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FriendFeed Blog: Ben Darnell joins FriendFeed: Ben++! - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...

July 27, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

..и ещё раз помыла голову, Adam Spring, Kevin Mohr and 110 other people liked this

Welcome, Ben! - Kevin Fox

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Right on! Congrats, Ben. - Micah

Congrats Ben! Also, congrats to FF you are lucky to have him! - Jason Shellen

Watch out, there's a duck over there! ;) - alieb from iPhone

Data storage and scalability rock. :) - Louis Gray

Ben's feed is here: http://friendfeed.com/bdarnell - Bret Taylor

Congrats, Ben! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Yeah Ben!!! - Rachel Lea Fox

so i finally get my answer to this :) http://friendfeed.com/chris... - MG Siegler

Yeah, sorry I couldn't respond to that one before. :-) - Kevin Fox

well i be darned .... we now can rejoice, since fast paced additions to already good product are surely fastly coming about off the feedpipe ... it'l be a hectic season of finest upgrades ... I'm sure they'l start with keyboard shortcutze. ... I mean Google Reader rules on that. Intelligent to the extreme. ..Google.com, on the other hand - are we sleeping? .. not even "/" ??.. and that... more... - pb:

Congrats Ben! Totally agree with Jason. Our latest project wouldn't have become feasible without Ben -- I'm just so glad we managed to get a fraction of his time before he left! :) - Simon

Congratulations, Ben! You're joining an awesome team. - Anne Bouey

Woohoo! Another Googler :) - Tim Hoeck

Congrats, you are now a "big company"! ;)))) - K.D.

That's not my picture! They got the picture wrong! In fact, I didn't get the letter of hire either. :( Oh, Hi there, Ben...if that's your real name. ;) - Josh Haley

Good luck Ben! With you our preferred service will go more interesting - Roberto from fftogo

you're building a friendfeed army there :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Congrats - Özkan Altuner

Nice, any former Google Reader-er is a friend of mine. - Mike Reynolds

gratz Ben! - timepilot

Welcome Bret! - Michael_techie

So, Facebook...? - Daniel J. Pritchett

Poor Ben Darnell. The last to enter are always the first to leave in mergers. - beersage

Either that or he scored big time with some accelerated vesting. - Ken Sheppardson

Hiring new staff while in secret acquisition talks, not exactly classy guys. I hope Ben knew what he was getting into - Glenn Slaven

Why on earth does he use the Duck Hunt theme? - Vezquex

I don't know.. but it is awesome! :) - Tim Hoeck

Wow, looks like somebody bumped this! - Kevin Fox

I think there were a bunch of spam comments made to some 2009-era posts by FF employees. For some reason even after the spam is nuked, the post stays bumped. - Stephen Mack

Yes, I blocked a spammer that was bumping old posts about FF themes and what not. - Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart

OH HAI! - Eric

Well, let's see this as an opportunity to raise a virtual glass to Ben and FriendFeed-that-was! - Kevin Fox

It probably had something to do with the Tornado 2.2 release. I noticed Ben was the one who posted about the release on HN earlier. Edit: Or it could have just been a spammer. *shrugs* - Jimminy, CoG of FF

I don't think it had anything to do with the tornado release - a spammer bumped a bunch of Bret's old posts today. - Ben Darnell

Johnny

Tomorrow is my 1st rest day in my training scale down. Today I mowed my sister-in-laws front and back yard (Twice. Grass very high) and a bike ride.

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You, my dear sir, are out of control. And I'm really inspired by it. - Akiva

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I woke up this morning in total pain. My hands are cramped from 5 hours straight of pushing a mower. Everything else is muscle tiredness. I'm hoping to go for a swim this afternoon. I know I'm suppose to be resting (3 days on, 1 day off) but if I don't loosen something, I feel tomorrow will be worse - Johnny

Of what I've heard, swimming is the best thing to do. You don't necessarily need a hard swim but just getting out there, letting the water hold you up, etc. Good thing. - Akiva

A friend of mine who used to ride 300+ miles and race 2-3 times a week would point out that "rest day" doesn't have to mean just stay on the sofa all day. You for sure want to get out and stretch and work out lactic acid from previous days training. Just keep your heart rate down in your recovery zone and noodle/wander, if you're on a bike. (OK, my "friend" is me, but that seems like an entire lifetime ago...) - Ken Sheppardson

Slow swim and a soak in a steam room or sauna - Mo Kargas

Or nuclear acids if you're so inclined - Mo Kargas

Scoble, Alex Scoble

Where's a good place to go to set up a photoblog?

February 4 - Comment - Like - Share

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The Internet is popular, but a very cliche place. - Micah

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Drat on you, Micah! I meant what's a good site to use that is specifically tailored to making photoblogs? - Scoble, Alex Scoble

Posterous is all about that these days. Or I can set you up a WordPress install with a choice of themes on one of my BlueHost servers. - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

Good to know, Mary, and thanks for the offer, but this isn't for me. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

Then Posterous or Tumblr. - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

Tumblr seems popular - Todd Hoff

Smugmug a possibility? - Eric

Or, really, the dead-easiest thing to do is ourdoings, which does it for you. You upload a bunch of pix to a special DropBox folder and it organizes the shots based on the metadata. Then, go back in and add whatever text you want to tell the story. http://ourdoings.com - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

And it's our own Bruce Lewis - so it stays in the family. We ought to promote that more. - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

THANKS! - Scoble, Alex Scoble

FF trounced your G+ response. - Todd Hoff

Word, Todd...big time. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

For public consumption I use Posterous (not actively, lately) http://wittman.posterous.com and Smugmug's API + a PHP app I wrote for private family photos. - Micah

flickr - The Real sofarsoShawn

I still like Flickr for photosharing - WarLord

I've tried Posterous, Tumblr, Wordpress, Smugmug/Flickr/Picasa hackery, Instagram, Zenfolio and 500px for various mutations of photo posting/blogging, and for something public, I'd just just go with Tumblr these days. I think the community trumps any sort of technical whizbangery. Particularly since other tools (e.g. Instagram) will post to it natively. - Ken Sheppardson

...or just use FriendFeed. :-) - Bruce Lewis

Friendfeed remains a choice, if not a popular choice. - Andy Bakun

ourdoings seems nice for telling a story, needs nicer skins though (considering calling a favor from a friend to get one done). And it links to FF like nothing else does (and g+ and more). Blipfoto is nice if you want to try to be more consistent and encouraged in taking photos. I have found blip to be easy, friendly, clean. Also, it's a scottish startup. There's also european ipernity, which feels like a clone of flickr except with better support for telling a story/blog around a set of pictures - Iphigenie

Hi iphigenie. If you talk to that friend, ask if they'd be more likely to want to design a skin for it if it were bootstrap-based -- http://twitter.github.com/bootstr... - Bruce Lewis

I recently ran across a nice photoblog theme built on Thesis theme for Wordpress. http://exhibit.wpblogger.com/ - CW✔

I like Wordpress, but I'm a big dummy - Joe "Brrzzzzzzt" Pierce

Bruce, Bootstrap looks cool. If you're thinking of doing skins, Bootstrap doesn't look any harder than messing with WP themes*, and that LESS business just about made me swoon. If people want custom skins, I'd be happy to design them! *I can't say I build whole themes from scratch - don't have the php chops for that. It's more like I restyle existing themes - Genesis child themes, or I also have a developer license for Elegant Themes - with client trade dress (type, colors and imagery). - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

I've played with Posterous (http://mobilephoto.co) and Tumblr (http://twiddle.me) but mainly for iPhone photos. - I like big Botts

Bruce, I will ask. Strangely enough Bootstrap was exactly what I was using messing with my skin for my old tired site (wish I'd enjoy that kind of design more, but i dont). I don't know if bootstrap would make a huge difference but I think having a well structured and documented (or self explanatory) template would help, and bootstrap or some other framework would help you in creating... more... - Iphigenie

Johnny

What's the name of that big ironman race in Hawaii

February 9 - Comment - Like - Share

Uh. Ironman? http://ironmanworldchampionship.com/ - Kristin

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That's the one, thanks (they hold heaps of these in Hawaii but I was looking for that particular one) - Johnny

It's not widely known that the name Ironman Triathlon refers to both the original Ironman triathlon and the annual Ironman World Championship. Also called Ironman Hawaii, the world championships of the event, held annually in Hawaii since 1978 (with an additional race in 1982), are now preceded by a series of qualifying events. Ironman Triathlon became known for its grueling length, harsh race conditions, and television coverage. -- Cliff Claven - Ken Sheppardson

3.8 Km swim, 180Km bike and 42 Km run... Hoooooooooooooooleeeeeeeeeey fuck dude - Johnny

The next beer's on me, Ken. - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

My sister does that (she's not yet been to Kona, but she's going to attempt to qualify for this year's). She crazy. Y'all should talk. - ωαřмaiden ☆TeamOtto☆

I get that the run is a full marathon, but where'd the other distances come from? i.e. swim of 2.4 miles (3.9 km), bike ride of 112 miles (180 km) Just how they laid out the first course in Hawaii? - Ken Sheppardson

Ken, I'm pretty sure that's it.Sports tend to grow out of that. I know the distance of Biathlon skiing comes from when the soldiers use to have drunken competitions who could ski out to a certain point, shoot something and ski back. - Johnny

... and just to put this in perspective. My tri is 200m swim, 5Km bike and 2Km run and I have been WORKING MY ASS OFF just to do that... I feel simultaneously inspired and sick to my stomach at the sight of the Hawaii distances :) - Johnny

Here we go... the swim is the Waikiki Roughwater Swim - http://www.wrswim.com - Ken Sheppardson

And the bike ride is the "around the island" Oahu route - http://www.flacyclist.com/gmap... - Ken Sheppardson

You know that started as "I bet you I can't..." :) - Johnny

Maybe when yer training you should just pretend it's prep for the Hawaii race. :-) - Ken Sheppardson

Kevin Fox

The wife just ordered her D800 which means I get her hand-me-down D700! Now to find a good home for the D200... #Nikon

February 7 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Are you looking to sell it? I would be interested as I can give it as a gift to someone that wants to learn about photography. - CW✔

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Not making any plans yet. It'll still be a couple months before the D800 comes anyhow. :-) - Kevin Fox

Any big photo trips coming up? Antarctica is hard to follow. - Bruce Lewis from iPhone

Nothing concrete, but we've never been to the Far East... Or Svalbard... - Kevin Fox

D800 looks slick, but I think the sweet spot's going to be camping out and picking up used D700s in the ~$1500 range. :-) - Ken Sheppardson

Johnny

Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead Extended Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch... via @youtube

Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead Extended Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv3vEXy_EwU&feature=youtu.be via @youtube

February 6 from Advanced Tweets - Comment - Like - Share

Have you seen the film? Motived me to buy a juicer and experiment a bit. Juicer is now in a cupboard somewhere... :-/ - Ken Sheppardson

I meant to watch this when it was on tv the other night. - ☆ Mellyboo ☆

I've watched and while I applaud his results, all it told me was eat healthier. Eat/consume more fruits/veggies. I already do that so it wasn't as applicable to me. (I do fruit/veggie smoothies daily without all that waste from juicing) I found "Forks over knives" a much more interesting documentary. (Everyone should still watch Fat, Sick & Nearly dead though) - Liana Shanes

Johnny

How do they choose which city hosts the Super Bowl?

February 5 from iPhone - Comment - Like - Share

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Traditionally, it's in a city that has an NFL-appropriate stadium with either warm weather or a dome. The NFL decides which city gets the Super Bowl each year, but since there are a limited number of such facilities, the game's location tends to rotate among them. - John (bird whisperer)

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The city also needs to have a certain number of hotel rooms within a certain distance to the stadium. - Alan

Cool - Johnny from iPhone

They often go to cities that have recently built a new stadium or did a major renovation. - I like big Botts

The NFL usually wants it either indoors or somewhere the temp will be above 50F, but the Jets/Giants got a "waiver" or sorts to host it at their new stadium in 2014. (New Orleans next year) - Ken Sheppardson

They also generally prefer a stadium centrally located, don't they? So that neither team has to travel too far? - Akiva

Not sure about that - they've had it in Florida a few times recently, haven't they? - I like big Botts

So not by coin toss? - Micah

There are no NFL stadia too far to travel to when you have a two week break after the payoffs. - Brian Johns

I don't know if they can be centrally located. The SB is here in New Orleans next year; how are we supposed to know who's gonna be going to the big game? - Derrick

Capacity has something to do with it, too. I believe that the minimum capacity for a Super Bowl stadium must be 70,000. (That's why St. Louis can't host it, and why Minneapolis can't host it again in its current stadium.) A stadium does not have to be an NFL stadium, but the area generally must have an NFL team (which is why the Los Angeles area hasn't had a Super Bowl since Michael Jackson performed halftime at the Rose Bowl in Super Bowl XXVII in 1993). - Julian

The hotels... the reason Jacksonville will never again host. - Julian

Jacksonville was where they moored a bunch of cruise ships as extra hotel rooms, right? I heard that didn't go so well. - Brian Johns

Ken Sheppardson

Congratulations to all the former FriendFeed staff on the Facebook IPO! I'd sure like to know what the effective valuation of FriendFeed turns out to be post IPO. That is, the collective value of all the Facebook stock held by former FriendFeed employees. - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...

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Oh yeah. Holy shit, where's the party? http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Eric

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It'd also be interesting to do the math and figure out how many FriendFeeders are still at Facebook... - Ken Sheppardson

I did a caculation a last year at about $422.5 million at that point.[1] Basedon the S-1, 10 FF employees, and the most recent sale of 11,052,955[2] * $50[3] = $552.6Million [1]http://ff.im/Anvuu [2]http://ff.im/QobEt [3] A number saw this morning about a post S-1 sale of Class B stock. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

So I wouldn't be surprised if it was around 20-25x post-IPO. Of the 10 Friendfeeders, I assume are Bret, Paul, Sanjeev, Jim, Ana, Kevin, Tudor, and Casey were in that group. There are a few more people, Gary, Ben Golub, Dan, and Ben Darnell(hired just prior to the acquisition so I'm unsure if he would have been included) that I also know worked at FF. Bret and Ben Golub I know are at FB. Paul, Kevin, and Gary I know are not. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

I forgot Ross. Hmm. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

Nice. Thanks for the links. There's an interesting list of other acquisitions here - http://www.insidefacebook.com/2012... - Ken Sheppardson

Michael Markman

RT @LukeConard: Please tell me these are real. http://twitpic.com/8c5f8n

RT @LukeConard: Please tell me these are real. http://t.co/4zimZOlg

January 26 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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That's the first time I've seen the Harrison Ford one. - Spidra Webster

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The original is "Some people are gay. Get over it!" - <3Heather<3

Yeah. That's why I believed the Ian McKellan one when I first saw it. It seemed plausible within that context. - Spidra Webster

Fake - http://themanwhofellasleep.wordpress.com/2011... - Ken Sheppardson

Ken Sheppardson

This started on Facebook, but I just thought I'd carry it over here: What was the #1 song the week you were born? The Troggs - Wild Thing http://www.youtube.com/watch...

January 7 - Comment - Like - Share

US List here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Ken Sheppardson

Because of You - Tony Bennett that would be 1951 and #yesiamveryold - WarLord

Micah

Best Answer. 100%

January 6 - Comment - Like - Share

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Clearly everything this person knows about electricity came from http://www.funnyordie.com/videos... - Ken Sheppardson

Ken, ah yes - classic. :) - Micah

Ken Sheppardson

New Year's blog redesign complete. Dumped WordPress for Jekyll in the process. Now if only I'd actually start writing... http://www.kensheppardson.com/

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I'm in the process of doing the same thing with Jekyll/Octopress. I have all the pieces in place; I've just been too lazy to do the CSS, etc. - Akiva

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The weird thing is I had a WordPress theme I'd hacked together over the past few years with a blue bar across the top that had become a little too close to Facebook's look. So over the last few weeks I've been working on this, then swapped it out earlier today. A few hours later I get a flood in GReader of posts from Bret Taylor...the sort of thing that happens when you change blogging platforms. I don't think I've visited his site in over a year, but I go there today and see this -- http://backchannel.org - Ken Sheppardson

That looks interestingly familiar. - Akiva

The existence of Disqus got me thinking I can use something like Jekyll for my blog. I'm already building the rest of my site with templates. - Amit Patel

Yeah, Disqus is slick. I'd waffled back and forth between WordPress native comments and Disqus, so moving everything over to Jekyll was trivial. Now the question is really whether to bother with comments at all. Disqus is enabled now, but it just looks kinda janky, I'm not sure I want to spend a bunch of time cleaning up the CSS, and there's something appealing about the commentless Daring Fireball approach... - Ken Sheppardson

When I visit a blog that doesn't want comments, it feels like the author doesn't want me there... - Amit Patel

Well, that's almost the case for me, but not in a negative way... I'd sorta rather have any follow-up conversations on FriendFeed, Google+, or even Twitter than squirreled away under the blog post. I'd certainly like people to see what I wrote, but after that I've got no particular interest in trying to drive page views or anything. - Ken Sheppardson

Amit, interesting; I've never thought if it like that before. When I relaunch The Misanthropic Geek, I'll definitely allow comments but I don't and will never allow comments on my other one. - Akiva

I think both styles of discussion work. Using Twitter/Google+/FriendFeed feels like people at other people's houses talking about something you made. Separate smaller, more intimate conversations. Using comments on the blog feels like inviting all those people to my house to talk to each other. A big conversation among strangers. - Amit Patel

I recently built a site for publishing some panos using Hyde. It is jekyll written in python. I used bootstrap and less along with it. Check it out: http://www.bedafamily.com. No rss or comments yet. - Joe Beda from iPhone

Every few years I change what I use. This conversation is making me want to change again :-) . The last major change was to XSLT (!): http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp... + http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp... = http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp... I'm pretty happy with it but I need to hook it up to emacs so that as soon as I save the input, it regenerates the output. For my blog I'd need to add categories and RSS… - Amit Patel

Emacs? GTFO. - Akiva

I once did C++ code gen with XSLT. I regretted it. True story. - Joe Beda

Just saw this today: "Just over a month ago, I switched comments off for this blog. I wanted to post a very brief follow-up on that decision. In a nutshell, it was definitely the right move. For the first few days I did miss the validation of getting a flurry of comments on each new article, but I quickly realised that I was enjoying the peace and quiet. The other benefits are manifest: ..." - http://mattgemmell.com/2011... - Ken Sheppardson

I have been pretty much anti-comments since the beginning myself. I don't write to start a dialogue. I write because I want to write. When I have had comments on a site of mine, it's been pretty much like Matt described. The better conversations I had here on FriendFeed or through some private channel. I'm now re-evaluating my previous statement about allowing comments if I ever relaunch my geek site. - Akiva

Looks very nice, well done. I agree, I don't necessarily want discussion on my posts. Most of the time, it's just getting my thoughts out there, not really looking for input. - Nathan Snyder

Thanks, Nathan. The anti-comment faction's pretty vocal, by the way, and can be persuasive... "Let’s be totally honest here: anyone worthwhile leaving a comment should do so on their own blog. Very few read blog comments anyway. I’m sorry, but it’s true. Commenting is a facade. It makes you think you have a voice. You don’t. Get your own blog and write how you really feel on your own site." -- http://parislemon.com/post... - Ken Sheppardson

Micah

What is your FF Comments/Likes Ratio? (Comments divided by Likes to 2nd decimal place - as of now) - http://flickr.com/photos...

January 7, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Halil, Cristo, denis and 120 other people liked this

1.05 (670/633) - Micah from Bookmarklet

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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

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

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 from twhirl

0.79 - Brian Roy

0.77 - Eric

0.67 - Nine

0.77 - Shey

0.76 - FFing Enigma

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 - Tinfoil 2.0

1.41 - WoH: Minding her Steves

5.08 (3181/626) ! - ◄ani625Ξ ಠ_ಠ

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

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! - Lindsay

@Cee Bee I think you meant 0.62 - ◄ani625Ξ ಠ_ಠ

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, FF Music Lover

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

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

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

.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

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

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

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

*bump* - Micah

Thanks, Mark! - Micah

Thanks Spidra! - Micah

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

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

Thanks, Rachel! - Micah

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

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

I've got stuff to say. - Kevin Fox

3.98 (900/226) - Richard Lawler

1.02 (3538/3484) for sofarsofarshaun - Micah

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

Thank you, Siavash and Michael - Micah

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

Nice, thanks Rebecca. - Micah

1.31 - Rah-PM 2012

0.56 - imabonehead

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

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

2.63 - Bryce Roney

Thanks for joining in, Bryce. - Micah

.15 all time, .13 this week. - Lix

.52 - David HC Soul

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

2.94 - j1m

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1.26 (2965/2346) - Micah

Thanks, Glen and pea! - Micah

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

.38 - Ryan Dadey

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

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

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

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

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

17942/30571=.59 - Scoble, Alex Scoble

Alex, thank you, sir. - Micah

ALmost 2:1 exactly. - Amani

Much obliged, Amani. - Micah

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

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

Thank you, amin/gnu - Micah

7.16 - Ken Sheppardson

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

1.45 (4374/3026) - Micah

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

2.10 now ... - Amani

0.97 now. - Eric Johnson

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

Thanks, Eric. - Micah

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

Probably, just chattier then :) - Micah

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

.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

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

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

Thanks, Ryo! - Micah

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

In March the Mean was: 1.49 - Micah

1.021276595744680851063829787234042553191489361702127659... via Wolfram Alpha - tom murphy

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

0.55 (254/444) - Willem (@wim66) ☠

Thank you, Willem. - Micah

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

1.88 (779/414) - Ton Zijp

Thanks, Ton. - Micah

0.43 (3597/8305). - Parth Awasthi

0.74 (1970/2667) - S of 2C

And thank you Parth, Scott. - Micah

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

2.12 is my ratio. - Rick Cogley

Thanks, Rick! - Micah

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

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

1.82 from 798 comments / 438 likes - David Damore

Thanks, nivé and David! - Micah

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

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

1.91 - MiniMage, enterRUPPted

Thank you Nicholas and MiniMage! - Micah

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

.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

It's that time again. - Micah

.50 - LB shining

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

0.64 - Imabug

Thank you, Imabug. - Micah

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 - Vicarbott

.81 - Brent - Yes I am

.63 - metalerik

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

.83 - Jimminy, CoG of FF

0.78 - Pete D

.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

.11 - Penguin

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

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

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

0.58 - Moody (Sweet FA 4 Life)

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

Jonas, James and Kurt - thanks you! - Micah

You're welcome. I hope the results do some good. :-) - Moody (Sweet FA 4 Life)

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

Thank you edythe and Eric! - Micah

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

Thanks, Tom. - Micah

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

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

Thank you, Nathalie! - Micah

2.18 - Spidra Webster

1.29 - Mark J

Thanks, Spidra and Mark! - Micah

0.49 - Jammy Lee

0.825 - Mathew A. Koeneker

Jammy and Mathew, thank you very much. - Micah

2.16 - Sue - Friendfeed is best

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. - Just Joe from iPod

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

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

1.40, nearly the square root of two. - Vezquex

Thanks, Raphael and Andy! - Micah

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

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

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

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

383/372 - Ashish

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

Thanks, ashish. - Micah

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

When I first saw this: 1.91 Sept 28: 1.94 - MiniMage, enterRUPPted

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

.64 - Shannon Jiménez

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

Thank you, SustainedEuphoria. - Micah

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

Thanks, Mark. - Micah

1.45 - Brett Kelly

Thanks, Brett :) - Micah

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

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

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

1.02 (10323/10161) - Bren

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

Thanks, Bren. - Micah

Thank you, Alex :) - Micah

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

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

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

1.8 - Que Sarah Sarah

4.26? - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

Thanks, Sarah, Tutivillus. - Micah

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, :) - ۳۰ مرغ Loves Y'ALLLLL

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

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

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

1.70 (it was 1.41 on Jan 8) - WoH: Minding her Steves

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

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

0.58 - Thomas Page

Chieze and Thomas - thank you! - Micah

*bumpage* - Micah

So, Micah, we never did find out what you were doing with this info.... - WoH: Minding her Steves

2.21 (2,812/1,275) - Rene, Pro Button Pusher

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

4.06 (747/184) - Jan Ole Peek

WoH, World Domination. - Micah

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

0.97 (6,694/6,929) - Jimminy, CoG of FF

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

2.23 - Paola Bonomo

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

0.03 (284 / 10378)! - Daniel Rowley

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

*thanks Christopher thoroughly* - Micah

14.86 (1442/97) I'm going the wrong way!! - Chris Myles

1.77 (11831/6622) - Micah

0.56 (2059/3703) - Joel Webber

0.89 (1,766/1,986) - chrisofspades

Thanks, Joel and Chris! - Micah

In 4 days it will be 1 year since my first recorded stat here. My comments/like were almost a 1:1 ratio then. Now comments are almost double likes for me. - Micah

Easy - Kevin J Hatton

jamar78, same trend for you, it looks. :) - Micah

1.00 a year later. {edit -- screwed it up the first time. not telling what I did.} - Vicarbott

Thanks, Jim! - Micah

.52 this year. - LB shining

Thank you, Laura =) - Micah

75,415 comments/1,286 likes = 58.64 - i wish the auto inserted comments didn't get counted... the true number is probably much much close ot my number of likes - Chris Heath

1.09 (11910/10953) - Bren

1.97%. thanks again micah, this has been a great metric to measure my first year here on ff. As the year went (this being the first record of me being here that i've found): , 6.43%:1.25%:1.97% - chaz2b

Chris, Bren, thank you. And chaz2b, thank you too - glad it's a special marker for you. :) - Micah

1.79 (13620/7618) - Micah from iPhone

0.91 - Bruce Lewis

0.13 - Morton Fox

0.86 - Brent

1.69 now (1.70 on Nov 10th and 1.41 on Jan 8, 2009) - - WoH: Minding her Steves

0.23 - Mark H

Thanks Bruce, Morton, Higlet, Brent and Mark! - Micah from iPhone

How is this thread doing in the longest-lived-ff-comment-thresds-ever contest? - j1m

5.76 right now - Kevin L

0.53 - Rodfather

j1m, I wonder how many threads over a year old are regularly updated by an asoetment of users. - Micah from iPhone

Kevin, Cecily and Rodfather - thanks! - Micah from iPhone

1.49 (2,222/1488) - DB Botts - Just DB Botts

What's the photo, Micah? - Brent

"I must not ask Micah questions" written out a bajillion times.... :) - WoH: Minding her Steves

LOL @Higlet - Correct. (but Brent, you can also ask the Mathematics Dept of West Bohemian University in Pilsen, Czech http://www.fav.zcu.cz/en... [via http://maisonbisson.com/blog... ]) - Micah

0.32 (2011/6291) Looks like I need to comment more. =) - Beau Liening

Thank you, Beau. And, by stating you want to comment more you're already helping the cause :) - Micah

2.09329564 (10366:4952) I don't think that I'm the norm here - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

*bump* - It's that time again, folks. - Micah

1.71 (16,017/9,357) - Micah

0.91 (13,933/15,222) - Jimminy, CoG of FF

2.66 - Marissa

1.48 (2,469/1,669) - DB Botts - Just DB Botts

Thanks, Jimminy, Marissa and Daryl. :) - Micah

1.21 - Jenny R

Thanks, Jenny! - Micah

1.10 (4874/4448) - DGentry

2.17 (2860/1321) - I like big Botts

2.13(7957/3734) - Melanie Reed

Thank you, Denton, Glen and Melanie! - Micah

63.58 (97,534/1,534) -- interesting that my last three digits are the same there, eh? (note, i already posted a month or two ago when i first saw this thread) - Chris Heath

Thanks, Chris! - Micah

0.87 (3770/4312), so I'm either getting more commenty or less likey. [0.74 (1970/2667) was what I previously reported back in June] - S of 2C

0.92 - Brent

This project has had me consider commenting more than liking. - Brent

Thanks Scott, pea and T. Brent. - Micah

Brent, interesting. Look forward to more commentary. :) - Micah

1433/1161 = 1.23 - cdogzilla | downgraded

1.19 (5132/4316) - Ruchira S. Datta

Thank you, cdogzilla and Ruchira! - Micah

1.00 (4661/4659) -- goal achieved :) - Brent

0.94(15045/15978) 0.83, (28.August.2009); 0.97, (11.Nov.2009); 0.91, (17.April.2010); 0.94, (11.May.2010). - Jimminy, CoG of FF

1.65 (18,070 / 10,970) - Micah

*bump* It's that time again, folks. - Micah

1.05 (1710/1625) - cdogzilla | downgraded

1.66 here. Chattyites 4ever! - Lo the Baker

Thanks cdogzilla and Lo! - Micah

Last year my comments were around 7000 and likes around 2500, for a ratio of 2.80. I consciously chose to do more liking over the last year. As of today my comments number 10,782 and likes number 7,666, for a ratio of 1.41. - Stephen Mack

Jason, Stephen - cool. Thanks for keeping updated here. :) - Micah

Thanks, RG - Micah

1.03. Micah you've made over 18000 comments since you first posted this. - chrisofspades

0.76 (3,624/4,766) Egad that's only .1 improvement since 2009-01-08 :-P but at least it's moving in the right direction. - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

3.25 No wonder I always had to stand in the hall in school for talking ;-) - Shannon - GlassMistress

Still right at 1:1. W00t. - Vicarbott

1.15 (14662/12739) - Bren

chrisofspades, crazy isn't it. :) - Micah

kima, tortoise wins and all that ;) Thanks, Shannon. Jim, you have maintained balanced in the force you have. Thanks, Bren. - Micah

1.34 - Mark J

2.33 :( my new yr's resolution was to "like" more, imma not doing sucha good job, :( - chaz2b

Thanks, Mark, and chaz, you'll get there. :) - Micah

1.61 (20,661 / 12,818) - Micah

*BUMP* - It's that time again. THANKS! - Micah

1.76 (15,652/8,886) - Jenny R

.81 = 4926/6038 I'm eighty percent talkative people. - hollyrae

Thanks, Jenny and hollyrai! - Micah

2.2 - I like big Botts

Thank you, Glen. - Micah

0.77 - Steven Perez

0.31 (14566/47299) - John (bird whisperer)

John, you're a 'liking' fool! :D - Jenny R

Apparently I'm the human version of FALOB - John (bird whisperer)

Ha! (and thanks, John) - Micah

Double ha! - Jenny R

Thank you Steven. - Micah

1.04 - Scott (Honey Boo-Boo!)

2.28 - Jesse Stay

1.66 (updated) - Eric

1.25 - holly #ravingfangirl

Thanks Scott, Jesse, Eric and holly! - Micah

58,144/3,749=15.509, basically due to multiple feed imports. - Daniel Mietchen

*BUMP* - Micah

1.60 (22,066/13,819) - Micah

:) @Jason. - Micah

0.69 - Moody (Sweet FA 4 Life)

0.76 - Steven Perez

slightly off of my usual this time: 1.01 - Vicarbott

Thanks James, Steven and Jim "STAY-ON-TAR-GET" Jannotti. :) - Micah

.98(20,405/20,834) - Jimminy, CoG of FF

1.36 (20684/15224) - Bren from iPhone

Thank you, Jimminy, Greg and Bren! - Micah

1.88 (21954/11691) Chatty Cathy, apparently. - Jenny R

11289/9010 = 1.25 (wonder if some comments are from imported feeds) - Mike Chelen

Thanks Jenny and Mike. :) - Micah

Sorry - Micah .... but the math is just too complicated :) - Charlie Anzman

Charlie, I'm make it simple. I'll do the talking, you drive the get-away car—we'll split it even: 80/20. - Micah

Damn, More Homework. - Brent - Yes I am

including this comment (119,119C/1677L) ... 71.03 - Chris Heath

1.21 - Joe Bonner

1.56 (24,076/15,472) - Micah

*BUMP* - it's that time again. Also, I passed 24K comments recently. - Micah

0.74 - Michael R. Bernstein

Thanks, Micahel. - Micah

113,457 comments / 166,887 likes = .68 - RAPatton

2.02 (31627/15675) I need to start liking more and shut the hell up. - Jenny R

1:1.618, of course. - Josh Haley from iPhone

2.60 - Jack&Cleo

I was waiting for that from you, Mr. Haley. - Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™ from Android

Those are some heavy hitter numbers there, RAPatton. Thanks. :) - Micah

I've been on FF for a long time, Michah, because I am really, really old. - RAPatton

LOL Josh. These aren't the maths you looking for. [lateral hand wave] - Micah

Jenny, do not take your own advice; not advisable. - Micah

Thanks, Jack & Cleo. - Micah

RAPatton, you're not old—you triple-comment-excerpt every bookmarklet post :)) - Micah

Cristo, this post is an ancient relic. Handle with care. - Micah

0.13 - Morton Fox

Okay, Micah. <----I had to resist the urge not to post that because I know it's going to up my comment count. ;) - Jenny R

But how many of those primordial, high interest posts are still active. Uh huh. :) - Micah

Thanks, Morton. BTW, when you posted in February, it was exactly 0.13 also. - Micah

Jenny, resistance is futile; embrace the rising tide of comments. - Micah

Comments are more difficult and time consuming than Likes. I'd be happy about a high comment:likes ratio except that many are surely imported from feeds, while every Like is manual. - Mike Chelen

it has changed to 2.2256 now as Sep, 6 2010.Labor Day. :) I added the date for future references. - ۳۰ مرغ Loves Y'ALLLLL

IN HONOUR OF DERRICK'S 100,000th LIKE: http://friendfeed.com/micahwi... - Micah

1.54 (25,102/16,257) - Micah

.82 - Alex Scrivener

Thanks, Alex. - Micah

1.48 (6653 comments / 4480 likes, 18SEP10) - Apparently I'm talking more! - Mark J

2.29.... 26 HR, 89 RBI - .LAG liked that

.15 on March 21, 2009. Now .19. - Lix

Thanks, MarkJ, .LAG and Alix! :) - Micah

Thank you, Deepak! - Micah

1.47 (24757/16749) - Bren

I make a lot of comments but no one like me, so I guess the ratio is infinite or undefined. - Sue - Friendfeed is best

1.45 (29653/20444) *BUMP* - Micah

1.22 (31900/26233) - holly #ravingfangirl

.59 (58,923/99,251) - Scoble, Alex Scoble

6.61 (2825/427 )... I'm a wee bit chatty - Shannon - GlassMistress

I had exactly a 2:1 ratio as previously reported [Aug 30, '09], now I am at: 1.7241:1 ratio. 6,067 comments to 3,519 likes. - Just Joe

0.79 as of 6 Jan 2011. - John E. Bredehoft

my brain hurts - Morgan

Two years later and my ratio has climbed from 3.4 to 4.675. I've got a lot to say, apparently. - Kevin Fox

Funnily, I didn't notice until after leaving that comment that when I reported my stat in 2009 I also followed it up with "I've got stuff to say." I didn't say it was *new* stuff... - Kevin Fox

1.000 (27093/27080) - Jimminy, CoG of FF

Now 2.2 - was 1.8 - Que Sarah Sarah

I've had an improvement since the last few times this has come up. I was .49 or close to it, now I'm running a .57 ratio - Bluesun 2600

1.68 (55826/33281) - Jenny R

81.1 - rising consistently - Chris Heath

1.59 (9,426 comments/5,940 likes; 06JAN11) Still climbing! - Mark J

Some people like *likes* a lot more than others! - Mark J

I think this is the oldest thread I see that still gets new comments added. - Sue - Friendfeed is best

*BUMP* - Micah

1.40 (32175/22968) - Micah

I dunno, I'm not good with math - The Real sofarsoShawn

0.35 ... Apparently I'm not very talkative. - John (bird whisperer)

Thanks, John and Shawn. - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

1.459 (33067/22667) - Bren from iPhone

looks familiar... - WoH: Minding her Steves

2.6 (wow, this thread is like my yearly checkup; thanks micah and friendfeed, 3+years and going strong [6.4%, 2.33%]) - chaz2b

1.02 (38,615, 37,927) 9/27/11 - Jimminy, CoG of FF

1.29 (36,959 / 28,580) - Micah

Thanks, Jimminy, Bren, WoH, and chaz2b. :) - Micah

.46 now. :) - LB shining

Thank you, LB. - Micah

0.33 (34741/105115) - John (bird whisperer)

0.93 - caj needs a haircut

Thanks John. Gracias, caj. - Micah

1.57 (24,460/15,624). It was 1.12 the day after the OP. - Tinfoil 2.0

The likes dim and comms brim. - Micah

2.91; 6.43% (@ 2yrs ago) 2.33% (@ 1yr ago). for history's sake, this thread was started shortly after i found friendfeed, or friendfeed found me, so it holds a special place in my heart. thanks for keeping it around mr micah - chaz2b

You're certainly welcome, chaz2b. In some way it feels like a living heirloom to me. :) - Micah

1.66 (13,580/8196) - Mark J

*BUMP* - Micah

1.25 (40,008/31,895) - Micah

1.15 - Kristin

0.33 - John (bird whisperer)

1.41 - ☆ Mellyboo ☆

5.12 - Julian

3 (2.991) (and now the list has become too lengthy for me to track my progress, ;) [dumb me, i have a post not 10 lines ago in history, from 090711 2.91; 6.43% (@ 2yrs ago) 2.33% (@ 1yr ago) ;) ] - chaz2b

1.76. Last two entries were 1.8, 2.2. - Que Sarah Sarah from iPhone

1.91 - I like big Botts

.79 - Shevonne

24 072 / 35 095 = 0.685909674 - AJ Batac :)

0,77 (before and after this comment) - loi

2.65 (69,814 comments/26,281 likes) - Spidra Webster

The original Kevin

Ron Paul has ________% chance of being elected president.

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Weirder things have happened. - Victor Ganata

Name one. - The original Kevin

I mean, I really did think Obama's nomination in 2008 was pretty damn improbable. But I suppose that's not necessarily weirder. - Victor Ganata

Weirder things? How 'bout Governor Schwartzenegger, Governor Ventura, Senator Franken, or President Reagan? Then again, while those might have seemed weird 10+ years before they happened, but a year out... maybe not so much. - Ken Sheppardson

The Beatles getting back together. All of them. - Micah

The idea that the Supreme Court would actually select a president instead of counting all the votes still seems pretty damn weird. - Victor Ganata

For the record, Intrade says 3.4% that Ron Paul will win the general election http://www.intrade.com/v4... :) - Victor Ganata

I wonder how many people doubted McCain's candidacy at the 1st primary... - Johnny from iPhone

0.8%. Slim chance he could get the nomination, and an October Surprise (probably a health issue or accident) could mean anything goes. - Kevin Fox

Fair enough, Ken. Tho Reagan had been Governor of California. I'll give you the other three tho. - The original Kevin

3.4% is pretty poor odds. OTOH, 26% of Americans don’t know the US declared independence from Great Britain. http://maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-cont... so let's not discount crazy odds. - Micah

Victor, to me the Supreme Court thing falls more under "sinister" than weird. In fact, given the make-up of the court at the time, I'd say it was more predictable than weird. - The original Kevin

I'd say more generally the whole timeline and process of Bush v Gore from election day onward was weird, even if you set aside how it was resolved. It just exposed a whole lot of things about the presidential election process that left folks scratching their heads. - Ken Sheppardson

Steve Gillmor to Steve's feed, RealTime Network

Gillmor Gang, recording live today 9am PDT participate at http://www.building43.com/realtim...

December 30 - Comment - Like - Share

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Standing by, waiting for the famous call. - Robert Scoble

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while that is happening ... Happy and Healthy New Year to all !!! - studentforce

Robert you'll be next. tuning up Mike's audio now - Tina Chase Gillmor

Cool, just hanging out reading the non news of the week. - Robert Scoble

kevin... if you're around please turn on your video - Tina Chase Gillmor

wow we - Tina Chase Gillmor

sorry for delay everyone...aboutto go - Tina Chase Gillmor

We're having technical difficulties. Please stand by. - Robert Scoble

Hello all - this is the right time of day for me for once :) - Nick Halstead

wo! triple echo - studentforce

are you all hearing an echo? - Tina Chase Gillmor

just went away. thanks ... whatever you did - studentforce

I'm not hearing an echo. - Robert Scoble

didn't do a thing - Tina Chase Gillmor

sorry about being late, I had 1pm in my head - Kevin Marks

john t and I had a discussion via email about the kindle fire last night ... amazon is going to be 2012/2013 NEWS re: eTextbooks - studentforce

Hi, from the UK. (albeit I'm n Poland..long story) - Scott Jones

hey thanks for the party invite! - Tina Chase Gillmor

re: apps vs. browsers .... Mobile users lean toward apps over browsers [study] - studentforce

Windows Phone won't take off. In the UK its all about Apple and Android/Google. In Europe (outside of the UK pretty much) NO ONE has an Apple...its quite astounding. Its all about Google.Android and nothing to do with Apple..which is interesting - Scott Jones

In for the last "Gang" of the year.. :) - Kevin Costain

Scott: everytime I'm in Europe I see iPhones all over the place. I don't know what Europe you live in. - Robert Scoble

Samsung has already shipped a million tablets with styluses: http://venturebeat.com/2011... - Kevin Marks

ask a student what Microsoft means to them .... my prediction is that at least a third will ask: 'what is microsoft' - studentforce

I think one of Microsoft's imperatives has to be making TOUCH versions of all thier flagship apps.. - Kevin Costain

...again with the parties! - Tina Chase Gillmor

That *is* a big indictment. I would think someone would get one just to be contrarian. - Bruce Lewis

Heh Robert. Talking about Central Europe. I'm British but have been through Slovakia, Hungary, Poland etc and in this part of Europe there are zero iPhones/iPads and basically no Apple. But every 15 year old kid in all these countries has an android phone. Apple dont exist in the new Europe. Which is surprising. I had to get a Samsung as I couldnt get an Apple. But MS....well...they have no chance in Europe. - Scott Jones

also for MS to migrate their shit into the cloud MARGINS will be effected big time and that is assuming they execute flawlessly: http://www.businessweek.com/news... - studentforce

I wish Steve was more Italian and used his hands to talk more ;-) - Tina Chase Gillmor

It's always a "new" world though. There was a time when Android didn't exist at all in this "new" world. Things change. Never say never. :) - Kevin Costain

Are people talking about Roku much? One of my users was asking for a Roku channel. - Bruce Lewis

Bruce: I see Roku come up here and there. But this is a pretty heavy Android iOS show. - Robert Scoble

Must say..i dont have a TV anymore - Scott Jones

coffee anyone? - Tina Chase Gillmor

monitors not expensive any more - Kevin Marks

I've not had cableTV service in almost a decade.. - Kevin Costain

Scott: I'm watching TV less and less. I look at it as a huge ass monitor. - Robert Scoble

I wonder though, when are we going to get a set-top box that can be as FLEXIBLE as simply using a computer? - Kevin Costain

not according to my comcast support rep .... - studentforce

Robert, what tele are you using, a Vizio 3D? - Nir Ben Yona

spectrum plus CONTENT - studentforce

Nir: yup! - Robert Scoble

Occupy Broadband! - Todd Hoff

Robert: Wow. Cool. - Nir Ben Yona

last names only please! - Tina Chase Gillmor

...Glad I caught the last GG of 2011 - ...love you guys - 2012 needs more high power women in tech, BTW - Hey John, Scobes, Mark - ...and Hey SG! - Rocky Barbanica

OK Gillmor! :-) - Robert Scoble

Hi Rocky! - Bruce Lewis

Know what you mean Robert. What's interesting though is I now stream and download everything...erm..for free. Monitisation is an issue for companies I would say - Scott Jones

When the edge is so powerful, does an edge to core strategy really make sense? - Todd Hoff

oh no....it's a streaming show again. oh noooooo - Tina Chase Gillmor

come on, no offence, lets ot have a blooming streaming conversation again! ;) x - Scott Jones

Hey Bruce! - Rocky Barbanica

heheh - Rocky Barbanica

Mark... heheh - I meant Hey Kevin MARKs - Rocky Barbanica

Rocky!!!! - Tina Chase Gillmor

hi Rocky - Kevin Marks

TINA !!! Happy New Year, Doll !!! - Rocky Barbanica

its a sereis of local monopolies - Kevin Marks

Netflix peaked in 2011. Streaming video's becoming a commodity with Comcast, Amazon, Vudu... Netflix is actually falling behind in terms of first run films. - Ken Sheppardson

Happy New Year, btw :-) - Ken Sheppardson

awww Rocky. Thanks and to you and yours! - Tina Chase Gillmor

$5 for the Louis CK show... you get two downloads or 2 chances to stream it. - Kevin Costain

You have to build the audience first via discovery on the aggregators. Louis CK wouldn't have sold what he did without basic cable. - Ken Sheppardson

I paid $5 to watch it.. :) - Kevin Costain

I paid $5 - Kevin Marks

I'll bet you 99% of the folks who gave Louis CK knew him from basic cable already. - Ken Sheppardson

weird we have a Lewis CK model now - Tina Chase Gillmor

I think Louis CK made the money for production costs on the shows themselves (RE: Rolling Stone's article on his recent shows).. the money he made on the online special was allot more gravy.. - Kevin Costain

Ken: I think you're right now - but that will change. It is changing. - Kevin Costain

People don't realize how good OTA quality is now that they've gone digital. - Bruce Lewis

I knew louis CK from youtube - Kevin Marks

I have no idea what Steve just said - Kevin Marks

Bruce: I can't use OTA, got a mountain in between me and the antennas. - Robert Scoble

I knew Louis KC from Pootie Tang.. :) - Kevin Costain

Kevin: YouTube of his Conan appearances or cable shows? - Ken Sheppardson

As business models content and conduit should always be separate, but look at Comcast they are trying to do both - Stephen Pickering

Croquet - Kevin Marks

Rounders - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Nick Halstead

hes Nick - Kevin Marks

CROQUET !!! - Rocky Barbanica

hee hee nick - Kevin Marks

Predict THIS - Rocky's running for Pacifica City Counsel 2012 - Rocky Barbanica

Robert, if you live in Half Moon Bay the view looks better than anything that would be on TV anyway. :-) But seriously, I think the percentage of cable use should be lower given the signal available to a lot of people now. - Bruce Lewis

ROCKY LANDSLIDE! - Bruce Lewis

HEH - LANDSLIDE isn't a very good Coastline platform - especially in Pacifica ! :-) - Rocky Barbanica

Have you read Interface by Neal Stephenson? - Kevin Marks

I think Reich is on to something with a Biden/Clinton swap on the Democratic side - Ken Sheppardson

I'm campaigning for Rocky! - Tina Chase Gillmor

Yeehaw! I GOT this, now - !!! - Rocky Barbanica

It's like waking up and realizing you've been sold a lie all your life that we are the most special country and we run it on real principles, and we have a real democracy. At least these tools allowed us to wake up and see how fake the so called 'establishment' really are - Stephen Pickering

Borthwick keeps sinking into the floor - Tina Chase Gillmor

Isn't robert talking about the US economy conversion from manufacturing to an information/service economy ?? - studentforce

much like in the 1920's when we converted from agriculture to manufacturing ??? - studentforce

There is really no one talking for, or representing the 99% of the population. - Kevin Costain

studentforce: yes. - Robert Scoble

Kevin: and that's the power they had. Not sure they really used it well. - Robert Scoble

I think the OWS activities were just a starting point.. that is probably a sign of things to come.. I wonder if we'll see a full-scale revolt somehow. or even if that is possible.. ? - Kevin Costain

That would be 'crony' capitalism or in Russia Oligarchy? - Stephen Pickering

Robert Scoble: what's unfortunate is that each 'conversion' or migration caused MAJOR economic upheaval. - studentforce

The Black Bloc is also the darker side of all this stuff.... I don't know what it all means.. :( - Kevin Costain

Godaddy testified to congress in favor of SOPA. When they testify against I'll be satisfied. Blog posts don't cut it. - Bruce Lewis

Scoble on Reuters - Tech Trends for 2012 - http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Rocky Barbanica

Friday at 9 or Friday at 1pm better? - Tina Chase Gillmor

...for this show - Tina Chase Gillmor

Stephen: are they both really that different (just a matter of timing), no? - Kevin Costain

Kevin You're right, I think. They are the same, just different names in American and Russia. - Stephen Pickering

Kevin is a British spy. Just figured that out. - Tina Chase Gillmor

radicals! - Tina Chase Gillmor

Giving the number of millionaires and people in power - it's clear that those with most of the money are likely to hold most of the power. They are few. - Kevin Costain

LOL - Rocky Barbanica

http://www.wired.com/threatl... - Kevin Marks

haha.. Bond, James Bond.. :) - Kevin Costain

personalities are not leaders. Social media is the leader - Tina Chase Gillmor

there was a chap a College called Kingsmill La Touche Godfrey Bond - best spy name ever - Kevin Marks

the meme is the leader - Kevin Marks

the Guy Fawkes mask is the leader - Kevin Marks

You can look at it as "no leader" or look at it as more people exercising leadership skills -- the Yosemite trip being a good example. - Bruce Lewis

"A penny for the old Guy." - Stephen Pickering

Perhaps whatever is in FRONT of the masses, is the leader. It could be anything really, no? - Kevin Costain

Kevin, no, no, no, the whole meme is getting away from the power of the Lowest Common Denominator - Stephen Pickering

I think eventually we'll see the rise of fake people leading masses (like that fake pop star in Japan).. humans created virtually to lead the masses.. - Kevin Costain

yes Stephen: "TV is not vulgar and prurient and dumb because the people who compose the audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests." - David Foster Wallace - Kevin Marks

Wow, Kevin Marks, love that quote - Stephen Pickering

"Just because something is dead, doesn't mean it's gone" <--- funny :) - Kevin Costain

it's from E Unibus Pluram, his essay on TV which is well worth reading in full - Kevin Marks

Yeah, I definitely will. Thanks - Stephen Pickering

Email is dead. Long live email? - Tina Chase Gillmor

Having set up filtering, Scobleizer will spend less time in email but get more value from it. - Bruce Lewis

Email is most definitely NOT dead. Normal people are still learning how to use it. - Kevin Costain

I lost Borthwick! - Tina Chase Gillmor

The only way I know how to get ahold of anyone directly is via email. Every other method is like waving frantically at someone while they are speeding away and their windows are tinted. - Todd Hoff

Email's just as dead as paper. - Ken Sheppardson

Ken: Right, and NOBODY uses that ancient technology anymore. - Kevin Costain

Exactly - Ken Sheppardson

please help me get this out there http://www.creativeartscharter.org/news... - Tina Chase Gillmor

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE !!! - Rocky Barbanica

Thanks everyone.. Have a happy and safe New Year... see you all next year! - Kevin Costain

gzunt tite !! (sp?) - studentforce

Thanks, Happy New Year! - Robert Scoble

The ending sneeze - perfect! - Rocky Barbanica

Last sneeze of 2011! - Tina Chase Gillmor

Thanks to everyone... always...for the whole year! - Tina Chase Gillmor

Que Sarah Sarah

do anybody no why there is a little number 1 on my Chrome Icon in the dock?

November 19 - Comment - Like - Share

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One degree of separation from Larry and Sergey. - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

It means you have a download in progress - Ken Sheppardson

Ah, except I don't. Thanks Ken. Maybe restarting it will clear it... - Que Sarah Sarah

Derrick

*dead* RT @emokidsloveme: The 4th comment is just amazing. Who puts that much thought into a comment? http://bit.ly/sg9dcE

November 19 from Advanced Tweets - Comment - Like - Share

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Do not mock the Triple Lunar Goddess Theory, Derrick. - Que Sarah Sarah

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Good Lord. - LB shining

>.< - Penguin

I need to bookmark this for whenever I'm feeling blue. - Derrick

Ah ha ha! So much sparkle. - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

Pfftt. All just derivative of Buffy/Angel/Spike. Although not as much so as True Blood - Ken Sheppardson

Ok. - Derrick

Have you seen the pic going around the webz saying "I'm glad I grew up on Buffy, not Bella". Hilarious. And oh so true. I likes my heroines sassy and tough! - Louise Alcorn

So as long as there are 2 dude and a lady, the story follows the same archetype? I'm so about to write a best seller! - <3Heather<3

Ken Sheppardson to Ken's feed, Johnny

"We are very sad to announce that LEGO Universe will be closing on Janurary 31, 2012. This was a very difficult decision to make, but unfortunately LEGO Universe has not been able to attract the number of members needed to keep the game open. " -- http://universe.lego.com/en-us...

November 8 - Comment - Like - Share

This will not stand, ya know? - Ken Sheppardson

Alas... it was always destined to be a tough sell... to much WoW and not enough Minecraft - Johnny

Yeah, it's a shame to see the premise go to waste. I wish they could've done something more Star Wars/Indiana Jones/Batman like and less ... well... smashing stuff for hours on end. - Ken Sheppardson

Micah

Every time you hear the kids say of someone not trying, "he just dialed it in" and you realize they've never used a rotary phone.

October 24 from FFHound(roid)! - Comment - Like - Share

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I still think that saying applies to regular phones with buttons no? - Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart

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Or, "he just mailed it in." You know they've never used post before. - chrisofspades

He just smoke-signaled it in. - Morton Fox

Zulema, yes, but they didn't actually use a dial, unless it was an app. Phoning it in would be better. ;) - Jimminy, CoG of FF

I've still got some radios that have to be 'dialed in', [edit: though we say 'tuned in', weird]. ;) - Jimminy, CoG of FF

I can't recall ever hearing somebody say it that way. I'm use to "phoned it in". Maybe it's regional. I've heard "dialed it in" or "dialed in" used to mean got everything just right, as in turning in a radio station... but I guess yeah, that's obsolete too... - Ken Sheppardson

I, like Zulema, think they both still apply. The point of the quip is that the person did not show up, focus fully, give it their all, etc. They merely sent along information much as one would do in a phone call, letter, or email. /smarty pants rant - Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™ from Android

I just Siri'd it in. - Tinfoil 2.0

PS: 'Twas referring to phone it in. I agree with Ken on the use of dialed it in. - Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™ from Android

Nice, LogEx. :) - Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™ from Android

well if we can say "..here the kids" , then they have a right to " just dialed it in" :)- - Peter Dawson

.....jus saying .. LOL - Peter Dawson

I just FriendFeeded it in yesterday, folks. Not sorry. - Stephen Mack

No (The Next) generation escapes homophonic typos, Peter, no won. - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

Now I want wontons. - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

I just capacitanced-touched in this comment. - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

Mailed it in? or Dialed in? - The original Kevin

Ponied it in, if you want to go old school mail. - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

Pwned it in? (MMOG) - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

^Morton Fox beat you with smoke signaled I think. :) - Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart

Now that I think about it, butt-dialed seems impossible now. - Rodfather

Rod, what about rotary butts? - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

Like a merry-go-round? - Rodfather

I keep a Western Electric phone in my oversized back pocket just so I can truly butt dial for the hipster cred. - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

Dang, that must take some working of the hips. - Slippy

never heard this vernacular. every time in the last 40 years that i've heard someone "dialled it in" it was in reference to them fine-tuning something, zeroing in on detail or totally nailing something difficult. unoriginal neologisms perpetrated by the culturally ignorant are confusing at best. - Joe The Sausage

I think it still applies though, Joe. It used to be a matter of setting all the dials "just so", whereas it's more of a "push button to autotune" kind of world these days. - Slippy

@Slippy: ever used Autotune? it involves knobs. even if it's the software version. - Joe The Sausage

but no, it totally doesn't apply. - Joe The Sausage

Pardon me. ..."push button to perform automated scan" kind of world... - Slippy

you're making excuses now. :P - Joe The Sausage

merely an error in vernacular, my good sir. - Slippy

perhaps, but when you dial something in you are not doing it the easy way. there's the error. - Joe The Sausage

Autotune is the new breathing helium, that's all. - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

Accepted. Now seeing the error in the OP itself. "Dialling it in" in that context is not a thing. "Dialling it in" as regards "fine tuning" is definitely a thing, I was confuserating the two. - Slippy

@Micah: far worse. it's made formerly excellent singers and instrumentalists LAZY. fscking play it right or toss in the towel! - Joe The Sausage

"confuserating"? *ENGULFED IN PHLEGM* - Joe The Sausage

My work here is done. - Slippy

AMEN, Joe! *fistbump* - Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™ from Android

Jesse Stay

Finally, Google Voice Natively On The iPhone, Via Sprint. - http://uncrunched.com/2011...

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I'm not sure I understand Mike's frustration. I just replace the phone app in my dock with Google Voice, and use that to make calls instead. Then, I only give out my Google Voice number and voila - all Google Voice. Of course, it uses the phone system to make those calls (vs. data), but I'm not sure Sprint is using data either. - Jesse Stay

Sprint's not using data, they just transparently change your phone number on the back end so your device's phone number becomes your Google Voice number. I've been using this setup for a few months now (on my Palm Pre) and the advantage is you get to use all the phone's native features... phone, contacts, sms... rather than a Google app. BTW, IMHO Google apps on anything other than Android are a joke in terms of functionality/usability. - Ken Sheppardson

Micah

You have $750,000 dollars CASH and you have to spend it all in 2 hours? What do you do?

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(can't keep it and use a credit card—the physical legal tender must be out of your possession/ownership in 120 minutes). - Micah

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Can I buy gift cards, traveler's checks, gold, or other reasonably liquid commodities? - Tinfoil 2.0

Is this like Brewster's Millions, do I get more money if I succeed or do I get stuck with whatever I spent $750K on? - SAM

LogEx, if you can physically get the cash to the entity taking it in exchange for the items you listed, then yes. - Micah

SAM, that's an unknown in this. - Micah

Donation aside, any single large purchase (house, vehicle, etc.) takes too long, so I'd swap the cash into gold or some other cash-equivalent to buy time to make better decisions. - Tinfoil 2.0

What happens if I don't spend it all in 2 hours? - SAM

Deposit it in my savings account? - <3Heather<3

SAM, it vanishes. - Micah

Mac-tan, that's not spending it, though, is it? - Micah

Sorry, one more... is it cash... or could I spend it online as well? - SAM

SAM, only if you also transfer the actual cash in hand to the party on the other end. - Micah

Sorry, I started thinking too hard and forgot what I was doing. Can I give it to other people, at least partially? - <3Heather<3

Take what I need to fund the web series/pay cast and crew, buy a cute dress from ModCloth, a Pashley Princess, and a pair of Louboutins. Then donate the rest. EDIT: I guess not buy the dress because that's online...not sure if I can buy the bicycle locally. - joey

Mac-tan, spend it by gifting it to someone(s), yes that's acceptable. - Micah

joey, ok, but remember you have to physically get the cash to all the destinations in 2 hours. - Micah

A sailboat (500k). A never-gonna-be-street-legal-fast car (250k). ETA-yes I could find both things within 30 miles. But maybe the car would be legal now... So 200k then I'd take 50k to Cartier, LV, and Tiffanys. Tada!! All spent. - Lnorigb from FFHound!

My plan? See: Brewster's Millions. - Eric

US currency? What size bills? Can donations count... cause really getting through any high dollar transaction in that amount of time is fairly prohibitive, especially since I'd have to drive an hour to get anywhere worth spending it. Even then, just counting that high would take a long time. I'd give it to Al. - SAM

Pre-pay all the musicians and a studio to make another album. Buy a Traipsemobile like my friend has http://traipsathon.com/2010... http://sportsmobile.com/2_rb-12... - Spidra Webster

I wouldn't even want to make a rush decision on donations. Plenty of places want your cash that don't deserve it. So I'm sticking with my answer. - Tinfoil 2.0

If you can get to the charity, and they take cash and can accept it and receipt you all in 2 hours, then yes. - Micah

Sam, all in Hundreds. - Micah

There's some serious money laundering bureaucracy in the US with handling large cash amounts. That puts a damper on being able to unload large chunks of cash at any one place. - Tinfoil 2.0

Go find an art gallery and buy several moderately priced pieces. This assumes I'm in a market that would have such a gallery. Art is a relatively safe asset, that could be quickly gathered. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

Micah, my crew and cast are all local so I can meet them quickly and I can hit a fancy store for the shoes. ;) Then I can meet a few friends who need financial assistance or drive to a hospital to donate for uncompensated care fund or take it to the Gates Foundation or something. Just don't give me the money when the 520 bridge is closed ;) - joey

Sam 750K in 100s weights about 16-17 lbs. - Micah

Al can heft that. We're all good. :) - SAM

joey, sounds like a plan. :) - Micah

LogEx, that's a good point. Large sums of cash is suspect in the majority of places you can spend it—especially in a short period of time. - Micah

I remember $2000 and $10,000 of cash being thresholds for certain actions in certain circumstances. - Tinfoil 2.0

Yep... what LogEx says. To actually get free and clear of that amount of dough in that amount of time... you can't spend hardly any time making legitimate retail purchases. - SAM

A friend in the Fraser Valley, BC (a big agri-business industry there) told me about a farmer in town who locally famous for buying virtually everything in cash. Apparently he would even purchase heavy farm equipment in cold hard cash—you know how much a combine goes for? :) - Micah

$10,000 transactions all have to be reported to the IRS I think. - SAM

Hehehe... combines are pricey! That's gotta be fun. What's the most amount of cash you've ever seen? - SAM

I'd buy a scarf from my wife. She could then deposit the money in our shared account. - Jemm

SAM, hmm. I'm not sure. However, I've been to the San Francisco Mint and remember seeing the stack of gold bricks there. It's the first photograph I took as a kid, which I have a distinct memory of anyway, with my own camera. Blew a 1/4 of a cube flash on that business. :) - Micah

Jemm, very practical. That scarf would then carry a heavy symbolic weight I'd imagine. - Micah

Micah, you said we had to spend the money, doesn't mean the transaction has to be completed in that period does it? Just so long as the asset is no longer in our possession, yes? That way you could theoretically leave all the cash with the seller of the assets your purchasing to vouch and process for tax purposes. Obviously, you would want a contract that discloses the transfers of your assets to their handling during the interim. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

In the near future we can read about a heist done by "a smart man from the internets" who managed to rob $750k and spend it all before getting caught. Nobody knows what happened to all that money. In unrelated news, FriendFeed got bought from Facebook by an anonymous individual. Zuckerberg comments: "We already got what we wanted, so we could sell it cheaper than what we paid for it". - Jemm

Since I'm not attached, I'd give $745,000 to my mom, hand out bills to folks that I pass on the way to a nice restaurant. Buy everyone there dinner, and leave the rest as tip. - The Amber

Jimminy, write up the contract and seal the deal in 2 hours and you're good. - Micah

Then I think I would give half of it to my parents (who would drive out to me for $375k), $250k to Chris, $50k each to Chris's parents and his sister. I would give $10k to the horse rescue in town and $10k to the new local farmer's market. There would be 3 grocery store gift cards, then the mall (about 20 minutes away), I would get 2 expensive AC Moore cards, 3 expensive B&N cards, a Sephora card (Hello Kitty make up!), and hand out the rest to strangers. - <3Heather<3

Jemm, I might just frame that and put in on wall. :))) - Micah

Amber, we're we eating out? :) - Micah

To spend? 2 hours is tough. A house? - Rodfather

Mac-tan, if the same stranger was hit-up by you and The Amber—what a day! - Micah

Rodfather, hope you're tight with a Real Estate agent friend. - Micah

Depends on which 2 hours, too! If you give it to someone at 11pm, they're going to find few places they can spend it that aren't hotels, motels, strip clubs, bars or restaurants. - Spidra Webster

Pay off my house. Buy a new car. Am I allowed to book & pay for home renovations or is that cheating? - ☆ Mellyboo ☆ from fftogo

Melly, you have to convey the actual cash to the transaction parties. In 2 hours. - Micah

Spidra, let's say Noon-2pm on a Wed. - Micah

Buy some stock and the drop top R8 on the floor at the Audi dealership near us. $180K. - tiffany from Android

tiffany, have you bought stock in cash before? - Micah

Or maybe a piece of art that's worth more, if I had connections with art collectors. - Rodfather

I've never seen an art retailer make sudden moves. It's more slow motion. Seriously. - Micah

Hm. I wonder if anything at a pawn shop is worth that much. - Rodfather

Rodfather, I'd doubt it. Either the insurance or feeding the rottweilers would be too expensive. Maybe the odd occasion a shop lands a large item they can move quickly though. - Micah

I guess I'd buy illegal drugs then. - Rodfather

Oh, I need a clothing store gift card in there, and maybe a shoe store too. I need clothes! - <3Heather<3

Pay for everyone's purchases at a CostCo/Sam's/etc. on an weeekend. - caj needs a haircut

caj, honestly, I don't know what I'd do with someone approaching with a fat wad of money. - Micah

I'm wondering who would be willing to take on that much in cash. A casino? - Rodfather

Casino - good one. What about Jenny R? - Micah

No, but I have bought stock with money from my checking account. I assume I would be able to deposit this hypothetical cash into a brokerage account and buy five shares of berkshire hathaway or something. Or maybe I would just buy several R8s. - tiffany from Android

tiffany - gotcha. Just remember to give the bank/credit union enough time to process (verify?) 7,500 one-hundred dollar bills when you deposit. :) - Micah

I'll bet it all on the Cubs to win the World Series. - Rodfather

++Rod - Micah

I'd go to the two in-town mega-bookstore and buy out their entire children's, youth, and juvenile collections. I'd donate the books to local schools (for their libraries and to individual students at the low income sites). If only the money has to be spent in two hours I'd do the book donations later and use the spare time to buy a hybrid car for myself. - Soup in a TARDIS

Soup, now I'm wondering what the children's-to-juvenile stock in a big bookstore total up to. Hm. - Micah

I'd buy Uranium. - deerstep

@Micah, Give me $750K and I'll let you know. - Soup in a TARDIS

Like a couple others here, I'd head on down to a nearby bank and buy $750K worth of as-liquid-as-possible assets. - Andrew C (✓)

Is it possible to buy a house in two hours? If not, I'd head to the Ferrari dealership and buy a few cars. Can always sell them later? - TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC

Adrian, only if you give me a ride in one first. - Micah

It really depends how fast the 3rd party can respond to take that much cash within 2 hours. If personal transactions count, I could buy a pencil from my brother for that much. - Rodfather

Rodfather, but then bro could turn around and bet it on whoever's playing the Cubs. :D - Micah

Haha - Rodfather

Rodfather's the only one who liked this post. He gets $7.50. Hit me with a paypal address, Rod. - Micah

rodneytaoATgmailDOTcom - Rodfather

LOL - Jimminy, CoG of FF

✓ Micah, you have sent $7.50 USD to Rodney Tao. - Micah

I only liked it for the check-mark. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

Pay my debts, pay my husband's debts, buy a car, purchase a couple of trips, get settings in place to record my next album(s), get settings in place to do some videos, get a LOT of books and CDs, then donate the rest. It can be done it two hours. :) - Cristal Blue Persuasion

I'd find three houses on sale for 700K and offer 750k if they can get under contract within an hour with the first willing seller, and I'd bring the cash to the escrow company, who would have less problem with cash since they'd have 30 days to validate it. Then I'd sell the house. - Kevin Fox

Aw, Kevin. What about your awesome neighbors? - Spidra Webster

I would pay my wife $750,000 for a kiss. - Johnny

Isn't the standard answer hookers and blow? :) - Ken Gidley

Spidra, they already have a house! - Kevin Fox

*scratches head* Are you living in a tent, Kevin? - Spidra Webster

Catch a cab up to Union Square. First stop: Tiffany & Co. Second stop: Wells Fargo around the block for a new safe deposit box. Certainly helps to live in the city. Whew. [On second thought, Cartier's a block down from Tiffany, so I might stop there if I have any change left from Tiffany on the walk over to Wells Fargo] - Ken Sheppardson

Buy a house fill it with appliances. If there's any left, down-payment on a car or two. - Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart

A friend recently tried to buy a car with cash. I recently bought a house -- cash would not have been accepted as payment (or maybe not without a long delay)- I actually asked the real estate agent handling the deal. No go to both -- I suspect it would be impossible to spend that much cash in 2 hours. - Brian Sullivan

I would buy a big diamond /rock.. 10c rock :)-..yeah now that Kim K is having issues.. maybe a 10c rock wil convince her to swing my way !! LOL - Peter Dawson

Buy a house. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

Yeah, actually, given the rules of the question, I'd go to the most expensive jewelry store in town and buy investment grade diamonds. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

Jewelry store (for things to re-sell) or travel agency to book and pay for travel everywhere I want - both if there's time. - Lix

Do you even have to ask? I'd go to the Apple Store, max out one of each device. That should leave me with $50,000. I call up Blake Lively and tell her to give me an estimate. BAM. - Mike Nayyar

can I get that in ones please! - Jason

I'd give it all to my mom, so she could buy us a couple houses, & pay off my brother & sis-in-law's house. - Starmama from FFHound(roid)!

Buy a house and anything left over would go to furnishings - Just Katie

Give it to the government as a charitable donation to use in their highly efficient welfare system to help those in need. ;) - Mark Christiansen

Spidra, like I said, I'd buy the house then sell it. To me, ths is all a question of how to quickly launder 750k in cash, rather than how to spend a whole lot of money fast. - Kevin Fox

But the question is spending it in 2 hours. I wonder how the answers would change if this was added to the end of the original post: 'Or else the world will blow up.' - Rodfather

Pay off my mortgage. Buy an open-ended, around the world plane ticket. Buy lunch for all the crack heads in my work neighborhood. - The original Kevin

I'd buy a seat in the British Parliament. (of course I can't but I can dream) - Jeunelle Foster

I would head to the local Maserati dealer and buy two or three new sleds. - Julian

go to financial aid, pay off loans. book a trip to Europe for my friends and myself. - Marissa

I like big Botts to I's feed, Baseball

Now that the Astros have guaranteed themselves the first draft pick, they need to seriously think about whether the Phillies will need a pitcher or a strong outfielder in 3-4 years' time.

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They should draft a DH for their inevitable move to the AL. - Louis Gray

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Yeah, that shouldn't be allowed. I'm still not used to the Brewers in the NL - Ken Sheppardson

Silly Louis, you don't *draft* a DH. The DH is a washed-up ex-outfielder with bad knees who can still hit. - I like big Botts

Houston has a team. Huh, never would have guessed.... - MoTO Bott

It's a farm team for Philadelphia - I like big Botts

I like big Botts

I would like to take this opportunity to announce that I am not going to run for President of the United States in 2012.

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I would like to take this opportunity to announce that I am not going to vote for you for President of the United States in 2012. - Kristin

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*takes down 'Glen for President' campaign sign* - Michelle M

#dayum bruh... just rip my heart out - MoTO Bott

I think I'll start a write-in campaign. - ellbeecee

What about all the work I put organizing support for you on the off chance you had decided to run? - Jason (not an Argonaut) from Android

Similarly, I'm choosing not to run. I feel can be more effective in my current role and say the things that need to be said. As opposed to, like, if I were President of the United States of America. - Ken Sheppardson

#GlenMode Deactivated - Johnny from iPhone

Damn, I keep looking for the +1 for the comments, some of these are so funny! - Jorge Escobar

+1 Jorge. - Louis Gray

Well then, my vote goes to Hanging Chad. - Micah

I am taking the opportunity to announce that I will not run as running mate for anyone announcing that they will not run for office of President of the United States of America. That is all. :) - Angel R. Rivera

Jimminy, CoG of FF

Netflix to become streaming-only. Physical media to be handled by, I assume, subsidiary Qwikster, introduce video game rentals. - http://blog.netflix.com/2011...

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"So we realized that streaming and DVD by mail are becoming two quite different businesses, with very different cost structures, different benefits that need to be marketed differently, and we need to let each grow and operate independently. It’s hard for me to write this after over 10 years of mailing DVDs with pride, but we think it is necessary and best: In a few weeks, we will rename our DVD by mail service to “Qwikster”. We chose the name Qwikster because it refers to quick delivery. We will keep the name “Netflix” for streaming." - Jimminy, CoG of FF from Bookmarklet

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I guess nobody on FF still uses Netflix after the pricing changes. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

you would be mistaken. - holly #ravingfangirl

We dropped, not out of protest or anything, it just didn't make sense for us anymore. This is a very strange decision. The whole international/US thing doesn't make sense. As a consumer of video I want to watch video, the source of that video doesn't matter, so categorizing by source is exactly backwards. - Todd Hoff

I dropped the combo, intending to ping-pong between streaming and DVDs depending on my wants for any given month. - Tinfoil 2.0

Todd, it may not be the right org for a company (though the content suppliers certainly distinguish), but I much prefer Blu-ray to streaming given the superior quality. Of course the trade-off is spontaneity. - Tinfoil 2.0

I think the separation isn't the most well thought out thing. Change of branding? Ok, fine. Changing the services value proposition, by creating two completely separate business? Not really. You just doubled a few peoples accounting issues, as well as separated your ranking systems, which is where you shine. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

So many people are going to be upset that they can't move titles from streaming queue to by-mail queue. Seems like they'll have to solve that right away. - Nathan Chase

If I was them I would separate queues, but would have left ratings and payments to be handled by a shared back-end. Then having a service back-end that handled queues, and in the case of Qwikster videogames, then the services could be hooked with relevant API's, where appropriate. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

One thing separation does solve? It won't be called "Netflix Watch Instantly" or "Instant Watch" any more. It'll just be "on Netflix". - Nathan Chase

Yeah, he's said something similar, but he seems to be ignoring the fact that you can have multiple front-ends for the service. From what I can tell it seems he wants the back-ends to be completely disconnected as well. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

I would like Netflix. - Johnny from iPhone

The idea that I'm going to need to search two different places to find out the availability of a movie when my money is going to one place is really frustrating to me. I don't want to do more work for something optional in my life. There are three people with distinct tastes here in my house and this makes things a PITA, logistically speaking. "Mom, can I see X?" is going to become a question I don't want to hear. - Fikisha

As someone who doesn't have a Netflix, let alone a Netflix streaming option, I can see the benefits of having two separate entities. For the longest time the major hindrance to getting things like Netflix streaming type services is that the contracts signed limited the streaming content to the same restrictions as the physical media. If I can't buy or rent that DVD from the US, I also... more... - Johnny

Well, I'm not really sure whether I'll continue my subscription to either. The handling of the price increase announcement was frustrating, but I could deal with it. The UI redesign makes browsing for new titles/recommendations feel much more difficult than it used to be. A rapid decline in quality has made Netflix streaming almost impossible to watch in the past few weeks but I was... more... - joey

Qwikster is a ridiculous name - Joe "Brrzzzzzzt" Pierce

Qwikster is to close to Quixtar which was Amway's online service... not a good name. - CW✔

I honestly immediately thought of Flixter. Warner Bros. beat them to the punch. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

:( - chaz2b

*sigh* Just read my email, but was too frustrated to bother with the blog post. Ugh. I was always okay with the separate cost for each service, but completely separate entities (& especially queues) seems SO unnecessary. It feels like they're placating us with overly-personal explanations. I don't trust it; it feels as though we're not getting the whole truth, not to mention the whole benefit of what their product used to offer. Makes me sad... :( - Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™ from Android

I already manage two accounts: Netflix for back catalog streaming and DVDs of first run films and vudu for first run films when I don't want to wait for a DVD. I'm not going to manage *three* accounts. Time to just cancel Netflix altogether and move to all-in to vudu. - Ken Sheppardson

Louis Gray

I’m Leaving TechCrunch. Here’s Why. - http://techcrunch.com/2011...

September 16 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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Paul Carr goes nuclear. Bring popcorn. - Louis Gray

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Paul Carr can go where ever the hell he wants. He lives in hotels for crying out loud. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

"utterly devoid of hap" is a nice turn of phrase, though. - Laura Norvig

Love that he makes much of the betrayal of Mike and Heather, but the better candidate who loses out due to maternity leave gets short shrift. - Jennifer Dittrich

^ This. - Friar Will (:^)

A little confused. When you sell you lose all control. What did they expect? - Todd Hoff

That the rules of business, like the rules of journalism, didn't apply to them. - The original Kevin

I suspect Arrington expected to retire. He's done so pretty ingeniously. Seems like right now the fate of TC's up to MG. - Ken Sheppardson

Good riddance mutherfucker, save Huffington from taking out more trash - The Real sofarsoShawn

Shawn, she's losing all the people worth a damn, and ending up with only the trash left. There's only 3 people left worth a damn, MG, Sarah, and Alexia. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

That's why these kind of acquisitions are puzzling. They are based on the people which tend to move on. - Todd Hoff

Well, based on the fact the acquiring company doesn't actually *realize* it's about people. Sort of an old media view, where they're buying up the TechCrunch "audience", "brand", etc. - Ken Sheppardson

Then shame on Arrington for selling to them in the first place. I see a lot of similarities between this and the whole Crunchpad fiasco. Mike makes a bad choice and acts all surprised when it doesn't work out. - The original Kevin

Schonfeld just tweeted this: "I accept your resignation @paulcarr. Nice timing to post that while I am on a plane. You are a misinformed coward." These guys are worse than a bunch of teenage girls. - The original Kevin

Good grief! It's kind of like reading Failbook statuses. - vicster

I presume this is all a stunt to increase page views. - Stephen Mack from iPhone

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. - Ken Sheppardson

Agree with Ken. Stephen, the only piece remotely suspicious is the Friday timing, But this is dirty laundry airing in public. Nobody is clean. - Louis Gray

Meh - WoH: Minding her Steves

There are people that care about this? - I like big Botts from iPhone

This means nothing to me. I mean literally, I know nothing of this whole shemozzle. Should I? - Pete

These guys should go into politics, they're a bunch of exceptionalist, petulant children. - Rene, Pro Button Pusher

This was better than a reality show Haha - Shevonne

Is it just me of does TechCrunch (and the people involved) come off like a high school newspaper? - Johnny

You guys follow TechCrunch enough to know who writes for them? - Rodfather

lol, #thisthread - Derrick

I stopped buying TechCrunch when I realized what the whole cereal aisle was really about. - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

Micah. - Yolanda from Android

Micah wins. - Vicarbott

AJ Batac :)

LOL dude. What's the other one for? - http://9gag.com/gag...

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The others are for nighttime wear. - Yolanda

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LOL - AJ Batac :)

I want to be this guy when I grow up. - Hookuh Tinypants

Bright sunlight and uh...dang. I got nothing. - caj needs a haircut

Just in case someone punches him in the face for being a douche and breaks the pair he's wearing? - Victor Ganata

Reminds me of that picture of a guy watching a baseball game (!) wearing his baseball cap backwards and shading his eyes with his hands. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

Trying to be double cool totally cancels it out. - SAM

Victor++ - Janet-The Bottley Crue

kaslar beyne ters etki yapmış - el-İlah v5 Upgraded

naw naw.. the one on is meant to see the shewolves ..the other is to see the vampires - Peter Dawson

Keep bugging him and he'll add a pair on top of his head. - Josh Haley

He's probably friends with this guy - http://failblog.org/2009... - Ken Sheppardson

Johnny

Awesomeness: finally finding a copy of a concert photography documentary online. The suck: Only on Amazon... and only inside the US...

August 28 from iPhone - Comment - Like - Share

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Dear Amazon/Publishers. I have $20 to give you... Please let me give it to you... Shit, my dollar is worth more than yours... - Johnny from iPhone

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Ridiculous. - Marty

I would get it and resend it to you, but Melly can tell you how freaking long it took me to do that last time. - joey

The thing is, it's only on Instant Watch - Johnny from iPhone

Ohhh no. What is it called? - joey

Rock Prophecies - Johnny from iPhone

http://www.shoprockprophecies.com/SearchR... ? - Ken Sheppardson

Ah... but only ships to US/Canada. Hm. - Ken Sheppardson

Johnny

Straight from the camera. Untouched. My camera and I have assimilated :)

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Beautiful, Johnny - Just Katie

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And this is just some of 160. It's 2am but I got to do these now or I'll never sleep - Johnny

Nice. Which lens did you use? - Rodfather

You are so incredibly talented, Johnny. Love these. - Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™

50mm 1.8 on a D7000 - Johnny

Interesting the crop factor is 1.5x. I assumed all the APS-C sensors are the same size. - Rodfather

Nice, Johnny. Are those at f1.8? What's the D7000 pushing the ISO to? - Ken Sheppardson

I skipped between f1.8 to 2.2. ISO was 1600 to 2500. - Johnny from iPhone

Niiiiiiiice! You gotta love a prime lens... - JA Castillo

Yeah, that's nice. You can barely tell there's motion blur. - Rodfather

nice work - just ZONED

These make me look at my camera (same), my lens (same), and want to weep for my own suckitude *grin* wonderful work, Johnny. - Michael W. May

Damn! Nice pics - Shevonne

Brilliant. - The Fat Oracle

Well-done, Johnny! - Harold Cabezas

Kevin Fox

Hey Google+, maybe you should stop suspending accounts while you work on your solution. What's next, demanding Obama's birth certificate?

August 21 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Louis Gray is gonna yell at you - Johnny from iPhone

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s'okay. He's just doing his job. :-) - Kevin Fox

Kevin that makes too much sense. Why are you being so mean to G+? - CW✔

Violet Blue got her account cancelled yesterday because of Google's real names policy. That's like deleting Mark Twain because he's actually Samuel Clemens. Goog knows there are serious problems with its enforcement of policy so they really need to stop causing more damage while they work on their solution. - Kevin Fox

Again? For a tech company they seem to ignore accounts they already cleared. Its turning into a big cluster fuck situation. I"m sad to see it happen. - CW✔

I know Thomas Hawk's very vocal about how great G+ is for photographers, but I haven't heard him weigh in on the real names policy. Has anyone else? - Ken Sheppardson

Here we go... "G+ doesn’t require you to use your legal birth certificate name, just your real name. Thomas Hawk to that end is very much my real name. I’ve been public for years now. I’ve got credit cards in my name with banks, verified accounts on both Google and Twitter with my name. It’s my only name on Facebook where all my real life friends and family know me." -- http://thomashawk.com/2011... - Ken Sheppardson

I wonder where G+ actually draws the line. - Ken Sheppardson

Not so much a line, but a curve depending on who is on what side and if they are a famous person. - CW✔

No place consistent. People with lots of followers like Thomas Hawk get taken at their word. Whereas people who use their pseuds much as Thomas Hawk do but aren't as well known get axed. I'm surprised Violet Blue was suspended because she also has a large audience. Perhaps Google is feeling needled by the faction of people who are pointing out how unjustly the policy is being applied. I suppose I'll lose my account there again soon. I've already backed up but I should probably back up again. - Spidra Webster

There is a group of people (One was a Google Contractor) on G+ going around reporting profiles that are "not community standard names." Its been posted about in the Nym circles. If I find it I will post a link. - CW✔

BTW I love how this account is still live. https://plus.google.com/u... - CW✔

I just noticed Thomas has a little "Verified Name" checkmark on his profile. Neat. - Ken Sheppardson

In a similar spirit, I've decided to add a checkmark to my FF username. - Andrew C (✓)

I have no ill will towards Thomas, but to have a "verified" pseudo under a "real"-ish-sounding name policy, when other long-term-persistent and well-behaved pseudos are getting the axe is just wrong on Google's part. - Tinfoil 2.0

It don't think there is a single rule that can be written that would meet their objectives and also be fair to all users. They need to think through and state the over all community standards - what is the objective? What kind of environment are we trying to create? - Laura Norvig from iPod

Fiiiiiiight!!!!! - Eric

I would not yell at Kevin. He's my BFF. - Louis Gray

For what it's worth, tomorrow I start orientation, and I'm not official by any means. I'm seeing the real names debate and hope to see what the deal is and if they can at the very least communicate better soon. - Louis Gray

*reports News Breaker* - Joe The Sausage

"Hilarious. Google won't let him use "Bunny Hero" so he comes up with the fake name "b hiro," which Google then verifies. How's that policy workin' for ya now, Google?" https://plus.google.com/u... - CW✔

Love this, RT'ing - The Real sofarsoShawn

Also RT'd it. This legal-names policy is not only inconsistent, it's increasingly insane. And I'm hearing Gundotra's all but written it in stone, as if G+ were FB or an intranet (which G+ started as, BTW). Oh, and do you see any significance in the fact that Violet Blue is a *sex* blogger? I sure as hell do... - Dennis Jernberg

Yeah Vic is not going to let it go. Not sure if there is a real reason or if he just can't admit that the policy is a screw up. - CW✔

It's certainly one of his pet policies. Oh, and I won't be surprised if they *do* demand Obama's birth certificate. And reject it as invalid... - Dennis Jernberg

Kevin Fox

At $99 I'd buy an HP Touchpad and decide what to do with it later. http://t.co/Vx4c8T8

August 19 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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This is just yet another incredibly boneheaded move by HP. As much as they insist webOS isn't dead and might be sold or licensed, this fire sale means that devices that could've gone to existing, dedicated webOS developers and hackers are now going to end up in junk drawers and as dedicated Angry Birds devices. - Ken Sheppardson

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+1 Ken - .LAG liked that

On the plus side, Angry Birds is awesome. - Mike Nayyar

Well, yeah. - Ken Sheppardson

Where can I get one? - Amit Patel

I haven't been able to find it anywhere for $99. http://slickdeals.net/forums... - Rodfather

Yeah, most places at $99 have sold out. One place (Staples? Office Max? I forget) had it for $129. - Kevin Fox

Office Depot had the 16GB for $129 and the 32GB for $149. They're sold out online. - Ken Sheppardson

swapping out webOS for Android or Ubuntu seems possible... cf. http://liliputing.com/2011... - Adriano

I hope so. Given HP's incompetence I think the best thing that could happen for the tablet market is for non-iOS folks to unify behind Android. - Ken Sheppardson

And now HP is (apparently) saying they'll refund the difference to current TouchPad owners. Does this mean anybody can just buy a TouchPad anywhere right now for whatever price and they'll get a price match courtesy of HP? If you're a retailer with TouchPad's right now, what do you do? Pull them? Cut the price? I'm sure retailers with existing stock are just loving HP right now. [http://www.webosroundup.com/2011...] - Ken Sheppardson

...that there's a groundswell of interest at the lower price point says something. it's clear HP didn't/doesn't know what exactly they're holding in their hands - .LAG liked that

I would be all over this deal if I could. To the critical point at hand...yeah, HP has pretty much shit all over all those who would actually do something with the hardware after the fact. I really don't see how webOS is going to come out of this positively. :( - JA Castillo

I think all it says is that when people see something that was $499/$599 that was being sold for $99/$149 they just assume they're getting a great deal and buy it, no matter what it is. I'll bet 80%+ of the people buying it have never held a webOS device. - Ken Sheppardson

But geez... according to HP the TouchPad's a super slick device. All the old promos are sill on their site. http://h41112.www4.hp.com/promo... You think Apple would ever do something this poorly coordinated? - Ken Sheppardson

Idiots - http://friendfeed.com/kshep... - Ken Sheppardson

...no, Apple must be laughing at this comedy of errors. I feel suckered, with my Pre, waiting for HP to save webOS... now I'm just trying to decide if I go IOS or Android. I really wanted webOS to be that alternative, that anti-conformist option, but it seems to be mismanaged from end to end - .LAG liked that

I know what I'd do with one of these now. I really want to find one at the blowout price, because (1) HP's losing money on every one, (2) I can help with the Android port and (3) I want to re-enact the printer scene from the end of Office Space. - Ken Sheppardson

I'm kind of an odd duck. My only point of reference for tablets is iPad. I bought one last year for my brother. He loved it but the experience of using it left me cold. Give me my old school notebook with its actual keys. If/when they're ready to pay me to take a touchpad off their hands, perhaps I'll consider it. - Vicarbott

read that a guy bought one before the store sold out at $99, then returned it to get a refund on the price difference. - Adriano

@LAG - I am right there with you. I too was hoping for that third race horse / option, but it is not to be and now it's iOS or Android. :/ - JA Castillo

I think this is setting us up for a really interesting experiment in what value the public really puts on tablets: Right now eBay prices for TouchPads are still $200+, but as the first wave of $99/$149 ship over the next week, we'll likely see a glut from folks who bought them specifically to resell. With so much inventory dumped on the market, I'd expect the price to eventually drop down near (or below) $99/$149. Whether that happens and how long it takes should be a good indication of the "real" value. - Ken Sheppardson

Great points, Ken. I too think the tablet prices are too high for the general public to really consider them ideal buys. While I think $99 is looooooow for a tablet, I do think that something like the iPad or Thrive should be starting out at around $199 (max. for the low end model). - JA Castillo

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