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Scientists doing great work seldom look like Great Scientists. - http://metamodern.com/2009...
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Yes! At the Beagle Project we're always harping on this - it's a big problem - the 'icons' make people feel disconnected from the possibility of genius and alienate young would-be scientists.
- Karen James
The reverse also seems to be true - grant reviewers being alienated by the young guys' ideas.
- Daniel Mietchen
I wish there was a universal format for submitting peer-reviewed papers; authors could post papers (once!) & then the journals bid on them.
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Oh, now that's an interesting idea, Karen.
- Graham Steel
Cyndy Parr tweets ( http://twitter.com/cydparr... ) "This is kind of what PLOS One envisions -- it goes up there, and then it could get chosen to be part of a hub". Iz true?
- Karen James
Thanks, Graham. Having just had a paper rejected by two journals in a row, I'm fed up to here *points to own eyebrows* with spending hours if not days re-formatting to meet the ridiculously precise but in no way substantive guidelines of different journals. It's not even rewriting, it's just pointless fiddling and a silly waste of time. If the taxpayers only knew...
- Karen James
There are two issues at hand here. One, a universal format for submission, Two, a bidding process on papers. The Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium points to how the second part of this kind of deal is working right now in some disciplines (http://nprc.incf.org/), the really really sad part about the first issue here is that the big publishers don't care what format you submit in (let...
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- Ian Mulvany
+1 for more standards for paper submissions, starting with reference styles. And for allowing submissions in the NLM DTD format.
- Martin Fenner
Ian, you may say they don't care, but when one is submitting a manuscript, one is trying to do everything one can not to give the publisher any possible little excuse to reject your paper without review.
- Karen James
Second time in a week that someone stated "publishers don't care about format of submissions". Again I ask: if that's the case, why do all journals make a huge deal about it in their instructions to authors?
- Neil Saunders
As for universal format: easily solved by writing our papers on the web. Imagine a simple forms-based interface with fields for title, authors, abstract, introduction... Imagine a button in Google Docs that says "submit this document to <insert journal here>" !! But currently, we all like to use our own word-processing software on our own machines, then upload a document in a multitude of formats. It's going to take a big shift in thinking and work practices.
- Neil Saunders
What Neil said: if journals don't care, why do they make such a damn song and dance about it? Why not explicitly say you can *submit* in any basic AIMRAD format? Worry about format after acceptance: either the journal can send it to India per Ian above, or if they make the authors do it at least they only have to do it once. My next paper (quit laughing) is going out in basic AIMRAD...
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- Bill Hooker
Note: this is easier for me to do than many, because I've basically given up on an academic career as currently constructed.
- Bill Hooker
"it's just pointless fiddling and a silly waste of time. If the taxpayers only knew" I think they should / deserve to know!
- Björn Brembs
+1 Neil "why do all journals make a huge deal about it in their instructions to authors?" and +1 Björn "I think [the taxpayers] should / deserve to know!"
- Karen James
Neil & Bill: maybe "don't care" is to strong a phrase. A manuscript does need to be structured correctly to fit into the journal's content management system (an application note looks different to a letter looks different to a research paper), have images properly resized and references in the right format so that they can be processed by systems that convert to them links etc.
- Euan
Also: what happened to that Wolfram word processor for papers that was supposed to do what Neil mentioned above with Google Docs?
- Euan
Ah, http://www.wolfram.com/product... but doesn't look like there's a great deal of support for life sci journals (BMC aside)
- Euan
the publishers i know would be delighted to standardise to NLM DTD for submissions -- would save lots of editorial time and production costs -- the publisher i know best sends accepted papers to be manually turned into xml which can then be used for PMC deposition and the semi-automatic generation of the HTML and PDF versions. But things like the Publicon app have taught publishers that implementing the technology to do something doesn't mean that it will happen in significant quantities! :)
- Joe Dunckley
I used Publicon when it was released a few years ago. Essentially a dead product now. Lemon8-XML does what Neil describes as "Imagine a simple forms-based interface with fields for title, authors, abstract, introduction... ": http://network.nature.com/people....
- Martin Fenner
These interviews (about eXtyles and Editorial Manager) might be interesting to those that care about submitting papers in the NLM DTD format, as I specifically asked that question: http://network.nature.com/people... and http://network.nature.com/people...
- Martin Fenner
There is a nascent version of that working in neuroscience http://nprc.incf.org/. Journals have formed a consortium where if an author submits to one journal and it gets rejected, the author can specify that the reviews follow the paper to another journal so that it doesn't need to be re-reviewed. This was viewed as a way for papers that have nothing wrong with them but which don't fit the scope of the journal can be published more quickly and easily.
- Maryann Martone
What about replacing "papers" and "journals" in the subject line with "proposals" and funders?
- Daniel Mietchen
What if journals said here's our LaTeX template. Put the right text in the indicated field, lotion in the basket, and anything else won't be accepted.
- Mr. Gunn
@Daniel Mietchen: Yes, that too! @Mr. Gunn: What I'm advocating is that there's a single LaTeX (or whatever) template - not that you'd re-paste for each journal.
- Karen James
karen, yes. The idea being you give them the text and they do whatever they like with the formatting.
- Mr. Gunn
Aside from making life easier for authors, it would allow sane computational use of papers. With PDF, you don't even know which image a figure legend refers to, except by guess work. The difficulty is that the journals don't see it as their problem. The solution is for the authors to make it the journals problem
- Phil Lord
I like the idea, Karen. Publishing an exciting paper should not a be a torture (for us!)
- Betül
Getting access to research papers is already too expensive. Wouldn't it just be more so if we invited a bidding war on each paper? Write good papers, and submit them to PLoS.
- Ted Slater
I'd like something similar for the review process. Instead of having to register for each journal/publisher managing logins and passwords for each, have a clearing house that manages reviewer information that the journals subscribe to.
- John Hogenesch
Citizen Science online?
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Cameron is interested in FriendFeed examples: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Bora Zivkovic
To submit an article here: http://jcom.sissa.it/call
- Bora Zivkovic
Is there an example of "citizen science" on FF? Not scientists collaborating, but non-scientists or amateur scientists pulling data about some aspect of nature together here?
- Bora Zivkovic
Related to that (and that can be a separate submission to the same issue of the journal), what are the online social networks that put together data collected by amateur scientists?
- Bora Zivkovic
I am aware of a few projects, for instance:
- Bora Zivkovic
Using Twitter to collect data on fish catch: http://scienceblogs.com/clock...
- Bora Zivkovic
There is GalaxyZoo: https://www.galaxyzoo.org/
- Bora Zivkovic
Then, The USA National Phenology Network: http://scienceblogs.com/clock...
- Bora Zivkovic
A number of naturalist sites http://scienceblogs.com/clock... including iNaturalist: http://inaturalist.org/
- Bora Zivkovic
Darwin Core: http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki...
- Bora Zivkovic
Faunapolis: http://faunapolis.org/
- Bora Zivkovic
Scratchpads: http://scratchpads.eu/
- Bora Zivkovic
Are the Christmas Bird Count and Backyard Bird Count social: http://www.birdsource.org/
- Bora Zivkovic
Are the SETI data collected somewhere for everyone to see?
- Bora Zivkovic
any other examples?
- Bora Zivkovic
Wow - a great collection of projects here: http://www.thetakeaway.org/stories...
- Bora Zivkovic
Bluebells! http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-...
- Karen James
Metagenome Annotation Using a Distributed Grid of Undergraduate Students http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlser...
- Karen James
Nature's calendar http://www.naturescalendar.org.uk/
- Karen James
Stargazing, from all longitudes: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatc...
- Bora Zivkovic
Grassroots Science: An Article Wishlist For The Journal of Scientific Communication: http://www.scientificblogging.com/run_and...
- Bora Zivkovic
Bioweathermap Initiative: www.bioweathermap.org
- Jason Bobe
The eBiosphere Real-Time Citizen Science Challenge! http://spire.umbc.edu/ebio/
- Bora Zivkovic
I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but there's a DIY Biology google group that's pretty active.
- Mr. Gunn
Not sure if this is related to the one Karen posted (about 8 posts up): http://www.greatsunflower.org/ (Sunflower bee project) Also not sure if it's what you're looking for.
- Steve Koch
(It was linked on friendfeed a couple months ago.)
- Steve Koch
More on eBio: http://openresearch.sebpaquet.net/2009...
- Seb Paquet
The Twitter/fish-catch study has been published: http://scienceblogs.com/clock...
- Bora Zivkovic
Also, there was a session on Citizen Science at the Science Online London earlier today - does anyone have a good transcript/blogpost about that session?
- Bora Zivkovic
In a few weeks time, I'll be appearing as a guest on Science Hour with Dr Kiki http://www.kirstensanford.com/ to talk about citizen science. This to me seems like an appropriate thread on FF to mention during the show. I'll update the thread once a date has been formally scheduled for the show which like the last one http://is.gd/2UPZk, will be broadcast live on the web.
- Graham Steel
That is fantastic, Graham. Keep us posted.
- Bora Zivkovic
Open Dinosaur Project: http://opendino.wordpress.com/
- Jason Bobe
A FriendFeed group: http://friendfeed.com/citizen...
- Bora Zivkovic
Well spotted.
- Graham Steel
Please help me amass a list of UK tree organisations and projects, e.g. research, conservation, forestry, charities/trusts, campaigns, societies, retail, ID keys, etc.
How?
- Kevin J Hatton
By listing them here, like this: Plantlife http://www.plantlife.org.uk/ Natural England http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/ Woodland Trust http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/ Forestry Commission http://www.forestry.gov.uk/ National Parks http://www.nationalparks.gov.uk/ Royal Parks http://www.royalparks.org.uk/ Green Wave (international) http://greenwave.cbd.int/ Trees for Cities http://www.treesforcities.org/
- Karen James
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh http://www.rbge.org.uk/ National Botanic Garden of Wales http://www.gardenofwales.org.uk/ Forest Harvest http://www.forestharvest.org.uk/ tree surgeons http://www.treesurgery.com/ Association of Polelathe Turners & Greenwood Workers http://www.bodgers.org.uk/index... Plantlife Juniper Survey http://www.plantlife.org.uk/juniper...
- Karen James
Forest Stewardship Council http://www.fsc-uk.org/ National Trust http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main... Royal Horticultural Society http://www.rhs.org.uk/ National Arboretum (Westonbirt) http://www.forestry.gov.uk/westonb...
- Karen James
forest research: http://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/
- Joe Dunckley
Conservation Volunteers Northern Ireland http://www.cvni.org/ , Trees of our future http://www.toof.org.uk/ , Armagh Orchard Trust http://www.bbc.co.uk/norther... (h/t @cvni on twitter)
- Karen James
London Biodiversity Partnership http://www.lbp.org.uk/index...
- Karen James
SAPS http://www-saps.plantsci.cam.ac.uk via @lisushi on twitter
- Karen James
Sensory Trust http://www.sensorytrust.org.uk/
- Karen James
CAT Centre for Alternative Technology - Machynlleth, Wales - ecology education projects and partnered in a sustainable forestry project via @reinikainen on twitter
- Karen James
Another disastrous example of a big shot faculty making a big move w/out proper disclosure to all lab members http://www.utdallas.edu/news...
At the time of this press release by the University of Texas, some of the staff working for Michael Zhang at Cold Spring Harbor had not been notified of his move. He's expected to leave by January!
- Hysell Oviedo
DISLIKE!
- Noah Gray
Not only that, but Zhang has been hiring people and promising 3 yr contracts in New York. Postdocs coming from foreign countries with their families.
- Hysell Oviedo
Is this a cruel instantiation of bait & switch? Is Texas not as desirable of a place? Also, when someone FAILS so miserably to communicate important decisions to their staff, is it the institution's responsibility to go above their head and give their staff at least a 6 month notice?
- Hysell Oviedo
I am without words.
- Karen James
Box #2 of PLoS swag winging it's away (shortly) from San Fran to Glasgow.Which is nice... #PLOS
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It arrived today. Have a stack of PLoS t-shirts in various sizes/designs. I now need to think of a cool way to give them away to folks that will wear 'em (I already have 4) . Any ideas?
- Graham Steel
prizes ;)
- D0r0th34
Exactly. But what for?
- Graham Steel
send them to people who research blog an article from one of the plos journals? Or just people who ask politely? :D
- Allyson Lister
Nice one, Allyson. Will run this by Dave Munger of researchblogging.org
- Graham Steel
And have now done so.
- Graham Steel
Me! Me! Me! Want! Want! Want! (subtle, huh?) :)
- Ricardo Vidal
@ Ricardo, (you is as subtle as a brick shaped object) what size are you? I'll trade you one for a Mendeley one :)
- Graham Steel
Since I've yet to hear back from Dave M, plan T is now underway. Here are the shirts http://www.flickr.com/photos... Top row middle is now winging it's way off to Dr H Gee of Nature.com http://twitter.com/McDawg... even though, this might be rejected via i-stone !!. Ricardo V (shirt size yet to be disclosed) might have another (he has 12 hours left to comment) , so there are still four avaliable for free from me as matters stand. Code = ask politely/candidly. #PLOS
- Graham Steel
After what I suffered in the link posted above, I think I would be extremely happy to have a new PLoS T. Thanks!
- Paulo Nuin
Paulo, one can still do S, or L or XL. (One XL one went to someone in Cromer). Name your size and it will be shipped. ONLY three left now and you folks must try harder to convince me give this stuff away, err convincingly. (Each pack will contain other PLoS goodies too).
- Graham Steel
I will take the L. Can you send me an email with whatever you need? Maybe it's too far for you to ship :-)
- Paulo Nuin
And the L will be shipped to Paulo later in the month. So what's left? After a re-count, 2 S and 1 XL. Rather than simply giving the last 3 away in the manner thus far, one shall devise a competition and three lucky winners will get the last of the pickings.
- Graham Steel
Hmmm - somehow this comment thread dropped off my first few FF pages... Good luck with the competition, I might be a M but I'm not a S, so I'll pass :)
- Allyson Lister
Competition Idea ! As matters stand, me thinks it's boiling down to some form of pub quiz thang down in the, err pub after Science Online London http://www.scienceonlinelondon.org/blog... It will last for 5 - 10 mins and will be called "Who's Round Is It Anyway" Whilst the rules will be made up as we go along, the Host (not me) will ensure 'fair-play'. Cheating will be allowed within reason. 10 Prizes up for grabs inc. a priceless mystery top prize !! #solo09
- Graham Steel
Above comment updated, nudge.
- Graham Steel
Graham - I'll happily take you up on the trade-for-Mendeley shirt! :-) Yes yes yes!
- Victor / Mendeley Team
Game on. Must dash - I have a train to catch...whooosh
- Graham Steel
I recently posted on researchblogging.org and have published in PLoS ONE. Does that qualify me for one of the red or black ones in size M?
- Karen James
Did I read Mendeley shirt? (am actually wearing one of my PLoS One shirts right now...)
- Björn Brembs
By the time I got round to playing "Who's Round Is It Anyway" most folks had gone, so I adopted a new strategy under the circumstances. In the end, the priceless mystery top prize was won (at random I hasten to add) by Brian Kelly:- http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2664... On Monday, 2 shirts went to Victor and Jan @ Mendeley. Thanks guy's for the Mendeley shirt in return...
- Graham Steel
How citation distortions create unfounded authority: analysis of a citation network -- Greenberg 339: b2680 -- BMJ - http://www.bmj.com/cgi...
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Citation-based metrics distort authority. Duh.
- Geoffrey Bilder
That may be true, Geoffrey, but I think this paper isn't about citation metrics distorting authority but how citation distortions create undeserved authority
- Karen James
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Rejection number three. This one from Current Biology. Damn.
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what is your next target?
- Jean-Claude Bradley
Are you at least getting decent feedback as to why it's bouncing, maybe ideas you can use to improve it?
- Bill Hooker
Been there, done that. Unnecessary historical baggage in an outdated publishing environment. My current rule of submission: if it's not going to raise eyebrows on your CV, submit it to PLoS One.
- Björn Brembs
Next targets are probably going to be PNAS (2 of our co-authors are members of the NAS), Ecology Letters and Conservation Biology in that order, Jean-Claude. We thought it would be an eyebrow-raiser, Björn - Nature essentially solicited it from us ...then rejected it w/out review. As for feedback, Bill, well, it was just the standard rejection: Nature & PLoS Biology said it wasn't a big...
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- Karen James
If you really think it deserves public attention, PLoS in general has great media connections. Publicity for our Science paper wasn't even in the ballpark of our PLoS One paper. So it all depends on what your intentions are: look good on CV, go for GlamMagz. Attention and wide-spread readership: at least in my experience, PLoS can easily compete with that, in case you can't get both :-)
- Björn Brembs
Thanks, Björn - if it were just me I'd go for your suggested GamMagz approach at this stage especially since this paper has a timeliness component for November 2009 but... I'm not the first author. She's a PhD student potentially looking for 'serious' academic tenure track post-docs, so I can't really make that decision for her. However, I will send along your advice and see what she...
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- Karen James
That's what they said? That kind of behavior just totally kills me. As if we needed more persuasion that we need to get rid of journals...
- Björn Brembs
And now I will engage in what is commonly known as Bora baiting: I just received an email in which postdoc X "strongly recommends NOT going for plos one; it's reputation has gone down because it's too broad in what it takes (basically really anything) and it's not registered in the isi web" to which grad student Y adds, "open access i fully support but it should also be found by people like me who only browse the web of science". Now, don't shoot the messenger. *ducks*
- Karen James
*giggle*.
- f1000
@kejames Have you tried Proc. R. Soc.? They're quick, & have a reputation larger than their impact factor.
- Bob O'Hara
"People who only browse the web of science." There's a word for that. It escapes me just now.
- Neil Saunders
Thanks @BobOHara will floatt Proc. R. Soc. w/ the other authors...
- Karen James
Also, I just noticed, Bora 'liked' this post. Ouch, man. There should be a button that says, "Don't like'. (as Richard Carter has said plenty of times before me).
- Karen James
I use "Like" as "Bookmark" and have not thought about the 'emotional' meaning of the word in about a year on FF....
- Bora Zivkovic
Okay, so that was meant in a sort of Friday-afternoon-lighthearted-way.. ; )
- Karen James
I just typed 'We submit the attached manuscript entitled __ by __ to be considered for publication as a Letter in Nature.' *swoons*
Hopefully, @cromercrox won't get his hands on it as you know what will happen if he does !!!!
- Graham Steel
You know I tremble with the fear of it. On 20 Jul 2009, at 12:42, Graham Steel wrote:
- Karen James
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#DCscitweetup: Editing this a bit to tell you that the #dcscitweetup is ON! July 15, 6pm, Jaleo.
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Are you suggesting something in DC? I'm in Frederick. Could try to make it.
- Jim Hardy
Yes, that's right, we've had two London Science Tweetups (#ukscitweetup) and are planning a third. We meet at central pubs on weeknights. Important to advertise that it's not limited to scientists who tweet but anyone with an interest in science who tweets. We've used doodle to do the scheduling and vote for venue suggestions (www.doodle.com).
- Karen James
ooo... good call on the doodle poll. Jim, to faciliate central location, I'd be partial to Bethesda location... that owuld help folks in frederick as well as the biotechies in gaithersburg, rockville and still on the red line for folks downtown.
- KMS
Oh, is the Red Line back up, yet?
- Jim Hardy
Red line slow but working. Likely by mid/end of july will be back to normal. That said... want to see more interest before planning. So, if you know of others that might be interested spread news. I don't have a really large following so my reach is pretty wimpy.
- KMS
DOODLE POLL POSTED FOR JULY DATES: http://www.doodle.com/h79frzx...
- KMS
Sounds great! I would like to try and take notes too, or interview any attendees that are interested.
- Mike Chelen
I would love to attend! I live in Bethesda and work in Arlington.
- Karen Li Trimbath
I would prefer that we enjoy a bit before we worry too much about notetaking and interviews, especially for the govt employees that might be attending. even if we are attending as a personal "thing" we can get in trouble if any comments are made, have to go through clearance etc. thoughts?
- KMS
Happy to adapt for whatever preferences exist, appreciating that different individuals may have varying roles and restrictions. Agree with the goal to be inclusive towards everyone, and however their comfort can be respected is amenable to me :)
- Mike Chelen
RSVP here: http://twtvite.com/5xy5kc
- Mike Chelen
Anyone have access to Geol. Soc. of London journals? Plleeaaassseeeee can I have this?? DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2003.219.01.02
apparently we have the J but not the SP, sorry.
- Christina Pikas
Sorry, no can do. Have reshared to the Refs Wanted room for wider exposure.
- Bill Hooker
K might have gotten from KJ already
- Christina Pikas
I guess that CP refers to this tweet http://twitter.com/kzelnio...
- Graham Steel
Not quite, Kevin. Hold yer horses.
- Karen James
Isn't this nuts? We know, because he/she is a scientist, that the author *wants* Kevin to read this paper. And yet, the means by which the author distributes the paper (and was, until fairly recently, pretty much forced to use) puts obstacles in the way, and even having found a way around the obstacles Kevin still has to wait until Monday. It's not the publishers who are crazy -- they...
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- Bill Hooker
So did you get the paper? If not, I suggest reposting to the Refs Wanted as the original post (reshare of this) will be off everyone's radar by now.
- Bill Hooker
I don’t know what to say - http://network.nature.com/people...
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Read this, then weep...
- Cameron Neylon
Such a shame. I imagine this went right to the top and the order came down from on high. Nature is owned by Macmillan which is itself owned by Holzbrinck. It would have been nice to see them make a stand - but I don't blame them really (it takes a special kind of executive to go against legal advice) - and I think it cool that they handled it nicely and by telephone. "dubious assertions" lol - it was a blog post. It would be nice to find out who you mentioned in the post was the one who threatened to sue.
- Andrew Lang
Blimey, gov.
- Graham Steel
There's already a discussion of it here: http://ff.im/3o83q I always hated the idea of blog censorship. Especially if they're well thought out and written. Controversy spurs great discussions. Very poor decision on NN's part
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
Some opinion being expressed here in apparent lack of awareness of internet law.
- Maxine
Internet law? You'd be the first to explain to us why this occurred, Maxine. I have a feeling it has more to do with pissing off people with money than it does with any law in any country. Unless Nature is run out of Iran or North Korea? Unfortunately, Nature owns the site and can do whatever it wants as far as censorship is concerned, but there was absolutely nothing in his post that was against the law.
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
Brian what qualifications do you have in English law?
- Bob O'Hara
Am I privileged in that I can still read the supposedly removed post? Or is there only a word or two that could be construed as libelous, that has been subtly changed?
- Heather
What is "internet law"?
- Bill Hooker
None, but if that post is considered libelous under British law, it's time to change a few things. Also, I forgot that NPG was headed up in Britain. So apologies on that :(
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
@Bill- legislation written in 133t.
- Noah Gray
Look at the comments on the Nature News article - you can always tell a crazy. http://www.nature.com/news... More seriously, I understand that a great deal of deliberation and consideration were undertaken, but there has to be a better way to handle this. Not just this specific incident, but all future incidents such as this. This really makes the case...
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- Mr. Gunn
@Noah -- unlike standard legalese, I can read 133t. :-)
- Bill Hooker
The question of libel isn't "Is it published in England?", it's "Can it be READ in England?" Hence a Ukrainian businessman can sue a Ukrainian website hosted in the Ukraine for an article written in Ukrainian - *in England*. The reason? One or two Ukrainian readers in England could access it. http://us.ft.com/ftgatew... This is a problem if you have assets accessible from England.
- Alun Salt
+1 Mr. Gunn. - lol Noah+Bill!
- Björn Brembs
As Alun says. His point, and some others, are made in our NN discusssion here: http://network.nature.com/groups... .
- Maxine
So are you suggesting we ban Britain from the internet :P
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
Brilliant idea, Brian! If someone in the UK wants to use the web, they have to have a second home abroad. (ETA: to be clear, this isn't sarcasm - I genuinely like it!)
- Bob O'Hara
What if they just got their internet through an off shore proxy service? :P
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
Why are Nature Network and ScienceBlogs different in this respect from Blogger and Wordpress?
- Karen James
The only difference that I can see is that NN and SB 'approve' those who have blogs on their sites. So, they may have a liability when it comes to libel suits that Blogger and Wordpress (which have no such selection process) do not have. But be warned: I am not a lawyer.
- Stephen Curry
On the challenges of conference blogging : Genetic Future - http://scienceblogs.com/genetic...
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My comment: "Honestly.....this should not be an issue. The requirement that "To attend CSHL meetings, reporters agree to obtain permission from a speaker before writing up any results." borders on censorship and any decent reporter should say a loud a clear NO to such a request. Giving a talk at a conference is a public presentation, if you want to keep your data secret, then don't give a talk. If any conference organizer asks this of me, I'll either refuse to attend or do my blogging/twittering anyway. I expect any serious science-blogger to do the same. These are rules we must refuse to abide by.....honestly."
- Nils Reinton
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Liking for Nils' comments in the thread. "If your "unfettered presentation of unpublished work" cannot withstand the scrutiny of anyone but selected attendees, you shouldn't present it at a scientific conference. Such presentations belong in cults, sects or secret societies. Regardless of the venue however, no reporter (or blogger, or twitterer) should ever sign anything resembling a stamp of approval as a prerequisite to publish."
- Bill Hooker
I think the issue is really different to this. It's simply that people think they are speaking to a room of people they can see, and when they realize they aren't they get upset. There are situations where robust and honest debate is improved by agreeing that the details of what happens within a room are confidential. What is important is that there is a discussion of the "rules" and...
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- Cameron Neylon
This could go either way, but I'm definitely on Nils' side. Others that are less open probably fall on the other side
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
I agree with Nils but I think being polite and asking (and respecting other people's requests) is a productive way of spreading that message. If you want people to be open, be open about how you are making them open.
- Cameron Neylon
I think Cam's point could be addressed by conference organizers making sure that every presenter was aware that if they didn't want to be blogged and tweeted they must say so at the outset. That way there's no need to ask permission and individual speakers' wishes can be accomodated.
- Bill Hooker
Even better, part of the registration for speakers should be to indicate if they would prefer NOT to allow blogging, tweeting, etc during their talk. Then it can be indicated in the conference program and stragglers to any particular talk don't have to be in the dark. It might also lead to and interesting study of whether there is a correlation between "willingness to be...
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- Shirley Wu
+1 shwu, that is a much better idea
- Bill Hooker
+1 shwu, I agree and prefer that presenters get the choice on this topic, not the organizer.
- joergkurtwegner
Agree with Shirley that such information upfront would solve this (should be non-existing) problem. In the comment thread to the post there is one comment suggesting that these issues are specific to biology. Is this true ? Here's the quote: "This particular attitude of trying to enforce semi-close/semi-open (depending on your point of view) conferences seems to be something particular...
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- Nils Reinton
As I said to someone the other day, I want a t-shirt with a big CC-BY on the front of it (and on the back "this opinion can be freely shared and re-used) ;-)
- Cameron Neylon
Actually I remember what it was - Brian Kelly was videoing me giving a talk a few nights back and asked me to explicitly say on the video that re-use and posting of material was ok.
- Cameron Neylon
Cam, I love the t-shirt idea!
- Bill Hooker
Agree completely with Shirley ... and I want that T-Shirt
- Deepak Singh
Ditto on the shirt.
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
Ooh I can't wait to go to a scientific talk to see a sign at the door that reads "No blogging allowed"
- Wladimir Labeikovsky
Cam's comments remind me of http://researchremix.wordpress.com/2008... from Heather Piwowar, April 2008. I made a couple of suggestions shortly thereafter about t-shirts based on this. I shall now contact my e-fashion guru as to creating some designs and will crowd-source early on..
- Graham Steel
Did someone mention a t-shirt? This is my area. I'm onto it. Cameron: which of the different CC license images is it that you wanted on front?
- Karen James
...choose from: http://creativecommons.org/about...
- Karen James
Blimey. "t-shirt gal" has arrived already. Thanks Karen, sorry, "t-shirt-gal"
- Graham Steel
Andrew Maynard weighs in: http://2020science.org/2009...
- Karen James
shouldn't cc themselves be selling the t-shirts? (they do have a shop of their own, y'know!)
- Joe Dunckley
Well, this whole experience has certainly taught me a lot about the interface between blogging and reporting; I'll be approaching conference blogging with considerably more caution next time. I do generally agree with Nils that open conferences are the ideal, although I am more sympathetic than he is about the pragmatic decision of conference organisers to place restrictions. Long term, though, I think something like Shirley's "opt out" model is the only viable solution.
- Daniel MacArthur
But will they allow me to use pen and paper? If yes, can I take my notes home? If yes, can I show it to a colleague? If yes, how many colleagues can read it? Seriously, I always thought that the main objective of a conference was to do science communication, not stop it.
- Marcos de Carvalho
There's a lot of discussion around this issue. It seems clear enough to me and I think Cameron and Shirley summed it up well. The onus is on conference organisers to (a) be aware of social media, (b) have a clear policy for their meeting, (c) make sure all attendees are aware of the policy. In the CSHL case, it just seems like there were rules for accredited media, but no-one had even thought about the unaccredited - i.e. everyone else.
- Neil Saunders
On the t-shirt issue the thing I had in mind was first and second in the "icon" category next to each other (see http://creativecommons.org/about...). The reason I've never gone on and done anything about it was precisely because it seemed like it ought to be a CC thing to release (and make money on) and I kept failing to suggest it to someone there when we had our heads on. But...
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- Cameron Neylon
Speaking as a conference organizer (albeit not for scientific meetings), I think the (a), (b), and (c) specified by Neil above are about as much as anyone can expect. Even if a speaker were to say (in advance) that they didn't want to be blogged or have their message broken up in disparate tweets, there's no way for conference organizers to enforce such a request. You can ask that...
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- Jill O'Neill
Quote from latest comment in the thread: "Second, lets face the power of amorality: Impeach tweeting/blogging/news coverage to avoid scoopers? First, have you already see a news feed precise enough to scoop someone? Second, considering the number of ruthless sharks in science, any scientist would be crazy to present interesting data still scoopable in any meeting being large or small". - well said
- Nils Reinton
In regards to "any scientist would be crazy to present interesting data still scoopable in any meeting being large or small" -- if the data were very interesting and highly tweeted and blogged, it would increase the level of shame a ruthless shark would endure upon trying to scoop. That is, tweeting and blogging so the whole world knows should (in my mind) reduce probability of scooping.
- Steve Koch
I always struggle when "scooping" enters any debate. I just don't believe in it.
- Neil Saunders
@Neil: what do you make of the stories so many people tell? Here's one I was told: A presented preliminary results from a knockout mouse model at a conference, B went home from that conference and repeated the work using siRNA and published first, claiming priority in an area in which he had not previously had an interest. Yes, A was still free to publish the mouse work, but you know...
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- Bill Hooker
@Bill I agree, and it has often ruined students along with the PI. Now I think about it from your angle. "A" presents preliminary results. The audience is excited -- they tweet & blog. "A" talks with more people afterwards who tweet and blog some more. "A" and A's students respond electronically by commenting on blogs and providing links to their Open Notebook Science. Is "B" really going to be able to rush home and publish "first?"
- Steve Koch
>>And I've heard plenty of stories where the "scooper" effectively prevented the "scoopee" from publishing, since you know how much emphasis is placed on novelty.<< journal policy seems to be the weakest link here. does anyone have info on whether (and how) the "scooping problem" manifests itself in physics and other fields enlightened enough to possess a preprint infrastructure?
- Wladimir Labeikovsky
Wladimir: good point. Andre Brown of Biocurious says that biologists look at arXiv and say, "how can you afford to make preprints public, you'll get scooped" and physicists look at biology and say "how can you live without a preprint server to get your preprints out there into the community without the publishing delay?" It's a totally different mindset, and I can't figure out how to get biologists to switch.
- Bill Hooker
See slide 11 here: http://www.arl.org/sparc... (warning, pdf!)
- Bill Hooker
Biologists will switch when they ask themselves "is there really such a thing as scooping?", instead of blindly accepting the establishment line that there is.
- Neil Saunders
Bill: That's great! I've had both conversations at least half a dozen times with both physicists and biologists, usually while discussing why the arXiv took off in physics, and not in biology. (Physicist: "It's because physics is more competitive than biology". Biologist: "It's because biology is more competitive than physics.") It's very difficult to keep a straight face.
- Michael Nielsen
As a biophysicist, I don't have any insight to add :) I think I see what Neil means now (maybe?), and it's consistent with what Bill and I were saying. Once the majority of the grant review panel (or tenure review panel) doesn't believe in scooping, then scooping will go away. In order for people not to believe in scooping, they need to believe in preprints (already done for physics), open notebooks, blogs, conference presentations with public slideshare, tweets, etc. So it's going to take a while.
- Steve Koch
Aw c'mon Neil, what about my story of A and B and the conference? Or here's another, told by none other than PZ Myers: https://www.blogger.com/comment... (5th comment). How is that not scooping (and theft, to boot)?
- Bill Hooker
Well, it's widely known what happened, so why doesn't that take the sting of of being scooped?
- Mr. Gunn
Suggest session on "whistleblogging" to uncover Bad Science. For those not present last year Ben Goldacre gave great introduction about bad science. We see many cases where the blogosphere is the first place where bad science (including bad science publishing) is reported. Examples are creationism, alternative pseudotherapies, plagiarism, ...
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May be worth raising the legal implications of getting into this area, given the litigious nature of some affected organisations. What about JackofKent as a speaker? He's a lawyer with a close interest in the current Singh case? http://jackofkent.blogspot.com/
- Stephen Curry
What would you discuss in the session? We all agree that whistleblowing is necessary and that blogs can be very good at that. Would you talk about positive examples, start an initiative to better coordinate the efforts, ... ? I very much enjoyed Ben Goldacre's talk and his book.
- Martin Fenner
Is debunking creationism really whistleblowing? And reporting bad science publishing? I think we should be careful no to mix everything and use the terms watchdog journalism ("holding accountable public personalities and institutions" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ), whistleblowing ("alleging scientific misconduct" http://poynter.indiana.edu/see-ckg...) and...
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- Enro
Enro, talking about these different ways of uncovering bad science could already be interesting material for a session.
- Martin Fenner
Enro: debunking creationism can absolutely be whistleblowing, if what you're doing is exposing misconduct (e.g. http://thedispersalofdarwin.wo... ) or false claims (e.g. Darwinius hype).
- Karen James
To my mind disinformation on internet is separate from "correcting the published record" -the journal that published the research is a better route than the blogosphere for the latter. Cimate is a very good example of much bad and misleading (political etc) internet disinformation. Gavin of Real Climate blog would be great on this - if you can't do US speakers how about Olive Heffernan editor of Nature Reports Climate Change and Climate Feedback blog? Autism/vaccination and AIDS two other possible areas.
- Maxine
@Enro I was thinking of the Wiley Proteomics fiasco last year where a highish impact journal published creationist and plagiarist material and the blogosphere reacted instantaneously
- peter murray-rust
There is not usually a control to these blogostorms, though - ie journals make corrections anyway, without the blogosphere, so you can't know cause/effect. Whereas un-peer-reviewed, devious misinformation about climate, autism/vaccines, AIDS, crank "science" et al is prevalent on the internet. What are scientists doing about that? Good topic for a session.
- Maxine
Thinking of designing an "I received the first tweet from space' tee shirt with @astro_mike's avatar on it. What do you think?
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A must, me thinks....
- Graham Steel
*rubs hands and cracks knuckles*
- Karen James
As of this morning, I am a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. I think this calls for some Stan Rogers. ♫ http://blip.fm/profile...
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Congrats - something else you now have in common with Mr Darwin, I believe?
- Stephen Curry
Bless you, Professor Curry.
- Karen James
Watch @astro_mike & #sts-125 crew in an in-flight news conference http://www.youtube.com/watch... and ship-to-ship call w/ the ISS http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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In the second video (crew news conference) key points are 22:40 when John Grunsfeld give advice to Barack Obama about NASA's future and 26:45 when Mike Massimino (@Astro_Mike!) talks about how and why he tweeted from space!
- Karen James
Ocean awareness fail: those opposing the @beaglecampaign keep saying 'most of the globe has been discovered' *facepalm* http://www.independent.co.uk/extras...
Correct, Karen. As discussed in this fab TED talk, we are only aware of about 3% of what lies below:- http://www.ted.com/talks...
- Graham Steel
I love that TED talk - this was probably the 7th or 8th time I've watched it. The octopus at the end is phenomenal.
- Karen James
The new Friendfeed is an AWESOME way to view TwitPic photos. Will be making lots of imaginary friend accounts on there for that filter!
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Anyone know a quick way of adding your twitter friends into friendfeed as imaginary friends? This is taking a while.
- tomit
The main barrier to my using FriendFeed as my main social networking site is that you have to add tweeps as imaginary friends one at a time. Ideally there would be a way to add them all at once, and, even better, an option to tell FF to automatically update our imaginary friend list when we follow/unfollow new Twitter users, and, even better, automatically detect when an imaginary friend starts using FriendFeed and automatically make them a real friend.
- Karen James
Yeah... I'm surprised no one has done anything to make this easier yet. I wish I knew more about programming. It would be very useful.
- tomit
I have one imaginary friend who had one feed (delicious) he signed up for friend feed, added his delicious feed, and it now seems like I'm following him.. but maybe not.. I'm not sure.
- Bill Rawlinson
I used to have an imaginary friend, but he blocked me.
- Stan Scott
http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... is a fun search
- Benjamin Golub
You can add all your "tweeps" (twitter-lingo is starting to drive me mad!) into a single private feed, if you prefer.
- Karl Knechtel
I would follow karls advice
- Bill Rawlinson
where did it go? imaginary is gone!!!! http://friendfeed.com/setting...
- Noah David Simon
it's not gone, you just add it as a feed (which is really all it was before), and then make it private.
- holly
I think it is gone - doesn't work any more for me
- Michael
John Hemming (Observer): Let's send Britons back to the wild places - http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment...
"We live in a golden age of discovery. While the great explorers - Livingstone and Stanley, Burton and Speke, Shackleton and Scott - filled in blanks on a map, it is we who now learn how the world works and our effect on it. We not only discover new species of fauna and flora, but how they respond to changing climate and human interference. Such discoveries are crucial to the future of this threatened planet. The Royal Geographical Society, of which I was director from 1975 to 1996, is in the grip of an acrimonious debate about how best to deliver this research. Since it was founded in 1830, it has sent out expeditions, while also supporting, through grants, the expeditions of others. While funding for the latter continues, the RGS's own research projects have been halted."
- Richard Carter, FCD
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Either you or bookmarklet omitted the link to the article..
- Karen James
D'oh! Fixed.
- Richard Carter, FCD
Bloggers slow to pick up sound bites - 29 April 2009 - New Scientist - http://www.newscientist.com/article...
Interesting spin from traditional news medium New Scientist: "It turns out that bloggers are rarely the first to publish a catchy quote, but instead lag behind traditional news media such as newspapers, with a typical quote being picked up by bloggers an average of 2.5 hours later."
- Richard Carter, FCD
from Bookmarklet
In quoting soundbites, you are doing exactly what the speaker wants. I could spin this to imply that bloggers are more thoughtful about what they write, and are less taken in by spin.
- Richard Carter, FCD
NewScientist appears to have it out for bloggers.
- Karen James
Important Science Tweets! - http://scienceblogs.com/isisthe...
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when i can submit a grant via twitter. Thats when i will be happy :-)
- Cameron Neylon
from fftogo
@NIH Working on protein function prediction. Need postdoc+new cluster. Send $0.7M for 2009-2012. Prev pubs: http://is.gd/vnPN kthxbi
- Iddo Friedberg
Awesome, Iddo!
- Mr. Gunn
Iddo, can I cite you? :)
- Pawel Szczesny
@NSF is also on twitter
- Karen James
I propose the hashtag #funding for all grant proposal tweets to any org.
- Karen James
For example... @NSF Kid-sourcing DNA barcodes to monitor plant diversity in changing climate. $0.5M for 2010-12. CV http://tinyurl.com/cbw45r #funding
- Karen James
Like that proposal Karen - now all you need is the other 20 pages...but I'll vote for it
- Cameron Neylon
Iddo's and Karen's example tweets had stuck in my head. Question for grant reviewers: how much important information do they contain that is usually spread over 20 pages? 20%, 50%, 80%? (Iddo didn't describe precisely project, so let's take Karen's tweet)
- Pawel Szczesny
@Pawel, I don't claim to be the most experienced reviewer, but I'd say 80% is closest in my opinion for NIH proposals. The 20% cruft usually pops up in the "methods" type section, and I think at some point you just have to believe (or not) that they'll get the details right. Anyway, also don't mean to say that proposals couldn't be shorter, but I do think most of the currently requested content is at least useful.
- Andrew Su
Thanks Cameron though according to Andrew it sounds like I only need another 16 pages.
- Karen James
Guardian - US study: Women who have ovaries removed during hysterectomies face increased risk of death - http://www.guardian.co.uk/science...
And there was I thinking the risk of death for everyone on the planet was 100%.
- Richard Carter, FCD
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...On an equally pedantic, but more serious note, isn't this simply a case of 'the bigger the operation, the greater the risk'?
- Richard Carter, FCD
either that or ovaries have TEH SPECIAL POWERZ
- Karen James
If they have, I'm getting some.
- Richard Carter, FCD
Yesterday at the Mail: "Images of solar storms are so boring ...I know! Let's photoshop Big Ben in front!" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/science... via @edyong209
Pedantic, I know, but Big Ben is the name of the bell inside the clock tower, not the clock tower itself.
- Richard Carter, FCD
*pointed silence*
- Karen James
Can I enter this pedantry competition by pointing out that's the whole Houses of Parliament there? No? OK, I won't.
- Bob O'Hara
If you want to be really pedantic, they're showing the sun to the north west of the Houses of Parliament, which would never happen in the northern hemisphere. (And, besides, it's way too big.)
- Richard Carter, FCD
I have to say, I'm with gee minor on this one.
- Karen James
That's Magic! - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Starring yours truly.
- Richard Carter, FCD
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Oh gods, I thought British culture had had enough of magicians from Yorkshire.
- Bob O'Hara
Cool as feck, Richard
- Graham Steel
I spy the Darwin Correspondence on your shelf. WANT. Oh, and hil-fecking-arious video.
- Karen James
My god, actual creative original content on YouTube! So where did you go after you disappeared..?
- Sprague D
@Karen Might that be the set of green books, on the second top shelf on the left, perchance ??
- Graham Steel
You're right about the books Karen/Graham. If I had my way, the Darwin Correspondence Project (http://tinyurl.com/5ugaly) would be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. The amount of research that has gone into those books is phenomenal.
- Richard Carter, FCD
TED fellowships: all expenses paid to a TED conference, give a TED talk, author spot on the TED blog. - http://www.ted.com/index...
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Might be a great way to advance your research or Open Science agenda...
- Bill Hooker
've had a discussion yesterday – why haven't anyone presented open science ideas at TED? Bill, Michael, Cameron, JC aren't you up for this? ;-)
- Yaroslav Nikolaev
Open Science TED talk? That would be just so awesome.....
- Graham Steel
Yaroslav - it would be great but it is pretty hard to follow Bill Gates :)
- Jean-Claude Bradley
Yaroslav -- I was indeed thinking of Jean-Claude, Cameron and a growing number of others who are actually *doing* Open Science. The TED people seem pretty forward-looking so I don't think it's necessary to have already changed the world, just made a good start on that project. A TED talk would certainly put ONS on a LOT of peoples' radar, which is where collaborations come from, which is the secret to ONS success...
- Bill Hooker
Yes, I like to see this at TED too.
- Meryn Stol
*squints eye, looks askance, scratches cheek*
- Karen James
Care to elaborate, Karen?
- Bill Hooker
My feeling, at least as far as I am concerned is that I've still got a bit more "doing rather than talking" to get on with here. JC has actually got out and done a lot more
- Cameron Neylon
Bill - Sylvia Earle, who I believe is involved in a partnership with the Beagle Project, won one of the TED Prizes this year. I'm guessing that's what Karen is referring to.
- Michael Nielsen
Yaroslav - Sure, it'd be great fun, and would, I hope, do some substantial good for open science.
- Michael Nielsen
great, seems we might expect one of you on TED 2010?! ;-) Or what about this one – http://www.ted.com/pages... I believe we could make some open biocrowd-sourcing to help financially! ;-)
- Yaroslav Nikolaev
I brought this to the attention of Peter Suber yesterday who has given this his full approval.
- Graham Steel
actually was the Open Access concept ever presented at TED? there are many scientists who are not aware of these ideas...Graham, do you think Peter might consider presenting OA as well?
- Yaroslav Nikolaev
Damn, Yaroslav, I like the way you think. Peter Suber would be an *excellent* candidate for a TED Fellowship, and community financing to send someone to a TED conference regardless of fellowship awards is also a great idea. (Before anyone nominates Peter, note that he has had health issues and may not be up for the travel. Still a great idea.)
- Bill Hooker
I just flipped through the "tech" category and found no OA-specific talks but a number of related ones that I think set the stage for an OA talk: Jamais Cascio (http://www.ted.com/index...), Kevin Kelly (http://www.ted.com/index...), Yochai Benkler...
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- Bill Hooker
Nice work, Yaroslav and Bill. I wasn't aware of Peter's health issues. As such, can I throw another hat into ring - what about John Wilbanks?
- Graham Steel
John would be a brilliant choice as a first step...
- Cameron Neylon
JohnWilbanks++
- D0r0th34
+10 on John!!! Ideally it would be John + Michael/JC/Bill, since OA and OS perspectives are slightly different...although it is not clear of what are the chances of securing two fellowships?!
- Yaroslav Nikolaev
John Wilbanks is another great idea, and more complementary to than competitive with Peter Suber: Peter for OA, John for Open Data. I'm flattered to be mentioned above but won't accept a nomination: I'm not *doing* anything but cheering from the sidelines and imo that's not the face the Open (Notebook) Science community/movement/whatever wants to show the world.
- Bill Hooker
Interesting development. TED have been in touch !! Following comment was posted on my above blogpost overnight "Hi, we'd very much be interested in seeing an application from one of you working Open Science projects! Cheers, Tom Rielly TED Conferences".
- Graham Steel
great news Graham!! ;-) this year only TED@Oxford (July 21-24) is left for the Fellowship..Can you ask Peter whether he might consider that one a possibility?
- Yaroslav Nikolaev
w00t! awesome news, Graham!
- D0r0th34
Cool, Graham.
- Meryn Stol
John will reply in more detail later, but says he would be honored to take part in this!!
- Yaroslav Nikolaev
Yes, it was xlnt to hear from TED via the blogosphere. I established contact with Tom Rielly last January as I mentioned in this post, BTW, you must watch Tom's Ted Talk, it's a hoot.:- http://mcblawg.blogspot.com/2008... Looking forward to hearing from John :)
- Graham Steel
yay John!
- D0r0th34
Whilst we're here, can I also flag up POP!TECH:- http://www.poptech.org/ . I am now able to confirm that Hope Leman has submitted a nomination for Jean-Claude and is in the process of doing the same for Cameron and Michael. With this in mind, i.e., wheels are already in motion, it's most certainly worth giving this a shot. POP!TECH Fellows page:- http://www.poptech.org/sifello...
- Graham Steel
TED is a slightly different entity and imo, taking all of the above into consideration, John would be the most, but not only, practicable person to self-apply for a TED Fellowship before the 3rd April deadline for this year:- http://www.ted.com/pages...
- Graham Steel
John has applied for the fellowship, and Graham made sure Tom Rielly (TED) is updated on this! hoping its a safe bet & we will see Open Science at TED soon! ;-)
- Yaroslav Nikolaev
Whilst this thread is currently off the FF radar, a quick resume. Thanks to all involved in this discussion (on and off web) John Wilbanks has put himself forward as a TED Fellow (TED have been advised by myself), and POP!TECH nominations for Cameron Neylon, Jean-Claude Bradley, and Michael Nielsen should now be complete. A big thanks to y'all !!!!
- Graham Steel
awesomesauce!
- D0r0th34
sweet!
- Björn Brembs
For the public record, here's what I said to Tom Rielly - Partnership Director TED Conferences on 4th April:- "Dear Tom, I've just been informed that John Wilbanks http://revminds.seedmagazine.com/revmind... has applied for a TED Fellowship. As Vice President of Science, John Wilbanks runs the Science Commons project at Creative Commons. On behalf of the Open Science Community, we wish him lthe best of luck in applying for a TED Fellowship. Warm regards, Graham"
- Graham Steel
Graham and Hope, many thanks for all the legwork you have both put into this. Is there anything to be gained by sending Tom Reilly individual or a joint email further supporting John's application?
- Bill Hooker
I think if we are to do something, it probably would be better to send Tom a joint email.
- Graham Steel
This thread is pretty much fossilized by now, but for completeness: http://beta.friendfeed.com/the-lif...
- Bill Hooker
Beagle Project Blog: Video birthday card to astronaut Mike Barratt http://thebeagleproject.blogspot.com/2009...
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Excellent work, chaps.
- Richard Carter, FCD
Thanks Richard, we're told by NASA that Mike viewed it this morning aboard the space station!
- Karen James
@Karen. WOOOWW !!
- Graham Steel
Aw, shucks, Graham, thanks!
- Karen James
One big difference between Twitter and friendfeed (in Twitter's favor too!!!). See here:
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People follow on Twitter. My friendfeed rates have gone way down.
- Robert Scoble
I looked into a few people I've recommended. On Twitter they are getting followed at a MUCH higher rate than their friendfeed accounts are.
- Robert Scoble
That's not a good trend for friendfeed, because it means that there's a much stronger power law in effect there where people like me will have more power to get content noticed than new people who come along.
- Robert Scoble
That is because Twitter is getting a lot of mainstream media attention unlike Friendfeed.
- Veetrag
I wonder why that is? I have some theories that I'll explore over next few minutes.
- Robert Scoble
either im missing something...or haven't used friendfeed much... can you only comment on the main post - or can you comment on a comment?
- Cole Orton
Come to the live version of this post to join along in live time: http://beta.friendfeed.com/scoblei...
- Robert Scoble
It's much easier to add people in twitter and then to just ignore them. FriendFeed is much richer.
- Kevin Gamble
Robert, just because you recommend someone on FF doesn't mean they'll automatically get followed. If he or she isn't interacting here, why would I? I could just read their tweets elsewhere.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
i really think ff is missing out if you can't comment on a comment
- Cole Orton
Veetrag: not true. I filtered out for numbers of people on Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
Tina; yet on Twitter if I recommend someone they get followed in droves.
- Robert Scoble
twitter doesn't require an attention span, which a lot of the internet doesn't have anymore
- BCK
Robert: When you Like and comment on entries from the folks you follow on FriendFeed, you're putting their material in our line of sight. It's not as important to follow massive numbers of people on FF, because one's network does the work of pulling in new content.
- Ken Sheppardson
Cole: what are you talking about. Just use the first name of the comment you are replying to, just like I did.
- Robert Scoble
Brevity of information in twitter? More thorough information on friendfeed? It depends on how much the follower is wanting/willing to consume.
- jcunwired
While your point may be true, I don't understand if it means anything....
- Bwana ☠
BCK: nope, I don't think you've hit the answer either.
- Robert Scoble
jcunwired: FAIL too. You still haven't hit it.
- Robert Scoble
Flashback to 1997. Twitter = Lotus cc:Mail. FF = MS Outlook/Exchange.
- Peter Ghosh
that just seems like bad design - there's no "link" as to what comment you're commenting on that way.
- Cole Orton
Just try to have this conversation in Twitter. That's not happening.
- Kevin Gamble
That's true, Robert, but assuming you're talking about the rec you made Friday night 1) it was in a comment, not your original post (which would get more attention) and 2) time of day really does matter.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Bwana: on Twitter everyone's page has tiles of the people who they've followed and the numbers of people they are following. Twitter has created a "follower game." Friendfeed doesn't make that game so obvious so people don't play it.
- Robert Scoble
Friendfeed is more serious than twitter. I mean that friendfeed is used for spreading interesting topics and conversations. Twitter is more to get updated and the majority uses for uhm lets see.. nothing useful.
- Rafael
I already follow 1300 people. I only follow more people if they A) are adding good content B) are participating or C) are friends/family
- Alex Scoble
No follower game is a bad thing? FOaF obsoletes it imho.
- Bwana ☠
I have followed you on friendfeed since yesterday... much easier to break through the noise, but I have been on Twitter longer so I tend to follow your recomends there.
- Michael Angelo Truncale
I can interact very easily with people I'm not following on here. Sometimes I don't even realize that I'm not following certain people.
- Michael McKean
Tina: I've been watching the follower numbers of other people who recommend people too. On friendfeed we are far more adverse. I believe that the real-time version of friendfeed has caused people to unsubscribe, too.
- Robert Scoble
I get all kinds of nuggets on FriendFeed from people I don't follow... through FoaF
- Bwana ☠
You don't have to necessarily be friend with someone on FF to see his/her comments. If it's a friend of a friend you'll see a lot of likes/comments of that person "for free".
- Christoph Studer
Michael: you can tell you're not following. Their icons next to their comments are white.
- Robert Scoble
Bwana: exactly
- Christoph Studer
i am very confused by this posting. what are we supposed to "see here?"
- @baratunde
@Robert - welcome the the Friendfeed clique mindset
- Steven Hodson
@baratunde: the conversation.
- Robert Scoble
I agree that people are trimming their follows possibly due to real time. That's their choice. On the other hand, content is still readily accessible via FoaF (assuming of course that it's still on).
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Steven: yes, we are cliques here. More like nodes.
- Robert Scoble
My followers who don't follow Robert, see this conversation by default. Twitter doesn't do that.
- Bwana ☠
I find the real-time version of FF makes me want to stay and watch more. This conversation, for example, is very interesting and great to watch in real time.
- Jason Mayoff
Tina: unfollowing people in friendfeed is stupid. Just put the lame ones onto a list.
- Robert Scoble
Since beta I've had lots of new subs - have you just reached critical mass, Robert, whereby everyone on FF is only a FOAF away from you?
- WorldofHiglet
i'm thinking i'd use friendfeed more - if there was a killer mobile (ahem, iphone) app for it
- Cole Orton
Bwana: true, and that makes following people a lot less important. But it does give hyper connectors like me more power to get a lot of people involved in a conversation.
- Robert Scoble
Well hyper connectors is something Twitter has in spades :)
- Bwana ☠
Robert, lame or not that's what people are doing (and really, you're going to call someone else's choice lame just because it's not what you would do?). Lists are an option, filters are an option, and so is unsubscribing. So is doing nothing.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
WorldofHiglet: I still am getting new subs, but this isn't about me. I'm watching normal people's follower behavior.
- Robert Scoble
Tina: it's lame. It's also a free world, so I can call behavior lame. :-)
- Robert Scoble
This Sunday night conversation is brought to you by... Rackspace... And now, back to our program
- Bwana ☠
It's also interesting how a conversation like this goes hot and heavy for about two minutes and then just dies as it rolls off of everyone's pages and the numbers of comments gets too unweildy to navigate.
- Robert Scoble
Why follow a lot of people when FF search and filters are so powerful?
- Tom Landini
Cole: agree. Would love to see a killer iPhone app.
- Jason Mayoff
i also don't like that i have to scroll alllll the way up to click the comment link if/when i have all the comment fully expanded on a post that has, say, >10 comments.
- Cole Orton
Hey, I know: how 'bout we try to get over counting stuff?
- Ken Sheppardson
Robert: unfollowing people is "stupid"??
- Ken Kennedy
One word - twollo.com - that's why Twitter has higher follow rates
- Jesse Stay
Ken: humans love counting.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Lots of things humans love aren't good for them.
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken: yes. Just put the people you hate onto another list. That way you can watch and see if they get more value later.
- Robert Scoble
I don't know about the rest of you, but my stats on Twitter vs my stats here don't make a damned bit of difference to me. Here, I barely follow any stats beyond how many people like my posts and who they are. On Twitter, there seems to be this huge drive for getting bigger, better numbers of followers, how many tweets someone has posted, etc. Guess what? It's bullshit.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Its a lot easier on Twitter to follow ppl ,its like the 1 click amazon patent :-)
- Johni Fisher
Tom: I think you are right there - if I was starting FF now I wouldn't necessarily follow the people I do now and use filters to find the stuff i want. Which would be awhole different experience.
- WorldofHiglet
Chris: bingo, but on the other hand, it's a game that people like to play.
- Robert Scoble
Let me rephrase: users will look to you for how they think they're supposed to use the service. Calling a use choice lame is your way of directing their use. As for who gets followers: what's more useful, a couple hundred mildly interested follows just because Scoble mentioned you, or 10-20 really interested follows that found you via a search, filter, or FoaF?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I enjoy FriendFeed a hell of a lot more than I do Twitter, simply because I don't have the drive to improve my stats. I can post whatever and expect real responses and discussions, not plain old resharing and quick-quip replies.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
I totally agree with Chris.
- Rafael
Funny, but I want to tweet about this discussion, but I can't find a link to it. (New to FF)
- Jason Mayoff
Tina: +1.
- Ken Kennedy
Tina: well, following me is lame too. :-) But unfollowing really is lame. It sends a message to those people that they aren't important anymore. Everyone is important.
- Robert Scoble
Jason: Click the timestamp under the entry
- Bwana ☠
If people are more concerned about how many people they follow, how many are following them, and how many things they're pushing out, they're missing out on the opportunity to really affect things. They're simply playing for the score, not for the game.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Chris: Right. I'd rather have "low" stats and high interactivity rather than high numbers of people who I'm not particularly interested in.
- Michael McKean
Jason: the permalink is the time underneath the headline (timestamp). Or, this: http://beta.friendfeed.com/scoblei...
- Robert Scoble
Wow!! I got real-time back on threads!! Yay!
- Bwana ☠
Thanks... odd place to put it.
- Jason Mayoff
Jason - that's where Twitter puts it as well :)
- Bwana ☠
It's quality vs quantity. FF = quality. Twitter = quantity.
- Brian
Jason: it is odd, but it is always there and you'll never forget it. Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
What I fail to understand every time one of these conversations is brought up is why they are brought up at all. Comparing apples to oranges never results in any definitive result.
- jcunwired
What Bwana said - FoaF Also, I think twitter's 15 mins of fame is almost up IMHO
- BEX
It's a LOT easier to get followers on Twitter, whereas on FF it's like pulling teeth. The whole point of social media is to be social, and if users can't socialize quickly "out of the box", then they'll move on.
- Ryan Garns
who feel's these real-time posts are hard to follow?
- Cole Orton
Brian: the thing is my friendfeed is moving a lot faster than my Twitter and I'm following a lot fewer people here.
- Robert Scoble
Twitter is follows the KISS method. Keep It Simple Stupid. For some, FriendFeed looks too complicated and they don't feel like spending that extra time to benefit from the true purpose of the network. Though I'm reassured that most people on here understand what FriendFeed has to offer over Twitter.
- Michael Forian
Wouldn't it be nice to have a keyboard shortcut for entering comments when threads get long and fast like this one?
- Tom Landini
jcunwired: I disagree. I learn something by doing comparisons to other services.
- Robert Scoble
Now, if it's NOT real-time--it feels lethargic.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
omg this conversation is moving so fckn fast! I just get a up to drink a coke and when I came back. OMG! Frind feed was exploded!
- Rafael
Cole: go here: http://beta.friendfeed.com/scoblei... now scroll to the bottom of the page and just keep it there. VERY easy to follow.
- Robert Scoble
Cole: I like real-time. You catch what you catch. You miss what you miss.
- Jason Mayoff
Michael: FriendFeed doesn't look as complicated as it used to. Or at least the beta doesn't.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
I think Friendfeed feels like a content vacuum, I have no confidence whatsoever that I can get what I put in to it -- back out.
- Andrew Leahey
Jason: I find that if I miss something cool my filters catch it later.
- Robert Scoble
and if you miss it, oh well... ooh, look a penny
- Bwana ☠
I don't feel that way with twitter.
- Andrew Leahey
one big diff is the showing of following/subcriptions and followers/subcribers. Twitter showed it on the mainpage while ff show it on your profile page. in a way, twitter succeed when everyone is trying to win in the number game. but i feel ff is where real conversation can be held between more than one stranger across the world. and it can be more than 140 chars.
- Gerald Neo
andrew: you really need to look into filters. And read my blog from the other day.
- Robert Scoble
Andrew: do you mean being able to find your content within FF, or do you mean getting a return on the hours you're investing?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Andrew: Try following even 250 people. I pretty much ignore half the stuff that goes by on Twitter these days because I can't follow it all.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
twitter's brand and uniform design are untouchable right now - not about features; twitter can develop them
- Andy Fox
scoble - that is easier to track. thanks.
- Cole Orton
I can find content so much easier on FriendFeed, it's scary
- Bwana ☠
The purpose of participating in twitter and the purpose of participating in friendfeed produce entirely different results, that's what I'm saying. I stay on friendfeed because I enjoy the conversations that others share about an individual's comment, shared item, etc. I use twitter to make me aware of the comment or share. Very different experience.
- jcunwired
Twitter search is like a hive now
- Bwana ☠
Scoble: I just discovered filters, I'll check out the blog post for sure.
- Andrew Leahey
Andrew: http://scobleizer.com/2009... this shows how much better friendfeed is for finding valuable stuff.
- Robert Scoble
Twitter Search is about the only good thing left with Twitter.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Thanks for the info sir.
- Andrew Leahey
It's not the quantity, it's the quality... That said, how many seriously deranged cyber-geeks are engaging in this conversation? FF is still too confusing for the average user.
- Neil Jensen (Vermonter)
"FriendFeed Filters are the star of the beta" A brilliant guy wrote that.
- Bwana ☠
jcunwired: true, that's why I have a screen that is all about Tweetdeck.
- Robert Scoble
I think FF could have made the live pages like this could do well to have the newer comments on top instead of updating at the bottom
- Charles Rice
I can easily dive in and swim with a conversation in FF. Twitter now feels very random.
- kilbuda
Chris: Twitter search is fine, but if you have search but no content then you've got nothing
- Jason Mayoff
Bwana - that too. In a sense, I use friendfeed as a source of bookmarks (knowledge). Twitter would not give me that.
- jcunwired
Vermonter: I'm only slightly deranged.
- Michael McKean
Only thing that scares me about FriendFeed is history. That area seems iffy.
- Bwana ☠
Vermonter: really? Facebook is more complicated than Twitter OR friendfeed and it has 10x the users of Twitter. MySpace is more complicated than that, and has 7x the users of Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
Bwana: what do you mean by "history?
- Robert Scoble
We cant find on Twitter this kind of conversation as we do now live here
- Johni Fisher
Robert: Search history...how far back can I go?
- Bwana ☠
Bwana: all the way.
- Robert Scoble
Bwana: Twitter only goes back a few months.
- Robert Scoble
as I said, twitter is good for updates and curiosities, Friendfeed is good for conversations about interesting topics(or not). Frienfeed is the serious side of twitter
- Rafael
The quality of content is more important! I got more info from FF. The content from twitter in FF is just a little part!
- netvista
Robert: that wasn't always the case. Is this a recent change?
- Bwana ☠
Bwana: I can't find my Tweets from the Chinese Earthquake over on Twitter, for instance.
- Robert Scoble
What I like about FF is that I can sit here and have/watch this conversation without being distracted by thousands of other things going by.
- Michael McKean
Bwana: you can search for it, but you can't page back more than 300 items unfortunately (here on friendfeed).
- Robert Scoble
I'm a relative FF newbie and this discussion has sold me. I'm stayin'.
- Jason Mayoff
Bwana: the content has always been there on FF, available by search. The pagination that far back has been restricted though
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Jason: welcome!
- Robert Scoble
Nice to have you join us, Jason =)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Yeah I have to say, this discussion has seriously changed my opinion on FF. Thanks Robert.
- Andrew Leahey
Jason - you've found the Holy Grail! :)
- jcunwired
@Robert... True.. Facebook is unwieldy, too. But mass usage has forced tolerance. Unwarranted tolerance perhaps. Hard to see how FF will gain traction unless users help make use of FF clearer.
- Neil Jensen (Vermonter)
Tina: echo! Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
Welcome to the club, Jason!
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
The Holy Grail indeed
- Jason Mayoff
Robert: that's what I mean.
- Bwana ☠
And that means I can't archive all of my FriendFeed data if I wanted
- Bwana ☠
You can't have a filtered real-time feed yet correct? That's the functionality I'm waiting for!
- Keith Barrett
Bwana: true. I hope they fix that. It's important for Track.
- Robert Scoble
Hence the "iffy" description. I'm hoping they fix that later.
- Bwana ☠
Keith: right. They promise that as a feature to come. We call that "Track."
- Robert Scoble
I think they should rename the "comments" on here. I'm not sure I'd call these comments. This is like a topic-driven chat.
- Andrew Leahey
Keith: I'd like to see that as well.
- Michael McKean
Bwana: but at least the data is there. It is NOT there on Twitter. Horrid.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: How do you sort of...back up your tweets? FF?
- Andrew Leahey
andrew: yes. But it is searchable. And you can come back and add onto it forever.
- Robert Scoble
You mean there's no record of all that's gone on on Twitter?
- Jason Mayoff
Just used Safari search on this conversation to find who mentioned a killer iphone app making a difference for FF (Jason). Agreed.
- kilbuda
andrew: I don't.
- Robert Scoble
Andrew: it's both, depending on the topic at hand. If you play with the DM feature to a group of people, it's definitely like a chat.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Jason: try to find my Chinese earthquake tweets. I tried and I can't get to them.
- Robert Scoble
Jason: they might be in a database somewhere, but you can't search on anything older than about August of last year, if I remember right.
- Robert Scoble
Facebook/Friendfeed are also very different. Our real life friends and our social networking friends are entirely different audiences. What FF brings is a different perspective - the opportunity to share with those who might not agree with us, who might teach us something that we wouldn't learn from our circle of RL friends. Invaluable, incalculable.
- jcunwired
I'm not even going to bother expanding all the comments. I'm just going to assume Scoble said something along the lines of "Easy access to cat pictures, babby pictures, my brother, FFundercats, Leather Donut"
- Mike Nayyar
Robert: where do you find the permalink to this thread?
- Tom Landini
At any rate, since the beta, Twitter has seen less of me.
- Bwana ☠
Tom: on the date under the topic that started this.
- Robert Scoble
I'll get this one. The date. CLick the date
- Jason Mayoff
And if the beta improves, it may get worse for Twitter in my world.
- Bwana ☠
That's what I'm talking about! Look how the conversation change the focus. Now we have another interesting things being discussed here... Thats awsome right?
- Rafael
Tom - click on the timestamp
- jcunwired
To get back on topic a little... it would be really cool if when you clicked a white chat bubble on the left if it turned to blue and you were following them... like a toggle button. Do you think that would lower the barrier too much? like people digging stories they havent read.
- Frankie Warren
Yes, I just went and searched http://search.twitter.com for any tweet last June that mentioned "earthquake." None appeared. FAIL.
- Robert Scoble
So just out of curiosity, what is the page within FF that you spend most of your time browsing/following? Filters? An individual post like this?
- Andrew Leahey
Frankie: I would LOVE that.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, very curious about your theory that prompted this post.
- jcunwired
Thanks: the permalink page puts a comment box under all the comments so it's easy to enter stuff.
- Tom Landini
Here's the thing. I'm a fairly sophisticated user. But I don't have any idea how to follow this thread, or why I even got here. Or how to follow (I'm don't text. Web only.) I think that presents a challenge for FF adoption. I've been wrong before.
- Neil Jensen (Vermonter)
Frankie: If you hover over someone's name next to their comment you can subscribe from right there.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
andrew: me? I skip around my filters when my lists slow down (in real-time)
- Bwana ☠
I don't stay in one place very long
- Bwana ☠
unless it's a juicy thread like this one
- Bwana ☠
Andrew: I have five friendfeed screens open at most times. Home screen. Tech list. A window like this one. And a filter or two or something else I'm tracking.
- Robert Scoble
Is there a reason to add new comments to bottom, not the top, thus avoiding having to scroll?
- kilbuda
I'm a speed reader. I love these fast-paced conversations :)
- jcunwired
Hmm, interesting. I'm just trying to get a handle on how people who have found FF really integral, use it.
- Andrew Leahey
Tina: yes, but then it refreshes the page.
- Robert Scoble
Good deal.
- Andrew Leahey
Once Internet users have decided to play the microblogging game, they're ready to adopt one microblogging tool, and only one (forget the geeks). Then, if their intention is to notify friends about their actions and thoughts, they'll take Twitter. Because even CNN may follow them there ;) If their goal is to discuss and discover stuff, they'll take the plunge with FF. Unfortunately, 98% of those users want only to notify and be sure their notification won't get lost in a "content vaccum" (andrew's words).
- Jérôme Flipo
kilbuda: the comment box is static on the bottom if you navigate to the thread: http://beta.friendfeed.com/scoblei...
- Bwana ☠
That's an area FriendFeed has to fix
- Bwana ☠
Vermonter: new friendfeed UI makes it very possible to follow. Visit here, scroll to the bottom, and watch! http://beta.friendfeed.com/scoblei...
- Robert Scoble
It's not about friendfeed anymore (unless something radical happens) - facebook is the hulk (no pun intended) in the room
- Antonio Altamirano
Heh.. they really need to make the permalink more noticeable. :)
- Michael McKean
Facebook is boring to me...
- Bwana ☠
Funny someone mentioned searchability. I just discovered the limitations of that on Twitter this morning. When I can't look back past thrity days without having to learn how to use the API...and that really irritates me.
- George Hall (Australia)
You can use the friendfeed sidebar too... its very easy to follow!
- Rafael
Bwana: I wish they would make it so new comments appear at top.
- Robert Scoble
185 comments here are just fine - no way I can follow a conversation of 185 tweets.
- Bora Zivkovic
Perfect! Thanks, Bwana.
- kilbuda
Bora: I do. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Bora: you've got to get in when it starts.
- Jason Mayoff
Did you know FF copied Twitter's permalink format? ;)
- Jérôme Flipo
tina: thanks! haha i just tried it on you :)
- Frankie Warren
Antonio - I disagree. Mudane conversations and thoughts are all I get from FB, FF adds a new dimension to what the mind can absorb.
- jcunwired
I learn here. I rarely learn anything at Facebook.
- Kevin Gamble
YEP, new comments definantely need to feed in from the top for me, too.
- CLC Radio
I use Friendfeed alerts, and I can tell when these conversations get too noisy, which is now!
- Francine Hardaway
Comments on top; agreed Robert.
- kilbuda
Actually I find that th most useful thing about Twitter search is that the results include private and deleted tweets :)
- Keith Barrett
hehe Francine
- jcunwired
lol Keith
- Bwana ☠
don't get me started on that
- Bwana ☠
Anyway, who was asking about my theory?
- Robert Scoble
me
- jcunwired
Francine: get onto real time and give up on alerts. Alerts are old school. Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
Did you know that if you re-click the permalink from the permalink, you get a pretty simple window?
- Jérôme Flipo
I think the idea behind having comments appear at the bottom rather than the top is because somebody's under the (perhaps naive) impression people actually read everything other folks wrote before they comment themselves :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
agree
- atanas
jcunwired, what would you like to know? My theory is that people on Twitter follow a lot more. Mostly because it's a lot easier to follow, but also because everyone knows how many followers everyone else has (it's on their main UI).
- Robert Scoble
Ken - good point. Case study: Youtube
- Bwana ☠
Ken - New comments appear at the top and no one reads the history
- Bwana ☠
I would like to be able to comment on a comment. I'm into real time, but sometimes I like to follow FF out of the corner of my eye and not focus on this conversation. I multitask
- Francine Hardaway
here you can find a way to follow these conversations right in your firefox sidebar: http://userstyles.org/styles...
- Rafael
Alerts? Is that like a fax?
- Phil Maxwell
Ken: i click the comment button before i read the thread so its waiting for me at the bottom :)
- Frankie Warren
Robert - someone already brought that up. Twitter is a popularity contest.
- jcunwired
@Robert Thanks for the FF beta tip.
- Neil Jensen (Vermonter)
Robert; thanks. And I second the request to have an option to display comments at the top of a real-time display, however I think that for older, inactive postings I'd prefer to read the comments in order.
- Keith Barrett
Francine: I multitask too. I just run five screens. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I submit the follower game can ruin the quality of the network
- Bwana ☠
Agreed, Bwana.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
The topic we talk about is not popular entry in "Best of Day", no real time statistics?
- netvista
+100 Bwana
- jcunwired
Oh, I like the pop-up window. I didn't realize that Friendfeed can do that.
- Robert Scoble
I really hope FF never threads/indents comment. An entry's a nice unit of conversation. If something needs it's own branch, just start another entry.
- Ken Sheppardson
FriendFeed is just too much for the typical user. First you have to "get it". On Twitter there's not much to "get". You put some words in the box and hit send.
- Eric Florenzano
netvista: good point. That's a bug. We should start a spreadsheet for the friendfeed team of things that are bugs.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Pop-up windows?
- Rafael
Robert: How?
- Rafael
Well Robert a new thing in your theory
- Bwana ☠
I've gotten 3 new followers from this thread
- Bwana ☠
Rafael. Click here: http://beta.friendfeed.com/scoblei...
- Robert Scoble
Eric: there are people who use FF exactly the same way, they type some words and update it, leave it at that
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
interesting
- Bwana ☠
Rafael, sorry that's wrong.
- Robert Scoble
I wonder if Twitter users get new followers from a conversation
- Bwana ☠
Robert - yeah i realized right now
- Rafael
Eric - that is very true. There is a learning curve to FriendFeed that does not give the instant satisfaction of Twitter.
- jcunwired
Rafael: from your feed click the timestamp of a post. On the resulting page, click the timestamp again, and you'll get the pop out window
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Rafael, click here: http://beta.friendfeed.com/scoblei... Then click on the timestamp again.
- Robert Scoble
Sweet! Thanks Robert!
- Phil G
Robert: Thank you so much!
- Rafael
Robert: echo =)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
jcunwired: friendfeed is a Formula Race Car. It takes a while to learn to drive, but when you do it does a lot of stuff a Prius can't.
- Robert Scoble
like the popout window...
- kilbuda
Robert: Sweet find. Thanks for pointing that out.
- Brian
me too
- Rafael
I saw brett do that in you video robert and was curious how it worked :)
- Frankie Warren
... and no reverse gear ;)
- Phil G
Pop out window is cool.
- Tom Landini
oh and it leaves the comment open at the bottom! epic.
- Frankie Warren
Speaking of which, I gotta plug in, my battery is low :)
- jcunwired
Frankie: I missed a lot of stuff that Bret showed us because I was trying to keep the camera focused. Did you like the videos?
- Robert Scoble
now i can browse and keep lookin to the pop-up without losing any comment
- Rafael
Yeah love the popout window. Wanted to hug Ben when I saw him post it
- Bwana ☠
FF can do tricks!
- kilbuda
I'm still learning how to be a power user of friendfeed. I haven't memorized the keyboard commands yet.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Just watched the vids now. Rly interesting stuff, thx for putting them up. Sometimes was hard to understand questions from the audience, though...
- Christoph Studer
Ben: Its better you run... everybody wants to hug you ;)
- Rafael
Any one got new follows from this conversation?
- netvista
Robert: i loved the video!! seriously its very difficult to figure out how to use friendfeed at first effectively. seeing best practices from power users helped a lot
- Frankie Warren
I have netvista
- Bwana ☠
I still prefer tabs over popup unless I have multiple monitors active
- jcunwired
A popout of a tracked real-time feed would be the best!
- Keith Barrett
I think its cause Bwana is an awesome name though ;)
- Frankie Warren
I bought a 24 inch monitor just to use Friendfeed on.
- Robert Scoble
heh Frankie
- Bwana ☠
FF should do something like Gmail chat.
- Christoph Studer
Keith - you are right... but you can have a Firefox sidebar you know?
- Rafael
Now the balance has shifted back to FF
- sofarsoShawn
Christoph: the realtime combined with the DM capablity makes it a lot like Gmail chat, actually.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Watch multiple conversations in pop up windows
- Christoph Studer
netvista3987 - How would you know?
- Phil Maxwell
hmm, there's an idea - having interesting realtime conversations like this in sidebar
- jcunwired
Christoph: yeah, it really rocks using the popups.
- Robert Scoble
Exactly, jcunwired.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Christoph: current features are largely sufficient
- Jérôme Flipo
I want to dock good conversations on my blog.
- Robert Scoble
Wow, I've put that read through a text-to-speech app, makes it even more productive right now, This could make a little booklet from it. The new forum post experience.
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Interesting search/filter, at least 100 comments and -friends:username. Interesting FF'rs you've missed.
- Andrew Leahey
Robert: I f you use Firefox, try to use this sidebar, easily bookmark you realtime page to bookmarks bar and in properties choose to open with the sidebar : http://userstyles.org/styles...
- Rafael
want a sidebar-like window? http://beta.friendfeed.com/scoblei... (I'm in Chrome, can't do it)
- Jérôme Flipo
Maybe have the "pop outs" integrated into the main window instead of new browser windows. Would make it easier for me to track multiple discussions from one spot.
- Christoph Studer
is there no RSS for comments?
- Phil Maxwell
Kinda like a big party... wouldn't it be cool to be able to break off into small groups, as new topics develop?
- kilbuda
This format kinda makes the comment count they used to have meaningless now... theres a big difference between one well thought out comment and just chatting in the pop out.
- Frankie Warren
Phil Maxwell: because i subscribe someone here for this conversation! haha
- netvista
Frankie: Agree
- Christoph Studer
Phil: you can subscribe to someone's comments and there should be an rss for that feed
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Rafael I did, but I also like popouts, plus firefox doesn't run on my phone and I suspect I can just plug this URL into a browser.
- Keith Barrett
Frankie: I agree. I wish I could see how many items I have commented on, not how many comments I've seen.
- Robert Scoble
Doesn't look to be an RSS for a single comment but yes a personal feed Tina
- sofarsoShawn
what about comments for an individual post?:
- Phil Maxwell
I'm glad they added that. I love being to able to subscribe to someone's likes and not their comments and/or posts
- Bwana ☠
Frankie: Right. I wouldn't even call these "comments".
- Michael McKean
Phil: unfortunately, no
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Bwana: agreed (again). Haven't delved in using it yet but I think it's an interesting option.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Keith: Uhm I understand you. maybe when Mozilla launch the mobile Firefox you will be able to do that!
- Rafael
How can I measure my self worth if no one follows me.
- Demian Vonder Kuhlen
from Nambu
Anyway, Twitter brings me interesting content, but FriendFeed is true brain candy. I'll never get this level of conversation or knowledge from twitter.
- jcunwired
Michael: the engagement of friendfeed has gone WAY up in new friendfeed due to the real time comments.
- Robert Scoble
Maybe "comment counts" should be more like "like counts". One comment per discussion and user.
- Christoph Studer
I like pronouncing the name Bwana out loud: it's fun: Bwwannna. Heeehehhee
- sofarsoShawn
Demian: I'll follow you.
- Robert Scoble
O_o
- Bwana ☠
Yeah, these are much less "comments" and more just sorta empty "yeah me too, lol" style stuff. Like, you know... tweets.
- Ken Sheppardson
Demian: life's hard sometimes :)
- Phil Maxwell
You know; it's too bad I can't just click a comment speak bubble image and have it automatically format it as a comment response by filling in the name)
- Keith Barrett
Wow.. I never noticed that you can subscribe to comments and likes!
- Michael McKean
So the pop-out window moves much faster without the load of the page...nice
- Wallace
I think you're looking at this wrong Robert. The big difference with FF is Friend of a Friend. I use *you* to bring me other people. I trust you to *filter* it for me. After a while I might add someone who continually pops up in my feed via your FOAF, but why subscribe right off the bat. The context between Twitter and FriendFeed is different. It's not about quantity and reaching follower numbers, it's about quality and interaction.
- AJ Kohn
AJ: good point, but that gives me a lot more power than I have over on Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
Sorry Bwana, it's just one of those things: I'm weird
- sofarsoShawn
FriendFeed is great for deep threaded conversation ... but Twitter generates so much more exposure.
- Brandon
can you imagine this conversation on Twitter... I mean really.
- Bwana ☠
AJ: I don't mind the power, though, cause I'm an egotistical bbaaahhhssstttaaarrrddd. Just ask my brother. Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: It's not necessarily a bad thing to have "hubs" with power, is it? You have them in real life, too.
- Christoph Studer
Exposure? or false Hype?
- sofarsoShawn
Anyone using the sidebar script for Firefox?
- Andrew Leahey
Christoph: true, I'm not sure it's a bad thing. It's a good thing as long as I behave. If I start being an asshole, then it's a bad thing.
- Robert Scoble
Bwana, I reach for the advil just thinking about it :)
- jcunwired
Scoble's a power hungry Green Hulkster
- sofarsoShawn
sofarsoshawn: What's the difference? :)
- Michael McKean
Robert: i agree with that... with out an install base its really hard for comments to get noticed in the real time feed unless you have a bunch of people keeping your stuff at the top.
- Frankie Warren
The point is Twitter is a hype! Appear in all big corporations and tv programs... twitter has big popularity... friend feed is a shy guy at the moment
- Rafael
Christoph: power corrupts eventually, though.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: And people will start treating you as one, i.e. unsubscribe. :-)
- Christoph Studer
Christoph: you nailed the force that will keep me from becoming too much of an asshole. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Power corrupts only certain individuals. I haven't seen you exhibit those traits yet Robert :)
- jcunwired
Robert: That's way you say unsubscribing is "lame", haha.
- Christoph Studer
@Robert: Well, I've given you that power and everyone else I subscribe to. Should you fail to be a good filter, I'll drop you like a hot potato :) So who really has the power? That's why FF will win IMO because it creates a far better mechanism for authority and trust. But ONLY if you're selective with whom you subscribe.
- AJ Kohn
Christoph: yes, I have a bias there. Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
Oh! I just noticed that if you press "enter" once in the search box, you get the advanced search page. A kind of little feature you'll never find on Twitter ;)
- Jérôme Flipo
Robert: One of the biggest differences is that: Friendfeed doesnt have ads and bullshits.. Twitter its a treasure for ads.
- Rafael
Jerome - just press the search button, you get te same thing
- jcunwired
Rafael: friendfeed has decentralized moderation. That's a KILLER feature the rest of the world will discover in about 18 months.
- Robert Scoble
@ Mckean Hype vs. Exposure: Hype I'd say is exaggerated publicity hoopla if you will. Empty. Whereas exposure is public focus but what matters more so here is that Twitter can't function to the same quality as Friendfeed now can
- sofarsoShawn
Chris Charabaruk: Yeah, but did the beta get any major media attention? Nope. None what so ever. And that's sad. It seems like people are purposely ignoring everything "FriendFeed" and it isn't right. I think the world is big enough for two cool and active social networking sites (or more), yes?
- Michael Forian
Rafael: friendfeed will prove to be more resistant than other social networks to spam and assholes because of decentralized moderation. It's one reason why I love it so much.
- Robert Scoble
jcunwired, even Google doesn't have this function
- Jérôme Flipo
people go where the identities/profiles/people/contacts are; right now, when it comes to non-permission blogging, thats Twitter. Its not about features. You can speculate as to why Twitter has the people, but thats just academic. They have the people and they win....features can come...it doesnt matter, does it?
- Andy Fox
Don't give him power. You wouldn't like Robert when he's omnipotent :)
- Keith Barrett
Michael: friendfeed is in Financial Times tomorrow.
- Robert Scoble
decentralized moderation? Does that mean if someone offends me and I block them, their comments won't show up for me anywhere?
- Phil Maxwell
Robert: what do you mean by decentralized moderation?
- Frankie Warren
Sometimes I wondef if FriendFeed would have taken off if the founders weren't ex-Googlers
- Bwana ☠
I really want feature of FF is : What's hot on FF right now?
- netvista
Robert: How many FT readers want bacon with their tea? :D
- Jérôme Flipo
Phil: exactly. Frankie, decentralized moderation means I can delete you in my items and you can delete me in yours. As long as we keep adding value to each other's lives we'll not delete. But, let's say you were a spammer. Bye bye!
- Robert Scoble
Frankie - we (you) moderate, not an administrator.
- jcunwired
Ok, I definitely do dig the pop out window for an indivdual post/conversation.
- Ken Kennedy
Bwana: How does the ex-Googler's factor in?
- sofarsoShawn
Robert: We have to create a strong community in friend feed and hoping that we could separate the bullshit and ads from the interesting topics, in a way we could keep the good of friendfeed.
- Rafael
decentralized moderation = crowdblocking. It takes only a few comments for a spammer to get blocked by many and that then trips internal FF daemons.
- AJ Kohn
netvista: that's called a filter. I have a filter that shows all items written by anybody but that have at least one "like." That's what's hot right now.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: interesting
- Phil Maxwell
netvista3987: make you're own filter http://beta.friendfeed.com/search...
- Jérôme Flipo
Rafael - we have, we do - the developers have. What we see Twitter becoming will never happen here because we have all the power.
- jcunwired
netvista3987: you can even exclude your friends (add -friends:netvista3987), exclude items you've already liked and commented (use the minus operator again).
- Jérôme Flipo
sofarsoshawn: friendfeed was started by four superstars from Google. HOw does that factor in? It's been down one hour in past year. Search is freaking fast. It has an ugly, but workable UI. Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
Being reminded so much of Gmail chat I'd like to see who's currently typing into the comments field. :-)
- Christoph Studer
Well, regardless of my hesitancy, this is the first engaging convo on FF I've engaged. And though I had seen the beta briefly, I hadn't taken the time to really understand it. And this has inspired me to flesh out my FF profile. FF anti-fail all around.
- Neil Jensen (Vermonter)
Currently listening to Berlin "No More Words" on Shoutcast right now...interesting.
- Christopher Knopick
jcunwired: May the force be with you!
- Rafael
Flipo: thanks. it's great. I already add this filter.
- netvista
Christoph Studer: like emoticons?
- Jérôme Flipo
Vermonter: wait until this is used by a conference for a back channel. Leo Laporte was using it on Gillmor Gang and TWiT this weekend and got 1000 comments each.
- Robert Scoble
Here in Brazil Twitter started to get lost by people who dont know what to do with a simple question. thanksfully friendfeed will not get popularity here in brazil
- Rafael
Pressing enter twice on a search box... clicking a feed then clicking the tim to get a popout...directly referencing "/friends" in a URL I do sense a need for some documentation on how to engage the cool features.
- Keith Barrett
Rafael: don't be so sure.
- Robert Scoble
@Scoble I was referring to Bwana's earlier comment that it was more a hindrance then beneficial and was wondering how that could be so
- sofarsoShawn
Jerome: I was kind of kidding...but one could do this with small avatars of people typing. Or just a list of names.
- Christoph Studer
Am now watching FF real time in my sidebar. NoNo more alerts.
- Francine Hardaway
Leo's use of it is what makes me think this is going to work. They're onto something here.
- Jesse Stay
Keith: I'll do another video when I figure them all out.
- Robert Scoble
Gillmor Gang comments were the greatest. The level of sophistication skyrockets when the community is one of your choosing (more or less).
- jcunwired
Keith - keep in mind most of these new features are in beta.. I can forgive no documentation in beta
- Phil G
Francine: welcome to the future.
- Robert Scoble
Keith: Yes, better documentation would be nice! Although it's kinda fun to figure these things out.
- Michael McKean
Robert: It's only a question of friendfeed do not support other languages
- Rafael
I think FF is just too sophisticated for main street, people don't get it
- Alex
That's a compliment: we're sophisticated, wait till I post more lolcats
- sofarsoShawn
I never said that.
- Bwana ☠
Alex - when main street gets it, there goes sophistication :)
- jcunwired
Oh I'm not complaining at all! I'm trying to help..
- Keith Barrett
Rafael: friendfeed does support lots of languages. But I need filters. I want to see ONLY Farsi comments, for instance. I can't do that.
- Robert Scoble
Alex: At one time computers were too sophisticated for most people.
- Michael McKean
@Alex I didn't get it really until tonight. Not sure I do yet, but I'm getting there. Maybe others will too.
- Neil Jensen (Vermonter)
Alex: I disagree. The mainstreet is on Facebook, which is far more complex than either this or Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
jcunwired - good point!
- Alex
Robert: I understand you
- Rafael
Alex: if humans see utility in learning complexity, they will.
- Robert Scoble
People didn't get AOL. They didn't get blogs. They didn't get eCommerce.
- AJ Kohn
FF is a lot easier to jump into than FB, IMO.
- Michael McKean
They still don't
- Bwana ☠
:)
- Bwana ☠
My wife speaks Farsi and I'd love to be able to have her see only Farsi items here. I can't filter by language. Yet. They have that on their feature lists to build out.
- Robert Scoble
even my mother is om Facebook, I can't see her on FF really
- Alex
I don't keep close tabs on my follower levels, but I've noticed my Twitter followers have gone up, and my Friendfeed followers have gone down too.
- Ian May
more or less yes: "Sometimes I wondef if FriendFeed would have taken off if the founders weren't ex-Googlers" - Bwana
- sofarsoShawn
I'm waiting for the service that will automatically translate anything typed into the viewers chosen language without the need to manually translate individual lines
- Tony, Paradox of FF
Alex: four years ago you would have said the same thing about Facebook.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: I was hoping for a language filter as well.
- Michael McKean
Robert: but you can see... Facebook here in brazil its almost like Orkut for Americans... few people use it. But Orkut here is something like OMG you dont have an orkut account? you are a jerk! Got it?
- Rafael
Robert: where'd she pick that up? Nuts!
- sofarsoShawn
Tony we have done that in our chat for our online experiences using Googles Translate APi
- Tony
Tony: Picasa has it on comments. Would be great to have the same system for FF.
- Christoph Studer
FF = Community - Twitter =
- bcultral
sofarsoshawn: the fact that friendfeed was started by four superstars from Google is a major reason why I use it.
- Robert Scoble
@Robert: Filter for certain foreign characters would get you pretty far, no?
- AJ Kohn
Shawn: you assume I believe they haven't taken off... and they have
- Bwana ☠
you're the only one who thought that.
- Bwana ☠
most of the people on facebook don't know how to use 1/4 of the features, but they understand they have a profile and people write messages to it and that's enough to get them started.
- Phil Maxwell
@tonysteward cool :)
- Tony, Paradox of FF
sofarsoshawn: I have NOT been disappointed in that. This service has ALWAYS been 1. Up. 2. Fast. Others? No.
- Robert Scoble
it detects the browser language and then when they chat it auto translates
- Tony
client side
- Tony
No, Bwana: if you read your statement you are the one who distinctly wondered
- sofarsoShawn
sofarsoshawn: my wife was born in Tehran.
- Robert Scoble
sofarsoshawn: FF doesn't need users do develop the service (they have the money and the geniuses). So, in some way, they don't need the Google's buzz to make the killer app that Scoble and others would recommend because it rocks and not because of their authors.
- Jérôme Flipo
Sigh, go repeat my name or something :) I know what I said
- Bwana ☠
I am probably the only person in my 200+ list of friends that actually KNOWS how to set FB security features so that I can control what groups of friends (or the public) can see what items and apps.
- Keith Barrett
I know what you said too read your earlier post dude, I'll go say your name :)
- sofarsoShawn
I'll be right back. Heheh. Yes, friendfeed has turned into chat!
- Robert Scoble
I guess most of us only get what we think others will get too. FF beta makes the possibility of others getting it seem clearer than it did to me before.
- Neil Jensen (Vermonter)
Keith: Thats normal! the majority uses facebook just to watch other people lifes
- Rafael
The product lifecycle of gmail should be an indication of the long term approach I believe FF will take.
- AJ Kohn
Oh my... he just did a brb!
- Michael McKean
I wonder if FriendFeed would have taken off if the founders weren't ex-Googlers. <-- Read again. if the founders weren't ex-googlers, would FriendFeed have taken off... maybe if I reverse, you'll understand.
- Bwana ☠
Bwana: does it really matter?
- Phil Maxwell
The amount of content that FriendFeed real-time commenting is going to generate is MASSIVE. Hope they have a good file system and DB setup!
- Keith Barrett
I don't like being misquoted
- Bwana ☠
Like I said
- sofarsoShawn
I want it to be clear
- Bwana ☠
Vermonter - did you just start with friendfeed? Aside from a few features, most notably realtime feed, its pretty much the same.
- jcunwired
Keith: And lightweight connection handling.
- Christoph Studer
Oh wait, no, I get it you used a double negative, making it a positive, so yes Bwana your're correct, but bad grammar
- sofarsoShawn
Chris, an even better question
- Bwana ☠
hehe Chris
- jcunwired
++sofarsoshawn
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
@jcunwired just the learning curve of a thus far somewhat disinterested FF user, I guess.
- Neil Jensen (Vermonter)
Chris: lol
- Jérôme Flipo
a double negative? LOL
- Bwana ☠
my give up.
- Bwana ☠
High five! me too
- sofarsoShawn
we could discuss about that for days, but only the future will tell
- Alex
Vermonter, search google for friendfeed filters. A few bloggers - bwana, Louis Gray, Scobleizer have some vvery good tips for controlling the noise so that you only see what you want to see. It helps a lot.
- jcunwired
AJ Kohn: I love comparing Hotmail/Twitter with Hotmail/Gmail. It's a matter of time before the best overpass the most popular.
- Jérôme Flipo
The conversation has strayed a bit, I think :)
- Michael McKean
Alex: For sure. we just need to work for a better future for friendfeed...keepin it healthy
- Rafael
My problem is that I don't know what I don't want to see :))
- jcunwired
Hehe, always a tough choice. Discerning is key.
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
There's a room too for filters, as well a list here http://beta.friendfeed.com/fffilte... as they are compiled
- sofarsoShawn
There's a filters group.
- Michael McKean
oops, make that a big B Bwana :)
- jcunwired
I heard on Leo's show yesterday a good quote, about why having a too strong community (in FF) may be an obstacle for its success (I remember the word "insular")
- Jérôme Flipo
Thanks for the conversation all. Enlightening. And my fellow Vermonter is free from pirates, too. I'll sleep well tonight.
- Neil Jensen (Vermonter)
Omg, now I can breathe a little, this conversation is slowing down
- Rafael
yeah, be careful of those double negatives in the blog post
- Bwana ☠
they'll getcha
- Bwana ☠
It's amazing, I wonder how long a thread we could go. You just say a word, it creates ripples and we define an area around a topic. Like a tree or something. That's something that is appreciable and important in that experiment we enjoy here.
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
465 comments...
- Wallace
Jerome - I haven't heard this week's TWIT, but I say poppycock :) Its a social networking site, there are tons of communities. You choose what you want, and filter/dismiss the rest
- jcunwired
well done boys and girls...I'm going to bed! Excellent conversation! Good night to everyone! Good night Robert!
- Rafael
The 'strong community' is what makes it worth staying. There is no sense of community in twitter, just a bunch of people blindly following other people
- jcunwired
Robert: why subscribe to someone who only pipes twitter into friendfeed? and another thought: maybe the average twitterer mindlessly follows and the average friendfeeder is more interested in the quality of their subscriptions
- Chris Heath
This is epic: I have to take my leave as well. 'Night All!
- sofarsoShawn
the best conversation I have ever had on FF, thanks Robert! see you guys
- Alex
Hearing all your names and comments made it very different to me. I was making coffee, reaching and being able to make it through when it was around 100 comments one very demanding but so enriching real all-way discussion.
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
jcunwired: sure, I love the community(ies). The problem is for FF newbies: they don't feel comfortable and prefer Twitter where discussions are less loud.
- Jérôme Flipo
\0_ sofarsoshawn
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Jerome - exactly. That is the one detriment to FF and why the masses have not shown up
- jcunwired
Hey Bwana, if you're still here, looking forward to your next appearance on TWiT. Always a great addition.
- Andrew Leahey
@jcunwired not so in Burlington, VT #btv is a growing and connected group of Twitter users. Can't vouch for other local communities.
- Neil Jensen (Vermonter)
Thanks andrew, always a fun event
- Bwana ☠
10 followers from this convo... that's a record
- Bwana ☠
Whoever it was who pointed out how many comments. I don't look at these things as comments. They're just parts of a very large discussion.
- Jason Mayoff
Bwana: Not what we're counting ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
jcunwired: I follow a lot of astronomy people on Twitter and we're all pretty well connected with each other. I imagine it's the same with other like-minded people.
- Michael McKean
Michael - have you explored the rooms here on Friendfeed?
- jcunwired
Jerome - Well, you can still just like lolcatz pictures and just follow the guy for that. I think there's more details here that makes it interesting. I use twitter when I don't have time to reach deep now and need a summary of past events (not a mobile user for that). Here I jump in, make investigations, keep the stuff I like for future reference, one thing I'm not too into with twitter.
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Ken - Well Robert's got me zoomed in on it now... I never paid attention to where I get FF followers from
- Bwana ☠
Michael - consider bringing some of your friends over here
- jcunwired
But I can't remember the last time I had 10 in my inbox so fast
- Bwana ☠
Bwana, I havent looked at followers in months, now I'm curious too
- jcunwired
dammit :)
- jcunwired
Blame scoble
- Bwana ☠
Hey you know, where is the link to rooms in the beta ui?
- Andrew Leahey
hehe
- jcunwired
jcunwired:Yeah, and I see what you're saying. It's not as "tight" on Twitter.
- Michael McKean
What we really need are those little presidential debate real-time opinion poll lines so we can see in real time whether people agree or disagree with what we're saying.
- Ken Sheppardson
Bwana - I haven't gotten a new FF follower in a dog's age, but I mostly blamed my own light usage.
- Phil G
Hehehe, when you reach the 'Ultimate Comment' connection, that's it, Bwana is the name. ;p
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Michael - the cool thing about a group of people with specific interests is that you can aggregate content from multiple sources so that your community can absorb them - google reader, social bookmarking, youtube, flickr, blogs...
- jcunwired
Bwana: you wrrean interesting contributor to thisconvo and want hear what else you have to say.
- Jason Mayoff
On Twitter it's more like a bunch of people who just happen to be following the same people.
- Michael McKean
Phil - that's true. I guess subscriptions increase with participation
- Bwana ☠
hi, is there some collections of interesting filter setting i can use? i think FF should allow people sharing their filters.
- netvista
I think the thing with FriendFeed vs twitter is that on Twitter, the more people you follow, the more content you get. On FriendFeed, it's related to how active the people you follow are. You don't have to follow a lot of people with FoaF.
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Did anyone even bring up ffholic.com? I guess I should scroll up.. brb
- Bwana ☠
intelligent participation - or FFundercats, whatever floats your boat :)
- jcunwired
this might take a while
- Bwana ☠
jcunwired: Right, and you can discuss them in a more controlled manner.
- Michael McKean
I want a timestamp of the last activity on FF profiles. I was wondering where Scoble could be right now (instead of participating to this discussion). Just beside the "About 15 posts per day", there could be a "2 min since the last like/comment/FF post". That could also encourage users' activity.
- Jérôme Flipo
Man. This is not easy to do on an iPod touch
- Jason Mayoff
nobody brought it up yet, Bwana.. chrome search worked well in this window :)
- Phil G
nope, no one brought up ffholic.com - which brings the follower/count game to FriendFeed
- Bwana ☠
andrew: click on Subscriptions, down at the bottom. They are called Groups now.
- Tony, Paradox of FF
Jérôme: agreed
- Phil Maxwell
Firefox search says you're the only one
- jcunwired
Jerome: timestamps for comments too would be nice too
- Chris Heath
Ironic how Arrington is 3rd most popular user :)
- Bwana ☠
Chris, you can see timestamp by hovering over the quote symbol in left margin
- jcunwired
Chris: Hover over the bubble on the left.
- Michael McKean
Thanks Tony!
- Andrew Leahey
glad to help.
- Tony, Paradox of FF
So twhirl for friendfeed, totally useless, right?
- Andrew Leahey
the timestamps work except for the most recent comments of an active post...they all say 1 second, 0 seconds, etc
- Phil Maxwell
Excellent FF tips that aren't readily apparent are surfacing in this thread.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
thanks for the responses on the timestamp comments ppl
- Chris Heath
I haven't found a FriendFeed client that rivals the web browser experience yet.
- Bwana ☠
I was messing around with AlertThingy all this time, I think thats why I didn't grasp the attraction.
- Andrew Leahey
This is a totally unmanageable thread. Most of the information here is lost and unfathomable. If there every was an argument for some sort of comments management (threaded or otherwise) this is it.
- Brian Sullivan
me either bwana, the iphone webapp is pretty good, i heard the beta iphone webapp kills the battery life though
- Chris Heath
andrew - with friendfeed, even though the api is great the web interface evolves faster than most developers can keep up with.. several microblogging clients have already given up on the challenge.
- Phil G
why don't my ff posts copy to twitter anymore? i didn't change any settings
- BASEnet
Rob: what would you think of the ability to digg comment by clicking on their icon, so that you can sort the discussion by "most liked comment" and get all the best juice of this thread in just few seconds?
- Jérôme Flipo
Bwana: I don't really see the need for a client. The web interface works very well.
- Michael McKean
Phil: Good point, maybe when FF itself kind of stabilizes and settles somewhere, clients will start coming out that rival the experience?
- Andrew Leahey
afterdark, you may need to disable and reenable, they're still there
- jcunwired
Michael: Bwana was just replying to me asking if twhirl was worthwhile.
- Andrew Leahey
afterDARK, you're the second person i've heard say that today submit a bug http://friendfeed.com/about...
- Chris Heath
That's probably another reason why Twitter is so much more popular - smartphone clients
- jcunwired
I think the real value for 3rd parties are going to be things that work with the API in ways that the web interface doesn't already do. Like FFholic, for example.
- Phil G
What I'd like out of a "client" could probably be accomplished with some sort of wrapper that managed a frameset that included embedable views ala http://beta.friendfeed.com/scoblei...
- Ken Sheppardson
Following somebody on Twitter is very light, and usually fake. Following on FriendFeed is an investment.
- Louis Gray
Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr Louis Gray *plays piano*
- Bwana ☠
jerome: likable comments would rock... then you could have the most liked comments in a thread... or within some constraint... even the most popular of the day
- Chris Heath
Thanks, i will submit a bug report
- BASEnet
Hi Louis!
- Jérôme Flipo
+100 Louis, well put
- jcunwired
@Scoble K, so Im lost how is this in Twitter's favor now?
- sofarsoShawn
Louis, kind of like what i was saying way above, friendfeeders are probably a bit more discerning in who they follow as well
- Chris Heath
ah, this is the first I've seen of FFholic
- Phil Maxwell
hehe Shawn, that's what I want to know - I want to hear Robert's theory
- jcunwired
If you can fill all your available inbound bandwidth by following 100 people, why would you follow 1000?
- Ken Sheppardson
So perhaps the Twitter follower count will retain the vanity, and FF will be more about what /you/ get out of it. Rather than Twitter, which is about all the who's getting something from you.
- Andrew Leahey
I think Scoble said it best, it's a game.
- Bwana ☠
@kshep, yeah once i'm into a discussion on friendfeed i like to use that embed view ... much cleaner imho
- Chris Heath
A game that ruins networks IMHO
- Bwana ☠
Ken - you never know what you don't know :)
- jcunwired
when you follow for sheer numbers I mean </clarification>
- Bwana ☠
Yeah, if your network is "everyone" is it really a network?
- Ken Sheppardson
totally agree @bwana (notice i'm sending to twitter as i type)
- Chris Heath
1.) Be Robert Scoble 2.) Start a thread on Twitter versus FriendFeed 3.) ??? 4.) PROFIT!!!
- Mike Nayyar
HAH!
- Bwana ☠
Oh my!
- Michael McKean
jcunwired: Well, following 100 people here means you see not just their stuff but the entries they engage on. That amplifies things at least 10x
- Ken Sheppardson
also, i'm not following you on twitter either... why get just your tweets? i want it all!!
- Chris Heath
hehe Mike, true. I do a happy dance if I get one comment for my posts :/
- jcunwired
I think its interesting to see the web getting pushed through these different filters. Like FF now, before it was digg for a little while.
- Andrew Leahey
Its like we're taking all new content added to the web and its sort of a value added proposition. Each service tacks something on as it passes through.
- Andrew Leahey
andrew, the web is still pushed thru digg, and digg is way bigger than friendfeed (currently) and bigger than twitter too
- Chris Heath
Digg bigger than twitter? Really?
- Andrew Leahey
digg has something like 30 million uniques per month... i'm not sure twitter has that... do they?
- Chris Heath
Chris: I recently heard 20 millions
- Jérôme Flipo
Well, what about Twitter client usage?
- Michael McKean
nobody knows how many users Twitter has
- jcunwired
I think Twitter takes Digg.
- Andrew Leahey
Front page digg counts have been declining, IMHO, I think the url shortening thing is going to take a big chunk out of them too.
- Andrew Leahey
andrew: how many digg users have the alexa toolbar, really?
- Chris Heath
isn't alexa only counting internet explorer users?
- Chris Heath
probably a comparable ratio to alexa toolbar users that twitter from twitter.com
- Andrew Leahey
i'm very skeptical of alexa numbers - other traffic counters too...
- Chris Heath
don't get me wrong, im not anti-digg, or knocking it. i just think twitter has more exposure now.
- Andrew Leahey
"unfollowing people in friendfeed is stupid. Just put the lame ones onto a list" - so you're ideal model is everyone is subscribed to everyone by default and then people are responsible for organizing lists?
- Todd Hoff
definitely, its flawed. i just think its flawed pretty equally for those two particular sites. i dont know, no offense intended.
- Andrew Leahey
todd: i think he's trying to say subscribe to lots of people since you can cordon them off into lists
- Chris Heath
Todd Hoff: lol, unfortunately, Robert has left the thread.
- Jérôme Flipo
He said "be right back". Did he get lost on the way to the bathroom?
- Michael McKean
andrew: no offense taken, i have no ties to digg (emotional or otherwise) - i'm just not sure about the numbers
- Chris Heath
Robert probably wanted to say that if you decided to sub someone, you had good reasons which justify to put them in list rather than unsub them once they become to loud.
- Jérôme Flipo
[OT] I love the ability to edit a comment. That's great for non-native English speakers who want to keep up with the conversation without making dozens of typos per comment.
- Jérôme Flipo
jerome, if it would update the comment in real-time after you edit it that would be wicked cool too!
- Chris Heath
I want the comment to go italic for few seconds to let me know it was edited, that always helps.
- Bwana ☠
Yeah, *some* indication of an edit in RT would be slick.
- Ken Sheppardson
Chris: sh*t, it doesn't?!
- Jérôme Flipo
Good idea.
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
I've decided to follow everyone who has commented on this thread, why not. :)
- Phil G
They could update the tooltip over the comment icon to display some info.
- Jérôme Flipo
jerome, i'm not sure, but have been told that you have to refresh to see edits
- Chris Heath
Well, there's an easy way to test that...edit 1...edit 2... edit 3... edit 4
- Ken Sheppardson
Phil, that could take some time!
- jcunwired
i refreshed: "Well, there's an easy way to test that...edit 1 - Ken Sheppardson"
- Chris Heath
Actually that would be a useful feature - follow everyone in a conversation that you find stimulating
- jcunwired
anybody see "...edit 1, edit 2" showing up on my last comment when viewing the RT feed?"
- Ken Sheppardson
refreshed again: "Well, there's an easy way to test that...edit 1...edit 2... edit 3 - Ken Sheppardson"
- Chris Heath
but you don't see them in RT?
- Ken Sheppardson
so i'd say pretty confidently that it's not updating in real-time : that seems pretty non-trivial to me
- Chris Heath
yep. me too, i.e. non-trivial
- Ken Sheppardson
well you can't always get everything you want... i just wish that they'd add some more stuff to the beta, i find myself going back to regular friendfeed to mess with subscriptions/rooms/settings and a couple other things too
- Chris Heath
yeah, I'm not getting the rooms thing... or the creating a feed for a room, that is no longer really a room.... but whatever :p
- Krikit Media
I'm *positive* they're going to be adding stuff in. There are things just just can't do right now without going back to pre-beta, and they're certainly not going to maintain both sites indefinitely. Tomorrow morning is the 1wk anniversary of beta. I wonder if that'll mean anything.
- Ken Sheppardson
They have to be very careful not to release too much features right now (if their goal is to go mainstream). Imagine if you had joined Facebook right now, with all its apps and buttons? Twitter is so simple, they've to upgrade slowly.
- Jérôme Flipo
[ot question to the chat]: i've been sending my FF comments to twitter... always have. but now in the beta i'm in conversations here much more (Gillmor Gang, TWiT shows etc) and i'm generating a lot of posts to twitter from my comments here. Is that probably a bad idea? would you turn them off? should i care? (since i'm still garnering twitter followers even quicker now that i'm posting to twitter more)
- Chris Heath
Scoble;The UI decides how the app is used. Conversations are interesting in FF and not twttr. Twitter added reply_ to ids some time back. What they are missing is a ui which looks like this. Optimized for a conversation under one topic.I would wager we will definitely see it some day. I suspect they are in no panic to add it and they might be thinking it is easier to gain momentum with the simpler feature set.
- Faizan
Ken: it'll mean it's been 7 days. I've confirmed that with a reliable source :)
- Phil Maxwell
And I just saw my first FF comment spam posted. FF is going to need some sort of mechanism to prevent that. Also the original poster of the feed item probably should have power to delete anyone's comments.
- Keith Barrett
They do
- Bwana ☠
Keith, you block them (not sure how in beta, but just remove beta. from the url and you can block them)
- Chris Heath
Interesting observation Robert. I've been observing the opposite with my FF vs Twitter accounts. The rate of new followers on Twitter has slowed for me (partially from spending more time here and elsewhere - partially from starting to just block numbers gamers that don't tweet) and the rate at which I'm finding new people following me here is (slowly) increasing.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Chris - personally I'm not nuts about the idea, but then I use Twitter and Friendfeed in two distinctly different ways. When I see a FF comment or like come over from FF to Twitter its often so out of context that its passed over
- jcunwired
jcunwired - yeah, it took a while! phew.
- Phil G
Earlier in the week I think on Gilmore Gang on TWiT, Paul from FF said they were going to make the beta the standard within a couple of weeks.
- BASEnet
The system could be: if you're block by X% of people whose entries you've commented, you're kicked out!
- Jérôme Flipo
There needs to be a comment link at the bottom or hotkey for these long threads. omg
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Click the timestamp.
- Michael McKean
Jérôme: or just hide their comments by default like a lot of sites do
- Phil Maxwell
Jerome - jerks need social interaction too. A better policy would be to have those people all force-follow each other :)
- jcunwired
jcunwired: one thing i'm thinking about doing is to stop sending comments to twitter, but at the same time start sending likes to twitter (which i'm not doing now) that way i'll only send one link per discussion - you know i'm actually going to do that after typing it ... i've convinced myself
- Chris Heath
Phil: that's what I said. I hide, you hide, others hide, then FF catches the spammer, close his account, and thus, prevent others to be spammed
- Jérôme Flipo
I wish I could choose WHICH likes to send to Twitter. Or maybe I'm missing something?
- Michael McKean
jcunwired: love your idea!
- Jérôme Flipo
I think the real problem for someone like Robert is that the real time has increased the noise on people's home feeds, and they haven't really started to use lists and filters yet. ANd I have to agree with Robert about not unfollowing people -put them on a list, you never know when they might add more value later on. This is why you follow astronomical numbers in the first place. To find the gems
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Michael, I don't think you can differentiate. Its all or nothing.
- jcunwired
Here's one for you, Robert...on subject of filters...if I wanted a filter containing JUST my flickr feeds, how would I set up the filter?
- George Hall (Australia)
Jérôme : that's how tiwtter handles spammers ...seems to work pretty well
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Chris: I caught a lot of heat ffrom my twitter followers for the comments going to twitter during a discussion like this. I turn them on only when I really want a single comment to go there so they get the link with outme having to "like"something and give them the wrong idea
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
George Hall, i have a feeling that the feature you request will be forthcoming
- Chris Heath
Oh, I see. I thought most systems report the spammers for action, before hiding its posts to others, i.e you have to bear the flow of spam before the team in charge decides to take action.
- Jérôme Flipo
One ittty-bitty filter like that would make my beta experience complete...;-)
- George Hall (Australia)
guruvan, interesting i haven't heard word one from my twitter followers... i rarely do - most of my @replies come from ppl i've found via im@twitterspy.org
- Chris Heath
Michael: perhaps they could pop up a little check box below the Like asking if you would like to send it to Twitter? That would probably work.
- Phil Maxwell
I wish there was a way to choose each time I like or comment to send it outbound or not, or set the answer to that question as a default maybe a check box next to the comment or like links
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
George Hall - http://beta.friendfeed.com/search...
- Mitch
guruvan: why that's an excellent idea.
- Phil Maxwell
Chris: I did hear from several 2 of which accused me of "spamming" them with ff.im links - but it was always after a discussion that moved like this one is...where it was multiple comments pretty quickly....So I leave the Likes turned on by default, and the comments off.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
NOW my beta experience is complete...thank you Mitch. That can be adapted to the other services, I take it?
- George Hall (Australia)
guruvan, that's what i was affraid of and i've done exactly as you have
- Chris Heath
Yeah for sure. I think friendfeed is service:internal
- Mitch
Phil: LOL! Great Mind think alike 'eh ?
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Chris: That's why I'd like to be able to turn the outbound feed on and off right at the discussion. A lot of comments are really just that - comments...I'd like those posted to twitter to get more people involved in the goings on over here. But I don't think they need to see a link to every time I say something in a thread. (which could be yet another feature...not posting outbound more than once per thread per time period)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
guruvan, earlier today (and yesterday) i had the idea to turn it off while commenting on twit-conversations but decided not to (changed my mind now) - but the once per thread per time period is an interesting idea too
- Chris Heath
Mitch: Got everything set as a filter except any specific rss feed. How does one do that?
- George Hall (Australia)
Chirs: If it was easier I would turn it on and off all the time. I get a lot of traffic/RTs and follows on twitter form the FF likes and comments. It really only irritates with it's like 10 in a few minutes. Some twitter people feel "spammed" on the likes because they have to click 2 times to get to the story that I liked. I wouldn't mind seeing the "original link" check box next to the like link. -so that if there isn't (or isn't likely to be) discussion I want them to see, I can send them straight away.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
George: Check with Mark Traphagen (trappermark) re: RSS filter..he's been working on that and I don't recall where that stood.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
And to add to that point: With the way that many, if not most, twitter users are following massive quantities, and yet still using the website, or a client and no groups, how COULD they see Robert's tweets? But they MUST see Robert's tweets, or Louis gray couldn't have said this: http://beta.friendfeed.com/louisgr...
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
curious as to why this friendfeed comparison to twitter discussion is (as the saying goes) beaten in like a dead horse -in so many variety of ways. is it really that fascinating in describing advantages of friend feed over twitter? (i'm agnostic in either service but curious as to the catalyst(s) in why this is a continuous thing.) there's mechanistic differences, but isn't the point of all this to make of it all what we will? make it our own?
- sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
I think people readily follow on Twitter because the tolerance for spam on Twitter is higher. It is after all a 140 char message. But on Friendfeed with all the metadata and functionality you really want items that are meaningful to you.
- Vishy
Holy long comment thread, batman! (aside: the existence of such comment threads is one of the advantages of FF) Okay, so I think FF will only succeed if it can encapsulate your entire Twitter existence within FF itself. In other words, on top of all the great things FF does, it needs to become a good Twitter client. This will take some serious pumping up of tools like imaginary friends...
- Karen James
Takes a while to catch up on 300+ comments =P @Netvista: you asked about sharing filters. There's is a room/group where people are doing just that http://beta.friendfeed.com/fffilte... When they share a filter, it's a link to a specific search result. When you're looking at the result, there's a link @ the top in the red bar to create a filter from it. @Mitch and George: to search only FF generated posts, service:friendfeed works.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
So did Scolble finaaaallly answer his comment? "So how does Twitter favor from this BIG difference?" Or was he just inciting more frenzy Scoble style? Looks to be not yet...he disappeared.
- sofarsoShawn
Shawn, it's 6 am in Scoble's time zone. Even he has to sleep sometime =)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Both of them have users forcing people to click through which is a pain. End.
- Richard A.
Great Conversation, I missed the "live" version as it happened but was able to catch up quickly. Things I'm interested in, sidebar for FF live for browsers? Never mind found it here http://userstyles.org/styles...
- Mark Essel
I tried to read this thread but it was at 600+ comments. Does FF have a tl;dr auto-summarizer yet? No offense folks, but I don't have an hour on Monday morning to catch up here.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Timestamps would be nice too.
- Chris Poulson
Timestamps for what, Chris, the comments? Those are available: hover over the speech bubble to the left of a comment
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Tina beat me to it, but beyond the bubble, some sort of timestamps would be nice so you can just scan the list and tell who said what when. For example, I'd like to be able to see what folks said after I gave up keeping up with the discussion on this around 10pm or so last night.
- Ken Sheppardson
Exactly Ken... Maybe something more along the lines of how Twitter does it. "Chris Poulson 34s ago"
- Chris Poulson
I don't buy that FF generates less followers. The sample size is much smaller to pull from. For an apples to apples compares we need to look at percentages. I'll bet you, percentage wise, you have more followers on FF and Twitter.
- James Furlo
Why do we have to focus so much on the tools? We couldn't expect this behavior to go mainstream. They are nothing other than means to enhance human interactions and relationships. Twitter is about notification and Friendnfeed is better at conversation; but let's ask what's the value of social media to us human being. I'd like to just be able to follow what I think are the best aspects of the people I like, so that I can be good at one thing and leverage on them when it comes what I think they are gd at.
- Tim Lai
*bumps* the contradictions are just ubiquitous
- sofarsoShawn
@gruts Thanks! I always hate hearing my own voice so it's good to have some reassurance -kj
You and Peter both have very good radio voices. I've thought so every time I've heard either of you on radio shows and podcasts.
- Richard Carter, FCD
Awww, thanks!
- Karen James
Peter didn't introduce himself, so I had to guess who he was. I agree with Richard - you both sounded very natural.
- Bob O'Hara
Must have been the Laphroaig.
- Richard Carter, FCD
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