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Aeropress - basically a coffee syringe. - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Brett Kelly, Antosh, ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ and 8 other people liked this
My first cup was an americano made with Blue Bottle Hayes Valley Espresso coffee. I had a cup of drip from the Blue Bottle cafe this morning (because of my accident with the siphon) and I have to say that the results from the Aeropress were extremely similar.
- Robin Barooah
It came with a carrying bag which is useful since I'll need it at home while I wait for the new siphon funnel.
- Robin Barooah
Does that make it a worthy buy?
- John Samuelson
I used it again yesterday - had 3 cups during the course of the day. I have to say the results were consistently very good. It is very easy to control the amount of coffee you make and how strong it is, and it is as quick and easy to clean as they say. It also produced great results every time with no real practice - which is not true of hand dripping or siphoning. The only drawback, if you can call it that, is that it has no romance to it at all - it's almost like using a medical appliance.
- Robin Barooah
LOL @ syringe... it goes PERFECTLY with the IV ;)
- Mona Nomura
Tried this with the Jamaican Blue Mountain. Surprisingly, FAIL. It tasted good, but had none of the richness I got from dripping. The Aeropress seem to do a very good job of extracting the sweeter notes but doesn't handle the body well, so it will make an average coffee taste sweeter, but do violence to something that's already well balanced.
- Robin Barooah
I think I'm going to relegate this for coffees that are past their prime.
- Robin Barooah
(note: that last comment doesn't mean that I have stopped thinking this is great - I'll be using the siphon or hand dripping instead)
- Robin Barooah
So you're having good luck with Blue Bottle beans, generally? That's what I'd typically be using.
- Veronica
Yes, generally great with them.
- Robin Barooah
Just having a cup of the Temescal Espresso made using the Aeropress. Very nice indeed. Definitely works well with espresso/mokka pot blends.
- Robin Barooah
i live in turkey and i dont know how can i buy. how much money did you pay for Aeropress? is it expensive?
- fatih gül
I'm not sure how to buy one in turkey. Amazon.com sells them - do they ship to turkey: http://www.amazon.com/AeroPre... ?
- Robin Barooah
thank you robin:)
- fatih gül
If only you can hook up to a hose you can do an iv. Neat device.
- Admiral70
i've had coffee made from just about every brewing method around and this one, hands down, makes the best cup of coffee I've had. very highly recommended.
- Brett Kelly
I need to replace my old espresso maker - this is definitely a contender.
- Caffeinated Sue
Just got this and LOVE it. Thanks!
- Jimmy Ether
Old FF UI vs New FF UI
demir, DarknessFalls, Tanath and 243 other people liked this
ROFLMAO!
- vijay
EXACTLY!
- AJ Batac
LMAO!!!
- BEX
++++
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Posterized. Awesome
- Bwana ☠
that was fast!
- Rahul Das
LOL! Pegged it!
- Lindsay
this is so funny yet so true!
- Gerald Neo
BRILLIANT.
- Zee.
fast :))))) fast and furious :))))
- Viva Vida
too much vavavooooom :)
- Myriam
Short sited, ignorant, and perpetuates a falsehood - but the premise is hilarious and I laughed.
- Matthew DeVries
MEGA LOL
- Olivier
Thanks for making me laugh so hard that people at work now know I use FF at work! LOL!
- Dean "Karnatos" Michaud
LOL!
- Dee S.
hhahahaha!
- Susan Beebe
HAHAHAH
- mjc
ROFLMAO
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
I still have the old UI.
- Richard A.
@Richard just go to beta.friendfeed.com
- Alfredo
love it ,,,, Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
- johnpiercy
LMAO!
- Altuğ `αℓƒσ¢υѕ´ Orgun
It is posts like this that require a favorite function.
- Rob Diana
Rob - so true!
- Susan Beebe
This is so funnyyY!
- Jorge Escobar
that was great :)
- Alp
sweet
- mike "glemak" dunn
LMAO. Awesome illustration!!
- Praveen Vasudev
PMSL
- Tatty Gibson
LOL!
- JazJaz
rofl.
- Alp
This is great. lol
- Kevin Whalen
lmao! :)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
LOL
- Moses Kpetigo
Is FriendFeed Beta Too Fast?
- Alfredo
This made our office laugh out loud :)
- Bret Taylor
hahaha
- Alfredo
Wear it proudly :) The future will be going at Wall-E pace...
- Christopher Galtenberg
the picture might be construed as being somewhat ambiguous ... I mean, where is the pleasure of it all ?
- Petr Buben
is friendfeed still fast for you? i want it to keep up with me :)
- Alfredo
I'm hitting f5 more then anything. Its not fast enough for me to keep up.
- CW™
yup..that's how it's been.... :)
- Rohit
Whoa. Just briefly talked to my dad, whom I've never been close to for a bunch of reasons, but after apologizing for missing my birthday, and just before wishing me goodbye said this: I love you.
MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS, Nicholas James, Melissa and 84 other people liked this
We love you too, Derrick.
- Alex Scoble
The times they are a-changing.
- Derrick
Oh Derrick... That's awesome and I'm all smiley now =D
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I love happy news :)
- Michelle Martinez
THIS makes me smile :D
- Johnny Worthington
That's always good to hear.
- Aaron Hood
That's beautiful!
- Helen Sventitsky
Aww! That's so awesome. :D
- Zach Flauaus
Same as Michelle. :)
- AJ Batac
I'm taking next week off, and am thinking I'll drive down and surprise him. I honestly don't know the last time I've seen him. Has he been a perfect dad? No, but he's done the best he could. Have I been a perfect son? Not even close...but that doesn't mean we can't work on it together.
- Derrick
:) that is really nice.
- edythe
That makes my day :)
- joey
GROUP HUG! :)
- Justin Korn
That's great.
- Captain Bubbles
yay derrick! awesome news. i've been making regular phone calls to my mom lately and trying to be a better daughter.
- Trish Haley
**sniffle**
- cecily
That's great. Nothing says you can't just move forward from here. :-)
- Trish R
Awesome
- Rodfather
3 little words...makes a big difference
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Derrick, the world of regret sneaks up on us, you are doing a grand thing. I commend your dad for recognizing his feelings for you.
- Janet
people need to understand that everyone fucks up, parents included. we wish they were perfect but noone is... the fact that he's trying to mend his ways is a big thing. i hope things work out..
- Terry O'Fee
That is lovely!
- Jim Hearts FF
That's wonderful, Derrick. Big hugs!
- Laura Lou Who
*hugs*
- Yolanda
I hope you have a great trip, Derrick. Trying to get along is a huge thing even when it's difficult. That's really made me smile :)
- WorldofHiglet
derrick, glad for you and your dad on this
- mike "glemak" dunn
Important, and good. I to have never been close to my father, so I can wholly empathize with how important this must have been for you. Hooray!
- Mike Nayyar
:))
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
awesome man
- Zee.
Magic!
- Darren Heydon
If it was me, I'd take any in and run with it big time. My dad has been dead for about 20 years, so ...
- Brent Smorgen Bleg
What's the EXACT OPPOSITE of bitchlips?
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
D - About the time I reached the age where I could start to understand and appreciate my father, he died. As I've hinted at before, we were never "close" in the way that I attempt to be with my daughter. It's not an easy thing to do D. I mean love is a good start, but there's understanding and patience and probably a host of other virtues that don't come to mind that need to be in the mix. Having said that, it's worth it. Good luck with it. I envy you.
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
oh D. that's great!
- Anna Lynn M.
My secret guilt... admitted here because almost no one's looking. :) I read most of the Warhammer 40k novels. Shh....
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Me too. Love em. Great for those times when you just want to disengage the brain and escape.
- Kevin Riggins
No shame. Not all, but most of them are very well crafted. A rich scifi universe.
- John Samuelson
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The ultimate Mac RSS Reader roundup - http://smokingapples.com/softwar...
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Robert DeBord, John Samuelson, Brad Brooks and 13 other people liked this
Google Reader
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
when newsfire supports google reader ;d
- newmedias
nice article. I use Feddly, makes reading and sharing stuff very easy and I can use it from any computer too
- zsafwan
I vote for feedly
- Thomas Chai
feedly (ok, I am biased). Have a great week end!
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Feedly, hands down.
- Jason
I've been using NetNewsWire for ages and think it is still very good
- Carlo B. (brodo)
I used to use NetNewWire but these days it's a combination of google reader and Feedly on the desktop. Byine on the iPhone.
- John Collis
NetNewsWire for a proper desktop app on the Mac. Tried very hard with Google but couldn't make the switch. Hopefully NNW will support sync with Google soon and I can have the best of both.
- John Samuelson
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People who look the same in every picture… - rah’s posterous - http://faboomama.tumblr.com/post...
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Parth Awasthi, Kol Tregaskes, Alix Whitmire and 16 other people liked this
I know people like that :D
- AJ Batac
wow lol
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
They have perfected their pose. Now THAT's personal branding.
- Lindsay
+1 Lindsey
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
You have to visit Rahsheen site. There's more.
- Captain Bubbles
wow
- vijay
I know this girl, she must have a thousand pictures on facebook with the bloody same pose. She should see this. =P
- Faraz Mullick
New FF is awesome...I guess - http://pikchur.com/t30
John (a.k.a. dendroica), Brad McCrorey, Jeanine W. and 152 other people liked this
HAHAHAHA!
- WorldofHiglet
I love that pic!
- WorldofHiglet
haha! Nice!
- Dean "Karnatos" Michaud
Lol - everytime this pops back up again I laugh again. Rah - you're cracking me up!
- WorldofHiglet
Head...explode
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
That explains how do you feel ;)
- LouCypher
New FriendFeed logo. PLEASE!
- Mike Nayyar
dude, this photo should so be your avatar.
- Thomas Hawk
I'd flip it, but yeah... avatar.
- Ken Sheppardson
That's the same look when Rah sees my avatar.
- imabonehead
lol
- Anna Haro
"penis goes where?"
- mjc
I actually like the new design, but I'm pretty sure most people feel like this pic
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I wish I could "Like" this all over again :)
- WorldofHiglet
AHAHAHAHA! - this is too good. This and Shey's cheese-head pic are the best ever!
- vijay
great shot! you look pissed, and stunned, and genuinely confused! .LOLz
- .LAG liked that
LOL that look is priceless
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
HAHAHA LookLike Booghalamoone Pokhte Shode
- Mil∂d
That look is the very definition of WTF.
- deusdiabolus
Definitely the pic of "WTF" in dictionary
- Olcayto Cengiz
hahahah I think that's how I looked a few minutes ago.
- Carmen
This is my new magic Rah ball when I ask the Rah this - "does this make my butt look big" and then I see his picture and I know the answer.
- Janet
this is gonna be my link for when ppl tell me something that makes me say "wtf?!" thanks rasheen!
- acedanger
roflmao.
- Alp
LOL
- Moses Kpetigo
funny!
- Fernando
lol.... ya donut! face says it all!!! lmao.. nice one mate, cheered me right up that did! ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
post of the week that is.... :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Looks like someone didn't want their picture taken...
- Seth Greenblatt
HUH ???????????
- johnpiercy
man... that was priceless... that could totally be a two girls one cup reaction.
- Joshua Schnell
Derrick..... THIS is what happened to ffeed! ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
LOL
- Derrick
classic
- Nathan Chase
Is that the same face as this? :-/
- Jesse Stay
lol nice pic.
- YoYo_P
Man I'm crying at that face
- Bwana ☠
ROFL
- Praveen Vasudev
LOL. Hehehe.
- Roberto Bonini
That pic just made my morning!
- Bill Sodeman
...just saw this! AWESOMESAUCE!
- JA Castillo
Still making me laugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Roberto Bonini
that got a giggle out of me! the FF isn't *that* bad.
- Fancy Fembot
lol
- edythe
:o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
still crackin' me up :)
- Roberto Bonini
wonder if it's still cracking him up ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
it's still making me laugh!
- WorldofHiglet
Thanks God for the interwebs! :))
- directeur
thank-you, thank-you, thank-you!
- MikeAmundsen
familiar mike? ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
@Rob - you bet.
- MikeAmundsen
Glad you all enjoyed the pic. I'm coming around on the new design, though. I'm sure many of us are.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
wtf ya face looking like now then !! ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
I lol´d.
- Jens Christian Freund
this keeps popping up to the top of my feed and I laugh everytime I see that pic, classic!
- Bill Pennington
from twhirl
Nice!
- David Cook
I want to like this each time I see it.
- Yolanda
i'm still laughing each time it comes up!
- MikeAmundsen
Same here. I'm seeing Rahsheen and just guffawing.
- Hutch Carpenter
This picture with that caption will never get old. Even when they give us yet another redesign in 6 months, you can use this.
- Captain Bubbles
Yeah, this is definitely a definitive "WTF" face. A friend commented on FB that it looked like I was watching 2g1c :)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Great picture on adopting new media tools, we all have had that look
- JuneM
"CHANGE"
- Ken Sheppardson
Hahaha my stomach hurts now... everytime this comes backup it gets crazier to look at.
- Jorg Jansen
huh!!!!
- Rob Sellen :o)
Had to make this photo bubble to the top again! ROFL!
- rowlikeagirl
This pic is going to turn into the next meme. Anybody have connections with 4chan?
- Pat Hawks
BUMP for sheer LOL!
- Josh Haley
"HARBL GOEZ WHERE?!"
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
bump for awesomeness!
- Joshua Schnell
bum,p.. hahaha.. can't type.. laughing
- Brad McCrorey
i need some fresh air. i need you to be with me. - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Moghamer, Harun R. Demirbaş, Rich Chuckrey and 12 other people liked this
annem :P
- Soner (Lucid) TÜMER
<3
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
What's the difference between Friendfeed and Facebook? List them out below:
Dimitar Vesselinov, Mark Burhop, Thomas Power and 45 other people liked this
Facebook defaults to non-live, which is much easier for the mainstream user. I'd still like an in-between though. Update every 2 minutes or so.
- Jesse Stay
it will take 5 years for your parents to get on friendfeed ;-)
- Damian Holmes
like the old FriendFeed :-)
- Jesse Stay
#1: No annoying spammy apps on FF. That is all.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Search - you can search for information anywhere on FriendFeed, you can't do that on Facebook.
- Hutch Carpenter
Because of Facebook photos, in-depth profiles and wall posts, I think you can get a more accurate picture of who a person is on Facebook. FB is more social than it is a network IMO
- Michael
Subscribing - FriendFeed is the one-way follow, Facebook is the two-way subscribe model. FriendFeed lets you follow anyone, whether you know them or not.
- Hutch Carpenter
Facebook has applications, but Friendfeeed does not
- Jeremiah Owyang
They are different websites.
- James Ferguson
"like" on Facebook doesn't bump the item on the top. "like" on Friendfeed doesn't notify you of new activity on that item.
- Morton Fox
Relationships are asynchronous on friendfeed but not on facebook. I can subscribe to you but you're under no obligation to subscribe to me on FF.
- Derek van Vliet
Facebook is private, friendfeed is for public conversations.
- Robert Scoble
Facebook lets you automatically associate with a company or region. For FriendFeed, any such association would have to be manually created via a room.
- John E. Bredehoft
+1 for Derek van Vliet
- Jeremiah Owyang
My blog post today says that this new beta takes aim at Facebook: http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2009...
- Hutch Carpenter
Facebook requires a 'real' identity, Friendfeed does not
- Jeremiah Owyang
You can create 'imaginary users' in FF, but not in Facebook
- Jeremiah Owyang
Friendfeed: fine control over what is displayed and good search. Facebook: don't miss things just because you were not there for the real-time stream.
- Shamir Katsu
Facebook still not streaming, no matter what they call it.
- Matt Martin
FB seems more personal. A family is unlikly (!) to use Frienedfeed as its online hub. FB has goen mainstream, FF not so much.
- ron k jeffries
+1 for Derek van Vliet. The difference is relationship.
- Ninh Nguyen
Watching this grow in real time, this is a REAL time chat room, Facebook is not
- Jeremiah Owyang
FriendFeed is the real deal.
- Internet's Tad
Good point J - is FF the new liveblog?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
FB is not about conversation!
- Vinit Sharma
Friendfeed is one step away from track; Facebook is still figuring out what the term means.
- Karoli
agree with ron k jeffries: Facebook is more of a hub; Friendfeed is more of a stream of activity
- Chris Rogers
All of my friends are on Facebook, none are on Friendfeed
- Jamie
That is, how are FF threads going to compete with Twitter hashtags when it comes to blogging conference sessions or other live events?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
What Jamie said.
- John Samuelson
facebook is and should only stay as an advanced phonebook
- Stuart Evans
For the most part, in Facebook, I follow people because I know them. Here, I follow people because I find their output interesting. Hence I use Friendfeed much much more than I do Facebook, which is largely full of idiotic quizzes and inane apps to join.
- Ian May
This is a *great* way to handle Scoble's famous "Here's why:" threads.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
facebook is for old and new friends you want to talk or hear from once week, friendfeed is a conversation everyday
- Damian Holmes
FriendFeed is a live discussion -meeting place -Facebook is more like a home..I like them both, but spend more time on friendfeed, because my interest is in the discussion...not just "hanging out"
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Liked the old FF UI since I could slow down the noise and filter out "real-time"
- tony
Daniel, that's a good point - maybe they could make the comments real-time, but allow you to just pause the updates (or slow them down). I can handle real-time comments on updates - that's kinda nice, actually.
- Jesse Stay
Super awesome bonus feature: As the owner of this new thread, wouldn't it be cool if Jeremiah could mix in another feed? Let's see this conversation interlaced with (or side by side with) a search on FF or on Twitter for relevant threads.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Facebook sucks - FriendFeed doesn't :-) Also - people who I don't want to talk to from High School are not on FF
- andy brudtkuhl
Now that this cool discussion is going on, I want to see what else is happening in the "FF Beta" discussion space right now, without leaving this page. Better to let J (or any reader honestly) create the link and share it in-thread.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Was wondering about this.
- Roberto Bonini
Jesse, that's a good idea, I noticed it ques up the updates, maybe we could adjust the que....
- Stuart Evans
I like being able to Queue a specific conversation. Might be better putting new comments on the top to avoid the need to scroll.
- Glen Group
Facebook now doesn't care about relationship as much as before. It's not really real anymore. I see smb has thounsands of friends that's impossible but still remaining real identity.
- Ninh Nguyen
Facebook is an utility for social relationships, Friendfeed is a tool to manage information and communication.
- heri
heri - that's my thought as well
- Hutch Carpenter
Facebook deploys an algorithm to determine feed contents. FriendFeed is "all".
- Alan Edgett
Friendfeed is more about connecting with content while Facebook is more about connecting with friends.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Instant niche conversations on micro-topics like this one right here is a big ++ vs. FB.
- William Mougayar
FriendFeed has Early Adopters, facebook has your Grandma
- Susan Beebe
FriendFeed has smart Googler's that earned their way to achieving fabulous product success; not a spoiled kid from Harvard who stole someone else's code to launch his product
- Susan Beebe
FriendFeed is constantly innovating and leading the way while facebook copies them.
- Susan Beebe
FriendFeed actually cares about user feedback and utilizes this info to release product improvements; whereas, facebook continually pisses off their customers with unreasonable TOS and other crap
- Susan Beebe
+1 Susan!
- Charlie Anzman
LOL @andy friendfeed is the innovator, facebook is the gorilla
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Facebook is defined by its many modes of direct interaction, whereas FriendFeed has a couple of means for direct interaction and many modes of passive interaction...
- Clay Newton
FF is for the hyper-active. Internet has 5 speeds: LinkedIn, Facebook, Google, Twitter, FriendFeed.
- William Mougayar
Shld be re-named FriendSpeed.
- William Mougayar
FriendSpeed - Too Fast, Too Furious
- Jesse Stay
Pause. Manual refresh. Works for Me.
- Ian May
lol Jesse
- Karim
I don't use Facebook - that's the big difference for me :)
- LPH™ and his dog P™
LPH, exactly. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Facebook is a steaming pile of crap that makes it easy for people to annoy you with quizzes and crap. FF rocks.
- Jeremy Brooks
#1 for Haggis. I'm getting sick of the "apps" on Facebook. Gah.
- Amy H.
seems like a live news feed on cnn of some sort.
- quang ngo
FriendFeed has less of a focus on connections and community...
- Simon T Small
Magician | The Official Raymond E. Feist Website - http://www.crydee.com/raymond...
John Samuelson and Marco de Nooijer liked this
"At Crydee, a frontier outpost in the tranquil Kingdom of the Isles, an orphan boy, Pug, is apprenticed to a master magician - and the destinies of two worlds are changed forever. Suddenly the peace of the Kingdom is destroyed as mysterious alien invaders swarm through the land. Pug is swept up into conflict but for him and his warrior friend, Tomas, an Odyssey into the unknown has only just begun.Pug's destiny is to lead him through a rift in the fabric of space and time to the mastery of the unimaginable powers of a strange new magic ..."
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
from Bookmarklet
In my top 3 fave fantasy series.
- John Samuelson
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One of the best in the genre certainly. I also just bought his Serpentwar Saga #1 Shadow of a Dark Queen - pretty good so far.
- Kisholi
Bacon-Wrapped Potato Bites with Spicy Sour Cream Dipping Sauce - http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitc...
(jeff)isageek, MLx, Ben Wern and 67 other people liked this
Oh. My. God.
- Mona Nomura
from Bookmarklet
o_O
- Manuela
Good, but could so easily be improved by replacing the potatoes with tiny little cocktail sausages :)
- Iain Baker
Or TATER TOTS.
- Mona Nomura
Bacon-wrapped tater tots with sour cream chipotle ranch sauce.
- Bill Sodeman
It's like deconstructed potato skins! Neat.
- Mona Nomura
from IM
YES.
- Tudor Bosman
@bill that sounds delicious!
- Tamara
I was at a party once and they had some bacon wrapped dates. I wanted to slap someone bald-headed. Dates? GTFO.
- Derrick
EW dates on anything is wrong.
- Mona Nomura
God I'd better go eat breakfast.
- Kate Foy
Had Bacon wrapped dates the other day too @ Iberia, Menlo Park. Yummy!
- Sumit Chachra
Yup!
- Live4Emma (L4S)
huh!
- Oğuz Serdar
HOLY GOD MONA I am hungry now :(
- Mike Nayyar
how did i know...
- Caroline
wonders how a tater tot would hold up.
- Moved to Facebook
I could have that for breakfast!
- Martha
..and just got hungry!
- Nia
...I am suddenly hungry again!
- JA Castillo
Homework project: how many followers on social networks are "real?" My initial findings are astounding, participate here as we discover what's going on:
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Visit http://twitter.com/TechCru... and now click on each follower. How many messages have they written? I just visited about 100 and only two had written more than a single message.
- Robert Scoble
Now you know why I say followers don't matter. If I fake 100,000 accounts and follow myself with them do those accounts matter to anything? No.
- Robert Scoble
But I didn't understand just how bad the spam account problem is. On friendfeed I only follow accounts that are putting content into the system. I am only putting people into my ultra special lists (ie, the ones I read first thing in the morning) if they participate. Those are the high value accounts that make being part of this fun. But how many of those accounts do each social network have? That's what matters, not whether a blank account was produced.
- Robert Scoble
Who is a bigger fan of you then yourself. :) So if your not following yourself then why provide any content? :P </sarcasm>
- CW™
They matter because other twitter users think that you are popular because you have been followed by 100,000 users. Thus, in result will entice new followers.
- charles
this is in line with participation stats from other communities like Open Source or UGC - online a thin minority contribute (in the 5%/15% range) - but it doesn't mean they're fake - just shy or dumb
- Marc Brandsma
Beau: I wish I had a tool to delete everyone who hasn't posted at least 10 Tweets from the list of people I'm following.
- Robert Scoble
I have found that a lot of people who are on social networks like Facebook or Twitter are not really there to participate but to be the voyeur (to borrow a term). They are more interested in what others are doing but rather not share their selves. It is not an uncommon social trait to be curious to what others are doing but not want them knowing what you are doing. It's small town living on the internet as I like to say.
- Christopher Mercer
Marc: I don't agree. After visiting a few hundred of these accounts now, they sure look fake and "spammy" to me.
- Robert Scoble
Christopher: that's interesting, but is very weird. Why would you want to watch what people are saying if you don't want to participate? I wonder if anyone will cop to having such an account here?
- Robert Scoble
What's your definition of 'real'? There's a difference between spam accounts (let's say created for SOE or to get you to click on a link to just 'blast' marketing) and passive accounts, where someone is happy listening. They don't *have* to participate, most are perfectly happy just watching.
- Rachel Clarke
There are 3 types of followers - real people, PR accounts and special like you :-). On my personal twitter ( http://twitter.com/michalblaha ) I prefer real people. On my project's twitter ( http://twitter.com/ontheroadto ) I prefer mix of them. I got severel very usefull contacts for http://www.ontheroad.to from my twitter followers . Its reason why I never (rather) block any of my followers.
- News from ontheroad.to
Rachel: you make a good point, but lots of these have weird names, look like spammers, and don't participate. What value are they?
- Robert Scoble
I don't know if I really understand the problem here. Granted, if you have a lot of fake followers that makes you look bigger than you are. But otherwise, who cares? I personally follow (and follow back) people based on the quality of their posts, not on how many followers they have.
- Matthias Catón
Special followers like you are real people with unbelievable number of accounts they follow - not for PR, not for spam, but to be informed. Strange think on it (for me) is how you can handle so much unstructured information together. You know some magic which I don't know ;-)
- News from ontheroad.to
Interestingly, the few I've found so far that have posted real content have had photos on their bios/accounts. I think that's a good way to filter out spammers. "No photo, no friend." :-)
- Robert Scoble
I think the major difference between me and TechCrunch would be the people who look for me and whom I add on facebook are people I actually know. I have some very close friends who are not active users of social networking sites but use them to keep up on their active user friends. As for twitter, yes a lot of accounts follow for the purpose getting follow backs. I subscribe to the the idea that just because you followed me does not mean I will follow you.
- Christopher Mercer
There are a lot of people, at least in India, who are in strict readonly mode. A lot of them just follow interesting people and read their tweets and shares. Its almost like a substitute for Google Reader. So judging by just the tweet count would be unfair. If there were a last login time in the twitter api, it would make more sense.
- Ritesh
Matthias: well, I have been getting more and more spam into my DM column, so there's the danger of that. Yeah, there really isn't too much harm other than if you are in this to just game your follower count that people will figure out that you really don't have an engaged audience there. That will catch up with you eventually. I know I'm more likely to follow someone who has a really great set of friends/followers. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
- Robert Scoble
I think that you are most likely to follow a person who is in the field of your interest, much the same way you subscribe to a feed. I, for one, follow many of the social media geeks since the subject interests me, but I very rarely participate in discussions. I enjoy reading what others are saying and shared news and links. So I guess I am a social network voyeur (@Mercer) :)
- "Jazzperous" Isaksson
Robert - agree with you about the spammers. I block them all. I also block those who aren't automated spammers but still doing the same behaviour. They have no value for you, or me. I'm wondering what value they have for themselves, if they are like spam email where they get enough interaction to make it worthwhile.
- Rachel Clarke
I was followed last night by someone, who it took me 6 pages of back tweets to find 3 actual tweets that did not say 'thanks you for following me' targeted at followers, looks like a real person, but boy so little content, not worth following back.
- Carl Grint
I think its the amount of posts is the give away. Even if people are just taking it in I do not like the idea of passive tweeters. You have to get in and get your hands dirty.
- Sam Philp
Techcrunch has a lot of inactive followers recently because they're listed in the recommendation box for every new Twitter user. But I agree with other commenters, who follows you and how active they are is irrelevant. The real power of Twitter and all social media is in the conversation, not in the lurking.
- Stuart Dallas
On twitter I always page back through recent tweets before following someone back. Generally speaking if I find at least one message or link that's interesting I follow them. I'm not hugely bothered if I'm not followed back. It's not always bidirectional, what you get out doesn't always correspond to what you put in and that's why I find it useful.
- John Samuelson
from BuddyFeed
I think reasons to why I don't interact more, is that 1) my English is limited 2) I feel I don't know enough about the subject, but still have a great interest in it 3) I am a quiet person... Would you guys block me?
- "Jazzperous" Isaksson
"No Photo, No Friend" Sounds like a good qualifier. I can't help thinking though that there is a ton of people who try something like twitter just to see what it is, don't get it in the first 3 minutes and then give up. Shame.
- Jay McCormack
I try to participate as much as possible but being just a happily married regular "Joe" with a nuclear family may not be very interesting to most. That said, I have received benefits in the form of personal and professional growth as a direct result of participation in social networks.
- Mattb4rd
Sam, Stuart, John, Carl, bing, bing, bing. This is exactly what I'm talking about. Interesting how you can classify users based on who they are following and who is following them. The amount of interaction I'm getting here and on Twitter about this (despite it being 3 a.m. in the morning) tells me that people are finding this a real problem.
- Robert Scoble
A bunch of ghost followers can make the difference, that's for sure. Stupid as it may seem, as a presentation card when you first check someone's tweets, it works. You say, hey this guy has 10000, 20000, 60000 followers so that must be for a certain reason spammers included. But still I wonder what the use is except for a bunch of extra work. It is clear that many will hold on to your tail just to feed on the hosting tweeter but they count too. I suppose that a proper balance is ok.
- Carlos Lorenzo
Jeppe: I think it is a mixture of things. On facebook you'd never get friended because I use it for friends and family. On twitter you just would not get a follow back. Since everyone uses these applications differently it is really a contextual issue. Following me is much different than following Robert, Mike A, Doc Searls, etc.
- Christopher Mercer
Mattb4rd makes an interesting point... problem is I don't think there's such a thing as a regular 'Joe'. Everyone has something to share, a passion, a hobby, a special knowledge of some sort. It's getting beyond the 'what i had for breakfast' posts that provide the real value.
- Jay McCormack
Christoper: Yes, think you are right.
- "Jazzperous" Isaksson
Carlos: well, now that the number of followers people have has no integrity I am looking under other rocks too and finding no integrity elsewhere. Some people really try to keep their accounts clean. Others, including me, let all sorts of muck in. I think I will clean that out. Why? Because now that I'm looking at other people's followers I see that having lame followers around isn't good at all.
- Robert Scoble
Christopher: it's interesting, now that I stuck my foot in my mouth over the weekend on the Twitter suggested friends issue people who work for big brands have been talking to me about what they want on social networks. "Real" is a word I hear over and over again. Why? Because users who participate and push the brands are much more important than users who sit there and do nothing. They've already learned that, so why do we feel so compelled to gather up do nothing followers? I'm going to change that.
- Robert Scoble
John: That's exactly the approach I use. Someone follows me? I will check out his tweets to see if there's at least a few that interest me - then I will follow back. The number of followers is of secondary concern to me. As for the number of tweets, I go for the opposite: I prefer less.
- Matthias Catón
I don't follow anyone new back. Too many of them were flooding my timeline with no participation. If you want to follow me that's fine, but it's only with @ replies that you'll get me to pay attention to what you're doing. I might however drop by the blog.
- Richard A.
I found a new algorithm: the quality of your follower count is totally dependent on how many accounts have non-default pictures. The problem is that if you actually wrote that algorithm and implemented it then the spammers would quickly figure out they better put a new photo on the account.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: In my case I work according to a different algorithm. I unfollow anyone that hasn't replies a single time. I don't follow anyone new until they've exchange a few messages with me. If I want to listen to a monologue I simply go to their blog ;-)
- Richard A.
Robert: This 'particular' influx of masses of spam accounts into Twitter is relatively new. Leo Laporte spoke about it recently. As Twitter gains more and more media coverage, it becomes a more attractive place for people to produce these spam accounts. I got an email through http://thetechnewsblog.com from one of my readers, to say she had been told that they controlled my a few users, who are planning some kind of mass attack on Twitter. Who knows?
- Jim Connolly
Robert: I have been slowly coming to the same conclusion; it is not enough to be careful who you follow, you should also care about who follows you... But doesn't this mean Twitter should change the behavior of the Follow button to Ask Permission To Follow ? (or at least provide it as an option for those who want to filter their followers)
- Antoine Bertier
Does it matter whether it's a picture (like of a human) or just non-default?
- Jay McCormack
Twitter should forget about celebrity accounts and encourage dialogue. What makes any social network work is dialogue. Without conversation twitter would be gathering dust as a home server somewhere.
- Richard A.
Robert, I think in your case the nothing followers are people who have decided to user twitter (in the example of twitter) to follow your activities. In my case they likely just want to spam me (hoping I follow back) and in the one case someone used @<username> to spam me, I blocked them.
- Christopher Mercer
Jim: but look at the accounts that are following TechCrunch. Then compare to the accounts that are following me. Mine have pictures on them. Techcrunch's don't. Mine are participants who Tweet. TechCrunch's are not. It's very strange.
- Robert Scoble
Christopher: I disagree. Some accounts are gathering a lot of these "fake" accounts than my account is, for instance. Why is that?
- Robert Scoble
Robert: That's because Michael doesn't speak with his followers - just broadcasts TC posts. It's easy for spammers to 'follow' him without him noticing. You would notice it AND make some noise.
- Jim Connolly
Jim: maybe, I'm not sure that's true. But it does seem to have something to do with the new Twitter suggested friends list.
- Robert Scoble
A lot of posts are very helpful links to interesting things - which I appreciate. However it's seems really difficult to engage anyone in a real conversation or get an answer to a question.
- Breck Stewart
Robert: If a spammer follows one of those 'suggested friends', they get MORE followers themselves. These accounts are super-active right now. By being seen on those follower lists, people follow the spammers too. It's only a small percentage, but if Veronica or Michael can get 60k new followers in 14 days, the numbers these spammers can get is higher, than if they followed me. On my list, very few people would 'see' them.
- Jim Connolly
Finally some traction on this as I only brought it up on the 14th Feb ;) http://twitter.com/styleti... , as I commented on thetechnewsblog its not just about the fact they are fake and bolstering the numbers think what chaos or hram these 10's of 1000's could do to Twitter if they all started spamming or tweeting at once!?
- roger byrne
You know, there is a website that lets you unfollow inactive users and users that never posted a tweet. Twitter Karma! http://dossy.org/twitter...
- Gloson Teh
and if you look into it further the 'Norm' for these accounts is one update and all following 20-22 of Twitters suggested followers!
- roger byrne
what Christopher Mercer said, on my personal id I only follow people who I think have something interesting to say or whose info I want to see, this also includes friends and family. On my projects id I look at every follower and as long as I don't think its a spam follower I follow them also, but I don't read the posts apart from the first page when I first sign in. There I'm providing info for others. I will reply to any questions of course.
- Tina Clarke
Beau: no, thanks, I hadn't seen that yet. @ev is full of crap. These accounts are totally different than the average Twitter account. Look at my followers. Then go and look at the followers on any of the top 20 accounts. Totally different behavior (no icons, no posts). Personally I don't mind. Twitter has now corrupted itself and I really have lost all caring I used to have over that service. It's why I'm putting my friendfeed likes into Twitter now. I really have no incentive not to push everyone here.
- Robert Scoble
I bet that by the end of March that Twitter goes through and deletes all sorts of accounts. Just watch. These accounts don't help the system out. They look lame because they are lame.
- Robert Scoble
I'm real. I may be boring, but I'm real. ;) I block spammers and I don't automatically follow non-spammers back. I only follow people I am already friends with or new people I find interesting. A particular pet peeve of mine is being followed by self-gurus and social network marketing "experts". Ironically, after complaining about these "Tony Robbins types" on Twitter I was followed by the director of Robbins' films. ;)
- Eric Williams
Eric: no doubt YOU are real. But here's one of the lame accounts: http://twitter.com/Serious... -- following only 20 people. No followers. No messages. Only standard icon. This was created by a computer, not by a human being. Now, go through any of the 20 people he's following and look at the follower accounts. They are all lame! I love it, create tons of fake accounts and make your numbers higher and higher.
- Robert Scoble
"This was created by a computer, not by a human being." - As a categorical statement, I think this goes too far. It could easily be the equivalent of discussion forum lurking.
- John Craft
John: sorry, I disagree. The pattern is out of wack. I'm sure there might be a few people who exhibit this pattern, but not thousands among thousands. Also, the pattern changed a few weeks ago. Explain that.
- Robert Scoble
@john craft Bull and you know it ;) check through pages of followers in fact pick page 200 of any of the ppl and you can see how many accounts this really is that we are discussing here, you ever saw 100,000 lurkers before because this is what this amounts to! Now opposite to Robert I believe these people have no responsibility for this but also the fact there has been no action against it beggars belief why? This could seriously screw up their service!
- roger byrne
And, John, let's say you are right, that these are real humans who created on their own the same kind of account. Follow just the same 20 people. Don't change your icon. Don't post a Tweet. Etc. Etc. Are they as valuable as, say, the people who are following me who actually post, actually have attractive icons, actually follow more than just the defaults? No way, no how. They aren't "real" to advertisers. Why not? Because they exhibit no behavior that will turn into sales. THAT is what advertisers want.
- Robert Scoble
the pattern changed for all accounts at the same time chk twitter counter its 9th -11th of Feb for all these accounts...
- roger byrne
"They aren't "real" to advertisers." That, I agree with.
- John Craft
Roger: Twitter is now corrupted and we are just starting to understand the beginnings of what happens when you corrupt your community. Luckily we have a non-corrupted community here to contrast with Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
Thank Robert I love Twitter and it HAS changed my life so I have no plans to leave or to accuse people of wrong doing but if it was my baby I sure would be taking care of it much more!
- roger byrne
roger: me too, but they don't listen to their real users. I guess I should have just been a user like TechCrunch. In fact, I'm starting to understand just how right Mike Arrington is when he pointed out to me that I should blog more on a service that I can control.
- Robert Scoble
This is a serious issue that needs to be addressed. If I'm twittering a robot then I'm wasting my time!
- Captain Jack
Captain: nah, I've learned over and over again that blogging/twittering into the wind actually can be useful. I've Twittered things just to get them off my chest, for instance. I've also blogged things just to get them into Google so I can pull them out later. On Twitter I could get readers just by having fun with http://search.twitter.com -- no followers needed.
- Robert Scoble
Captain: it's a serious issue because this, and the very lamely developed suggested friends feature, demonstrate that there's something Rotten in the State of Denmark. But we already knew that because of how many times we have seen the fail whale over past two years.
- Robert Scoble
I find myself checking to see if someone has a blog in their profile also. So for me it's photo+blog=friend.
- Jay McCormack
As the government is so keen to do when there is wrong doing, they call for an investigation. I think its time to call for an investigation and demand answers. I for one don't want to use a system that inflates its number for personal gain. I have discovered that having control is better when social networking. Twitter reminds me of those networking lunches where everyone is expected to give 2 referrals.
- Russ Jackson
And all of these "followers" follow exactly 20 people... I'm enlightened. I was wondering what was happening to my modest Twitter account when it suddenly started attracting all kinds of unlikely followers recently - but it's probably the same thing, machines, and not a sudden burst in popularity. Oh, well. Thanks for reminding me of my FriendFeed account via Twitter.
- Terje Fjelde
Jay: that certainly works for me. Russ: I don't worry too much about it. If I can figure this out with 15 minutes of poking around so can everyone else. I am sure a bunch of these accounts will disappear soon. Twitter doesn't want to be embarrassed by this because it won't help them monetize anyway. Unless they are charging per thousand views and then advertisers will figure out the accounts aren't real very quickly anyway.
- Robert Scoble
Playing devil's advocate: Isn't it also possible that many of these "lame" accounts belong to people who just recently joined? They haven't spruced up their profiles, haven't had the courage to tweet, only follow recommended twits, and are generally feeling their way around the service before getting fruitfully involved. Of those, I bet a large number decide Twitter isn't for them and leave their accounts dormant.
- Eric Williams
Eric: it's possible, but very unlikely (it's also possible I could win the lottery four times in a row). After all, this was NOT the behavior of lurkers BEFORE Feb. 6. Why would it change on that date? You really think there are lurkers out there who'll behave exactly the same in groups of thousands? I don't. Not possible, because of how people get pulled into Twitter. You get pulled in by your friends. So, there will be some variability there.
- Robert Scoble
Robert I agree if you can figure it out in 15 minutes than everyone else can too. I was saying it tongue and cheek. It says something about those who have to inflate there numbers though. Perhaps they are lacking in something or in an area. LOL
- Russ Jackson
Sounds like you're really letting this nonsense get to you. Relax. The free market of ideas that is the net will sort it out before long. If Twitter sucks, it won't survive. Then again, I'd have expected MySpace to die a horrible death long ago. Hmm...maybe Twitter won't die, but it'll become an internet ghetto for the terminally lame (like AOL). ;)
- Eric Williams
my app works on its own as well as as the frontend for the twitter team themselves. Instead of having to report @spam and then go through all your friends to find the bastard to block.... it would auto-parse out 'potential and known' spammers into a group.. one click and your account is clean, meanwhile any new ones are sent off to a convenient way for the twitter team to once-over the account to see if its legit or if its spam.
- Brent Terrazas
Eric: online communities have been getting to me since 1985. You're right, just because something sucks doesn't guarantee its death. In fact, it can easily get much more popular, even with these flaws. That said, now I have something new to think about. It's not the end of the world. Just the end of the importance of followers. :-)
- Robert Scoble
In the last month there have actually been close to 7 full blown twitter mass account creation and/or twitter mass account spammer apps released. Some cost over $200. Regardless, everyone i Affiliate marketing is going ga-ga over this... this is literally the beginning of a new era of twitter spam..
- Brent Terrazas
I never gave a rat's ass how many people followed me anyway. As long as I have enough followers to maintain interesting conversations, I'm happy. :)
- Eric Williams
Eric: you don't need any followers to have interesting conversations. Friendfeed proves that. :-)
- Robert Scoble
This is my first real FriendFeed convo. I'm still not entirely comfortable here. Keeping track of conversations feels like too much work. Either I have to visit the web page and manually reload or use something like Twhirl and drown in a flood of data. Am I just really dense? Is there an easier way to keep up without being overwhelmed that I just don't know? Is the learning curve less steep than I think?
- Eric Williams
Are followers following someone else's follows just because they deem that person to be an influential tweeter?
- Mark Fletcher
Eric: I just use the web page and refresh.
- Robert Scoble
Mark: I don't think so. Three weeks ago I was on Twitter's top 10 list, so should be getting nailed if that's the case. I'm not getting nailed that way.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Excuse my ignorance, but surely you know someone with connections at Twitter? Ask them. There's something seriously weird going on.
- Jim Connolly
Jim: I'll ask Biz when I wake up.
- Robert Scoble
Still trying to get my head round friend feed. as far a Twitter goes, I follow a few "celebrities" and interesting people but most of my actual "tweets" are intended for my family and real life friends. I guess most people who don't know me personally won't be interested that I've just walked the dogs or I'm going to bed, but friends and family will be as they will know if it is ok to phone or visit me. My facebook is really only intended for my family.
- Andy
Robert, you and I think a lot alike so there's really nothing more I can add. It. would be nice to have some sort of threshhold setting that a person has to have nnn posts before you can follow them. But then, that could be gamed also.
- Keith Barrett
they're building them like you build blog farms.... at first while amassing quantity, you don't spam outsiders, u link up and spit out aggregated comments, then at somme point boom.. all 5k go off and spam.... onto the next 5k...etc..friending a top 10 would=ban
- Brent Terrazas
I don't twitter a lot but that is because who would find my changing nappies and going to pick up the kids from school interesting? Okay maybe one day of that but everyday the same tweets? I'm one of the ones that find other lives more interesting than my own at the moment until things start to get interesting in my own!!!! and no I'm not embarrassed to admit that.
- May
As far as I see, even unreal followers can help to get real ones. Many people just look how many follower you have, and only follow you, if you seem to be popular a.k.a. having a lot of followers. It's like real life. You getting more and more attractive, if more people think you are :) Weird? No, just human nature.
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
A large chunk are just people that are hoarding contacts.
- Gerard van Schip
Beau: the main goal of a private account seems to be to make the tweets private (they are do not appear in everyone, or in search for instance). The interesting side effect is that you get to filter your followers, but there is no reason to limit this feature to private accounts. The issue is not to prevent valueless accounts to get my updates (since they are meant to be public) it is rather to prevent them from polluting the list of followers that appear on my profile.
- Antoine Bertier
Almost every time I "tweet" I get several notices that so and so is now following me. when I go through to their accounts, twitter have usually deleted them or they have nonsense tweets about this or that product that i "need" to enhance my life
- Andy
What is real? I have to remind you, Robert, that we met online. And now we are real. I met @stevegillmor, @karoli, @mobilejones, and so many more people online and they are as real to me as @chelseahardaway, my daughter, who is now also my online friend. It' a blur. I know tons of my Twitter and FB friends personally.
- Francine Hardaway
from twhirl
Where's the white paper on this? You should be writing it.
- Francine Hardaway
from twhirl
I seem to have added about 50-60 followers in the last day or on Twitter, which is unusual for me. Honestly, I wonder why as I am not a heavyweight twitterer...nor do I think I post anything particularly profound or even useful. The only things I changed recently were putting a bio, blog link and headshot in, so I assume that this is what many people look for...I think the human factor is sometimes lost with the proliferation of social networking.
- John Samuelson
I have a number of accounts in places where I participate by observation. Seriously. We all pick and choose what we do with limited time and endless choices of what to do with that time. I've only been "twitter-active" for the last week or so, "twitter-dormant" for a year or two. The point is that I don't recommend writing off the silent majority as spammers or of no use. They contribute by being the audience for much of what goes on, via Twitter and other channels.
- Colin Wheeler
Are you going to blog your numbers? That would be cool if you did.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Also, an analogy I like using - swimming in the sea; some folk are OK to jump in where it's deep, others want to slowly inch their way into the waves, others will stand still and wait until the tide reaches their chest ... but they are all getting wet! And probably all will end up swimming to one degree or another. Well, it sort of explains my point ;-)
- Colin Wheeler
It's amazing how many fake accounts I see trying to connect with me. I'm still a small Twitter user and getting everyday a couple of spams, is way too much.
- Zack Brandit
Robert, are you trying to fight with Turing test? :)
- A.T.
Speaking only for myself: I follow a lot of people because in my position (someone who teaches new media journalism) it is a potentially valuable way of keeping up with thought leaders (like you, Robert!) ... and is increasingly replacing my use of RSS feeds. While I would also like to accumulate my own cadre of followers, at this point in time I still prefer to spend my time on longer, more thoughtful items (i.e., blog posts) than tweets. That may change in the future.
- Rich Gordon
i'm real.... just real quiet :)
- todd
I am a human :)
- Joe Dawson
I like to follow Twitter conversations from my iPhone but often don't like to type out a response if I'm away from a keyboard. And it just feels odd responding to a tweet that's been up for a while. So not sure if that makes me one of the odd ones that watches more than comments, but it works for me :)
- craterdweller
Have you seen Brooks Bayne's post on this subject: http://brooksbayne.com/post... - seems to confirm what you're saying Robert. I've been thinking of zeroing my twitter followers and asking the real people to re-follow. Bet I'd lose 50% or more.
- Leo Laporte
Maybe I should start working again on my little web app, that lists your followers and the date of their most recent tweet. I guess it's also possible to get the number of updates along with this time/date...
- Holger Eilhard
Last summer I took a look at the full feed from Identi.ca, and found that around 25% of all registered users had posted only once. Only half had posted more than 5 times, and IIRC, the 80/20 "rule" applied and ~80% of the traffic came from the top 20% of users. I'd be surprised if Twitter's stats were much different (chart: http://kshep.posterous.com/more-id...)
- Ken Sheppardson
I think there's a lot of dormant accounts. Join, use the service for a bit, then fade away. Takes too much work to maintain a lot of networking sites.
- Barry Biddlecomb
from twhirl
I think there are only 5 real people out there. :)
- mikepk
I think real <> volume. Isn't the value of this technology many frequent intersections on many different threads...Is there a map that shows the frequency of those people's interactions elsewhere? We (I) don't all have time to trawl through the feeds alll the time. It's an attention economy and we (I) split it between about 7 sources on average every day..?
- dromologue
mikepk: I'm convinced there are ~101,000 real people, as I've seen that many in one place at one time in person (Michigan Stadium.. Go Blue). The rest is all CGI. Of course there's no reason you should believe me, as I'm just part of the plot to deceive you.
- Ken Sheppardson
I'm real . Blip beep zip <CR> <LF>
- Ken Pruett
I'm real, at least I'm pretty sure I'm real.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
from twhirl
Far better of an argument is how much traffic is truly real.
- Patricia
I think active users who are authentic = real. I have been getting lots of phonies following me lately. Get real!
- Jeremy Campbell
from twhirl
wow, such a long and winded thread discussing phenomena of followers and following. it is very simple, really. follow whom you think is interesting to you and with whom there might be possible exchange of information and life experience. I do find Robert and some of his friends quite intersting. I do however not follow the A-lister bloggers or entrepreneurs whose feeds are prevalently twitter insider info. Fake followers? That happens, it is inevitable with FF- and Twitter-like architecture. Live with it.
- Hayk H.
I find twitter is just a entertainment tool. It's better served for popular people to make fans feel like they have a live channel to their idol. Marina of hotforword.com uses twitter for such purpose. She doesn't even follow me on twr and I'm her assistant on her website. Micro blogging just waste too much time when one could spend it on adding more content to your master blog.
- Captain Jack
I'm real. But I must admit that I do a lot more following on twitter (and here) than posting. And I only follow informed people. Don't care for the silly stuff.
- lolise
This thread proves one thing, Robert: your friendfeed followers certainly are "real." :) The number of comments on this thread are a bit overwhelming.
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
It's not about "how many" - it's who, in what context, and by what percentage. Check out http://twitter-friends.com for a glimpse of the social network analytics that addresses these questions.
- Lawrence Liu
Greetings Robert, some of us use the social channel as our news source. We do not input a lot however we are consumers of the feed. Does that make us not real?
- James Tallman
James: you're real, I wouldn't worry. Here's the deal, though. "Real" people always exhibit random behavior. Always. Whenever you see 10,000 people who sign in, add the same people, don't do any posts, don't customize their icon, don't add any random friends, that can be demonstrated to be fake. Why? Cause everyone hears about Twitter from someone else and there's variability in the friends they add. At least there was before February 6. What happened after that date? Twitter's community was corrupted.
- Robert Scoble
I'd say based on recent twitter experience about 25%. I'm a relative nobody, and my followers quadrupled. My guess is they are all REAL nobodies.
- jcunwired
The challenge is that many tools use the number of followers to "rank" you and make you an influencer. Is it right? No, but we have to play with the rules we have.
- Julio F ~ @SocialJulio
For us newbies on twitter and friendfeed, it's pretty challenging navigating all the comments. A lot of interesting stuff out there but it moves so fast you almost have to be plugged in 24/7 to catch the conversation that most interests you. That's tough when we all have lives outside the Internet ;-) I'm wondering if there are unwritten "rules" I missed somewhere...How long can we be silent (attending to other business) and still be considered "real" followers?
- Donna Horne
Julio: bing. Which is why the integrity of Twitter is now gone. Advertisers might be fooled, but not for long. This world passes info around so fast it'll make your head spin so anyone who buys advertising (or hands out access or something else like review units) based on Twitters follower numbers is lame and deserves to be ripped off.
- Robert Scoble
I believe twitters integrity is being challenged by its own success and spamming, hopefully this opens up the market for friendsfeed and 3rd party filtering applications.
- Carl Plant
Carl: Twitter's integrity is being challenged by its own stupid decisions and lame algorithms. But they probably will just arrogantly write off this as the ranting of someone who was punished by them. Which is true.
- Robert Scoble
Robert - bingo!
- Susan Beebe
I'll only follow if people have made the effort to upload a photo, sent at least a few messages to show me they're going to give me something to follow and most of all - dont proclaim they are the best at anything / use their twitter account as a billboard..
- Matt Randles
also, a tool to go through existing contacts and see those who have less than 10 updates or say no updates in the last 90 days ... with intention of removing would be cool, unfortunatly the twitter api limits mean running it would have to be low process and could take a long time..
- Matt Randles
Well, I'm off to my local Apple store to try and procure a MacBook Pro with a student discount. Anyone have any software picks I should load up immediately?
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vmware fusion and/or lightroom
- Cee Bee
Adium, Firefox, Perian, VLC, Picassa. Those are my go-tos anyway.
- Mark Foundos
Evernote. MarcoPolo. CyberDuck. Mailplane, if you use Gmail. And Perian, of course.
- Bill Sodeman
macport and mc right away? :-)
- Andre
Apple Tv??
- Roberto Bonini
Quicksilver
- Paul Grav
Quicksilver is a dead app. Use Launchbar it's very good. First thing I install.
- John Samuelson
from BuddyFeed
@John What do you mean Quicksilver is a "dead app"?
- Clay Newton
Quicksilver isn't dead if the latest update was 2/16... http://code.google.com/p...
- Dr. Apps
from twhirl
I'd also look at Xee - great image viewer, works well on zipped collections too.
- Bill Sodeman
More suggestions: PopChar, MagiCal.
- Bill Sodeman
Thanks guys! Wouldn't you know it, I get the thing brand new, and there's a dead pixel in the middle of the screen. I'll go back tomorrow to get a new one, but I'll check out all of this this stuff.
- Mike Nayyar
VMWare Fusion + BackTrack4; Quicksilver; Mailplane; Firefox; Twhirl; AdiumX; TextMate; Transmit
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
Windows Vista! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Launchbar for sure
- Mo Kargas
Flash. Oh wait...
- jcunwired
Screenflow, for whenever you feel like doing a good screencast of your screen!
- Liyan Brown
@Clay @DrApps I'll be very surprised if Etienne & co can keep up without more help, although I wasn't aware of how much effort has gone in recently into new builds and updates. The latest build looks like it's usuable for some and a crasher for others. It's in no way meant for a new Mac user!
- John Samuelson
Not as advertised...
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If the crux of your plan for a romantic evening is reliant on the shape of a home delivered pizza, you might want to reevaluate your plan... :P
- Johnny Worthington
this is very true :)
- Zee.
It would appear that this "heart shaped" pizzed is merely a way for whoever makes it to get a slice... Heck, a full slice out of the pizza would be more heart shaped than that!
- lilbyrdie
I was going to suggest buying the regular for cheaper, getting more, and trimming it yourself for the morrow's lunch.
- Michael W. May
+++ Johnny!!
- nakachi
well the advertised one is covered with pepperoni and the other one has so much less
- Alfredo
*Pizza Fail*
- Olcayto Cengiz
reality sucks
- Manuela
A little different :) Heart failure.
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
So much fail
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Don't you know Pundo3000 Project? :) http://www.smeerch.it/2008...
- Smeerch
Don't block my view - http://www.rekisteri.info/1387...
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LOL!
- CW™
TOTAL WIN
- Johnny Worthington
Call me ambivalent. That's so nasty! LMAO.
- Jim Hearts FF
Win Win! ROTFL!
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
omg, that's just brilliant.
- Will Higgins™
ATTN Men: If you start dressing nice, your significant other will get used to it and then forbid you from dressing how you used to. Tried to wear a t-shirt today and Lindsay said NO.
Darren Heydon, Steven Perez, Brian and 25 other people liked this
This is the reason I rarely wear trousers.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
So your saying to dress as much as a slob for as long as you can?
- CW™
Not necessarily - just saying there may be no going back.
- Internet's Tad
..this assumes that your S.O. dresses nice in return, right? open-toe pumps, miniskirts, cleavage-enhancing tops—oops, i hope i didn't just type that out—how do i tell them that due to the un-freezing process i've lost my inner monologue?
- .LAG liked that
Hmmmm,I think my husband figure this one out, hence the slide into the daily wearing of sweat pants.
- Captain Bubbles
How sad. Another casual dude lost to love. ;)
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Just start trying to wear her clothes and she'll be glad to have you back in a t-shirt and pair of old jeans.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Tad - sounds like when I try wearing pants once in a while. Suddenly society seems to expect it of me.
- Sparky
This is exactly part of Chris Rock's show "Don't kill the messenger" where he says that women can't go backwards in lifestyle. Once we see something we like, there's no going back!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
from BuddyFeed
My husband would never tolerate that. Just sayin'.
- Helen Sventitsky
@akiva....LOLz. isn't it funny that the lady can get away with wearing the gentleman's clothes—sometimes, it's hawt too—but it doesn't really work the other way.
- .LAG liked that
One thing I always was asking my ex... "Is that my shirt?"
- CW™
HA HA HA HA! Sorry but true..i guess..
- Anna Lynn M.
my GF raids my clothes way too many times. Sadly I'm no way nearly as developed in the moob area to get away with some of hers in spite ;) Still, my GF knows she hasn't a hope in hell of dictating what I wear. Work was lucky that I would wear a shirt n trousers.
- alphaxion
To clarify... he wanted to wear a dingy old t-shirt (formerly white but no longer new looking)... This from the guy that just bought himself a nice new watch the evening before as a birthday present "from me" because his new "Handbook of Style" told him every well-dressed man must have one (despite how obsolete they are). The watch would have looked pretty out of place with the yechy old shirt.
- Lindsay
Shake Shack - The BEST Burger in NYC - http://shakeshack.com/
tinypants - Hagitha of FF, John Samuelson, "Jazzperous" Isaksson and 12 other people liked this
Can we please arrange a FriendFeed meetup in New York at Shake Shack? I mean, look at this stuff, it's amazing! Burgers, custards, hot dogs, fries, beers and wines...this is heaven!
- Mike Nayyar
Bump, because it's lunch time and I will not this idea die.
- Mike Nayyar
How is it that I have never had the pleasure of eating there?
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Unknown. But if we get a FF meetup going, we can turn it into a picnic, perhaps organize a film viewing, maybe some kind of prank...I don't know! The possibilities!
- Mike Nayyar
Yes, yes, and yes!
- Mark Wilson
Shake Shack rules. I'm in NYC - I'm down. But um picnic? Not in this weather!! BTW there's a dine-in Shake Shack on the UWS.
- Mona Nomura
Mona, where's the UWS one???
- Sprague D
77th and Columbus. NW corner. NOT that I frequent it or anything. ;)
- Mona Nomura
Hrmmm... I probably will be in town the second weekend in March....
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Justin Korn's gonna be here second week of March, too OMG. But my BF's 30th bash is that weekend and I might be in LA.
- Mona Nomura
I don't have to be, I have no work stuff there. I was going to go look at apartments but I can do that another time.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
You're moving out here??? :O 2nd week of March DOES sound like fun. We should have burgers and get shitfaced for St. Patty's Day haha!
- Mona Nomura
Not moving fulltime, but I think now is a good time to invest.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
The picnic idea was for if we all planned this for, say, June, but, hell, I can do March 2nd, or whatever.
- Mike Nayyar
How to make the perfect raised bed - http://www.sunset.com/garden...
Anthony Citrano, Cee Bee, Susan Beebe and 13 other people liked this
"Raised beds make gardening easy. Filled with soil mix, they provide the excellent drainage needed to grow picture-perfect vegetables and flowers. You can build the basic raised bed pictured above in a few hours, then add versatility by mounting PVC pipes inside to hold hoops that elevate bird netting or row covers over your crops. Orient your bed north-south for maximum sun exposure. Use redwood or cedar ― both are beautiful and rot-resistant. You’ll need a table or power saw to cut the wood; after cutting, paint the wood on all sides with an oil-based sealer. An electric drill is helpful, though not required. Our total cost: $187."
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
Friends made these a few summers ago. will find link.
- B. Hatin
I'd love to do something like this, but I'm not sure I have the real estate to do so.
- Derrick
wish I had a yard...
- Anna Lynn M.
Derrick, were are going to put a raised bed on our flat roofed garage this spring. Not sure if that would work for you.
- Todd Hoff
If you search the gardening room, I've posted a lot about sq foot gardening. It's the same thing, but instead of a big box, ou you make samll 2'x2' squares. It' makes for easier crop rotation to. The Arboretum has a great set up of one.
- Captain Bubbles
I'm doing a little herb thing since I like to cook so much. Kind of a trial run.
- Derrick
At my last house, owned by my brother, we built raised beds using the method Spidra mentions. There are some pics of our efforts in this set: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
If you don't have room for the raised bed, you can always grow tomatoes in a pot. I do it all of the time. Same with peppers. I've also grown cucumbers up a trellis (actually, some wire fencing), which is actually a good thing because you don't have to rotate them like you do when they are on the ground.
- Katy S
Thanks Katy, that's a great idea!
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Urban gardens are likely to see increased interest in this economy.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
If you follow Shaq on Twitter and see him in Public, go say hi. Seriously, this story proves it. - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
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Obviously this is all a brilliant front for Shaq to now start setting up meet and greets with his fans. Can $6 for a Polaroid with Shaq be far behind (kidding)
- Wayne Schulz
Amazing creatures found in polar seas - http://sciencio.com/animals...
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Simple and straightforward - What is Solar Energy? http://solarpowerpanels.ws/solar-p...
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Some Roads Lead To Nothing - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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راه بهشت!
- Business Blogger【ツ】™
نه راه بهشت نیست فرزاد جان !
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
Where's the 'puter? - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
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Does anyone feel a little scammed! Cmon, SUPEROBAMAMAN doesn't have a computer running Google Earth yet?
- Steve Rubel
He's been in the office for less than 24 hours . . . no one on the first day of the job has a desk that looks like it's theirs. 8-)
- LJF Wolffe
You are all missing it: His ENTIRE desktop IS the computer. He's calling in his prefs for wallpaper and icons.
- Morgan Haley
I don't think he has a cellphone. I know they said he might be able to keep his black berry. But, I never saw anything saying that he is able to keep it.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
It's built into the surface of the desk and blends when he isn't actively using it or defaults to wood when the phone rings.
- Martha
I don't think that desk gets a computer. There is a private office off the main room. But really, what do we think he does all day, type bills in Word and surf Wikipedia? He is constantly moving and shaking. Information is looked up for him and placed on his desk at his request. I'll be suprised to see a computer on that desk.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
IT is probably late in setting it up. Typical!
- Jim Goldstein
I did hear yesterday that the Press Secratery was having problems getting logged on to the computer.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
I always loved that desk...very fancy rugged.
- Justin Oberman
This picture is what we've waited for for more than a year and all you have to say is "where's the 'puter?"Jesus Christ.
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
You probably wouldn't be satisfied until the Oval Office was the first beta version of a Holodeck running on Linux-based software.
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
But...you're right. I noticed that this morning. No laptop, and a 1995 phone setup. WTF?
- Jim Mitchem
His first day on the job and you expected him to be on the social networks? :)
- Morton Fox
@Chris Thanks, I hadn't seen that news.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Hey, he just moved in. It's not like he brought his own in. Besides, what if there is an enormous workstation set up in that little room where Monica and Bill did the dress-staining?
- Phil Boiarski
I imagine he'll just bring his Mac over. http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Steve Garfield
from twhirl
Dude. Obama so doesn't need a computer. I'm sure he's got some neural interface or something we just can't see that sends Twitter straight into his optic nerve, ya know?
- Ken Sheppardson
It's in the desk? It probably talks too, like the MCP from Tron...uh oh.
- Rob Haas
Hey Steve, did u think of the title to this share?
- Zee.
Okay, so when the President rings the IT Help Desk for support, who answers, and where are they based, and has it been outsourced overseas? :)
- Chris Eldridge
@Zee yes. PR training! I got you here, right? :-)
- Steve Rubel
they probably are installing Windows 7 on it as we speak.....! Until then Blackberry only, I guess.
- Joe Buhler
Deleted a comment for profanity.
- Steve Rubel
ffs steve! ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
so he gets windows mobile for official use, and a berry for personal? Since when was any windows OS secure??
- Ian May
can't remember where but I read he was going to be the first US president to use a laptop in the oval office.
- ursi
The phone setup is pretty impressive (well it was once). It's a special phone with all types of encryption devices built-in. To buy one you have to undergo a full background check & a bunch of other security checks.
- Steven Cains
He just shifted into the office. Give him some time to get d lappie!
- Jason
You just know that Steve Jobs is hard at work on a custom job for Obama.
- Steven Perez
Not so sure about that, Steven. Not a huge number of macs in governmental offices.
- Mr. Gunn
it's a giant, wood panel Surface device
- ian kennedy
+1 ian kennedy! LOL
- Susan Beebe
You know how it goes, IT wasn't notified. It will take a couple of weeks for them to get one ready. I'm wondering where that RED phone sits ..
- Tom Parish
I think his specially tailored blackberry is all the computer he needs.
- imabonehead
LOL Steve :) Great title, seriously... :)
- Zee.
Zee, thanks. I gotta blog on this subject. It's a skill we all need in this day and age (especially if you want to influence)
- Steve Rubel
I think I remember that the president has another office attached to the oval office where a computer and messier paperwork sits. I think there has been mention of this re: Clinton and bush's use of email.
- Scott Gatz
I reckon there's a den with beanbags, a beer fridge, snacks, chilled music, and a Mac just off the Oval Office.
- John Samuelson
Is it just the winter blues kicking in or has FriendFeed become DramaFeed? Mary J Blige is not amused.
John Samuelson, Parth Awasthi, edythe and 6 other people liked this
Dramafeed - exactly!! good call. I've been busy with a project and was horrified at all the emotional baggage posts! augh!!
- Susan Beebe
FFUndercats isn't the only thing, I've seen quite a few in the past week. If content is king, I think we need to start an uprising of the 3rd estate. Rule of thumb: if you start or perpetuate drama on a social network, you're spending too much time there. Go do something else. Like watch paint dry.
- Mark Trapp
Couldn't agree more. This ain't TNT.
- Jeff
I think it's because everyone's broke after the holidays.
- Steven Perez
"out of the blue" [Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir, Flickr - 4/7/06] - http://flickr.com/photos...
Kol Tregaskes, Chris Farrugia, Arash and 17 other people liked this
Color version http://flickr.com/photos... Older version http://flickr.com/photos...
- Mitchell Tsai
from Bookmarklet
Rebekka's photos are amazing.
- John Samuelson
John: She's the most incredible photographer I've seen on Flickr. I may end up favoriting 90% of her set for my Flickr favorite slideshow. Have you tried playing slideshows of people's favorites?
- Mitchell Tsai
Not really. Will give it a whirl. Rebekka is one of those problem flickr people who has toooo many great shots!
- John Samuelson
John: LOL. Know any more _problem_ Flickr people?
- Mitchell Tsai
Thomas Hawk is another I have trouble keeping up with. I raid his faves mercilessly he has a great eye, not to mention his own shots.
- John Samuelson
John: My favorites on FriendFeed are Thomas Hawk, Donato, Eric, JA Castillo, Raoul Pop, and Mahdi Ebrahimi. See http://friendfeed.com/e... for a longer list. I'm still struggling to figure out who to follow on Flickr. Here's the place where I'm trying to keep track of who I like. http://friendfeed.com/e... I've looked at some of the Top-100 etc groups on Flickr, and my tastes don't match theirs.
- Mitchell Tsai
Rebekka's water-in-motion shots are incredible.
- Mitchell Tsai
Bacon Salt - http://www.baconsalt.com/
Threepwood, Darren Heydon, Christian Anderson and 29 other people liked this
At last. Everything in my world can now taste of bacon.
- Carla Thompson
from Bookmarklet
Wrong
- James Tenniswood
I saw a comedian once who said he wonders if pigs lick themselves to see what the fuss is about. It would kinda suck to know that everyone loves you as much as people love bacon.
- Trish R
i love the smell of bacon in the morning
- Baard @ Pixum
two of my favorite things combined
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
I'm proud to say there's Bacon Salt in my pantry.
- Jeff Beckham
Mmmm. Because one can never have too much salt. Oh wait ...
- Ernie Oporto
@louisgray Interesting search, sometimes it boggles my mind what things catch on here, but bacon salt...mmm
- michael sean wright
Only on FriendFeed would BaconSalt be old news!
- Carla Thompson
I knew something was missing in my life.
- Andy Burns
Carla, here's the post from December that brought it to my attention. I promptly bought all three varieties. http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Louis Gray
Hilarious.
- John Samuelson
The best part is that it is certified Kosher.
- Joe Beda ()
December, no less. I am 7 months behind in my bacon news!
- Carla Thompson
yea bacon!
- Moved to Facebook
Baconsalt! And now it's selling in UK from www.crazy4flavour.co.uk with quick delivery and way lower shipping cost than getting it from Seattle!
- Stu Nutt
lol. digging graves
- Cee Bee
now they have baconnaise too (bacon mayonnaise). i ordered some but haven't opened the jar yet.
- Jess Lee
Anthony K. Valley ©, Mahdi Ebrahimi, CW™ and 53 other people liked this
excellent! most excellent indeed!
- Melissa Maskevich
Palin is cracking me up LOL I still can't decide which is funnier. These or the presidential cookies: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Mona Nomura
AAAAAHHH!! Scary!
- tj hanton
HAHAHAHAHAHA
- Anna Haro
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. The one of Pailn needs more lipstick, me thinks.
- Roberto Bonini
She's so creepy HAHAHHAHAH
- Mona Nomura
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. The cookies are still funnier. But that Palin Pumpkin is hilarious with the hairdo and glasses! HAHAHAHAHAHA
- Trish R
Joe Biden = Bob Barker?
- Chris Rivait
Obama = Bill Cosby?
- Chris Rivait
John McCain has huge cheeks.
- Trish R
I'm following Sean's cue: are they organic?
- Roberto Bonini
it's interesting how the preview of the pics cut biden out.. kinda mirroring the media - how often do you see stories about biden? it's always mccain and palin vs obama.
- alphaxion
alphaxion: Take that up with the FriendFeed team. I just uploaded them in order. Not my fault it only displays three thumbnails. ;)
- Mona Nomura
The Palin one is particularly apt. Behind that face is a hollow pumpkin.
- Kamath (नमः)
I was a little freaked at Palin's RED eyes. They're not just red, they're RED! Aaaaah!
- Ladybug Heather
Palin makes the better Jack-o-lantern cuz she's freekin' scary!!
- Bonita Garrabrant
Research has led to the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities...
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... morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert; however, it can be detected, because it impedes every action with which it comes into contact.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
A minute amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second to take from four days to four years to complete. Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2-6 years; it does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually...
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- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium, an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
awww., my 10th grade history teacher loved this joke.
- Captain Bubbles
An oldie, but always a goodie!
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Brought a little tear to my eye...
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Like it.
- Kol Tregaskes
Where do taxpayer moneyons come into this?
- Morton Fox
Classic LOL
- Jim Goldstein
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