in conversation with me. - Jeff Hurt

If you're already following and we comment, will you unfollow? *wink Hoping all is well your way! - Dayngr

4&5 are my favorite! Those are big reasons I decide to follow someone too. - Kelly Mitton

I'm lucky. Have never had Twitter spam. But then again I'm no Scoble either :) - Lori Reed

I am the peanut butter eating bot - Benjamin Spector

If you are already following me on ff does that mean I get a cookie or something? ;-) - Tomy Thomson

I'll add my name to the list. I came back to FF after the Twitter DoS outage. Maybe Scoble broke Twitter by all his unfollowing. He was the "glue" holding Twitter together. :-) - Tom Newman

Robert: Here's the bit you missed off the end of your title here: .... and put them in that group I don't read :-) - Jim Connolly

Hi Robert, greetings from germany. - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)

add me for your social media and the practice of law news! - Rex Gradeless

Great post. I'm sure that some people might say that this kind of mass unfollowing will hurt Twitter, but I think it's just the opposite. Users who are following people they have no interest in just to pad their own numbers are diminishing the meaning of "following." - Mark Denton

@Ulrichmargarita - Ulrichmargarita

To stave off being unfollowed we need to comment here ya say? - Jason

you are already following me here... perhaps you'll consider re-following me on twitter too - tinym dot com

I don't know how you ever did it the other way. I am not in the tech world near as much as I used to be, which wasn't a whole lot. I just followed some random people I saw on SMugMug-related people on here when I started. You were one of them. I had no idea who you were (and still don't :-), but you talked about Twitter a lot too, which got me on there as well. Both services have really... more... - James Schipper

Follow away! - Ferdinand Perez

ok 400 jackpot - abdellah

Quality over quantity in all things, including (perhaps especially) Twitter. Loved your friending methodology -- those are the same rules I've applied since being on Twitter. Posted them onto Posterous to share the love with credit to you: http://lorilaurentsmith.posterous.com/ - Lori Laurent Smith

it's not about unfollowing, it's about filtering... - Barak Hachamov

I started out following everyone on Twitter.Then I got wise. When someone's stream becomes more noise than signal, that's when I consider unfollowing. I realize that threshhold is different for everyone, but I'll take "what I had for lunch" over a dozen bogus "marketing tips" any day. - Julie Barrett from twhirl

Well, I am trying to use FriendFeed more after watching Scoble's video on all those monitors he had up. I'm not a big consumer of information and don't own a TV but this online social stuff has been a perfect fit into my life because I can connect with people who are fountains of knowledge on a specific subject or are "human mashups". I like both! - Adria Richards

Why !? - Bertrand Soulier from iPhone

I've been reading al of this unfollow bits, and this point of yours: - Donna

Hey, I think that today you might make your point about FriendFeed being more interesting than Twitter. Hope you are well. Talked with @fransteps this morning and she is excited to work with you at Rackspace. - Kami Huyse

hi - George Desmyter

I would appreciate the follow, thanks! - Jeff Reisdorfer

I've been reading all of this un-follow posts lately, and this point of yours in WHY you unfollowed: "#2 Because I personally care about everyone I am following their noise level is a LOT lower. ." Is exactly what I do. And now I am starting to understand Friendfeed more. and using posterous to do aggregate posts. So is this overload making more people sit up and think first? I think so. At least the intelligent ones. - Donna

I love you Scoble! ;) - Carol Levesque

with all due sycophantism :) - jeff hammond

This is a great move, Robert. It's also a lot more human...I was almost convinced that you were the only person who could actually drink from the fire hose without choking. - Steffan Antonas

That sounds fair. After this morning, I've renewed my love for FriendFeed and Tweetworks. Until the next DDos attacks, of course. I will miss the fake porn stars, but I did when I moved from L.A. - Scott Pierce

Steffan; I agree...there is no way anyone else could do what Robert S. does. It's good to see him become human. - Robert Jones

This has been my problem for about the past six months. I routinely go in and unfollow, get the noise level down to where I want it, and then end up following back a bunch of new people, some of whom I'm incredibly grateful to get to know. When I had track, it was a whole lot easier to manage the stream, but I suspect even that tool would now be out of hand. I have a set of rules for... more... - Karoli

hee hee. i am commenting not so much to beg your follow but what a clever pitch:) - Tresha Thorsen

Robert - I have not read all 416 comments so if this was asked and you answered forgive me. What was the all of a sudden revelation that caused you to reverse stance on Twitter Followers? - Jeff Vreeland

It's difficult to maintain and filter a list on all the social networking sites. I cannot even imagine maintaining the kinds of lists you must deal with, Robert. - Jeremy Brooks

Dude, you broke Twitter! When you unfollowed all of your 100,000 the other day you pulled the rug right out from under it, so it fell down and now it can't reach its beer. :-) - Robert Morrison

Actually I felt rather sad being fav'ed by you on FriendFeed then dumped.. But again. I get more from you from FriendFeed, so oh well, stop talking about Following and Get on more with Tech! :P - Du Senyao Peter

Me Me! lol! - Bill McGehee

i like the idea of importing favorite tweets into friendfeed. i haven't used that favorite feature much because i haven't seen any real use in it. thanks! - Jonathan Blundell

When twitter is down I always wish I could tweet: checkout friendfeed. Nevertheless, how will following folk that leave a message here really improve the quality of your input? While I don't want to judge many of the fine folk on this thread, are they all that interesting? In other words, isn't this the start of the same problem you had on Twitter... - Jon Mountjoy

what like here? this is a comment :) - michelle harris

Barak - isn't filtering just unfollowing while pretending you're still following? ;) - Matthew Blaisdell

Well to bounce back on your Twitter is down comment I think it is time to watch this video again http://www.youtube.com/watch... Hilarious! - 77Agency

Robert, I'm glad you decided to stop auto-follow (finally). :) - Veronica Sopher

I'm in - Jeroen Sangers from Nambu

works for mw - Brendan Jackson from twhirl

Robert, but why clutter your FriendFeed stream? This comment is not to get you to courtesy follow me on FriendFeed, think you've established you've changed your thinking. :) - L.P. NEENZ FALEAFINE

OK, I have enough people to follow so I will close the comments on this thread. Thank you everyone, I will try to get to everyone today. - Robert Scoble

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"Larry! LARRY!" - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

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That made me snort some iced tea, hilarious. - Steve C

Leo Laporte

We launch a new TWiT show @ 3p today: TWig - This Week in google - with Jeff Jarvis and Gina Trapani. Google and cloud computing the topics.

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looking forward to subscribing to the podcast. will be up in Sierra's without bandwidth to watch live today - kent williams

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Really looking forward to this show. - Jari Hakkarainen

Sounds like a really nice addition to the TWiT network. Can't wait! - Jonathan Grenier

Looking forward to it also - Claes Krantz

hoping it will be up on itunes today, since i won't be able to watch it live. Can't wait to listen - John Fogarty from twhirl

Sounds interesting! - Dean

I like the idea, but not the name. Seems kind of bias right off the bat. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the innovation that Google brings to the table, but to name the freakin' show after Google?? Can you tell that I am a big fan of Dvorak :) - rodney.franklin

i look forward to listening to it! - Aaron

Great! Was waiting for it since the pre-announcement in TWIT. - Alexey Klyukin

Interested and looking forward to it! May have to listen to podcast though. Will be out on a boat this afternoon. - Suzi Kilgo from iPhone

Why is google in the name when all the big companies are embracing the cloud ? - Mark from iPhone

Looking forward to a new show, - rudedog

Can't wait to listen! - Tom Webster

Think it was a big mistake to put the name "google" in the title, but will probably be a great show anyways. - Steven Legault

this is great, so much to talk about, and so much to learn. I think most people have no idea the range of services that are emerging from both Google and Amazon related to cloud services that will be invaluable for the small or start-up business as well as consumers.... - Howie Schechtman

Can't wait! A new and exciting podcast for a new and exciting era of computing! - Josh Rosen

yeah, a new era of computing, say's it all! - Howie Schechtman

Great idea Leo. @gregorymurray - Gregg

looking forward to it already - Kevin Porteous

Oh no!!! Not more Leo Podcasts!!! :-) Sure I'll be there! - Richard Bitting

Can't wait, Leo! I'll subscribe immediately. This is an excellent topic and I'm really glad to see the best podcast network on the Internet jumping right in to cover it. - Eric Geller

I'm really interested to see how this show goes. This is a big topic heading into our future. - Mike Nayyar

when will it be on itunes? i wonder - Aaron

Where can I subscribe for iTunes? - Ben

I'm not fond of the "Google" in the name either, it's like calling a car show "This Week in Gerneral Motors". But I'll try to listen in to the taping anyways, should be funny & knowledgable with the three of you. - Martin

is that pacific time? look forward to it! - Susan Ettenheim

And that album art need work, IMO. The "computing in the" is hardly legible. - Martin

I actually didn't like the artwork so I tried a different one myself. Here it is; http://img149.imageshack.us/img149... - Can Sağlam

This sounds like a good show, and nice graphics! But how do you have time leo?! Sometimes during somewhat slow news weeks there is some overlap in news like macbreak and twit which can sometimes be annoying but still great shows as I'm sure this one will be as well. WIll jeff and gina always be there or more of a twit interchangeable style? - Denis Dervisevic

Looking forward to it, I love your other shows and Gina Trapani is great. - Brandon Eaker

All things Google. Not all things Twitter? LOL Should be interesting. I was listening when you spoke of this show as a, maybe. I'll be there. - D Lets

Ready to listen to the big three Windows Weekly, MacBreak Weekly and This Week in Google...TWiT is in a class by itself. - Christopher Knopick

Windows Weekly is the best because Paul does something 90% of the TWiT network hosts don't do: RESEARCH! - Mark

Should call it "this week in the clouds"  - Stan from iPhone

Looking forward to it Leo! - Cody Clark

gonna check this one out - (jeff)isageek

TWiG is better than TWiC (This Week in [the] Cloud) for those saying he shouldn't have put Google in the name. - Marcus Boyce

Alright. Very cool - Dylan Richardson

Looking forward to it. - archaictree

Jeff is a great choice for this. WWGD - Rob Truman from fftogo

What's in a name? ;-) I look forward to this new addition to the TWiT network! - Joe Gilbert

Great.. looking forward to it... - Shoukat Dharani

this is hilarious with hindsight http://www.appleinsider.com/article... - Mark

Gina is great, as is Jeff. I really look forward to seeing how this show develops. - Lori Todd

Google is taking over the world. Chrome OS = Android 2.0 for large laptop screens, Google Voice on Android and White Spaces will kill the $1 Trillion Telecom and ISP industry, you should talk about those ARM processor based netbooks that are coming out with Chrome browser in the next few months, they will take over the whole laptop market and start costing $150 with no contracts. - Charbax

Great show Leo. Great way to kick off Sunday morning. will try with hangover next week - guydownunder from iPhone

TWiG was great! It really makes me want to dive into the cloud. :) - Curt Tweedle

Loved the show! - Krista House

Great show! I will be a regular weekly viewer & I want to be a part of the Wave you set up. - Don Struble

Can't find this show on itunes :( - Richard

There is one This Week in Google podcast in iTunes, but it's not this one ;) - Reijo

Someone else already took the name? Naughty Leo for not checking lol - Mark from iPhone

Mark, they did one episode and it was 2 years ago. I don't think they'll have any issues with the president of the internet using the same title... - MλTT

It would be ironic if it was the twitvid folks who made the podcast hehe. Leos show was much better anyways - Mark from iPhone

I have been looking forward to this show since you first announced it. Thanks! - Bruce Vittetoe

Gina T. mentioned y'day it wasn't up on iTunes yet, but they were working on it. Sounds like another TWiT winner! - Rob Greco from email

Great what a good idea since Google seems to run the show/ - Rob Cairns

Is TWig on iTunes yet? - Devon Govett

Gina's great, glad to hear about it, Leo, thanks. - randulo

Looking for it on iTunes here too, nothing yet. - Andrew Leahey

Take a while to appear on iTunes. Meanwhile you can add it manually to iTunes with the following URL: http://leo.am/podcasts/twig Thanks for listening! - Leo Laporte

Can't wait to subscribe! - Jon, the Chilled Beartato

What was that thing that Jeff Jarvis brought up at about 46:00 and it sounded like; Prezee or Prez-e? I have looked on Google and I found nothing. - AquaGeneral

I think it was Prezi, http://prezi.com/ - Brandon Eaker

i thinks is very important the post - amadeu.karen

Fantastic show... great topic. I found it on iTunes. - Denise Deverelle Crown

Jason Calacanis

Ok, the big news: we're having a girl!!! We come out of beta in December. :-)

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Congrats! Our boy is coming in late September. Lots of geeks having babies. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

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It gives me hope that the world will not end up like Idiocracy. - Jason Huebel

Congrats! We're expecting a boy in Late November. Exciting, isn't it? - Michael Hocter

Congrats Jason! :) - Simon Wicks

Enjoy the first release @jasoncalacanis as you dont get any updates to that version once it is gone live...... - Geer

congrads, :) - chaz2b

congrats Jason - Joshua Smith from twhirl

Funny how the startup life of late nights and constant code-cleaning begins after u come out of beta in this case :) - Kamath (नमः)

Congratulations. I'm on leave enjoying the first weeks of our baby girl's life & our +1 family: do make sure to make time for this if you can! - Wade Dorrell

Congrats. Just brought our fourth, a little boy, home today. Kids are a wonderful blessing! - Gary Gifford Jr from iPhone

Congrats, Jason! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

congrats!!! - Francois Lamotte

Congrats Jason! - Travis Koger

Mazel Tov!!!!! - Lillian Banchik from twhirl

Nice news, congrats to both of you - Patphelan

here's my advice about having two babies in your house: let me tell you that is a lot of babies. you might want to add a third adult to your household to scale the load :-) - Brian Hendrickson

that's good news. - Ahmet Alp Balkan

congrats!!! - tomit

If you are really sick you can start watching Dora and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse now to see what life will be like :) - James Burk

Congrats! - Brian Watson

TWiT Conversations: Leo Laporte

Live now: This Week in Google with Gina Trapani and Jeff Jarvis. http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here...

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Loving the show so far Leo! - Eric Geller

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Everyone's seen the FCC letters to Apple, Google, and AT&T, right? - Jason Miller

This week in Google? - Is this a new show... did I miss an announcement? - Roy Herrod

Wouldn't we ALL like to see answers to those letters? I would. They're asking all the questions many of us have been asking outside of the GV Mobile app situation. - Jason Miller

AT&T has blcoked Skype and Google Voice on My BB Bold without using cell minutes. - earl wallace

@Roy: This is the first show... - Jude

is it just me or is jeff's audio bandwidth bad? - Aaron Dyer

@Aaron It's not just you. - Craig B.

i think i might get a G2 .. looks good - Aaron Dyer

Jude, ahh that explains it! Unfortunately I can't listen now so will have to download it tomorrow, looking forward to it! - Roy Herrod

Speaking of open alternatives, I'm sitting here right now with a Linux command prompt on my Palm Pre, installing "homebrew" applications and messing with the UI... - Ken Sheppardson

ken, whats the battery life like on your pre? - Aaron Dyer

Aaron: It's not that great... I can easily kill it in a day if I'm using the radios heavily, but I have to say the Touchstone completely changes the way I think about battery life and charging the device: every time I take it out of my pocket and set it down on the desk next to me, it's charging. - Ken Sheppardson

Here's the first cut at a Google Voice app for the Pre - http://www.engadget.com/2009... - Ken Sheppardson

Question on GV Mobile - I managed to grab the app in the US before Apple pulled it. But I couldn't get it to work while I was in Vancouver, BC. Is the GV Mobile app total dead weight on my iPhone? - Jason Miller

i mean i love my iphone 3g but i like the look of both the pre and the g2 very tempting - Aaron Dyer

Jason: I believe GV Mobile will still work. Your issue was probably due to the US-only nature of Google Voice. - Eric Geller

off topic question anyone know of any msi wind friendly linux distros for a browser only experience? want to move to cloud only on my netbook - Aaron Dyer

Eric Geller - Good point. I hadn't thought of that. Thanks. - Jason Miller

No problem. - Eric Geller

Aaron: If I weren't as happy as a clam with Windows 7 on my Dell Mini 10, I'd be running Ubuntu Netbook Remix - http://www.ubuntu.com/GetUbun... - Ken Sheppardson

thanks ken - Aaron Dyer

I moved to Google Apps because of the "on behalf of" issue. Apps has always been a second class citizen, never fully integrated with Reader, Voice, etc. I'm literally right this moment using imapsync to move back off Apps to plain old Gmail now that they've "fixed" the problem. - Ken Sheppardson

There's also the sort of fundamental philosophical conflict where Gmail feels there's no legitimate reason why we'd ever have to sort by a field. Bugs me, but I live with it. Sigh. - Ken Sheppardson

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008... - Ken Sheppardson

"You can set up different automated messages for different keywords, just like you said you wanted. (We're friends, so I trust you to use this power responsibly.)" - Ken Sheppardson

"Gmail already lets you create filters based on a combination of keywords, sender, recipients, and more in your incoming messages. Turn on Canned Responses in Labs, and you can set a filter to grab one of your saved responses, create an automated reply, and hit the Send button for you." - Ken Sheppardson

Loving this new show! WHen will it be posted to Podcast? - Jeff Vreeland

i say have employees - Aaron Dyer

depends on what you ask them - Jörg Reinhardt

fantastic 1st show! love the relaxed style - Aaron Dyer

I say start out with ex employees and work your way up (e.g. Kevin Marks) ;-) - Ken Sheppardson

office 2010 = also ran - Aaron Dyer

if this is about cloud computing then we need to also talk about Live, Mesh and Azure - Mike Aikins

We should ask when will the GDRIVE ever appear....would love a virtual drive capability - Mike Aikins

the whole desktop/filetype/program analogie sucks, kept evolvement of Computers 15 Jears back die M$ - Jörg Reinhardt

Yeah, but "This Week in the Cloud" doesn't abbreviate all that well. - Ken Sheppardson

@Mike Aikins there is a linux fuse driver that lets you mount gmail as a filesystem... quite slow I might add - Jörg Reinhardt

Leo: when I get Google Wave invites, you'll be the first on my list. - Eric Geller

eric can i be 2nd? :) - Aaron Dyer

I got my Wave sandbox invitation on Thursday... which means they invited me to fill out yet another form and wait a few days. - Ken Sheppardson

Yep I know about that but I must say that MESH works fantasically well as someone who movs between 4 - 5 separate computers - Mike Aikins

No account yet. - Ken Sheppardson

Ken: I got that email and minutes after I submitted it I had my account. - Eric Geller

No Wave invite yet...but then again perhaps my Haiku was not very good...:-) - Mike Aikins

Aaron: I have a long list already (see here: http://friendfeed.com/welovea... ) but I just have to put Leo at the top because of all he's done for me. - Eric Geller

@mike I heard they weren't passing out invites until Sept 30 - Craig B.

on problem eric wow man thats quite the list - Aaron Dyer

Hmm. I wonder if my info got lost in the mail or something... - Ken Sheppardson

Anil was on with Dave Winer and Marshall Kirkpatrick the other day talking about this - http://badhair.us/2009... - Ken Sheppardson

Dave's RSS-centric equivalent is rssCloud - Ken Sheppardson

Hey leo you should do a TWIT Wave when it come out - Richard Thomson

This is going to be a great show, Leo. Thanks for organizing this, picking two phenomenal co-hosts, and devoting your time to it. - Eric Geller

This Week in Google FriendFeed room - http://friendfeed.com/twit-tw... - Eric Geller

It came across as "This Week We Say How Much We Love Google" which is not really interesting. For example Google Wave is *interesting* but barely usable (dies 1-in-3 times) - pre-alpha really; that's not going to take over the news. - Dave Beckett

Love this new show! - Devon Govett

great show, great job all three of you! Keep it up! - Dakota O'Neill

Leo needs a borg interface - min

Awesome show! Looking forward to the next one - Chris

Dave Beckett: Google Wave is, as you said, pre-alpha. They love it for what it will be, not for what it is now. - Eric Geller

Leo We Want a TWIT Wave when it come out - Richard Thomson

Leocutus - min

Richard: what are you talking about? - Eric Geller

Eric: Think he talks about Google Wave - Chris

I know what he's talking about in terms of the product (Wave), but what is a TWiT Wave? A TWiT show about Wave or a Wave stream about TWiT? - Eric Geller

The latter, Eric - Ken Sheppardson

Okay, that's gonna be tough because of how fleeting I imagine Wave streams to be. It seems to me that you make them when you need them. They don't have the permanence of a FF room. - Eric Geller

Coached in how to say what they want to say, independent of what you ask them. - Ken Sheppardson

Leo: Talk at some point about Google's 20% time (I think that's the stat) and how that inspires cool stuff. - Eric Geller

Gina, Jeff & Leo: way to go! Get Ballmer (puppet) on the next show ;-) http://www.1938media.com/forum... - HansVanRock

Leo: excellent suggestion from the chat, which is to get holograms. If you want to be the CNN of tech, you will need holograms. - Eric Geller

Leo, for intro music, just have 20-30 seconds of silence and call it "The sound of clouds." - Eric Geller

Leo: is that going to be the music for TWIG? Its god awful. - Bryan Lee

It's nice enough music. If you're a 14th century monk. - Ken Sheppardson

"Bandwidth for This Week in Google is provided by Google. Because there's no conflict of interest there!" - Eric Geller

Ken: How could you be so insensitive to 14th century monks? - Eric Geller

Leo: You just said this week in geek. - Bryan Lee

Yes Bryan, that was the original name for TWiT. - Eric Geller

I like This Week in Geek. Can I use it? - Bryan Lee

Leo: If you want good classical music, get Paulywood to make you some. Can't he do everything? - Eric Geller

How about Spring from the 4 seasons by Vivaldi - Sebastian Bender

When I hear the classical music I feel like we are listening to NPR. - Bryan Lee

Leo: I just found your intro music! A Michael Jackson parody called "Just Google." http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Eric Geller

Flute sucks... no wait, it actually doesn't - Jörg Reinhardt

Aww, well it was worth a shot. - Eric Geller

How about Chariots of Fire by Vangelis? http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Sebastian Bender

I like this one from RoyaltyFreeMusic http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/music-s... - Bryan Lee

Leo: Royalty free Planets - http://www.shockwave-sound.com/Royalty... - Ken Sheppardson

Leo: Where does the opening theme to TWiT come from? I know the closing (Doing the TWiT) is Ashley Witt but I've always wondered about the intro. - Eric Geller

Great show. I'm really looking forward to this becoming a regular show. - Mike Lewis

Another good classical one from RoyaltyFreeMusic http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/music-s... - Bryan Lee

Tapas at 11pm Underscore 2 - Don Bonaddio

Is the going to be podcast? I did not get to see it all. I was helping a client. And I will probably miss tonight's rebroadcast. Is it going to be a download? - MarK

MarK: Leo said it will definitely be a podcast. And he recorded an intro with today's date, so I bet you'll get it soon. - Eric Geller

Heres a good one, http://www.productiontrax.com/trackpa... - Sebastian Bender

great thanks eric - MarK

No problem. - Eric Geller

of the ones so far, that last gets my vote. - Brad

Indeed. THAT is Google if I've ever heard it. - Eric Geller

This is the show I've been looking for and of course it's by my hero Leo. - MarK

Maybe some Yan Hammer rockin the keetar. - Ken Sheppardson

I hope kiwinerd is grabbing this, totally missed it. - Richard ¿digame? Walker

Argh! I missed it and cannot find the link to download the podcast. I have been looking forward to this podcast since it was announced. - David Imielski

David: It's not up yet as a podcast. - Eric Geller

will this be up as a podcast later - ok read the rest of the comments :) - Richard

Eric Geller - Thanks for the link - Mitch

Just listened to this. Interesting and fun first episode, but Jeff's audio sounded like crap. - Steve

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VOTE NOW: Slurpee or Icee?

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Definitely Slurpee. - Flora

100% syrup slushy FTW! - Alex Scoble

Slush puppy. - Jeremy Brooks

slurpee - Imabug

SLURPEE!!! - Justin Korn

Yeah, Jeremy! Slush Puppy is fun in a cup! - Lindsay

I mix 'em - best of both worlds. :) - Mona Nomura

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slurpee - anna sauce

Icee, definitely. - Admiral Anika

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I'm glad someone else asked if there was a difference. - Mark Wilson

I'm glad that Jess opened that up for Mark. - Christopher Harley

Icee, since they always seemed to be consistent. Slurpee strength varied from store - store. - Peter Ghosh

Slush Puppy! - Tyson Key

Slush Puppy! - Vicky

icee - Aykut Karaalioğlu

I haven't had a Slurpee in over 20 years, so I'll have to vote Icee cuz I can go get one in less than 5 minutes. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Slushy! - Michael Forian

Icee...Coke style! - JA Castillo

A slushy one for me. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Oh definitely Icee. - Trish R

Icee - jamar78

I honestly can't tell the difference. I'll say Slurpee since 7-11 is closer than Quik Stop - Rodfather

Can I vote Slush Puppie? - Shawn Farner

slurpee (duh) - Jennifer Van Grove

Icee, and now I want one! - Michael Fidler from twhirl

slurpee - Mattie Kenny

Snuggie!!! - B. Hatin

Blue Icee ... but I call them Squishies. - ::Kristen::

What about slush puppies? You can add your own syrup and make your own flavours! - Kendra <3 Three Lions

Definitely Slurpee. - Rochelle

Slurpee - Shevonne

My husband says neither, slushpuppies! :) - Danielle Closs

Icee. - Louis Gray

Does Squishee count? - Jeff P. Henderson

Raspberry slurpee. - laurel

Anyone ready to choose again? - Christopher Harley

Ask the folks out in the Seattle area! - Jordan Hofker

Why? We have them beat by 8 degrees! It's still 103 in Portland. - Christopher Harley

Icee!!! - (jeff)isageek

Slurpee!!! - Christopher Harley

I've only had a slurpee and it's been years. Where to you find Icee's? - BEX

They were hard to find before but now BK has them. - Christopher Harley

Slurpee (as if this were even a real question!) - Brett Kelly from iPhone

Yes! - James (!?)

Slurpee - Herb Hernandez

neither...eegee's..... - dafire

Icee!!! - Christopher Harley from iPhone

7-11 is closer than Quik Stop. Slurpee :) - Rodfather

ICEE! - Nathan Chase

+1 Rodfather - Nicholas Kreidberg

Slurpee is the king. - Joey Gibson

slurpee - Imabug

Icee!!! - Christopher Harley from iPhone

icee! - Anna Lynn M.

bourbon - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

Slurpee!!! - Christopher Harley from iPhone

The last Icee I had kicked the last Slurpee I had's ass. - Derrick

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3D Wikipedia Globe - http://lslinks.laughingsquid.com/3d-wiki...

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i wish the whole world could get along ...if only for the sake of being able to have one standard plug for electronics.

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and one voltage. - Andrew C

Amen and Amen! - Morgan Haley

At least the cell phone companies... for a few years would be nice. - Jason Nunnelley

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Looks like a great game. ;) - Tyson Key

WANT! - Stephanie Segel

awesome - Joshua Smith from twhirl

want! - denise

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> @thinkgeek is hard at work trying to make the Tauntaun Sleeping Bag a reality http://laughingsquid.com/tauntau... [via @starwars]

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Michael Jackson R.I.P. - http://jeffisageek.posterous.com/michael...

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Clock will strike 04:05:06 07/08/09 tomorrow - http://www.usatoday.com/news...

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it will also strike 12:34:56 07/08/09 :) - Chris Rogers

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True. What're we supposed to do? Make a wish or crawl under a table & be scared that the world is going to end? - Brian Felix

Point at the clock, giggle, and then get back to work - Bwana ☠

I like sequential numbers as much as the next guy, but I can never get past the "09" really being "2009" on these. - Stephen Mack

l0ckergn0me

Mount Rushmore as seen from Canada.

June 27 - Comment - Like - Share

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HAHAHAHA - Admiral Anika

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Fair trade for them getting the good view of Niagara Falls I'd say. - invariant - farewell FF

frickin sweet! - BEX

LOL - Tibor Holoda

Yup that's exactly what it looks like from here. - Barry Sanschagrin

ROFL - Ethan

So where exactly did Nicholas Cage enter to find the treasure? - Geoff Schultz

LOL! too funny. - John Blanton from twhirl

LOL - Roberto Bonini

Heh. B. Kliban did a cartoon of this with their pants down. Good job on this, tho :-) - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

hahaha, that's funny! - freedom fighter mom from twhirl

What? There's another view? Please post. - Ken Morley

I'm pretty sure it's in the collection "Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head", published back in the early/mid 70s. I know I've got it around here somewhere... - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

ROTFL, "the other side" - Roberto from fftogo

Hahaha. Awesome sight for 'em Canadians! - Santosh

face down and ass in the air! Love it! - John Hillestad

Cool, except anybody who's been to Mount Rushmore knows it faces east! So really this is the view from Wyoming. - Ben Hanten

Ben: Americans have never been known to have a sense of direction. - l0ckergn0me

Hilarious :-D - Ace

I literally LOL'd. - Mike Cefalo

Sarah Palin sees this from the other side of her house. - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

awesome - Nick Humphries

I lol´d. - Jens Christian Freund

ahahahahahahah - Adriano Mercurio

LMAO! :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

lol ... yup that's just what we see from Canada ... a bunch of asses - jay macpherson

Well played, jay. Well played. - Jason Huebel

*access memory: Braveheart battle scene* - Mo Kargas

Too funny! - Mark Harai

Haha... I LOL'ed for real too. - Barbara

wiping away tears. rofl - Capn' One Eye - adrift

+1 Jay (not really true, but still very funny :o) - Ken Morley

Hay I am Canadian !.....giggle - hollyseven

How did I miss this?! HAHA - Mona Nomura

I think somebody has a wedgie! - CAJ, somewhere else

The view from Canada is the rock on the left & Lincoln's shoes. - Wade Dorrell

that is epic. ;) - Philip "dmouse" Campbell

Hilarious! :) - Cyndi ~ @muchmorethanmom

Awesome! - Timothy Federwitz

hahahaha wtf - tohuko

That's priceless. - Todd Libby

Teddy has a nice butt =p - LouCypher

where do you get this stuff from - Frank loves it - Kathi Barrett

That is brilliant. B3TA or somewhere similar? - dannystaple

Hahahah! Mount Rushmore as seen from Canada. - KyNam Doan

haha ace babes xx - abigailashleawhitaker

This is an old pic, but is still always funny to see. :) - John Pyper

Veronica

Michael Jackson Dies | TMZ.com - http://www.tmz.com/2009...

June 25 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Holy shit. - Veronica from Bookmarklet

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Ouch. - Thomas

Oh man. Too much death this week. - Dave Friedel

They come in waves with celebs. He makes three (Ed McMahon and Farah Faucett). - Thomas

I am just, just, shocked. - Mark

Whoa... Very strange day. - Aaron Hood

Some sources are saying an overdose of sleeping pills :( - Mark

Shock. Shock. Shock. - Dave Friedel

I maybe over blowing this I just thought Leo Laporte would have broken into his shows to report the news. The death of Jackson is a cultural event of epic proportions. - Mark

I'll remember where I was at this moment. - Dave Friedel

I was just thinking that Dave. I remember where I was whern Diana died too - Mark

Is this real? - Fleagle

CNN.com still doesn't have confirmation on their site. Either TMZ rushed it out or CNN's late to the party again... - Thomas

TMZ is more ballsy and has less of a reputation to protect than CNN so they took a chance I guess - Mark

I noticed that, Thomas. We'll see! Hopefully we're not putting him in his grave before his time. - Veronica

BBC News Live http://news.bbc.co.uk/1... - Mark

BBC are being VERY cautious about the Death thing - Mark

The mainstream news beat Twitter on this story. - Mark

Twitter.com is being hammered. Not suprising. - Mark

Wouldn't be the first time FF or twitter jumped the gun... - Thomas

CNN Live: Fire dept won't reveal his state due to HIPAA laws. Blitzer can't get confirmation. - Dave Friedel

this is insane - Veronica

latimes; he's in a coma, CNN: he's alive. - anna sauce

According to LA times blog, he's in a coma as of 2:46. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow... - Thomas

I will take a COMA any day over Death. Fuck yes there may be hope!!!!!!!!! - Mark

I hope tmz was just jumping the gun - Jason Tullos

I had a friend who had a cardiac arrest and was revived... but died a few days later. It's worse than a heart attack. - Dave Friedel

Depending on how long he wasn't breathing, he may be technically alive, but... - Thomas

We will worry about bringing him back later, if he is in a coma at least he is alive - Mark

It's interesting that CNN isn't even mentioning the TMZ article. You'd think they'd at least reference it and say "let's wait for confirmation"... - Thomas

thats what the BBC is doing Thomas - Mark

"unconfirmed" etc etc - Mark

Lets just hope he is in a coma. I mean he is either dead or in a coma right? - Mark

Twitter is dead, too. - Steve Hampton

CNN now going with the coma story - Thomas

LA Times has changed from Coma to DEATH - Mark

Is this bigger than John Lennon dying? - Steve Hampton

LA Times is going with dead now: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow... - Veronica

its big. Very VERY big - Mark

CNN HLN Update: Michael Jackson is in a coma. - John Fox

RIP Michael! - Fee501st

Probably as big as Elvis', Lennon's deaths - Mark

So CNN is about 30 minutes behind - Thomas

way to go, CNN - Veronica

They're the news leader, right? :) - Thomas

Well, either they wait and get it right or call it early and possibly get it wrong. They're supposed to be reputable. - aldenoneil

CNN just called based on CBS and the times - Jason Tullos

Certainly for people around Veronica's age including me, this is probably the biggest cultural death in our lifetimes that we are old enough to understand - Mark

MJ in Coma according to CNN! - Divya Mistry

I'd say this is bigger than Lennon and Elvis. MJ is a huge icon in Asia. Especially in India. - Srujan Ameda

LA Times is confirming the King of Pop's death. - John Fox

CNN just announced death - Thomas

@Thomas Dammit, if I'd have had it confirmed by CNN 30 minutes ago, I could have.. erm... - Ian Betteridge

Hope you're at peace finally MJ. RIP. - Dave Friedel

Poor guy. - Andrew Leahey

BBC are saying its a shame cos people have tickets for his show and wont be able to go. Unbelievabe - Mark

Last time I felt like this was 12 years ago, staying up all night when Diana passed away. The space-time continuum shifts and you always remember where you were at that moment. - Dave Friedel

CNN just made that Diana comparison... - Thomas

CNN is saying itll be devastating for the Jackson family. You don't say? - Andrew Leahey

I remember Diana's death very well. I was up late watching SNL with a friend of mine during a sleepover party, and the news came on and interrupted it. We didn't know if it was part of the show or not. - Veronica

Yeah, Twitter is not holding up well right now. - Veronica

Yeah, I was moving at the time Diana died. The TV was the first thing I hooked up... - Thomas

I was playing Donkey Kong Country on the Super Nintendo when I heard about Diana. - Mark

Not at all. - Andrew Leahey

The threes thing is always so weird and creepy. And true. - Veronica

Ehh, its usually a stretch Scott, since theres never a clear time-limit on the 3 rule. - Andrew Leahey

There it goes on DIGG.com - Mark

Wow, look at all the people gathering... - Dave Friedel

I just got back from a friends house and my mom was crying, thats how i found out! (about Diana) - Fee501st

No doubt most digged story in history - Mark

This is going to be a major world-wide event, obviously. - Veronica

Is it just me or is the internet in general feeling sluggish? - Andrew Leahey

I am sure tens of millions of people are on the net than would normally be - Mark

Yep, this feels just like Diana. That was worse because there was over 6 hours of waiting to find out. But it still is shuddering to see a milestone in life go by so fast. - Dave Friedel

Micheal Jackson is/was a world wide music icon to all! Sad day in the music industry for such. - Bryce Campbell

I remeber when the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, I was in 3 grade class and we was watching it live on TV, its was scary at the time - Fee501st

Its not just a sad day for the music ind Bryce, believe me the world will mourn - Mark

CNN anchor was talking about how everyone always expected him to return to the top some day. Totally did. - Andrew Leahey

Millions will take to the streets in cities around the world - Mark

I really hope this wasn't a pill overdose. - Dave Friedel

I'm sad for his children. What a strange, sad life. - Veronica

Did not see that coming - Joe Demartino

See we are about the age in which we only really knew his weird phase, not his talented phase - Mark

Mark, agree totally! - Bryce Campbell

I am anyway. 21 years old - Mark

BBC just confirmed. He is officially dead - Mark

Mark, you're making me feel very old. :P - Dave Friedel

I was an 80's baby, so I remember the talented time. - Veronica

this is so sad. don't know what to say. I grew up with his songs, in the 80's. - diego morelli

I'm 23, but totally remember him for his talent. He's still on my playlists. - Andrew Leahey

The pop icons from the 60's-80's are slowly disappearing. - imabonehead

He was like Reagan or video games. He was the 80's. - Dave Friedel

For any of you too young to remember or experience it, Michael was the most amazing person to set foot on a stage. He completely changed the game. IMO the most amazing performer of all-time. This is truly devastating. - Fleagle

adding his songs to my Napster Library as we speak - Edgar Rodríguez

whats his best album im going to download it on Spotify - Mark

I would have loved to see him perform. I remember waiting up all night to see the live premiere of the Scream video with Janet. Loved it. - Veronica

Mark: Thriller - Andrew Leahey

I agree: Thriller - Veronica

Veronica: I remember too. CBS News aired it later that night. - Andrew Leahey

I remember seeing him in the Wiz. I think that was the only movie he starred in wasn't it? - Dave Friedel

Oh no, the news are starting the rumours not that he was overworked for the 50 tour concerts - Mark

Thriller was his best, he had a lot of great songs on so/so albums after that. - Andrew Leahey

Yea, Thriller by far - Fee501st

Man in the Mirror. - Dave Friedel

I'm 19 but I think honestly that Michael Jackson is the most important star of the 20th century. Thriller was his best, in my opinion. - Diego Espinoza V.

After they confirmed he was gone I turned off the news, I feel like them going on about his talent is rubbing our face in the fact that he's gone. - Andrew Leahey

Beat It was my favourite - Iain

Smooth Criminal for me ^____^ http://is.gd/1dxdV (havent been on friendfeed long, is this the most active post anyone has seen?) - Anthony Kam

I know Andrew but they have to fill the air :/ - Mark

Don't forget Smooth Criminal - Fee501st

Don't stop til you get enough - Andrew Leahey

Say say say. - Dave Friedel

Can you imagine how popular he would have been had he not had the scandals? - Andrew Leahey

Dave: Moonwalker: http://www.imdb.com/title..., and we musn't forget Captain EO. - aldenoneil

I know what you mean - Mark

Oooo, Don't stop till you get enough. Good call Andrew. I love that song. 70's! - Dave Friedel

CNN playing MJ tunes now. - Veronica

Moonwalker! who had the game? A friend had it, i remember playing it - Fee501st

Beat It! - Dave Friedel

Oh man, these songs are so good. - Veronica

Some news channels are saying he was not upto 50 dates of his upcoming concert, but you can't predict a heart attack. A 40 year old man in perfect health can have a heart attack. - Mark

I Want You Back - Jackson 5 - Andrew Leahey

Beat It was right before Thriller the video. The Thriller video was like a movie launch. Everyone sat around on the premiere night to see the longest video ever on MTV. - Dave Friedel

Oh c'mon, iReport? - Veronica

His creditors are not going to be as sad at the news as we are, thats a fact. - Mark

Yeah thanks Mark for pointing that out... - Dave Friedel

iReport? REALLY? - Divya Mistry

Yay, CNN... - Thomas

Playing Billy Jean on soptify - Mark

Jon Stewart just did a bit on CNN giving up and using iReporters. - Dave Friedel

I don't care about David.. WHo's this guy? Get off phone d-bag. You tell 'em Veronica - Divya Mistry

Ah soptify - is that an new and exclusive service Mark? :) - Iain

yep - Mark

lol - Iain

Jeff Goldblum died too aye? - Andrew Leahey

CNN... you learn it in middle school "Show... don't tell" Show MJ, don't tell me about MJ. - Divya Mistry

This is MIND BLOWING: He ultimately sold more than 750m albums worldwide and won 13 Grammy awards. - Mark

I saw someone else report the Jeff Goldblum thing too. That had better be fake. - Veronica

Nope, fell to his death. - Andrew Leahey

Jeff Goldblum? - Mark

Dude, the person I read said car accident. Rumor spreading? - Veronica

Yep, filming in New Zealand. So much for the rule of 3. - Andrew Leahey

Can you contemplate selling almost a billion albums? 13 grammys! I mean come on. - Mark

Dude, that would suck. So much for the buckaroo banzai sequel... - Thomas

Not heard about Jeff Goldblum dying - when was that? - Iain

he sold more ALBUMS than there are VIDEOS on youtube - Mark

Jeffs wikipedia entry has not said anything about that yet! - Charlieray

Better be fake - Iain

There is nothing on Google News about that at all. - Veronica

Chaos theory. - aldenoneil

yea i call fake! - Fee501st

http://jeff.goldblum.mediafetcher.com/news... - Andrew Leahey

Total fake - Andrew Leahey

Jeff story is a fake, for sure. Nothing on any news story, besides we'd hear that right away on CNN. - Divya Mistry

Google's robots are not "that" quick i guess - Srujan Ameda

Very suspicious that his name is in the subdomain. - Andrew Leahey

Totally fake. - Veronica

http://hashtags.org/search... just rumors atm - Anthony Kam

Search twitter though, spreading like *wildfire*. - Andrew Leahey

woa - biggzipp

this is the michael jackson thread tho xx - Mark

sorry mark! we'll make a new thread. - Veronica

Did anyone load that jeff golblum link on twitter? Wondering if it's a phishing site... - Thomas

Showing confirmed both on MSNBC and Fox News. - Kim Landwehr

Who is this CNN lady? First of all, she's putting words in that iReporter's (?!) mouth. - Divya Mistry

I loaded, I'm not sure. Checking out mediafetcher.com - Andrew Leahey

Kim - Fox news confirmed, and then immediately said that their reporters are waiting out side till UCLA Med Center confirms it - Divya Mistry

His death brought a tragic end to a long, bizarre, sometimes farcical decline from his peak in the 1980s, when he was popular music's premier all-around performer, a uniter of black and white music who shattered the race barrier on MTV, dominated the charts and dazzled even more on stage. <------ I was just too young to experience that :( - Mark

Dang, no kidding? So.....what else is going on? - Tdubya

celebs dropping like flies, veronica you need to be careful for the rest of this week - Anthony Kam

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... Tech Crunch Says the Web is suffering from too much traffic - Mark

9-11 was like this (in terms of net overload). FriendFeed's ajax updates make this the best source for me right now. Interesting... - Dave Friedel

BBC confirmed it around 5 mins ago.. - Mark Aitken

Right now dozens of authors are beginning work on the Michael Jackson tell all stories hoping there book is the one which will sell millions - Mark

The news RT's on Twitter look like a FriendFeed commercial since this gives me no results: http://search.twitter.com/search... while this does: http://friendfeed.com/search... and with much less noise... - Patrick Mackaaij

Maybe he still has time for one more "Thriller" dance. - Ruben

UCLA Med Ctr website is down! - Divya Mistry

CNN had confirmation from the coroners office apparently - Iain

Sad, sad day. :( I loved him when I was young and his music is still awesome. I always felt sorry for him too - he was clearly fucked up and it wasn't his fault. - Amy

Man had issues, but holding the baby out the balcony... I can sleep soundly while chalking that fuck up to him. - Anthony Kam

Like all artists, I judge him by his art, not his life - anna sauce

A weird individual, but he encountered challenges totally unique to child stars - anna sauce

Well said Anna. - Mark Aitken

I also think his popularity shouldn't be underestimated- friend went to a concert 6 years or so ago in Germany and was astounded by how many showed up- 10K? or something insane - anna sauce

Macaulay Culkin's and Corey Feldman's phones are ringing off the hook. - aldenoneil

@baery i luld - Anthony Kam

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