Kevin L - Comments

1.05 (670/633) - Micah Wittman from Bookmarklet

Can you remind me again where to find those stats? - Brian Johns

Brian, go to "Me" link (http://friendfeed.com/brianjo...) which defaults to the Feed tab. Look at the sidebar on the right, below Discussion. - Micah Wittman

0.75 (926/1226) - still relatively new here - mikepk

I only see my stats for the last week (17/14 = 1.21) Please tell me your 670 number is for more than just a week! - Brian Johns

1.44 (566/391) for brianjohns (after week tally you should see a comma then 'all time' count - I can see it on your page) - Micah Wittman

OK, sorry. I'm a total dumbass. I stopped reading after the weekly totals... - Brian Johns

3.74, which seems way off of everybody else's. I wonder what that says. I comment a lot more than I like. - Cyrus Lendvay

FFers use FF with their own strategy or simply default tendencies. The ratio is an interesting snapshot of behaviour. Thanks for joining in everyone, hope more keep flowing in. - Micah Wittman from twhirl

0.79 - Brian Roy

0.77 - Eric @ CS Techcast

0.67 - Nine

0.77 - Shey, Jamaican of FF

0.76 - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

1.39. - Rochelle

1.80 - Brian Sullivan

1.61 - I only 'like' when I want to throw my support behind a topic but don't have anything constructive to add. - Bjorn Stromberg

1.12 - LogEx

1.41 - WorldofHiglet

5.08 (3181/626) ! - ◄ani625Ξ

2.41 - William Harryman

0.66 - I tend to 'like' things without needing to comment further, I guess, and I notice I usually like the things upon which I comment. Well, frequently. - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

.39 (2457/6242) I guess I don't comment much. I do 'like' a lot of things, it would seem. - Bren, Photophobe

0.62 then again i have over 11,000 comments - Cee Bee

1.23 (5287/4229) - I am put to shame by Cee Bee's participation, good grief! - Her Lindsay-ness

@Cee Bee I think you meant 0.62 - ◄ani625Ξ

1.27 (902/705) - Leandro Ardissone ⍨

yes, thanks for the correction. lindsay, you're making me feel bad. lol - Cee Bee

0.8576, I only like mostly when I'm going to comment - Mol, Time Warping

1.55 endlessly repeating. This Like/Comment included. - Dana D

before this comment: .69 I kid you not. - InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)

So far: Average: 1.27 | Median: 0.81 ... (if you average 1 comment per like, you'd be 1.0 ... if you're 0.xx you might herd content more than discuss ... if you're whole numbers above 1 you may not 'like' much or discuss plenty or both) - Micah Wittman

CSV_A: 1.05,0.75,1.44,0.81,3.74,0.79,0.77,0.67,0.77,0.76,1.39,1.8,1.61,1.12,0.141,5.08,2.41,0.66,.39,0.62,.62,1.27,0.8576,1.551,0.69 - Micah Wittman

1.83 - Grant Bierman

I tend to like allot of photos which really don't need comments. - InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)

InPerpetualMotion(Gina k), I really liked this 'Like' of yours (in a series of pics, so I flickr fav'd it): http://friendfeed.com/e... and commented. Thanks! - Micah Wittman

.37 1002/2708 - Michael Fidler

this is what scobes walls would like if he didnt have FF - sean percival

I haven't seen Marc Canter's fabled fence (just heard about it), but I imagine this but on wood pickets :) - Micah Wittman

This week: 2.48 (1162:467) but this is not the norm, my likes usually match or are higher than comments, overall: 0.95 (14228:14846). - Kol Tregaskes

Thanks Michael, Kol! I'll recalculate average/median when we build up some more data points here. - Micah Wittman

1.03 748/723 - Keith - @tsudo

.68 6986/10194 Someone wrote a great article on the comment-like ratio a few months ago. Search on FriendFeed is crashing on me... I'll try to get the link. - Mitchell Tsai

Thanks Mitchell (btw, search crashing on me too - lots) - Micah Wittman

1316 comments/20221 likes (0.06), according to Windows Calculator, although I probably screwed up. - Tyson Key

*bump* - Micah Wittman

0.51 - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Thanks, Mark! - Micah Wittman

Thanks Spidra! - Micah Wittman

0.95 (1520/1604) - it's 2+ months later, and my ratio flipped (more Likes by .05) - Micah Wittman

.7 (1204/1724) - before this comment at least. - Rachel Lea Fox

Thanks, Rachel! - Micah Wittman

3.46 (3665/1057) before this comment and like. - Kevin Fox

Thanks, Kevin. 3+ is quite the comment on your commenting activities :) - Micah Wittman

I've got stuff to say. - Kevin Fox

3.98 (900/226) - Richard Lawler

1.02 (3538/3484) for sofarsofarshaun - Micah Wittman

.34 (600/1747, not counting this comment) - Michael Hocter

Thank you, Siavash and Michael - Micah Wittman

.52 overall, but .68 this week. - Rebecca

Nice, thanks Rebecca. - Micah Wittman

1.31 - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

0.56 - imabonehead

Rah and imabonehead - rock on! (Richard too!) - Micah Wittman

0.16 - Anne Bouey

1.39 - jcunwired

4.62 (287/62) -- Yikes! I'm chatty. - Ted Roden

Thank you kindly, Anne, jcunwired and Ted. - Micah Wittman

2.63 - Bryce, Low in Sodium

Thanks for joining in, Bryce. - Micah Wittman

.15 all time, .13 this week. - Alix Whitmire

.52 - David HC Soul

Thank you, Alix and David! (and Alix, you're tied with Siavash for the Highest Like ratio. Wow). - Micah Wittman

2.94 - j1m

Thank you, j1m. Ok, I'm gonna roll this up into a csv and call it a night. - Micah Wittman

CSV_B: 0.95,0.7,3.46,3.98,1.02,0.15,0.34,0.52,1.31,0.56,0.16,1.39,4.62,2.63,0.15,0.52,2.94 - Micah Wittman

this week = 0.45%, alltime = 6.43% - chaz2b

CSV_B Mean: 1.49 (previous mean for CVS_A: 1.27) - Micah Wittman

Of course the numbers can easily lie, but I'm gonna say it anyway: "We're getting more conversational, people!" - Micah Wittman

0.49 (493/988) - Bluesun 2600

816 / 2502 = 0.326139089 overall | 50 / 233 = 0.214592275 this week I like much more than I comment. (maths via google) - Chris Loft

3026/5013 = 0.6036 - Roger Chen

0.107 probably the lowest here - Nicholas James

chaz2b, Bluesun 2600, Roger, Nicholas — thank you! - Micah Wittman

.76 - jamar78

5.25 but I don't know what this *means, yet. maybe I'm just stingy with my "likes" compared to others? - Marg Uerite

Thanks jamar78 and Marg! - Micah Wittman

A recent change in FF: now the comment count shows total number of comments (previously multiple comments in one thread only counted as one) http://friendfeed.com/e... so all the numbers above are from the old methodology.... - David HC Soul

My new ratio: 0.76 all time (old methodology .52).... this week 1.39 - David HC Soul

*bump* - Micah Wittman

1.26 (2965/2346) - Micah Wittman

1.37 - Glen Campbell

1.74 - ♥patricia♥

Thanks, Glen and pea! - Micah Wittman

Looks like my ratio as flipped again (comments back to dominating again). Seems to match my own awareness I've lately been commenting without Liking (commenting is my inherent recognition of value to me and the additional Like is when it merits an extra bump to help discovery by others). - Micah Wittman

.38 - Ryan Dadey

Ryan, I have to say, that's one high caliber ratio ;) - Micah Wittman

An update it's .44 which is an improvement from .36 - Michael Fidler

2.00 - Anthony Citrano

0.97 - Willem (@wim66) ☠

1.5 exactly - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

2.94 1040/354 I have likes set to post to twitter automatically, so I'm careful with them. :) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

0.85 - Steven Perez

0.73 up from 0.66 on Jan 08 - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

0.37 for the week past, 0.45 on the whole. - Parth Awasthi

Michael, Anthony, Ahsan, guruvan Steven, sıɹɥɔ and Parth - thanks for dropping in your stats! - Micah Wittman

5.81 i'm not using it as does everyone else here. that is fer sure. - Marg Uerite

But remember, the comment counts also includes comments imported from other services. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Ahsan, huh, I'd never considered that. - Micah Wittman

17942/30571=.59 - Alex Scoble

Alex, thank you, sir. - Micah Wittman

ALmost 2:1 exactly. - Amani

Much obliged, Amani. - Micah Wittman

3062/5777 you do the maths. - Will Higgins™

.53 (3062/5777) for Will Higgins #math-on-demand-services - Micah Wittman

Thank you, amin/gnu - Micah Wittman

2671/12333=.21 - Darren Heydon

7.16 - Ken Sheppardson

*bump* (SEE ALSO http://friendfeed.com/jungleg... ) - Micah Wittman

1.45 (4374/3026) - Micah Wittman

1.73 - Aron Michalski

0.92 now. I think the movie reviews have been getting me closer to a 1 to 1 ratio. - Steven Perez

0.77 - Mathew A. Koeneker

Steven, yep, you were a 0.85 in April. - Micah Wittman

2.10 now ... - Amani

0.97 now. - Eric Johnson

Amani, so your comments have climbed a bit. - Micah Wittman

Thanks, Eric. - Micah Wittman

yes, but i am not consciously "not liking" things - Amani from IM

Probably, just chattier then :) - Micah Wittman

I'm down from 7.16 to 6.94 :-) - Ken Sheppardson

the live NBA playoff threads have ALOT to do with it. - Amani from IM

Ken, the FCC may be interested to explore how your "I'm down" may be offensively self-deprecating ;) - Micah Wittman

.56 eeep, must try harder - Threepwood

4.52. I don't bother to like things I've commented on, since commenting already flags it as interesting. - Andy Bakun

0.46 (1698/3638) - Glenn Slaven

Threepwood, Andy, Glenn - thanks (Andy, that's my mo too; then I'll Like if it warrants a "double vote"). - Micah Wittman

1.31 (4,471/3,401) - Karoli

Thanks, Karoli. And the both of us have a _very_ similar ratio and absolute numbers. wow. - Micah Wittman

1.15 ! Noisy... need more liking, I guess. - Ryo / Fuck Facebook

Thanks, Ryo! - Micah Wittman

Darn - 0.52. I guess I need to say why I like something a little more often :-) Liking this thread because I was wondering the same thing recently. Has anybody worked out the average from the numbers here? </islazy> - Andy Bold

Andy, scroll upward and you'll see a couple calculations from before (January: Average: 1.27 | Median: 0.81) - Micah Wittman

In March the Mean was: 1.49 - Micah Wittman

1.021276595744680851063829787234042553191489361702127659... via Wolfram Alpha - tom murphy

Thanks, tom. And though a bit verbose, your friend Wolfram is resourceful :D - Micah Wittman

0.55 (254/444) - Willem (@wim66) ☠

Thank you, Willem. - Micah Wittman

In April you were 0.97, so you're liking more / commenting less. - Micah Wittman

1.88 (779/414) - Ton Zijp

Thanks, Ton. - Micah Wittman

0.43 (3597/8305). - Parth Awasthi

0.74 (1970/2667) - Scott of Two Countries

And thank you Parth, Scott. - Micah Wittman

Parth, compared to your April numbers, you've been consistent. - Micah Wittman

2.12 is my ratio. - Rick Cogley

Thanks, Rick! - Micah Wittman

Np Micah. What is that photo? - Rick Cogley

.54 (4148/7674) Updated! - Michael Fidler

Rick, you mean that face with glasses I photoshopped tint into with an apparently disembodied arm which is actually very much attached to my eldest son? It's mostly just me :) - Micah Wittman

Thanks, Michael. Yes, you have a rising tide of comment percentage (oh, wow, you were one of the originals from January - cool!) - Micah Wittman

1.82 from 798 comments / 438 likes - David Damore

Thanks, nivé and David! - Micah Wittman

2027/1594 = 1.27 - Brome

0.58 - Marc Dong

2.9 (3,242/1,116) mhhh.. time to straighten my use of FF a bit.. thanks for this entry - Thierry R. Andriamirado

Brome, Marc and Thierry - thank you! - Micah Wittman

Thierry - yeah, 2.9 is fairly high - got to pick the pace on like side :) [but hey, whatever works for you is fine] - Micah Wittman

Stats Update: Last time I commented here my comment to like ratio was 0.107 it's increased to 0.645 ;) - Nicholas James

1.91 - MiniMage, sheeple of FF

Thank you Nicholas and MiniMage! - Micah Wittman

Yeah, that's a decent upward rise in comments, Nicholas. - Micah Wittman

.6 (6,000/10,000) 3rd update - Now it's time to flip this on its head. My goal is to have (16,000/16,000) next time I post here. Regardless of what happens, I'm just looking forward to the next 10,000 comments, likes, posts, and new relationships I make here. It's all good! - Michael Fidler

1.76 (7539/4290) My commenting habits haven't chanced much, but it felt like I clicked Like a lot less, and this ratio confirms that for me. - Micah Wittman

It's that time again. - Micah Wittman

.50 - Laura B smileogenic

Thanks, Laura! (you're a 50-caliber gal!) - Micah Wittman

0.64 - Imabug

Thank you, Imabug. - Micah Wittman

4.67 (I'm greedy :p) - directeur

0.99 - Steven Perez

About 1:2 comment to likes at this time - RAPatton from iPod

1.06 - Jim Hearts FF

.81 - Brent - Long Live Rock

.63 - metalerik

Thanks Imabug, directeur, Steven, RAPatton, Jim, Brent and metalerik! - Micah Wittman

.83 - Jimminy

0.78 - Pete Delucchi

.82 as of right now. edit: on January 8th it was 0.39 -- when I saw that, I decided to make more of an effort to comment. When I hit 10k "likes" I decided I wouldn't "like" anything else until I also had 10k comments. - Bren, Photophobe

.11 - The Bohemian Penguin

And thank you Jimminy, Pete, Bren and Penguin! - Micah Wittman

2.47 as of right now. - Jonas, Leper of FF

Micah, are you doing something with these numbers? If so sounds interesting. - Jimminy

0.58 - James (!?)

Jimminy, I'm copyrighting every single number. It's kind of a honeypot ;) Actually, it was curiosity mostly, but I also hope to build a sampling (small and self-selecting as it may be) for anyone who might want to analyze it. - Micah Wittman

Jonas, James and Kurt - thanks you! - Micah Wittman

You're welcome. I hope the results do some good. :-) - James (!?)

.31. I have almost 4 times as many likes as comments. - edythe

.86 - Eric Logan

Thank you edythe and Eric! - Micah Wittman

195/245 makes 0.8 rounded not including this one which would be 196/245 making 0.8 unrounded, - tom murphy

Thanks, Tom. - Micah Wittman

1.98 (588/297) - Bryan Zirkel

1.67 (19,550/11,684) - Mitchell Tsai

1:2 - Jeff P. Henderson

Bryan, Mitchell and Jeff P. - thanks, guys! - Micah Wittman

1.18 - it's always been close to 1, since day one, for some reason. - Laura Norvig

Wow, Penguin is a prolific liker! - Laura Norvig

2.67 (875/328) - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

Thank you, Nathalie! - Micah Wittman

2.18 - Spidra Webster

1.29 - Mark Jepsen

Thanks, Spidra and Mark! - Micah Wittman

0.49 - Jammy Lee

0.825 - Mathew A. Koeneker

Jammy and Mathew, thank you very much. - Micah Wittman

2.16 - SuezanneC Baskerville

I don't know I just like that picture - Brian Hendrickson

.40 - Ben Hanten

Mine was exactly 2:1 about a week ago. Did a screenshot when I had 2,000 comments and 1,000 likes. - Joe.... from iPod

SuezanneC, Brian, B E N and Joe - thank you all very much! - Micah Wittman

Joe, it's like see the odometer click through a nice round number - it's just inexplicably engaging. :) - Micah Wittman

1.40, nearly the square root of two. - Vezquex: God of FF

0.58 - Andy Bold

Thanks, Raphael and Andy! - Micah Wittman

1.15 (6777/5873) - JA Castillo

12.23 (844 / 69 ) I guess I take my likes seriously ;) - Chris Myles

1.63 - Serkan Mutlu

Wow I didn't realize I was so out of whack!! 12.23 that's got to be a record (and I don't even import my feeds with the summary as a comment)!! - Chris Myles

.87 - Nine

Thanks JA, Chris (wow, 12+ is unusual :), Serkan and Nine! - Micah Wittman

0.89 (17818/19913) (Somebody better make a cool ass graph of all this data!) - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Micah.. I told you I take my likes seriously; ). You *might* want to ask (in a separate post) what percentage of likes were used to "bookmark" a post or save it for later VS actually "liking it". I NEVER used like for that.. but I did use a private group that if filled with my own topics (and comments).. - Chris Myles

1.78 (8529/4782) - Micah Wittman

Likes are down relative to comments, which matches my much lower frequency of liking. I'm a more selective liker than ever. - Micah Wittman

0.9009 (6055/6721) - Jason Huebel

OK, so statistically, what ratio results in better interaction on FF? - Jason Huebel

I don't think I could argue that any particular kind of ratio is "best", because if Lurkers like to Lurk and cultivate (via Likes) and the Chatty-ites love to chat, to pump out much many more comments than Likes, each can be happy and make for a great social experience. - Micah Wittman

So I'm fairly balanced, it appears. I would imagine it's because I try to comment on every post I like. That's not always true, obviously. But mostly it is. - Jason Huebel

Just clicking "Like" seems too easy. I feel like I should say something, too. - Jason Huebel

383/372 - ashish

'Just clicking "Like" seems too easy' — Jason, that's because you're from the Chatty-ite tribe :) - Micah Wittman

Thanks, ashish. - Micah Wittman

wow, what a difference time makes, when i 1st posted on this thread, 6.43%, now = 1.25%, for a 5.18% difference, :o (and this is the earliest post to date i've recovered of my activity on ff) - chaz2b

chaz, I think there's been a big fluctuation for most people (maybe not that much). This is the oldest post on which you commented that you've recovered? - Micah Wittman

When I first saw this: 1.91 Sept 28: 1.94 - MiniMage, sheeple of FF

536 comments in the last month has me at .8736...still creeping toward 1.00 - Bren, Photophobe

.64 - Shannon Jiménez

Thanks, MiniMage (2x participant!), Bren (3x!) and Shannon (your inaugural visit!) - Micah Wittman

Thank you, SustainedEuphoria. - Micah Wittman

I 'liked" this to change my ratio! (1.22 1040/850) - Mark Jepsen

Thanks, Mark. - Micah Wittman

1.45 - Brett Kelly

Thanks, Brett :) - Micah Wittman

5.67 all time. Second highest ratio on here. Woot! I love to talk. - Kevin L

0.125, I need to talk more ;) - mridul

Thank you both, Kevin and mridul (the two of you balance it each well :) - Micah Wittman

1.80 (10,189 / 5,666) [compared to Likes, my Comments still continue to rise] - Micah Wittman

1.02 (10323/10161) - Bren, Photophobe

.5666 currently (30,084/53,093) - Alex Scoble

Thanks, Bren. - Micah Wittman

Thank you, Alex :) - Micah Wittman

that was my third post... It's interesting to see how the number has changed. of course, I manipulated the number to a degree, because I stopped "liking" things for a while... - Bren, Photophobe

Bren, the other thing that can seriously throw off someone's stats is a feed that upon each item it imports adds a comment automatically. - Micah Wittman

true. that can seriously inflate comment stats, of course. Then you have someone like RAPatton, who posts a gazillion comments, in part because of his playlist posts where he will list each song in a separate comment. I found, after this post in fact, that I tended to "like" things much more frequently than comment on them, that I was lurking instead of participating. I have changed the way I use ff rather considerably, and I think for the better. - Bren, Photophobe

1.8 - Sarah is Novembery

4.26? - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

Thanks, Sarah, Tutivillus. - Micah Wittman

1.19 - Joe Bonner

Micah this is like 11 months ago, I see you have almost doubled your rate. lets make a graph for everybody now, :) - Mahmood Padura

Quick, someone write a greasemonkey script to inline some google charts! (tap-tap-tap...wut? don't look at me ;) - Micah Wittman

Thanks, Joe. And you thank you, Mahmood :) - Micah Wittman

1.66 - Glen Campbell

Thanks, Glen! Your comments in the ratio have gone up too. - Micah Wittman

1.70 (it was 1.41 on Jan 8) - WorldofHiglet

WorldofHiglet, thank you :) The comments are strong in this one. - Micah Wittman

0.64 (2,589/4,051) - Chieze Okoye

0.58 - Thomas Page

Chieze and Thomas - thank you! - Micah Wittman

*bumpage* - Micah Wittman

So, Micah, we never did find out what you were doing with this info.... - WorldofHiglet

2.21 (2,812/1,275) - Rene Wirtz

0.27 (5637/20234) - I only see a couple people lower than me. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

4.06 (747/184) - Jan Ole Peek

WoH, World Domination. - Micah Wittman

Rene, John and Jan - thank you, all three! :) - Micah Wittman

1.94 - آقای تلخک

2.74 (4,446 / 12,204) - J. Abdul-Qahhar

0.97 (6,694/6,929) - Jimminy

Thank you J., Jimminy and آقای تلخک :) - Micah Wittman

2.23 - Paola Bonomo

0.71 (8,200/11,551) updated - Michael Fidler

0.67 - Artemko

J. Abdul-Qahhar LOL 4,446 / 12,204 = 0.36 - Artemko

0.03 (284 / 10378)! - Daniel Rowley

Thanks Paola, Michael, Artemko, J. and Daniel! - Micah Wittman

1.09 (9990/9105) From and including: Saturday, April 26, 2008 To and including: Thursday, November 12, 2009 It is 566 days from the start date to the end date, end date included Or 1 year, 6 months, 18 days including the end date to reach 10,000 comments. - Christopher Harley

*thanks Christopher thoroughly* - Micah Wittman

"...The annoying kid said, "Well, at least I have a girlfriend!" to which I responded, "Whatever. Your girlfriend has 67 protons." In response, the entire class, including the teacher, turned their heads to look at the periodic table on the wall. The element with 67 protons is holmium, with the chemical symbol "Ho." My teacher was the first to laugh. MLIA" - LogEx

That kid needs to come to my college. - Kevin L

"A Canadian teenager has been rescued unharmed, apart from minor frostbite, after drifting for almost three days on an ice floe together with two polar bear cubs and the carcass of their mother which he shot in self defence. The 17-year-old, who was named locally as Jupi Nakoolak, was suffering from hypothermia after the temperature fell below -15C, but was otherwise well, conscious and speaking to his rescuers, who crawled across ice floes to reach him. Nakoolak told them he shot the adult bear when it came too close, and then got as far away as possible on the ice from the cubs, which remained with the body." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

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Oh my goodness! :( - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕

wow - WorldofHiglet

whoa. - Micah Wittman

That guy is pretty awesome! - Kevin L

Pfftt, Win7 upgrade is a piece of cake. I might recommend clean install though, if you can. - jcunwired

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Trying. So far not going that well. The Dell prep disk uninstalled my network drivers, then I couldn't figure out how to make it create a new partition. Now I think I have 2 installs. - Alix Whitmire from iPhone

I just installed next to XP on my netbook - Kevin L

I winged it, but then I'm a geek. My brother used this guide which he said helped. I quickly reviewed, looks pretty good: http://www.dedoimedo.com/compute... - jcunwired

Yeah, I dunno why, but the "new" in the partition part was grayed out for me. Maybe I needed to format first? Or that Dell creates 2 partitions before you even get to Windows. Everything seems fine now except that I only have 230gb free of 283 with nothing on here but Win7 and Chrome even after deleting the old Windows installs with the cleanup utility. - Alix Whitmire

A system partition is created that eats up a chunk of HDD space, so that would account for the missing space. Also, the first install of Win7 professional I attempted the New was greyed out, I started over and for some reason it was there. As I understand it, if not IDE1 you may have some problems with creation of a new partition. - jcunwired

Gotcha - Thanks! Maybe I'll try it again. - Alix Whitmire

Geek! - Kol Tregaskes

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Geek! - Travis Koger

GEEK - johnpiercy

not really a geek. somewhere in between. - vijay

According to my friends, geek ... - Irma Vermaat

I fall between the two.. - Simon Wicks

Geek(-ish)! - Ade

Geek. - Robert Scoble

a carnival performer who does disgusting acts eccentric: a person with an unusual or odd personality , or an individual with a passion for computers, to the exclusion of other normal human interests. I assume we are using the last definition? - Brian Sullivan

Geek!! - Chris Zlatis

Geek. With an unusual or odd personality. - Mark H

both: happy&nice??mix of geek and non-geek xoxo - anjelina

Technophile not talented enough to be a real geek. - Eric Logan

geek. definitely - Imabug

geek! - Josh Lam

Geek, I suppose. - Vera Hannaford

GEEK! - Daniel Vining

Geek, but you wouldn't know it by most of my FriendFeed postings. - Ha3rvey (more more more)

Geek. - rowlikeagirl

I'm definitely a geek, but not nearly as much of a geek as some others. - Curtiss Grymala

Geek and proud! - Parvez Halim

non-geek - teh Dork Knight

Me? nah! Everything But The Geek! - directeur

I am a big Geek and I am still here - Rob Cairns

It's all Geek to me - Tim Ostler

Geek! - Oytnx

Geek, reporting in. - Jason Huebel

(former) GEEK - Joe Silence is not dead

Half breed, still here. - Thom Kennon

D&D playing IT pro = very geeky - Alex Scrivener

geek, but losing interest in FF as others catch up with features - Chris Rogers

I am here but it is up to others to decide whether I am geek or not. - ashish

Geek - Roberto Bonini from iPhone

Geek - Holger Eilhard

Gleek! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - josh neff, Fun Dip of FF

Geek! - chris

Geek - EhsanDiary

Geek!!! - adataghost

Geeky! - Willem (@wim66) ☠

geek! - Dr.Lonely Lotus

Geek, but not in terms of tech, rather comic books, etc. :) - Derrick

You hand in your ticket...And you go watch the geek...Who immediately walks up to you...When he hears you speak...And says, "How does it feel...To be such a freak?"...And you say, "Impossible"...As he hands you a bone - Greg GuitarBuster

Geek, of course. That's why I don't fit in on other social networks. - April Russo (app103)

Nerd and Proud™! (which should count as geek) - Marco Fabbri

geek, absolutely! - Stephanie

Geeek (1 more e ) of course ! - Oğulcan Selçuk Akbulut

Geek! Per your hypothesis that geek have left FF, where else would they have flocked to? - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

non-geek - chaz2b

@Marco Fabbri: Nerd != Geek. In SML Dictionary, Nerds have no fashion sense and can't talk to people, Geeks generally have a fashion sense and can carry on a conversation relatively ok; nerds usually wear white t-shirts and white sneakers; Geeks generally wear black t-shirts and black sneakers. A classic example: Nerd = Bill gates; Geek = Steve Jobs! - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

depends on what we are geeking out about. if we're talking about music, shoes, spinning, dyeing, yarn, german history, b movies and zombies- then ubergeek. - Mary Carmen

reformed non-geek - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

geek, but not the tech type of geek, more like a geeky nerd - William Harryman

Geek in some respects. Non geek in others. So...semi geek - Tamara from iPhone

left as not "left" but they kinda abandoned it/reduced the usage - ffcode

@See-ming Lee that is indeed controversial. Anyway as choice was given between geek and non-geek I meant some degree of nerd counts as geek. - Marco Fabbri

Geek. But I post as much political stuff as tech... - Christopher Galtenberg

I'm like a geek's groupie. - MicahBear78

Geek! Still is. Still, Zu is using FF. - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

@Marco Fabbri Well I think that all geeks are nerds, but all nerds != geeks. I believe that Set(Geek) includes Set(Nerd) but this is a question I have been thinking about for years now and I don't yet have a conclusion yet. But at least that's where I'm at now! - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

Geek. - Brome

Geek. - Tanath

I am still here. I am not sure I am a geek. But, you know, I am not the most objective person when considering myself. - Martha

Geek. - Heather

Geekie - Moved to Facebook

If we were doing this in Google Wave, we could've used a poll gadget. Anyone got a Wave invite to spare for a fellow geek! :0) - Daniel Vining

Not fitting the both. I'm big of a nerd. - Burcu Dogan

Geek! - Martin Bryant from iPhone

Geek - Rasmus Lauridsen

mutant geek - bob phillips

Geek to the last! - Jemm

geek, definitely - Michele Costabile

Geek, but I prefer "nerd"... a geek is someone who bites the heads off chickens in a carnival sideshow. - Andy Bakun from Android

I've always thought of myself as a nerd, but, according to Alex Scoble's definition, I'm not. So I guess i'm not sure. - Glen Campbell

What is Alex's definition? :-) - Kol Tregaskes

What the heck is the point of this question? Could a non-geek even use FriendFeed?? - Internet's Tad

Geek, but I'd enjoy and use Friendfeed even if I weren't. - Micah Wittman

Certified Geek - Giraffes Up In The AIr

I am very much a geek, but I don't talk software here and concentrate on other things like science, art, entertainment ... - RAPatton

geek - Bill Scherer

Geek: I have totally noticed a lack of conversation. Agh! - Zachary TG

Portable Geek - Hussein EROL

geek - Jan Ole Peek

Neither. - Maxamad

Not a geek - R1CC1

geek-ish - Amber, Random Time Lord

Hell to the naw...all the real geeks are still here. - Alex Scoble

Definite geek! Or should I say gEEk, cause I'm an EE. - Kevin L

Still here, still geeky! - Joel Bennett

My wife says I'm a geek. - Jeff P. Henderson

Geek - Michael Hocter

Geek - Mitchell Tsai

Geek - Brian Schwartz

Geek - Andrew Terry from iPod

That looks like a lot of geeks. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Geek :) - Susan Beebe from iPhone

Geek, with hints of nerd - Christopher A Carr

I'm going with something I been told: 'you have chips for brains!' - Grant Bierman

;) - A.T.

geek - sad vagarious pervert

Geek! - Nikos Anagnostou

Geek. I guess I might qualify at least partially for a nerd, since I have to ask my husband if my shirt matches my pants... - Eph Zero

Italian geek. - $mackos-gnu = marco

geek-esque, but more of a "creative type". I have geeky interests. - Kamilah Gill

linux geek - Joe Geeting

geek - 9000

Geek - Murat Ozoral

I'm with Kamilah - I like that - "creative geek." - Amy℠

g33k - Kevin Mohr

none-geek - Amin Diary

non-geek & non-nerd... =p - Özgür D. Cyric

I never thought of myself as a geek, but I guess I am being on intenet 24/7. - Ton Zijp

Geek I am still here - Steve Mott

geek! - MiniMage, sheeple of FF

GEEEEEEKKKKK! - WorldofHiglet

Geek who still thinks FF adds lots of value regardless of volume of engagement. - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

geek - 14 other people

still here (I post this a lot) and still geek. - Mike Nencetti

i didnt leave yet, geek. Also, Ozgur Duru is a geek and a hopeless nerd too. he is lying! - Bahriye

dorkalicious nerdtastic geek - Heather

Geek, of course. - i80and

I'm either a geek, or I play one on TV. I forget which sometimes. - LogEx

Uhh, negative. I am a meat popsicle. - Josh Haley

i'm a one of a kind internet legend - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Geek .. for sure - Bhowmik Shah

Most definitely a Geek. - Got Love For DB™? from iPod

I'm not a geek. I'm a turbocharged, direct fuel injected GEEK. - Mike Nayyar

Geek. :) - Dr. Apps from twhirl

I think the social media writer early adopters have left, the geeks, it seems are still here - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

still here :) - Stanislas Jourdan

geek...still here... - ovigia

Geek - DAL from iPhone

Geek - Juan Pablo González

I dable .. compared to my friends, Geek! - Chris Myles

dude I SHIT geek, I'm so geek - sofarsoShawn

Wannabe-geek :) - JA Castillo

dork - Hutch Carpenter

sex machine - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

Former geek, but no longer - Mark Jepsen

healing my wounded inner geek. i went freak for a while, then artsy-hipster... keeping hints of those, but the foundation is looking mighty geek. - T. Brent, technopeasant

Meek. They say we'll inherit it. - howard shippin from BuddyFeed

Geek, of course. - Steven Perez

Geek - Glenn Slaven

Geek - Aram Zucker-Scharff

Geek and I'm still here! - Nicholas Kreidberg

wannabe geek, follower of geeks... can't find better geeks elsewhere... who will talk to me LOL - Holly Rae, FFer

geek! - Lee

Geek - Amber

Geek in the making ;) - Bicentennial (Franc)

Geek! (And hacker of memes, too. ;) - Dennis Jernberg

Geek :P - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

geek - Bruce Lewis

Geek. - Kevin Pedraja

no geek - marsupilamima

geek - Barijaona Ramaholimihaso

I don't know... How can I tell if I am a geek? - J. Abdul-Qahhar

Not a geek. But I am a Social Media Expert, as you know. - Jim Hearts FF from iPhone

eek - Djordje Lukic

Geek, for sure! - Brian Jude from twhirl

keeg ;p - zʍıɔ

Geek - 2icarly3

g33k - Tom Silk from twhirl

I still here Kol. Forever G33K..! - ★ Soner Gönül

Cool, Soner. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

nope! we shall stand until the end! no matter the cost! - Darth Farhad Sama

today im a geek b - R_ C

Non-geek. But I'm in denial. ;) - Meryn Stol

Geek - Nathan Snyder

Geek - Nils Sandin

I think that's pretty clear, the geeks have *not* left FriendFeed. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Geek... - Carlos Sousa

Sorta geek-leaning. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

greek geek who left twitter:) - Citronella

geek - James Williams

Geek! - prozacfield

The way I look at it, most of my friends primarily use Facebook OR Twitter. A few use both, and a few have YouTube Accounts. They don't read RSS feeds or use Google Reader or Digg or StumbleUpon. Therefore, non-geeks cannot see the benefits of this aggregation power (anyone agree or not?) - Nathan Snyder

Proof that geeks have NOT left FriendFeed? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Non-geek being converted by the boyfriend. - Katie: Witch Of The West

Geek++ - mikepk

Hehe, Katie, don't do it. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

I am a tad bit nerdy, I do a bit of WP coding (I don't just blog y'all :) :) - Holden Page

GEEK. But not just a tech geek. Geekery comes in many forms. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

I'm a geek to the core. A multi-faceted geek at that. - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

I hate the word geek. Anything but it. - Maxamad

femgeek and renaissance geek - Melanie Reed

Geek - RetiredTeacherD

Geek! - James Myatt

For me it's the real-time stream and real-time notifications. Search won't be interesting until I can get notifications of search in real-time. - Jesse Stay

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It's like a never ending party, you can slip in an out of any conversation at anytime, and just have amiable discussions with people, every once in a while a topic turns sour, but it's not often. - Jimminy

The community & the UI. - Stephen Mack from iPhone

The tech and politics discussion. The great apps and sites always being posted news and the one stop shop for news from everywhere. And it all happens as you watch it. Great way to bookmark/organize things. - Maxamad

Genuine people and smooth interface. - ashish

I agree with Jimminy. I use FF for the conversations and people on it. You can find alot more interesting people on FF as opposed to twitter through the "Friends of Friends" discovery. - Bryan Lee

I can open it up, takes a news bath, get turned on to everything cutting edge, source answers to problems and chat around the water cooler. I can spend time reading or interacting in different %'s and still feel I'm having a great experience. - SAM

no spam. no client software needed. lists. you can edit your typos. no mafia wars. real-time. awesome people. - Mike Nencetti

For me, it's the way they enabled serendipitous discovery of content and people (via FoaF). It's something that almost no other social service has gotten right. - Carter Rabasa

+1 for Carter. I agree with Jimminy, but I think the point Carter made is a big reason why I've found so many interesting conversations and met so many interesting FriendFeeders. - Curtiss Grymala

It's the "hidden feature" that you never see on all those other would-be successors to FriendFeed (Postereous, etc). - Carter Rabasa

I find it far more engaging. I like the real-time stream, the multi-channel distribution of content. And the people are more interesting. - Gail Helmer

I agree with, and every comment above applies to me. In addition, and it's not the end-all-be-all as a collaboration tool, but it reduces friction between going from zero connection between people to actually working together on a common interest. - Micah Wittman

Real time Web, reach people who use ff mostly and engaging with them - Cagan Caglar from iPhone

The conversations, sharing, and the quality of the information. - John E. Bredehoft from fftogo

I think Jimminy is spot on with the party analogy. Posterous is more of a journal. They're complimentary. A party can give you something to write about, and a journal can give you something to chat about. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

the conversation...even forums aren't this good and we know blogs can't - ffcode

Its the people I am subscribed to. Even the ones I don't agree with are smart, funny, and engaging. - J. Abdul-Qahhar

It's the real time updates, the people I'm subscribed to, and their posts. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

The people. - Kevin L

The tools. But I'm with Kevin here. The people as well. - Roberto Bonini from iPhone

I just read the Mashable article on cliqset vs FF. Can you say oops. - Gail Helmer

The community. - Kol Tregaskes

The poignant transience of a channel that is living on borrowed time. Numbers have dropped off since the Facebook putsch - Tim Ostler

The people, the stories, the conversations and the general feeling I get from being here. - Alex Scoble

The people - RAPatton from iPhone

I agree with many here that its the community that's most important for me. Also coming in a close second is real time search and activity - Wang Yip

It is a very novel way to connect and share with people all over the globe from my little corner of the world. - Joe

the interaction & sharing of links - chaz2b

The community. - Eric Logan

My boring, boring job. (plus the average FF user is Stephen Hawking compared to most hangouts on the intertubes) - Lo

Real time search and updates. The UI. The API. But most of all, the people. - Andrew Terry

I like talking trash to people occasionally and finding links. That's about it. - orionstarr

i don't have any of "real" friend here. sad but true ;p - zʍıɔ

The people - and the serendipitous discovery of the people! ++ Jiminy and Carter. - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF from iPhone

The fact I can engage in actual conversations rather than catching bits of a conversation which is what I get on Twitter. - Eoghann Irving

One nice thing about friendfeed is that it doesn't try to make you reveal what your real legal name is or how old you are or where you live, unlike a lot of social networking sites. You can be a Second Life avatar here and not have to worry that your account will be deleted as a result. The single level of indentation keeps the text from sliding to the right like it does in the poorly... more... - SuezanneC Baskerville

You don't have to reveal your real legal name or how old you are or where you live anywhere Suezanne. They might ask for it, but there is this thing called fibbing. - Maxamad

Conversations, new people, the fact that you can consolidate all your social network streams here. Real-time updates. I love reading all the random people I don't know or have never heard of in FF conversations. And I use the FF bookmarklet to post here and simultaneously on Twitter. Oh yeah: did I mention the conversations? - Dennis Jernberg

Content. Oh, and Content. - Ian May

Dialogue. - Bren, Photophobe from iPhone

Conversations. On Twitter I just feel like I'm shouting at random strangers as they walk past. Here I can actually see the entire discussion. - Eoghann Irving

Having this conversation brought back is reminding me of the one thing that sets FriendFeed apart. Recycling. Every like or comment pushes it back to the top, and more people see it. I really hope Facebook does that. It's what makes FF valuable to me. - Jesse Stay

+Jesse - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

The fact that I do not have to be subscribed to everyone to see all of the conversation. And LOLCats. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from iPod

I like this part, "Even if you’re not going to start a startup right away. If you’ve been in your job for awhile, you should quit. Google was really comfortable. I knew all the people. It’s important to do things that will make you uncomfortable." - imabonehead

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I totally agree. Comfort leads to stagnation - Kevin L

Quitting to be uncomfortable assumes that you have enough money to make it awhile without being paid, which many people don't. - Robert Felty

I love what he said about how it's dangerous to believe that once one is done with school they can stop learning. Life is one big learning opportunity. - April Buchheit

Robert, having enough money for sure helps. And, because it's reality and not a novel, one needs to be realistic and not romantic about one's chances. But many people, perhaps most, have more actual resources to draw upon than they think, so they talk themselves into keeping the life they have. Young "exceeds expectations" people with strong friendships, a little savings, and a lot of... more... - Daniel Dulitz

I've pretty much moved on whenever I've felt that there wasn't anything new to learn, or if I wanted to try something that couldn't be learned where I was. Getting comfortable somehow just doesn't seem right. - Deepak Singh

I agree with Daniel. Money certainly helps but age is a bigger factor. It's easier to take risks and make mistakes when you've got a lot of time to make things right if they go wrong. - Benjamin Golub

I can tell you from experience: NOT having enough money can be a powerful motivator. - Hayes Haugen

A question: Does FriendFeed have to compete anymore? Is there any shame in coming 3rd or 4th? I know people who shoot with Fuji and Sony cameras, not because they are the best, but because they like it and it works for them. - Johnny Worthington

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But Robert - news makers have never supported Friendfeed-- - TechFuga

Good point. They don't bother since Fb owns Friendfeed. Remember, FF indirectly already has a deal with Bing becuase Fb has a deal with Bing. And FF is now indirectly owned by micrososft ( thier 15% stake in Fb, remember). I wouldn't worry so much. - Roberto Bonini

FriendFeed won't win... but there is no reason it should not even run the race. - Johnny Worthington

TechFuga: not true. I supported FriendFeed and I'm noticing a ton of action over on Twitter that, well, simply isn't happening here. http://twitter.com/scoblei... is just a taste. - Robert Scoble

Roberto, I was going to make that point also. FF is no longer an independent site battling for market share. They are a technology proving ground for FB with a vibrant community. ;) - Travis Koger

I finally removed the FriendFeed desktop notifier from my computer. It no longer updates in real time. It's a shame because it used to send me a notification within seconds of someone publishing on twitter or friendfeed - something that the desktop twitter clients couldn't even do because of Twitter API. - joebrooks

Johnny: the problem is that FriendFeed is going to be just a niche player. It's certainly not the dream community I once dreamed of. Not saying it won't be fun, but already the home page isn't the kind of things I care about. - Robert Scoble

And, Johnny, that realization is quite different than how I approached FriendFeed five months ago where I was demoing it to tech audiences around the world. - Robert Scoble

Do you not think friendfeed still wins for easy conversations though? You still couldn't have done this on twitter. I hate trying to talk to people on Twitter. - Simon Wicks

We are totally going to be niche... and I'm comfortable with that now. The coming issue which not many people talk about is the fact that all my social groups don't mix. I have 2 or 3 sets of friends, with different social norms and contexts. I like being in a few different places. Lumping them all on one service, and feeding them the different slices, is just to much trouble to manage for me. - Johnny Worthington

Err, Robert. You just said "I once dreamed of". Sure everyone wanted FF to succeed, but not everyone saw it becoming the next facebook, myspace or twitter (or even google). Where FF is now does not detract from its awesomeness, does not give us an excuse to ignore it and it continues to be, for many of us, the social platform of the future. Your dreams arn't everyone elses' dreams. - Roberto Bonini

Just a quick look at some of my lists and I notice that twitter in generally is about 6 minutes late, and sometimes are published out of order. Is that just my computer, or the same for everyone else? Being 6 minutes late to the conversation is not helpful. - joebrooks

No, but I saw it as being more important than it is today, which if you are truthful, is not all that important. And, sorry, it's not the social platform of the future. It might be the best feature set of today, but remember Pownce? It had more features than Twitter and was a niche player like FriendFeed is. What happened to it? - Robert Scoble

@Johnny, what if something like FB allowed you to categorize all your contacts into social groups... not just grouping them as you can now, but properly categorizing them and then determining which parts of your news feed is available to which category etc. I see the problem with FB contacts is that it is mostly the people you are really close to, which also dictates the type of... more... - Travis Koger

I don't think you're wrong... Owing to the overall decline in numbers and use, what you have been doing (and are doing now) is, in effect preaching to the choir. What I don't understand is why your so intent on telling them they are all going to hell. - J. Abdul-Qahhar

J. Abdul: it's part of my own grieving process. It's also just my personality. I invested a LOT of my career into FriendFeed and now I realize that it just isn't going to be what I was thinking it would be. - Robert Scoble

@Robert I appreciate that, and like a lot of other people I was right there with you... But at this point you are rubbing salt in the wound. - J. Abdul-Qahhar

Robert, I would say you invested your time into the idea of what FriendFeed could be, and that gave the idea a far amount of weight. When people look back at history and speak of the move to a real time web, your name will feature amongst the players. - Johnny Worthington

And for what its worth you and your brother are the reason I, and a lot of other people are here, so, some of this (this turn the whole thing is taking) is hard to watch. - J. Abdul-Qahhar

Wrong choce of words there Robert. I meant, "platform" as in something you build on. This is a feature set to build upon in future social networks. - Roberto Bonini

@Robert is FF becoming another Second Life: still alive but only for a few aficionados? FF is the tail of a long tail? :) - Roldano De Persio of FF

@Robert I feel your pain Robert - how many of us in the industry have had that feeling about some technology or company we actually worked for years on. But who knows what Fb will do with FF yet - none of us can see the future in technology. Something game changing comes along and bang, an existin technoloy becomes useful aain - Arthur Coleman

Simon: for now, yes, it does win at conversations. That's one thing I will keep using it for. But that's like a sub feature of these things and it's only a matter of time before Twitter does comments. Facebook already has comments that work pretty well (albeit not as well as FriendFeed). - Robert Scoble

@Robert All that being said, I don't blame you one bit for needing to get it out of your system. Its just hard to watch. - J. Abdul-Qahhar

J. Abdul-Qahhar: yeah, but part of my brand is to tell the truth and not necessarily what you want to hear. I got a TON of shit from people on Twitter telling me to shut up about FriendFeed already. My brand is about what's next, not what is, and, I also live in public. Which means I'm a butthead sometimes and that's also part of my brand. :-) - Robert Scoble

BTW. Robert, thanks. You made me write that letter :) - Johnny Worthington

Roldano: if FriendFeed turns into Second Life (which is doing quite well, albeit without the hype) that would be very cool and probably the best possible outcome at this moment. - Robert Scoble

Johnny: that's why I keep telling you the way I see it. It might not be comfortable, but telling the truth ALWAYS builds stronger communities. Your letter demonstrates why. - Robert Scoble

IF bret and paul are to be belived, FF is not being orphaned by Facebook. There are new servers in the works, some work has been done to the code etc. i doubt money would be spend on new servers if FF was being left to die. I'm sticking around till we see what paul was hinting at. - Roberto Bonini

Roberto, saying new servers in FB world is just moving the FF code to a FB server. I don't think any money has been spent, just space/cpu provisioned on an already massive farm. - Travis Koger

Still - its an investment in FF's continued life. And i doubt they would do that, much less tell us about it, unless they were comitted to FF. - Roberto Bonini

FriendFeed can't die! Things are so easy to put into FF (Bookmarklet) that newsmakers don't have to make a huge effort to "support" it. - Nathan Snyder

Roberto: Travis is correct. New servers are just Paul's way of saying that everything is moving over to Facebook's datacenter. I'm sure they got some new toys, though, and that will help speed a little bit (FriendFeed is a LOT slower lately than it was a year ago) but my friends at Facebook say that not much, if any, engineering time is being dedicated to FriendFeed specifically. But I've said enough about that part and can't wait to see what Paul shows me soon. - Robert Scoble

would be good to organize persuasive reasons for FB to nurture development of FriendFeed in the pure form we enjoy today. Thinking there may be some $$ value just in terms of PR - both internal and external. What else beyond that? What might motivate Facebook to actively support more open-source development of the FriendFeed platform? Could it make good return on that investment as a monstrously successful good vibe buzz machine - "the next Mozilla project"? - Dan Freeman

Dan: open source community projects haven't seemed to go very far. Look at identi.ca. - Robert Scoble

true more often than not - some do - but no need get sidetracked debating open-source! The Big Question to brainstorm is: what pitch can Paul polish to persuade FB to sincerely support continued growth of standalsone "pure" FF project - Dan Freeman

Dan: the deeper problem for Paul is, where can he make the biggest impact on the world? Working on FriendFeed or working on Facebook? If I were him I would be 100% working on Facebook. - Robert Scoble

FF can compete if news orgs can realize the benefits. Best way to do that is to see a competitor utilizing FF tools, gaining traffic, or doing something that makes others say "I want that." - TheIndustryStandard

Another question for Paul: how can FF community help (even with the small but significant detail work - and bouncing spammers) ... what else? - Dan Freeman

Robert, I agree, I can see a time when Facebook will be the equivalent of the telephone directory (white pages etc). Facebook is definitely where a difference can be made, especially with Paul's openness agenda. - Travis Koger

"I would be 100% working on Facebook" - agree 100% - and Paul definitely has his work cut out for him there. Huge. - Dan Freeman

Why is FaceBook so hard to like, it's laborious, filled with the wrong applications (Games like FARM, Friggin MAFIA) and is not simple in ease of use terms. I use it but find I spend too much time trying to figure where things are than actually get something done. I must have a learning disability I guess. - Owen Greaves

Facebook is a nightmare when it comes usability. Looks like it was designed by a pack of monkeys with ADHD. - Moved to Facebook from fftogo

LOL @Tony - Roberto Bonini

Yeah, college students. (p.s. I am one (a college student, not FB dev)) - Kevin L

I don't mind the 'design' of Facebook, it is relatively clean, however the UX is where it is let down. - Travis Koger

Not sure I agree with you assessment. FF is a different animanl and integrating with FB is not something I need or want. - Poka Yoke from twhirl

IMO, fb needs to integrate ff feature set and provide much more fine grained control over privacy. I want to be able to have public, less public and private information. I want to be able to control who gets what information. For instance, if I share a funny link it's fine for anyone to get it including google/bing, but if I'm sharing my location info I might only want my family to be able to see that. - John

News makers using twitter kills the news makers. I don't think friendfeed was ever about Newsmakers looking for a platform. - Cjay

Cjay: every single newsmaker I know came here looking for it to be a new platform that would take Twitter on. RWW even used it to plan out their editorial in a private group here. When I choose a new platform I'm definitely looking to use it as a platform for newsmakers to discuss things. I saw FriendFeed as being a new kind of talk radio. Actually, what has captured everyone's interest... more... - Robert Scoble

The news makers platform is pure RSS. Twitter and friendfeed feels like the old belt clip pager from the 80's, a quick message here and there, but no way in hell that your going to convey any detail about any news using a platform like friendfeed or twitter. - Cjay

RSS channels are the "WAVE" of the future. Everybody has a channel, Google wave is a small ripple in a big pond..Google should have never told anybody about it until it was finished. Companies have been using this idea anyway on internal Lan/vpn for years... and all of a sudden Google comes out with wave, like its some holy grail. Change Facebook to Friendbook and call it done. - Cjay

but I digress...... - Cjay

Spot on Robert - Ryan Petty

I'll point out that today, FF features are in FB. The news stream is live (if you want it) I want the Status stream live, since I don't want apps in my stream and have made the status stream my default. FB is too cluttered, and the ads are pointless and annoying. I find FF far superior in terms of design, as I do Twitter, but I understand that ads are required for most websites to survive. I just wish that they would be nicer and less obtrusive (and that Friends would stop sending me Mafia Wars Requests) - Nathan Snyder

"It's October 22nd 2009. It's Windows 7 Day! You can bet that many a PC user can barely contain their excitement about the opportunity to upgrade from XP and consign Vista to history's dustbin. Microsoft's got a suite of events and offers planned to get the lucky OS off to a swinging start around the globe (and let's briefly imagine what a monumental effort it takes behind the scenes to coordinate a World-wide launch like this). Here's what's going on." - Shevonne from Bookmarklet

I've been on 7 for a couple weeks. Hooray MSDNAA! - Kevin L

I never stopped. - Derrick

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I edited the post, D. - Akiva Moskovitz

Got me over here. But I saw this over on Twitter first. - Robert Scoble

D'oh! Foiled again! - Akiva Moskovitz

I try to participate. Though it seems that conversations pop up mostly around the more popular users. - Kevin L

I've certainly been busy commenting. - Jason Huebel from iPhone

Didn't the announcement of the sale to FaceBook cause a surge too? - Glenn Slaven

It got me to stop, at least for a few days. - Glen Campbell

I'm not sure I could participate more often than I already do. - Andy Bakun

Gah! - Derrick

Kevin, am I popular?!@~ ^________^ - Akiva Moskovitz

Glenn, it did and that surge ebbed quickly which proved to me one thing: complicated or not, FriendFeed just isn't interesting to the average user. - Akiva Moskovitz

why bother when it's just dying!?1/ - veo

Shut up, veo. No one likes you. - Akiva Moskovitz

People follow Akiva on Twitter? - Matthew DeVries

ff would be a lot more interesting to the average user if y'all talked about something other than the Death of Friendfeed. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

No one love veo. - veo

The fact that people follow me anywhere is always alarming. - Akiva Moskovitz

+ 1 to Derrick's reply. I didn't stop and I'm still here - LANjackal

m9m, c'mon. It's fun every once in awhile to get all up in arms about something far out of the realm of your control. It can't be all LOLcats. - Akiva Moskovitz

That is exactly it Akiva! I just love when someone declares shenanigans and we call get our brooms! RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!!!!! - Matthew DeVries

*under breath* this is the worst insane cult I've ever been a mindless part of..... - Matthew DeVries

More popular than me :-/ Not sure that that really means much. - Kevin L

Glenn: I don't think the Facebook purchase was responsible for the surge. A whole lot of the credit goes to Jason Pollock. - Dennis Jernberg

It's great to see these FF threads explode again. Gives me hope for FF. We might even save it. ;) - Dennis Jernberg

I've noticed the dying threads get a lot of participation today. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

As I've written many times before, when it comes to me prognosticating the dying of FriendFeed (note I never write that FriendFeed is already dead), I will be the happiest person on the Internet to be proven wrong and eat crow. - Akiva Moskovitz

Clearly reports of FriendFeed's death are premature. Now (referring to another Scoble post http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... ) if only the former FriendFeed people now working for Facebook etc. would get a clue and start joining in... - Dennis Jernberg

waiting for an Irish Wake thread ... hopefully can hang on until next Bloomsday for that one - Dan Freeman

think there are still people who are unaware of friendfeed, that might check it out partly in response to everyone eulogizing it - Mike Chelen

Whatever happens, I'm here until they lock me out. - Jim Hearts FF from iPhone

That's a good point. Community isn't about a place, but peeps. - Sean Oliver

a rousing wake could be its' reincarnation - Rich Reader

as they say, bad publicity is good publicity - sofarsoShawn

FF won't die unless we let it. - MicahBear78

FF had me at 'baconfuckmememacvspcracistbitchlipsfistbump'! - Morgan Haley

OMG really? I think I read that right. - MicahBear78

hehehe - johnpiercy

Just proof that they'll let anyone in now. - Akiva Moskovitz

I wasn't aware that you are an EE. - Alex Scoble

What is the IEEE? - pea ♥ fierce as a woozle

Maybe I should join while I'm still a student. - Kevin L

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Pea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... My dad's a member. His masters is in EE. - Alex Scoble

Ah, okay. Thank you. - pea ♥ fierce as a woozle

This is awesome, Akiva. Any particular focus group you're interested in? - Ha3rvey (more more more)

1. I swear a lot. 2. I love girly things like shoes, hand bags, clothes and makeup. They make me immensely happy. 3. I hate talking on the phone 4. I will probably always see myself as fatter than I am. 5. After cancer my patience for drama, gossip, depression, complaining, whining, and problems that no one wants to solve has diminished greatly. I have much compassion, but I will hit a point where I can't do it anymore if nothing changes. - Mary Carmen

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1) No matter how bad the writing & how sexist & racist the stories are, I love old pulp magazines. 2) I love cheesy superhero comics. 3) I love all 6 Star Wars movies. 4) I like being indoors much more than outdoors. 5) I don't really like talking on the phone all that much. - josh neff, Fun Dip of FF

1. I'm fat. 2. I'm feminist. 3. I have no respect for authority qua authority. 4. I believe the future of communication, including textual communication, is mostly digital. 5. Cats rule, dogs drool. - D0r0th34

1)I'm obsessive about my books. 2)I love animals and despise those who abuse them. 3)I'm hard-headed. 4) I don't fit in. 5) I'm nocturnal. - Katy S

1. I play the bagpipes and wear a kilt. 2. I am a poet. 3. I am a Liberal. 4. I no longer drink or do drugs (not anti-drink or drug, just doesn't work for me). 5. I love the theatre. - T. Brent, technopeasant

i dont know, i'll apologize for anything to avoid a fight and get the other person outta my face, :( - chaz2b

Sorry, I don't apologize :) - Aaron the Librarian

Man, I can think of 5 more....lol - Mary Carmen

Same here, MC. - josh neff, Fun Dip of FF

list em mary carmen & joshua m. neff - chaz2b

me, three, jm/mc - T. Brent, technopeasant

I also refuse to apologize for: I love flirting; I get crushes very easily; I am politically & socially very liberal; I cry a lot. - josh neff, Fun Dip of FF

1. Im a shameless flirt. 2.I love confrontation. 3. I tend to not take things that are not life threatening very seriously, in the "Earth Will Stop Rotating Unless...." way. 4. I look at the positive side of every situation. 5. My libido tends to run wild. - Mary Carmen

Oh and Im a music SNOB! - Mary Carmen

1. I will not apologize for my art. 2. I will not apologize for being a flirt 3. I will not apologize for being able to go from girly-girl to tomboy in the blink of an eye. 4. I will not apologize for making sailors blush (I can swear a lot when I get going) 5. I will not apologize for being slightly vain. - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

1) I often have higher expectations of myself so that I can contain expectations of others. 2) I don't know how to "act the part" that the "surface" suggests that I "represent." 3) I prefer fiction in audiobook form. 4) I ran away. 5) I have seen every episode of Desperate Housewives (almost all of which on the night they first aired). - Julian

6. I refuse to apologize for Nathalie. ;) - T. Brent, technopeasant

1) i can't spell well 2)i suck at politics 3) i don't drink much 4) i like to ask questions its how i learn 5) i am who i am - Sir Shuping

1. I love my sons more than anything else in the world 2. I don't like recieving gifts 3. I daydream a great deal 4. I loathe meetings 5. From any early age I've had a enormous enthusiasm for the female of the species - RAPatton from iPhone

1. I'm a total movie critic 2. I love fashion/beauty 3. I will try anything once 4. I'm picky 5. I can't be around grudge holders - Shevonne

1. I'm sensitive to the needs of others, probably to a fault. 2. Am a hopelessly, unabashedly, unequivocally romantic 3. I feel everyone has some sense of worth and value even if they can't always see it themselves 4. Having struggled through a depression fraught with thoughts of suicide is one of those things that I'd like to put behind me 5. Meek and shy nerdy boys who know how to kiss melt my heart. - Derrick

1. I believe Jesus is God and is totally awesome! 2. I'll lovingly but firmly tell you you're wrong no matter how you react. 3. I am very affectionate. 4. I talk nerdy. 5. I love calculus.... - Kevin L

1. I have unwaveringly high standards for (myself and) those w/ whom I interact on a daily basis (well, the whole world, really) 2. I don't do drama (see #1) 3. I'm both silly and serious 4. I'm earnest 5. What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding? - Ayşe E.

1. I'm no good at making lists. Oh, okay, and 2. I find it really hard to resist defending my favourite TV programmes: I love Criminal Minds because, even though a majority of the violence is against woman, it does a brilliant job of showing those women as humans and as agents in their own rescue; while also skewering, with sharp stabby things, any hint of victim blaming. --But certainly it's not to everyone's taste; I occasionally have to peek through my fingers myself. - Deborah Fitchett

7. I believe in the immortality of the soul. 8. Silence rocks. Hard. 9. I love glamour, as observer and participant. 10. Ecstatic vision is possible. :) - T. Brent, technopeasant

1. I'm a pacifst. 2. I don't shave my legs. 3. I voted for Nader in 2000. 3. I do not like gaming. 4. "When I've got something to say, sir, I'm going to say it now." 5. I love MGM musicals. - laura x

@DeborahF -- I adore Mandy Patinkin but I live alone and watching CM was giving me severe insomnia. I enjoyed the witty repartee but need to be able to sleep at night. - Abigail

@Mary Carmen-- oh I can think of more than 5...those were just the top 5 of the evening. For example, I refuse to apologize for the fact I drink gallons of hot tea regularly or that I love NYC. Speaking of which...tea kettle needs to go back on. - Abigail

pointy sticks -- oh. :) - edythe

1) I hate talking on the phone. (altho I seem to apologize for that on a regular basis.) 2) I would rather bike than drive. 3) I don't like coffee (except mochas or egg nog lattes) or beer. 4) I don't wear heels or makeup. 5) I usually prefer hack & slash D&D to actual role-playing. :) (I once played a bloodthirsty halfling named Jayne whose signature cry was "Cleave!") - Elaine Nelson

1) My facial hair 2) Playing D&D 3) Being a libertarian 4) Loving pulp sci-fi 5) Being pro-life - Alex Scrivener

@Abigail Much as I love Criminal Minds, if I had to choose between it and sleep I'd stomp on those DVDs *so* fast. :-) - Deborah Fitchett

;) - Paul Buchheit

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awesome - Ayman Shurafa

wow. insane! - Caio

Looks like Tornado won! - Private Sanjeev

love the metaphor :) - andy brudtkuhl

brilliant. Alternative comment: this metaphor is a train wreck - Ivan Kirigin

haha love it - Rasmus Lauridsen

Smashing! Simply smashing... - Chris Heath

Ivan +1! - Kevin L

I couldn't take my eyes off of it. It was like watching a train wreck! - Chuck Adams

so sad story :( trains are so unprotected.. - я был в лесу

physics is a beaatch for sure - Robert Higgins

That video never gets old. Never underestimate the power of nature. - Jim Goldstein

This highlights the need for additional Superman III technology investment. - Jay Cuthrell

wow!! :) - Oğuz Serdar

:) - Micah Wittman

\m/ - Bicentennial (Franc)

AMAZING footage. Dayum! - Josh Haley

That was worth watching even ignoring the obviously cute pun. - Greg Grothaus

isn't it too early for this? :) - Mengu

Paul is probably just joking - but if he is serious about this pun i would assume it's for good reason. - Chris Heath

and i bet paul just couldn't wait for them to open up tornado when he first saw this video - Chris Heath

amazing - boro

should hitler be saying something about it now :) - vinod

MOther Nature indeed - Mark Mason

WOW! That reminds me...I still have some video from this summer's train trip to post. Nothing this exciting happened, I'm afraid. - Eph Zero

YEAH BABY - Çağatay " SKYLAB " Şama

Just as I expected, it's all twisted. - Dustin Sallings

very punny. - winterismute

Sure, it was stupid of them to act like that, but is punishing them really going to deter similar behavior in the future, or simply make it seem attractive as a contrarian, rebellious action? Isn't that one of the factors of the original Nazi rise, that it went against the establishment? That it was seen as dangerous to society, and therefore attractive to the outcasts or those that suppose themselves to be outcast? - Kevin L

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There's a kind of dark humor about Nazism that not that many people get, simply because it's so over-the-top extremist. Think the right-wing equivalent of Bruno. Although I don't support their world views, I admit I find some aspects of the Nazis and other extremist groups hilarious. Of course, that kind of humor is a really tough sell as people automatically think you're serious. I don't think the kids were serious, but they need to be taught a lesson is social acceptability - LANjackal

Failure to punish is just as good as condoning - Shey, Jamaican of FF from iPhone

For example, when I was a kid, my Mom was pretty strict, so I'd jokingly refer to her as "Herr Kommandant" or "Herr General" and salute. She thought it was funny *shrugs*. Would I salute in pics? Hell no, that's just stupid. - LANjackal

I like this line: "Henry Kissinger once said that the main job of Anatoly Dobrynin, the perennial Soviet ambassador to Washington, was to tell the Kremlin leadership that whenever they received a proposal from the United States that appeared disadvantageous to the United States, not to assume it was a trick." - Kevin L

Sure, why not? You look great with them on. - Kevin L

I always go back and forth about how much I like the way I look in them. Also, in case you haven't noticed, I love to wear a shit ton of eye makeup. - Mary Carmen

I think you look good in glasses, but it's really up to you. - josh neff, Fun Dip of FF

Thumbs up on the glasses. - Jàson Puçkett

the glasses are hawt. - Bren, Photophobe

Thanks, y'all. im really hoping this is a seasonal weather change thing and not an actual cold. I avoided all three plagues that passed through ADS so to get sick now would suck. Just in time for the weekend. - Mary Carmen

umm...let me thi...YES! - Scott

No, you don't. And yes, you should. - Steven Perez

"A new report by the Guttmacher Institute shows that legalizing abortion doesn't make it any more common — it just makes it safer. Unsafe abortion causes as many as 70,000 deaths a year worldwide." - Jennifer Dittrich from Bookmarklet

There is a movie called "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" that deals with illegal abortion. It isn't a reference film by any stretch, but it did really make me think about it. - Joe Pierce

For me this is an issue much like teens having sex. They do it. They always have. However you counsel them not to, they still will. That isn't to say you should encourage it, but giving people good, safe, educated options seems to reduce BOTH - or at the least, make it less likely to kill you. - Jennifer Dittrich

banning can't be the answer but a difficult issue and it seems to me the answer can't just be a simple "it's a woman's right" - winckel

If abortions are legal, why do we still have child support? A woman can choose, but a man can't? - Kevin L

I have? - josh neff, Fun Dip of FF

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Josh, not in a million years. - Mary Carmen

Heh. I just was in my DM feed and didn't realize that I switch back to main feed, so I thought that this was addressed to me. I was like, "DAMN, Mary Carmen, Good morning to you too." p.s. I am still cute. - Sarah G.

Sarah, you are HELLA CUTE! (But don't let Kaia know I said that ;-) ) - Mary Carmen

MC & Sarah, sittin' in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G! (Wait, did I say "a tree"? I meant "my dreams.") - josh neff, Fun Dip of FF

But you said I could! - pea ♥ fierce as a woozle

Girl, you have so far to go before you cross that line. - Mary Carmen

Hello :) I am assured by my never having been cute ;) - Pete

Pete, you lie like a rug! - Mary Carmen

And fruit flies like a banana... - Pete

Ooh! It's good to have goals. So, quick question, *twirls hair* What are you wearing? - pea ♥ fierce as a woozle

a/s/l? - DJF

Um...look below. you can see what Im wearing. The correct question would have been, "are you wearing underpants?" ;-) - Mary Carmen

Splutters into coffee... - Pete

I don't ask questions I already know the answer to, silly. - pea ♥ fierce as a woozle

You caught me! - Mary Carmen

I wish. ;-) - pea ♥ fierce as a woozle

(am I closer??) - pea ♥ fierce as a woozle

Hee hee. (not at all) - Mary Carmen

(must try harder!) - pea ♥ fierce as a woozle

(bring it, babe!) - Mary Carmen

So, got any English in you?... - Pete

Not at the moment..... - Mary Carmen

*pete chickens out of the follow up* - Pete

lol...its okay, in my mind you said it ;-) - Mary Carmen

Oh, that's my favorite lame pickup line! You shoulda finished it! - pea ♥ fierce as a woozle

haha. it's far less impressive in my slightly Birmingham accent ;) - Pete

How do you feel about Kosher meat? ;) - josh neff, Fun Dip of FF

See, Pete, that is where you are 100% incorrect. It would have been far more sexy in a slight Birmingham accent.....so sayeth this NYer. - Mary Carmen

lol, Josh, you said the word meat......(I'm 12). - Mary Carmen

SO, Mary, nice shoes. Italian? Nice, I like a woman with continental tastes. So, got any English in you? No. Would you like some?' - Pete

Yes, No, and HELL YES. ;-) - Mary Carmen

*covers eyes at thread*... I'm still laughing at pea's *twirls hair* aside - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS

Im sorry I make your eyes burn, Barry! :-( - Mary Carmen

This thread aponsored by Brain Bleach, Burning Out Memories since 1973- what has been seen CAN be unseen! - Pete

I have no shame. - Mary Carmen

none... it's why you are so well loved - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS

Thanks, B! - Mary Carmen

I have lots of shame in reserves cuz I never use it! - pea ♥ fierce as a woozle

Yeah, well, funny thing, chemo sick kinda kills all your shame. Its kinda hard to have any when you have to ask someone to help you get off the toilet because you're too sick to stand up yourself. So, I'd say I have not had any for 13 years. - Mary Carmen

Sorry. :( - Steven Perez

Bunneh, you have NOTHING to apologize for. - Mary Carmen

it's the purple hair, isn't it? :( - Miriella

w00t! :) - Steven Perez from IM

Ultimate creeper move: if you're sitting next to a girl you don't know, when she's not looking start flossing your teeth with her hair. - Kevin L

Omg, Kevin, you win! - Mary Carmen

Actually my roommate's idea :) - Kevin L

I wasn't actually trying for cute. - Ha3rvey (more more more)

MC, I've warned you about trying to shoe in on my #homance #dontmakemecutyou - Baroness Von Cut-A-Bitch

Whoa. I didn't know you were sweet on Ha3rvey, Kaia. :D - Steven Perez

I get that a lot. - CW™

"An electromagnetic "black hole" that sucks in surrounding light has been built for the first time. The device, which works at microwave frequencies, may soon be extended to trap visible light, leading to an entirely new way of harvesting solar energy to generate electricity. A theoretical design for a table-top black hole to trap light was proposed in a paper published earlier this year by Evgenii Narimanov and Alexander Kildishev of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Their idea was to mimic the properties of a cosmological black hole, whose intense gravity bends the surrounding space-time, causing any nearby matter or radiation to follow the warped space-time and spiral inwards. Narimanov and Kildishev reasoned that it should be possible to build a device that makes light curve inwards towards its centre in a similar way. They calculated that this could be done by a cylindrical structure consisting of a central core surrounded by a shell of concentric rings." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

I think a nobel prize may be in their future - Michael W. May

Cool application of field theory. The real feat was etching the materials to get the right permittivity. - Kevin L

"American football players and civil rights activists are trying to block an attempt by the rightwing talk radio host Rush Limbaugh to buy a struggling American football team, saying he is too divisive for such a prominent role in US sport. Limbaugh, who has emerged as a leader of the conservative opposition to Obama and the Democrats, said last week that he had joined a group of investors seeking an ownership stake in the St Louis Rams of the National Football League. In response, the NFL players association chief DeMaurice Smith, the Rev Jesse Jackson, the Rev Al Sharpton, and several players and sportswriters have urged the league to reject the bid, saying that Limbaugh's divisive rhetoric and history of racially charged remarks make him unfit for a role in one of America's most popular games." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

Is it okay that I don't care. - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS

Limbaugh would be a bad fit in the NFL. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

He's part of a group that's looking to buy A stake in the team? And these people are flying off the handle? Who's playing politics here? - Kevin L

What I had read was that Limbaugh's group was looking to buy a majority stake, not just a stake. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

Call ... morning. - pea ♥ fierce as a woozle

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Throw ... pool - Kevin L

Love... moonlight - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕ from iPhone

Lick...ear - Joe Silence is not dead

Beware of me in the morning - Shevonne

Lock...candy store. - Laura B smileogenic

Corner... corner. - Gus

I think Aden just won. - Ha3rvey (more more more)

Touch... Yayah. - Mark Jepsen

Superpoke / eye - Josh Haley

Junk punch...man business. (EDIT: Not literally, mind.) - CAJ, somewhere else

Take / Coat Room - Josh Haley

Ok, Josh wins! - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕ from IM

Touch ... morning. Then just walk away? - Ha3rvey (more more more)

<___< - Josh Haley

put ... longboat and let me shiver. - Rasmus Lauridsen

Cover....petals of roses - Bette Cooper

CAJ, that cracked me up! - Laura B smileogenic

♣ / ♥ - CW™

Roll me over......clover - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

Tickle ... taint -

Meet... photocopying room. - Mellissa Jane

Laser.... joybox - Mo Kargas

Punch..."Judy". - Joe Silence is not dead

Shiver...timbers - Mark Krynsky from iPhone

Friend...internets. - Alex Scoble

That's ... the corner --R.E.M. - Micah Wittman

ROFL - Alex Scoble

Don't tase...nards, bro! - Alex Scoble

*bros ignore and continue* - Micah Wittman

Micah, I think you won round two. - Ha3rvey (more more more)

=) - Micah Wittman

Micah I literally laughed out loud at the REM one. Win. :) - Shawn Farner

Kick.....ass - Mol, Time Warping

put, box - chaz2b

Find ... Mission - Andy Bakun

I don't have cable - only internet - Jesse Stay

I don't have cable television either. I wrote a short blog post earlier this year about using Hulu and Netflix. http://www.skylercall.com/2009... - Skyler Call

Haven't had cable at school for quite a while. - Kevin L

Reading this book for Senior Seminar, and I'm going to be "live blogging" my reading on this thread. - Kevin L from Bookmarklet

Chapter 1, "Dirty Hands" introduces the idea that sometimes decisions are not between right and wrong choice, but between one or more right choices. - Kevin L

Right-versus-right decisions reveal, test, and shape managers' character. - Kevin L

Chapter 2 is mostly three case studies about middle managers having to make decisions between two right actions. - Kevin L

Do managers rely on laws, principles, ethics statements, or their own consciences and intuition? - Kevin L

simler looks very cool! - Fee501st

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Wow I haven't seen Sarah Lane since TechTV - Kevin L

Hey Sarah - cool sties. I have one that's not quite in the same category as the sites you mentioned but have you checked out http://enjoysthin.gs/ - you use their bookmarklet to clip things from the web you like. It then creates a thumbnail'ed grid of those things on your page. It's sort of like Tumblr's new Wire view - http://www.tumblr.com/popular which replaced their old popular page a couple weeks ago. - Mike Bracco

Kevin: then how did you find this then? :) - Fee501st

I have invites for simler if you want one - WorldofHiglet

I take one :) Please feefsx@gmail.com - Fee501st

Me too :) if you have a spare - mpbracco@gmail.com - Mike Bracco

Ok, invites sent Mike and Fee501st - WorldofHiglet

WorldofHiglet: I just received the invite. Much appreciated! :) - Mike Bracco

Love your current videos, hunch is especially cool; auto-play video... not so much. - Jude

Jude- sorry, that's the way Current handles vids across the site. But i'm glad you're liking my stuff!! - Sarah Lane

SARAH LANE I HAVE A WAVE INVITE FOR YOU IF YOU WANT IT JUST TELL ME WHERE TO SEND IT .I NEED A EMAIL ADDRESS.RICHARD - RICHARD E. MOORE

DEAR RICHARD THANK YOU BUT I HAVE A GOOGLE WAVE ACCOUNT ALREADY THANKS - Sarah Lane

Is there a capslock virus on google wave? - Cristo

Great vid! Like Hunch, haven't tried Simler. - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

Better to have too much choice than not enough! If I had the opportunity I think my order would be something like: Zombieland, Invention of Lying, Silent Theater films, Rashomon, A Serious Man, and skip the Toy Story movies. Because I am part of that .559% of people who didn't care for them. - Joe Pierce

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Zombieland is great! - Kevin L

I haven't seen the Toy Story movies since they came out, basically, and I'd enjoy seeing them again, even though they're far from my favorite Pixar films. But they're more likely to get skipped than the other stuff. I'm torn between Zombieland and A Serious Man tomorrow morning, will probably see the Silent Movie Theatre shows tomorrow afternoon, and maybe either Rashomon and something else on Sunday. Or maybe *shocker* make it to something during the week, which I rarely do. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Does this sound too crazy? Zombieland at the cheapo morning show at 10:50am, then A Serious Man at Arclight Hollywood at 3 or 4-something, then the classic horror double-feature at the Silent Movie Theatre at 7pm? I have a membership at SMT, so that's theoretically a four-movie day for $17.50 out of pocket. But I might get tired of movies. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Cool. I used to live near the Nuart. - Rodfather

Oh yeah? I like the Nuart a lot. They do classy presentations of great films. Saw a couple of Godard films there several months back. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

It seemed like they always played Rocky Horror Picture Show at midnight. I really like that little video store next door. You can find all the movies you can never find at Blockbuster. - Rodfather

Yeah, I've avoided going in there, because I'm afraid the temptation to get stuff would be too great. :) - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

thanks to nieces and nephews and my friends kids I've seen more of the Toy Story movies than anyone should evar. I'm caution of "A Serious Man" because I just wasn't that into "Burn After Reading." But the Coen's have earned credit so I'm still interested. And that does sound pretty crazy. Crazy awesome! - Joe Pierce

The Coens are probably my favorite working filmmakers, so if they made a movie at this point of Steve Buscemi reading his grocery list, I'd probably go see it. :) - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF from iPhone

I'd definitely go to that one....I wonder what that says about us? - Joe Pierce

Do it Jandy! A day of movie watching sounds like a great day indeed... :) - Nathan Chase

Do kids still get it? I had it when I was 17. Talk about a bloody nightmare. - Michelle Martinez

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it's not gone -- but I don't think it's something to worry about just yet - Shey, Jamaican of FF

I think they give a vaccine for that. I think it's super mild now compared to how I had it back in the day - Shevonne

I didn't get it until I was 12. Half my kids got it, the other half got the vaccine (which I was opposed to, but that's another story). - Sarah is Novembery

@Anika Here is an article: http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-... - Shevonne

jeez Michelle, 17? wow that really had to suck. I had it when i was 6 or 7. i have the scar from the first blister on my chest as a reminder. i guess i better look into this as well. - Carlos Ayala

The older a person gets chickenpox, the tougher he/she suffers... That's for sure. My mum was so relieved when my younger brother was infected by me when he was about 4... Anyway, don't worry about it. He/she will get it when the time comes. Destiny! - Jackie

Carlos, My sister had a minor case when she was 7 (and I was 17), and I wasn't vaccinated. She passed it on to me. It was awful. - Michelle Martinez

So, since that was in her cocktail of vaccinations, she should be good? - Anika

I got the vaccine and haven't had chickenpox. - Kevin L

I was wondering the same thing, Anika. They didn't offer a shot for it when I was little. I am quite sure my sister had one, though. She had it, but it was so minor it was ridiculous. - Michelle Martinez

My mom made me get it from the kids at camp, then locked my sister in the room so she'd get it too. She made sure it happened over the summer, so we wouldn't miss school. LOL - Anika

*dead* ... that's how it should be done anika...lol. i got the vaccine because -- despite two epidemics in elementary school -- i managed to make it through freshman year of college without getting it. - tiffany

Ha! You didn't even get to miss school? - Michelle Martinez

Nope. We had perfect attendance from Kindergarten through 12th grade. - Anika

We started vaccinating because, while most cases are mild anyway, there were a small percentage of kids who would die from it. When I was in elementary school, I remember a first grader at my school dying from complications. The older you are when you get it, the worse it tends to be. And recently we've found that immunity from the vaccine wanes, so we're actually recommending two shots now. - Victor Ganata

My girl got chickenpox when she was 18mos. It was awful... She still has a couple of scars....one at the top of her buttcrack. I had the chickenpox when I was younger but I ended up getting Shingles right after she got the pox. Also completely awful. - suzanne

I didn't get chicken pox til I was 13. Some people just get it later. - Kevin Pedraja

Ask your doctor - he probably got the vaccine already - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

I had the vaccine because I never got it as a kid. I'd recommend that she get that if she's never had it. The older you are the worse it messes you up. It _can be_ deadly for adults. - Her Lindsay-ness

I didn't have mine until 11. Nothing to worry about. Be thankful your kid is healthy and disease free! - Danny Minick

My son had it when he was 4 or 5. This was after he had the vaccination. The pediatrician said it was "atypical". REALLY? - Ha3rvey (more more more)

Our 6 year old has not had it yet either. - Patrick Jordan

I got it when I was 12, but hey - if they can avoid it, all the better. Once you've had it, there are a whole host of other nasty things that can crop up later in life that don't if you've never been infected. - Jennifer Dittrich

I had chicken pox when I was somewhere between 5 and 8... aside from the itching, I enjoyed my 2 weeks off school. I also had measles and german measles in the same timeframe. I think I'm naturally immune to mumps cause I've been around people with it and never caught it, same with my mum too. - alphaxion

My two got the vaccinations, TBTG. They're requiring it in most states now for kindergarten. - Ladybug Heather

Not gone, and is more severe as they age. I got them at 19 and was nearly hospitalized. - cecily from iPhone

I'm going to have to keep updating my vaccination I got vaccinated at 15, and haven't had them yet, I'm 20. - Jimminy

My son's never had it, either. He had the vaccine. - Trish R

I never had it. No one in my immediate family has. - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS

Had it as a kid, three or four probably. Dad got it at 34 and had to be hospitalized. - Derrick

I got it at 16 or 17. I remember being sick for a week, and after that I had a (small) scar that stuck around for a whole year before finally vanishing. - Andrew C

There is a blood test that can be done to determine if you've ever been infected and/or have been adequately vaccinated. Some people who think they've never had it may have in fact had an extremely mild case when they were a little kid, so it might be worth checking. - Victor Ganata

I would just like to selfishly say how mad I am there is a vaccine now. For those that get vaccinated, awesome. I hated the pox @13 years old. - Pete Delucchi from iPhone

I had them when I was 11. Right over my birthday. The only good part is that I got to read instead of go to school. - Katy S

My coworker's 6 mo. old got it recently at daycare and he got infected too! He said it was awful and he'd never had the vaccine. I got it as a 6 or 7 year old. - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕ from iPhone

Victor, I didn't know about that test! Thanks for sharing that tidbit! - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕ from iPhone

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