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Kelly, Brian Chang, Baroness Von SmashAHomie and 4 other people liked this
Me too, I hate the Chipmunks! I made fun of the Chipmunks when I wrote for Parent Dish and all the parents ripped me a new one. I received hate mail telling me what a bad parent I was. People take those Chipmunks seriously!
- Trish R
Single Ladies makes me want to break things. Chipmunks make me want to break things. Single Ladies + girl chipmunks = rip in the space-time continuum.
- Brian Chang
Wow, that sounds really, umm, odd. Glad I've never seen this. Score one for not having TV.
- Laura Norvig
IT'S A BLANKET - WITH SLEEVES - FOR GAYS! Gay Snuggie from the HRC. http://shop.hrc.org/hrc-snu...
sofarsoShawn, Morton Fox, Derrick and 3 other people liked this
*head desk*
- Admiral Anika
Gotta share this with the Online Learning Center team. They have some kind of cult thing about Snuggies. They all have maroon ones that Matt bought them, I think. For some reason they always remind me of that Heaven's Gate cult - the San Diego suicide pact one.
- Laura Norvig
He's drinking milk from a champagne flute.
MB Linder, nakachi, MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS and 20 other people liked this
Tres chic.
- SAM
That's one dapper mofo!
- Adrian
And he deserves to be drinking milk from a flute. He's a stud muffin. No doubt! Very cute pic!
- Morgan Haley
Anika makes pretty/handsome kids.
- SAM
Thanks, Scott. Adrian helped, you know.
- Admiral Anika
handsome fella ,, he needs a milk smile
- johnpiercy
Hehehe... *cues Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock*
- SAM
^ lol John, he wiped off his milk mustache. All of a sudden those are for babies.
- Admiral Anika
'Cause he's fancy like that. ;-)
- Shayera Tangri
I'm afraid it was either all he could reach or all the other cups are dirty. The other day, he tried to pour out a pilsner glass. Mama was NOT amused.
- Admiral Anika
Champagne tastes, milk money.
- Spidra Webster
ya'll make such lovely kids that you should make more! *ducks and hides*
- Michael W. May
Very classy! And isn't milk almost as expensive as champagne, nowadays, or has it come down in price?
- vicster
LOL Vicster it is pricey. I'm glad we're over the days of running through a gallon/day.
- Admiral Anika
It's ok, I'm used to people saying "ANIKA makes such cute kids"... and then looking me up and down. Sigh...
- Adrian
Yeah... sorry, I did the same thing... and she's got that whole incubation part that earns her a smidge more credit though too, right?
- SAM
He is definitely handsome. Look out, little girls, your first crush is in the house.
- Laura Norvig
An easy one. What am I watching?
Josh Haley, Carmen, Kol Tregaskes and 10 other people liked this
NO PARKER POSEY!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
- Jeremy (cropmarks)
pffft. i have the soundtrack to that movie.
- Baroness Von SmashAHomie
I've never seen it. Is it going to get better?
- Laura Lou Who
No. It is not going to get better. *eyeroll* But I dunno, keep watching I guess. I mean you're home, you ain't got shit else to do.
- Baroness Von SmashAHomie
I think it's required viewing for librarians, right?
- Laura Lou Who
Lord, I love that movie. (At least a little because the DJ roomie reminds me of a great friend from college)
- Jennifer Dittrich
What movie is it?
- Admiral Anika
Party Girl
- Jennifer Dittrich
i crush on parker pretty hard. never seen this movie, but she's one of my serial crushes.
- Morgan Haley
Dood - no way. She totally looks nasty. Kinna looks like you'd catch sum'fin. Gnah. Now, Fairuza Balk... hehe
- Jeremy (cropmarks)
Fairuza Balk? Are you nuts? She's Patient Zero. Doesn't matter which disease.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Parker vs Fairuza? Hmmm, can I see your Fairuza and raise you Ashley Greene?
- Morgan Haley
Ok, the line about "Imitate a cat puking" just made me LOL.
- Laura Lou Who
Two words: Charlize and Theron.
- Jeremy (cropmarks)
Charlize was hot during the bronze age, but now it's time for the new batch of hotties. Like Ashley Green, Rachael McAdams, Rosie o' Donnell, etc.
- Morgan Haley
Sure - so here's the big question on that, then. Isla Fisher or Amy Adams?
- Jeremy (cropmarks)
Hey hey hello!
- Lo
Parker wears some interesting "fashions" in this movie.
- Laura Lou Who
HE-HE-HELLO! (party girl, duh)
- veo
Jeremy - Isla Fisher, hands down.
- Mellissa Claus
I totally agree. Not only easy on the eyes, but she's smart enough to hang with SBC.
- Jeremy (cropmarks)
Glad to say the movie got better.
- Laura Lou Who
I love Parker Posey and would give anything she's in a try
- RAPatton
RAPatton - Blade: Trinity
- Michael R. Bernstein
Parker Posey is awesome! I like her because she doesn't shy away from roles that would make most actresses run and hide for fear that their fans will abandon them.
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Love that movie. There are some good scenes in it even though it's not consistent. And I love Parker Posey.
- Laura Norvig
RAPatton, in Blade: Trinity, Posey seemed to be trying to play Sandra Bernhard.
- Michael R. Bernstein
TV ?
- Moved to Facebook
Admiral Anika liked this
definitely no.
- Laura Norvig
I LOVE these!
- Admiral Anika
/thread
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
I'm with the Admiral on this.
- Parth Awasthi
I knew this was bait :)
- Micah Wittman
from iPhone
Uh, No!
- Jeff P. Henderson
No...not in that color.
- .LAG liked that
It's the white that MAKES them awesome. I am a complete sucker for white loafers and have owned several of them over the years. These are similar to the last pair I outgrew. Just...pretty.
- Admiral Anika
Guess what one of the twins (don't know which one) decided belonged in my laptop bag this morning?
CW™, Laura Lou Who, rowlikeagirl and 10 other people liked this
Right next to the laptop and power cords... a TiVo remote! My wife e-mailed asking if I knew where the living room remote was. I do. It's here at work! Now if only I had brought my DVR as well.
- Louis Gray
They know daddy needs his tools! My niece used to say that what her Dad did at work was, "push buttons on the 'puter." BTW, those pics of you reuniting w/the twins were soooo cute - I could definitely feel the love.
- Laura Norvig
They got your back...LOL
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Everyone wishes they had one of these for those boring meetings. Pause, rewind, fast forward... *bloop* *bloop* delete *bonk*
- Julian
Get a copy of the i.TV app on your iPhone. It's free, and includes a full Tivo Remote that works over your WiFi network. That way, the lack of the remote at home won't be so burdensome.
- Otto
Or, get a new TiVo Glo Remote for home and make the old one your emergency remote.
- Brian Johns
Otto, I have it. But I also have the iPhone with me. :)
- Louis Gray
at least you have and it did not got out into the trash
- VAL D. Zone
Better than a cat toy in your shoe :)
- Sheryl
Nonprofits Compete and Collaborate for Funds - http://afine2.wordpress.com/2009...
Not sure how I feel about this. Good in theory but is it feasible in the real world?
- Wendy
I'm not sure Alison's comments fully deconstructed the issue, but I get the gist of what she is trying to say.
- Laura Norvig
Who's Your Nonprofit Hero? - http://www.nten.org/blog...
Again with the contests.
- Wendy
Ha, do I detect some weariness? What to do? Contests work. This is a fairly innocuous one.
- Laura Norvig
O'Brien: The Influencers of Silicon Valley - San Jose Mercury News - https://secure.passport.mngint...
Justin Massa liked this
"In her eight-plus years at the company, Webb has become instrumental in building links between corporations, volunteers and nonprofits to get technology into the hands of community organizations that don't have many resources or expertise." Yay, Marnie!
- Laura Norvig
from Bookmarklet
Happy holidays from the FriendFeed crew! - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2008...
Dominic Yang, Özge Gürçay, papachan and 266 other people liked this
Thanks to Kevin for another great logo...
- Bret Taylor
YAY! Snowmens!
- Yolanda
Cool logo! :)
- AJ Batac
I think they need scarves. They look cold.
- Yolanda
Great logo! Simple and fun.
- Brandon Titus
great :) çok sevdim bu logoyu :)
- Burak Budak
Cool :D
- Pedram
Kevin - that is an awesome logo!!!!!
- Susan Beebe
A nice tribute to Bill Waterson :)
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
+102 for Bill Waterson references in picture Kevin or words Sinterclas
- Steve C
cute but what happened to festivus this year?
- Laura Norvig
Merry Christmas to the FriendFeed team. You guys rock! FriendFeed reacts quickly and you're adding wonderful features all the time (Thanks soooo much for the "edit" feature.)
- Mitchell Tsai
Happy Festivus!
- ◄ani625Ξ
Happy festive season to you all as well :)
- Niki Costantini
Happy Holidays!!!
- David Cook
love it~
- Sunny
Love!!!
- BeeLing
Glad you like it! (And glad people picked up on the Waterson influence :-)
- Kevin Fox
Merry Christmas! :D
- Ron
Happy Holidays FF crue -- you've made this an excellent and memorable year for many of us. Facebook couldn't have done it without you! :)
- Christopher Galtenberg
w00t you gave me the best online year in 15 years!!! ;p Thanks a lot, everyone, for what you've done here XD
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Merry Christmas to all
- Craig Eddy
Merry Christmas!
- Svein Håvard Djupvik
Haha! I love horrified snowmen. Merry Christmas to FriendFeed!
- Chris Lasher
Joyeux Noel a tout le monde!
- Mathieu Ayel
Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays!
- Anne Bouey
Feliz navidad a ti!
- JA Castillo
Thanks! Happy Holidarys! Merry Christmas!
- Bill Romanos
happy christmas, chanukah and kwanzaa.
- D. Eda Goze
happy chrismas and a happy new year!!!
- ethan meccage
That's when they loved us :(
- Christopher Harley
Awwwww sniff
- Kevin Fox
Happy holidays! Take good care of yourselves and... enjoy those days off! <o> \o,
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Merry Christmas!
- Ian May
Tks and love you all !!!
- Renchin(Reina)Wang
ahh, the good ol' days.
- MikeAmundsen
Google's Broken Hiring Process - Google - Gawker - http://gawker.com/5392947...
scott willeke, Will Higgins™, Jordi Gerona and 40 other people liked this
What do you know? Valleywag got everything wrong. Google is hiring, not laying off. Also, our interview scores actually correlate very well with on-the-job performance. Peter Seibel asked me if there was anything counterintuitive about the process and I said that people who got one low score but were hired anyway did well on-the-job. To me, that means the interview process is doing very well, not that it is broken. It means that we don't let one bad interview blackball a candidate. We'll keep interviewing, keep hiring, and keep analyzing the results to improve the process. And I guess Valleywag will keep doing what they do...
- Peter Norvig
from Bookmarklet
Nice shirt!
- Jim Norris
That is a nice shirt.
- τorƍue
You had at least three rounds of layoffs this year, Peter. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...
- Ryan Tate
Further, while you hired a rare few people who got "1" scores on one their interviews, you rejected 99 percent of those people, and you have no idea how they would have performed. Those you did hire turned out to be top performers. Sounds broken to me. (I am the author of the Valleywag post in question.)
- Ryan Tate
Hi Ryan, thanks for commenting. First: we get over 1000 resumes a day. We can't hire all of them. I am painfully aware that a few of the people we don't hire would be as good or better than a few of the people we do. I feel bad for the people we have to reject who are equally qualified, but that is the nature of uncertain decision-making. Now what I said in the Seibel interview: we try...
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- Peter Norvig
It's a great shirt. Google is tops. No system is perfect -- so long as there's a weighting for intangibles and accounting for style differences between interviewer and interviewee, all should be fine.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Bump. Maybe Ryan didn't get a chance to see that you'd responded, Peter.
- Matt Cutts
Could you recommend any literature on data driven hiring practices? Google seems to use many analogical reasoning questions for screening applicants. It would be interesting if there was a relationship between analogical reasoning and productivity.
- Brandon Smietana
Peter, did you ever read Malcolm Gladwell's book Blink? Seems to me the other piece of the hiring process to analyze is the cost-benefit analysis - is it worth doing so many interviews and so much testing if people's first hunch is often the best indicator? (Which isn't exactly what Gladwell said, but partially).
- Laura Norvig
I'm very suspicious of relying on the first hunch. If you hired everyone based on your first hunches, you would discover that most of the time you are wrong. I've lost count of the number of times I've interviewed someone (either on-site or as a second phone interview), and learned that the previous interviewer did not ask them to write code, despite the position being one that required...
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- Piaw Na
Yeah! Always go with the _second_ hunch.
- Andrew C
Arrgh, I keep trying to see the Virgin airline onboard menu and it keeps crashing my browser. This is driving me nuts. Does this crash your browser? http://hungry.virginamerica.com/Virgin_...
DL'ed a PDF just fine. Using Firefox on a Mac.
- Derrick
me too. dunno why it won't work
- Laura Norvig
Works fine in Chrome on Windows XP.
- ha3rvey, not a sweetheart
Revision history of Peter Norvig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/w...
R1CC1 liked this
Someone keeps messing with your wikipedia page. First they said you were a cyberterrorist, then they said you were an albino ...
- Laura Norvig
from Bookmarklet
LOL Is Peter your husband?
- Admiral Anika
No, my brother!
- Laura Norvig
Ah...I was wondering when I saw him post last week.
- Admiral Anika
Mr. Four to me this morning: "I love all of you. And all my friends. And all my friends' friends." Wait, what? How does he know about FOAF?
Laura Lou Who, anna sauce, Rochelle and 3 other people liked this
He has more love in him than I do. I do not love FOAF. I could learn from him.
- Baroness Von SmashAHomie
I have no idea where he got that phrase from, or if he connects it with the actual concept. Funny.
- Laura Norvig
Who else used those 5.25" floppy disks? Hehehe....
Mike Nencetti, RAPatton, See-ming Lee 李思明 SML and 6 other people liked this
Dude. If you were hardcore, you would have used the 8" ones.
- ha3rvey, not a sweetheart
I still have a box of 5.25" disks lying around. I can't bring myself to throw them away. A few of them are games. Moria and the like...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I was ghost writing a book on those. Then about a year later I transferred the book to my first Mac - I think it was the Classic.
- Laura Norvig
Used 8" ones, dectapes, mag tapes, paper tape, punch cards and even keyed in programs -- input/output and storage has changed a lot in 40 years.
- Brian Sullivan
5.25s - yep.
- Micah Wittman
I started with 5.25" when I was 5yo. Not old enough to be in the 8-incher rank. (oops that's starting to sound 'inappropriate' taken out of context... :)
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
I did play with punch cards though - and I had a tape recorder when I was writing my own games at 6 or 7 - my mom made me do it - she said that if I wanted to play computer games I had to write my own...
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
I've been carefully watching Joshua for a long time. He's the baby of the family and is way smarter than me, so there might have been some jealousy involved, even back when he was a baby. But maybe I was just making sure he was OK.....but from the look on my face, it's probably the jealousy thing....But I love him....And he IS heavy....hee hee
sofarsoShawn, R1CC1, aden and 25 other people liked this
AHAHHAH!!!
- Nurse Katie
lol
- holly
what a great family portrait.
- Carlos Ayala
That's more of a "babies stink" sort of look I think. :D Great photo.
- pea
And it's not even my birthday or anything.
- Josh Haley
Oh, I think it's more than stink, Pea. Looks like a plot to kill ...
- Laura Norvig
It's not easy having to watch your back for over 38 years.
- Josh Haley
hey, i said sorry already....hee hee
- Morgan Haley
Wow....sounds like a conversation between my sister and I.
- Nurse Katie
Katie: me and josh were way cuter right? :-P
- Morgan Haley
I don't know....as babies yes but my sis and I are pretty hot....let me find a picture
- Nurse Katie
I don't know....it's a toss up! http://ff.im/coP1t
- Nurse Katie
ok, you and your sister win. pretty darn cute I must admit. But Josh and I can take you in a Buffalo Wing eating contest.
- Morgan Haley
True dat but we have MAD dancing skillz...
- Nurse Katie
oh my. It's on like Donkey Kong baby!!!!
- Morgan Haley
Find me a dance floor and I'll bust a move so fine your eyes will fall out (hopefully not on my shoes)
- Nurse Katie
find ME a dance floor WITH a pole... and then we'll see who's eyes fall out.
- Morgan Haley
Oh shit...if that's the case I want a blindfold. I respect my vision too much to view that!
- Nurse Katie
ok, now it's personal. Now we will re-create the Chris Farley / Patrick Swayze Chippendale's skit!!!! That will burn through any blindfold!
- Morgan Haley
Ok FINE! You win the dance-off
- Nurse Katie
from fftogo
yay! my girth and my stellar bullshitting skill win again!
- Morgan Haley
Or your skills of thoroughly grossin' people out are too good.
- Nurse Katie
from fftogo
i gross people out? aw, shucks. you are too kind!
- Morgan Haley
All out of love, Morgan. Snarky love, but love nonetheless :o)
- Nurse Katie
I likes me the snarky love...hee hee
- Morgan Haley
Damn, you really look like your dad, Morgan.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
genetics strikes again. and thanks! i'll take that as a compliment. i'm a bit heavy compared to him, but that just means that there's more of me to love!
- Morgan Haley
I wanna see more groovy '70s Haley family pics.
- Spidra Webster
Josh has tons. I have a limited supply in digital format here at work, but can bring some tomorrow for your perusing.
- Morgan Haley
Who's the third Haley sibling & are they on FriendFeed?
- sofarsoShawn
That's Bill Haley and he's next predicted to make an appearance in 2061.
- Spidra Webster
It's our older brother Sean. I don't think he's on here, but he should be! He's 2.5 years older than me and Josh is 4 years younger. Yes, I am a middle child. And I'm a Leo. Can you tell?
- Morgan Haley
Sean is here, but barely. http://friendfeed.com/groo
- Josh Haley
Yay! tell him herro? everybody and maybe he'll join in the troublemaking!
- Morgan Haley
He should be here. He's the true cat-lover of the family. And other interesting animals.
- Josh Haley
Wow and I thought the world was complete with 2 Haleys
- Nurse Katie
I didn't watch Star Trek Enterprise much when it first began. I've had a couple episodes going in the background today and yesterday. Now I feel justified in not watching it before. It's a wonder these people made it past the asteroid belt.
Steven Perez, Mona Nomura, Rodfather and 5 other people liked this
illogical
- Mike Nencetti
there were a couple of "Mirror, Mirror" alternate universe episodes at the end of the final season that were excellent and explained a few things about why the tech was so similar. apart from that, ST:E was a waste of time.
- Joe Silence is not dead
Joe, I agree with you on the "Mirror, Mirror" episodes. They were pretty good. For some reason, Archer and Trip just always rubbed me the wrong way.
- ha3rvey, not a sweetheart
I never watched it. I was a fanatic for a long time, watched TOS, Next Gen, Deep Space ... Enterprise never grabbed me.
- Laura Norvig
the only one I really liked was the Trouble with Tribbles.......
- VAL D. Zone
is star trek enterprise a new series? or are you referring to the original. I don't have cable....or satellite
- Mike Nencetti
I like the dog, but he's about the only one.
- Laura Lou Who
Enterprise lost me with that horrible theme song.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Enterprise was the last of the spinoffs, Mike: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Laura Norvig
Just noticed that retweets don't get published here. That's a good thing, I suppose. Although, I don't mind the retweet function nearly as much as everyone else seems to.
Konrad Jaskiewicz, Carlos Urrutia, Fee501st and 6 other people liked this
Cuts down on a little of the redundancy here, I suppose. I never even noticed until you just mentioned it. :P
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
What's a Beartato?
- Veronica
http://nedroid.com/ - it's the tater tot-looking creature. Him and the bird Reginald make quite a pair and go on adventures of whimsy and randomness :)
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
Hehe!
- Veronica
Yeah, apparently I'm like him, so the nickname has stuck
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
yeah, retweets using the internal twitter function don't get fed out of twitter via RSS. I noticed that on our website the other day ... after I purposely retweeted some stuff I wanted to show up on the site! If you retweet the old way, of course they will show up.
- Laura Norvig
That's one thing I don't like about the new retweeting method. A lot of times I RT stuff because I want it to show up in my Twitter RSS feed.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Beats being a poortato. http://poortato.ytmnd.com/
- Dave Friedel
So, he's like a bear potato?
- Veronica
Winnie the Pootato.
- Dave Friedel
Jack Dorsey's new product... Paytato.
- Dave Friedel
Heh. Bear Potato...pretty much. http://nedroid.com/imagesb...
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
Music service I don't need: Vevotato.
- Dave Friedel
AT&T to iPhone users: DontUseSoMuchDatatato
- Dave Friedel
I'll be here all week folks. Don't forget to tip your servers.
- Dave Friedel
would Bearonica be friends with beartato?
- Fee501st
Yeah, it bugs me a wee bit because I don't want to spend ages on twitter checking to see if I missed anything exciting (I used to just see them here). Not exactly a huge issue, mind you.
- Amy
rss search with rt as search. Would that work. Or topify?
- Richard A.
from fftogo
The #NewRT functionality is a little like taking away your comments here on FriendFeed. It sucks. Even Twitter creator @jack has voiced his concerns.. it's just not very social anymore, see here: http://businessmindhacks.com/post...
- Alex Schleber
It shows up on your FB Fan page V! So is it something on FF end?
- Fee501st
Fee: Yeah, sounds quite likely.
- Amy
Problem solved, then. All we need to do is figure out how to route our RT's to Veronica's fan page...
- Thomas
Retweetato.
- Dave Friedel
while i love real time stuff, part of me feels the search engines have fallen way too in love with it. might do a post.
Commentators are obsessed with it; engines aren't. How often does it trigger?
- Daniel Dulitz
Do it. Real time search is only valuable in specific contexts. Otherwise it pollutes results.
- Laura Norvig
6 major sleep mistakes parents make — and how to avoid them - http://www.babycenter.com/0_6-maj...
RAPatton, Jen (SquirrelGirl), Iván Abrego and 3 other people liked this
1. Mistake: Putting children to bed too late 2. Mistake: Relying on motion 3. Mistake: Overstimulation in dreamland 4. Mistake: Skipping the bedtime routine 5. Mistake: Inconsistency 6. Mistake: Going from a crib to a big bed too early
- Shevonne
from Bookmarklet
I agree with all of these.
- Rochelle
Number 1 is so important. I try to go as early as I can some days - when I do he usually sleeps 12 hours. My friend used to put her kid to bed at 6:30 -- she might still be doing it -- he's 6. I can't make it that early, but I go for 7:30 whenever I can. Of course, that wouldn't work if your kid takes late naps.
- Laura Norvig
I put my daughter to bed at 7:30. I bet, now that she's not napping much that I could move it to 7. That just seems so early... but I know several parents who do that with their 5-6 year olds.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
This is all good advice, I suppose, but I hate labeling these as "mistakes." It's part of the whole "Parenting: ur dooin it wrong" industry that I cordially invite to bite me.
- s t e v e
I agree Steve... we all make "mistakes" as parents... but every kid and parent is different and has different needs. Parenting is often about trial and error.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
so true, Steve, it's a huge industry that preys on people's desires to be a "perfect parent." If you love your kids and take care of them, it's all good.
- Laura Norvig
Very true Steve. For my daughter, we used to put her to bed between 10pm and midnight. Any earlier, she would just get up every 10 min. and cry. It worked for her and she would wake around 8am. But my son had to be in bed by 8pm and he would sleep until 8am. Even now, years later, they both still have different sleeping habits, which we have to fine tune since they share a room and are more mobile.
- Admiral Anika
Wondering if we really need to see these tweets in real time on Google search results.... the quality of these tweets seems to be very low. Maybe Google should be filtering tweets.. Not sure how this is useful at all to someone searching Google for "Tiger Woods"
Symon Muchina Thuo, mohammadk, TH Schee and 20 other people liked this
I was dreading this, knowing it was coming sooner or later, it degrades your search precision
- sofarsoShawn
I think this will only increase twitter spam :(( Google is usually very very religious about their search result quality... not sure how this got through...
- Bindu Reddy
Exactly, the more you tweet, the better your chances are for a site hit
- sofarsoShawn
interesting. didn't even realize there's these kinds of google search results now. thanks for the heads up!
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Yup, I am writing a bot that scrapes Google trends, extracts search terms and writes tweets every 2 minutes with those search terms :)
- Bindu Reddy
New SEO pioneering! I want in! & it's also not just Twitter, but also Jaiku, identi.ca Myspace, FriendFeed & Facebook. & Bing (except for FB & TW) won't be including them in their search results.
- sofarsoShawn
I the quality of all tweets seems to be very low.
- Gabe
Oh bleh. Just tried a search for "snow". The realtime results are very distracting. Let us opt out, or put it on the side somewhere.
- Laura Norvig
from iPod
It's good to bring more users to twitter though, as they keep getting twitter rubbed into their face. That being said I should try that search.
- Richard A.
Interesting. So you can try spam these services, and get a high position on Google immediately. But filtering... based on what? The usual filters work on authority which in turn often works on ratings, citations, backlinks etc., and these won't be real-time because people first have to see and digest the message in question in order to link, cite and rate it.
- Philipp Lenssen
It auto-updates and that is an interesting feature. That's something I could see some use for :-)
- Richard A.
On the spam and SEO topic. Don't you think it'd measure retweet strength. If a lot of people retweet a subject then the link would be more relevant/interesting than if just one person retweets. Sorry for going slightly off topic. As an aside do retweets move back up to the top of the search? Should try cop15 and see how it behaves.
- Richard A.
@Philipp: smart question (as usual). I guess that Google's rank/filter could be based not on the tweet, but on the tweeter: e.g. someone who has many followers is a good source, etc. E.g. Google too should (in this case) change its paradigm, switching from a "web of pages" to a "web of people".
- milivella
@Philipp You have nailed the issue :) It is really really difficult to get a good grip on "quality" if the information/data is real-time. I still can't really figure out what the motivation behind doing something like this on the Google main search results is.
- Bindu Reddy
Am I the only one here who is using Topsy http://www.topsy.com on a daily basis to cut through Twitter noise? Works like a charm. News recommender systems are the Next Big Thing.
- Sean McBride
Sean, I'm on twitter for the conversations :-). I looked at topsy and I'll have to play with it, see how I could have fun with it.
- Richard A.
Richard A. -- I use Friendfeed for conversations (much more capable for that activity than Twitter, in my opinion). And I use Topsy to identify and grab the most important news on specialized topics flowing through Twitter. To each his or her own.
- Sean McBride
Of course..
- Symon Muchina Thuo
Reading http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... about Facebook changes.
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I saw a tweet today about implications of the new changes to fan pages and I just thought, ugh, I can't be bothered. Even though I kind of have to be since I help manage a fan page. I have nothing against rapid iterations when the changes seem to be going in a clear direction, but Facebook's constant changes baffle me.
- Laura Norvig
OK, what to cleanup first? My physical desk or my electronic desktop? They're both a mess. I need order, people!
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I say the physical one with breaks to do the electronical one.
- Admiral Anika
tee hee - yyou said "electronical"
- Laura Norvig
*shakes fist* I'm old! What can I say?
- Admiral Anika
The Spark Series - Documentary on Leo Laporte - http://www.eguiders.com/exclusi...
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- Laura Norvig
Interview | Danah Boyd: 'People looked at me like I was an alien' | Technology | The Guardian - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technol...
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hmm, they couldn't get your name right?
- Laura Norvig
Remember when we all used to comment on each other's blogs? That was all of about two years ago. What the heck happened?
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I actually have very high hopes for solutions like Salmon (http://www.salmon-protocol.org/) to bring us back to the best of both worlds. Rich, detailed posts with topical comments on the original site, intermixed seamlessly with the discussions taking place on aggregators like FriendFeed and Facebook. It's possible -- we just need a little bit of tech to make it happen.
- DeWitt Clinton
Me too - I miss those days, and I worry Twitter has distracted us
- Jesse Stay
Some of my best relationships have been built by commenting on others' blogs - it still works even today, but now I guess it's more a secret than it was before.
- Jesse Stay
I'm hoping for a return to the usenet days, where I could follow a conservation from one client. Conservation is so fragmented since the blog era. Hopefully, this upstreaming of comments will allow a more integrated view and lower the probability of fragmentation.
- Ray Cromwell
Part of the problem is people simply taking less time to comment. There's a - relative - abundance of good content. Finding a good article is less special nowadays than it was some years ago. Less reason for a reader to engage with one specific author. There are other strong posts waiting for him in his reader, FriendFeed or Twitter stream.
- Meryn Stol
Imagine a world where people could follow blogs wherever the like (Reader, FriendFeed, on the original site, whatever) and all the comments made in each place would swim upstream and back out to where people were reading. We're super close. Would love to have FriendFeed be an early adopter of this.
- DeWitt Clinton
I think FriendFeed in part countervails that problem by making commenting so easy, and by "nudging" towards short comments, more intuitive responses. I think the old days of thoughtful responses in the comment section are not coming back. A true thoughtful response can be made into a blog post by itself.
- Meryn Stol
Assuming one has a blog anymore...
- DeWitt Clinton
I need to bring mine back. Almost a year gone by with no posts. I just got frustrated with my blogging software around the same time Twitter took off. But every time I tweet a little piece of me dies. I need to fix that.
- DeWitt Clinton
My main point is that I think new technology, better integration between blogs and aggregators and such can only do so much for us.
- Meryn Stol
A counterpoint, at least some new technology has brought more people together than ever before (plenty of examples right here).
- DeWitt Clinton
Oh I don't doubt that tech can bring us together, it's just that it's bringing us together in a different way than before. While twitter - imo - hurts thoughtful discussion, it has brought us "ambient intimacy". FriendFeed also have given rise to a new *kind* of conversation.
- Meryn Stol
The comments "swim upstream" idea is nice in theory, but there's the pesky problem of threading when a side conversation develops in one of the outposts. I suppose sticking with the @name convention helps a bit for sorting things out ...
- Laura Norvig
from iPod
I love the phrase "ambient intimacy", Meryn. But I partly disagree -- Twitter has brought us a Society of the Spectacle (in the Guy Debord sense). Nothing intimate about that.
- DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt, hmm allright, maybe I'm romanticizing Twitter somewhat. FYI: The term ambient intimacy was originally coined by Leisa Reichelt: http://www.disambiguity.com/ambient... - kind of must read essay I guess.
- Meryn Stol
I have the same complaint: http://piaw.blogspot.com/2009...
- Piaw Na
I still have an active blog, but most comments seem to be coming from facebook.
- Piaw Na
No question it has changed. Salmon is a cool option, which I like a lot, but you can't undo the trend. Many folks believe that retweeting, bookmarking and Google Reader sharing is enough. I recognize I do this a lot, but I do try to participate in as many community conversations as there are, wherever they are.
- Louis Gray
Cuz Scoble says blogging's dead #thusithasbecomelaw
- sofarsoShawn
Salmon will be a very valuable solution. By allowing people to add comments in the environment they feel most comfortable with (and propagating them) I think the depth of conversation can/will increase.
- Chris Myles
Ok I admit it, I do not understand the appeal of Lady Ga Ga. I don't find her look to be that interesting, and I'm not a fan of the music I've heard. I'm glad others like her, I just don't get why.
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i haven't heard any of her songs. but i wouldn't mind showering with her a couple times a week. just sayin'.
- Morgan Haley
I'd been ambivalent until I heard "Bad Romance," which for some reason I loved. Weirdly, I now like some of her other stuff better as well. No rational explanation there.
- Jennifer Dittrich
I don't get her look at all, but some of her songs are starting to grow on me.
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
Haven't heard a song but from what I've seen teh gayz like her. Just not this one.
- Derrick
I'd have to admit, some of her tunes are catchy and she does have skills. No hate from me.
- Rodfather
i hear that she's actually a good musician that paid her dues and stuff.
- Morgan Haley
ditto
- pea
I intensely dislike her music and don't get what the appeal is. That said, I'm not on a crusade or anything.
- Chieze Okoye
I don't hate her, I just don't get what the appeal is. I suppose it is just a matter of her style not fitting my taste.
- Joe Pierce
i can't stand her look and want her to wash her face and put on jeans and a t-shirt. friends love her. i don't hate her, but I do like that dumb poker face song
- Baroness Von SmashAHomie
I think I like her because she is so confounding.
- WorldofHiglet
Don't like anything about her.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
she is hard for me to look at and listen to. but i get the appeal. she (and her production) is the epitome of modern pop music. 99% of the pop artists out there wish they had her hooks. i cant stand her work but i get the appeal. here, wash yourself off with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch... its hard for me to deal with the fact that this is the same person.
- Carlos Ayala
Carlos: yes, she is actually incredibly talented and not a studio-packaged cypher. More reason to like her :)
- WorldofHiglet
AIRSTRIKE HER NOW
- Mo Kargas
Mo: STAND DOWN!!
- WorldofHiglet
No way! *stuffs WoH in a sack*
- Mo Kargas
hehe - "ram"??
- WorldofHiglet
*whistles*
- Mo Kargas
oh yes - "stuff" is much better.....
- WorldofHiglet
Of course, while you were busy covering your tracks I've disabled your guidance system. The missiles are now offline.
- WorldofHiglet
I'm sure you like being stuffed in a sack.
- Mo Kargas
TWSS
- WorldofHiglet
Madonna and Marilyn Manson's love child. That's how I like to think of her. Although, I should really give Marilyn Manson more respect than that.
- Josh Haley
@Josh Yes you should
- Mo Kargas
I have somehow managed to avoid her music (why yes, I do live under a rock), but I saw a clip of her interview on Ellen and she was kind of sweet, actually. Said she felt like a freak in High School. Maybe all artists say that.
- Laura Norvig
from iPod
i have remained blissfully unaware of all this.
- Joe Silence is not dead
Josh, I'd actually much rather sit through an entire Ga Ga concert than just one Marilyn Manson song. I'm on the edge with Madonna...ever since she massacred that Bond theme.
- Joe Pierce
Ditto
- Hutch Carpenter
Nah, Marilyn's got some skills. He just takes the avant-garde approach to showmanship to ridiculous levels. He's actually a very smart and down to earth guy from what I know. As far as music, I liked his tunes from the Matrix, at least.
- Josh Haley
intelligent I may go with, down to Earth, not in the interviews and appearances I've seen. Especially on Loveline where he gave out advice that could be considered damaging. Manson is one of the very few "entertainers" in the world who if I met them I would have to try very hard not to punch in the face.
- Joe Pierce
Yeah, it's not even good electronic.
- Alex Scoble
I harbor the same confusion. I think she's probably a sweetheart whose friends propelled her to stardom.
- PurpleZoe
I'm with ya, Joe. I enjoy some pop so I think some of her songs are ok but I also don't have a thing for her in general. I'm all about artistic expression but something about her style comes off desperate to me for some reason. No hate though... she can go on and do her thang. I'm happy for her that she has so many obsessed fans. Just not exactly my cup of tea.
- Carmen
All men watch porn, scientists find - Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/relatio...
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"Researchers were conducting a study comparing the views of men in their 20s who had never been exposed to pornography with regular users. But their project stumbled at the first hurdle when they failed to find a single man who had not been seen it. “We started our research seeking men in their 20s who had never consumed pornography,” said Professor Simon Louis Lajeunesse. “We couldn't find any.” Although hampered in its original aim, the study did examined the habits of those young men who used pornography – which would appear to be all of them."
- RAPatton
I'm SHOCKED.
- Derrick
O RLY?
- Beau Liening
"Single men watched pornography for an average of 40 minutes, three times a week, while those in relationships watched it 1.7 times a week for around 20 minutes. The study found that men watched pornography that matched their own image of sexuality, and quickly discarded material they found offensive or distasteful. Prof Lajeunesse said pornography did not have a negative effect on...
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- RAPatton
NO WAI
- Rodfather
Amazing!
- Michelle Martinez
I watch porn to :) ...and I like it :P
- H0llywoodWh0re
what about the Amish?
- Call me Bronco
What's the % of women that do, I wonder.
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
UNPOSSIBLE.
- Steven Perez
Yeah, I want to know what the % of females are... Bias study!
- H0llywoodWh0re
That picture isn't of porn.
- Rochelle
before i did fraud, i worked on the "Adult Content" team. :) it was kind of fun.
- edythe
I was going to say something similar, Sarah. Try the Amish, or maybe some Hasidic Jews?
- Laura Norvig
The Amish just keep it in the community, usually via sexual molestation of underage females, because they'll be treated harshly if they speak out. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Mark "DerBingle" J
That's a bad link, Mark.
- Christopher Harley
Sorry about that. Try this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Headline is a bit misleading. This was an attempt to study 20 men, which were to be divided in two groups, porn-watchers and non-porn-watchers, and they simply couldn't find any to fit in the second group. Doesn't sound like they surveyed thousands of men.
- Louis Simoneau
Waste of an article, then
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I know a fella they can meet
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
ha
- Danny Minick
'consumed pornography' sounds so wrong
- Toby Graham
Thought this was an Onion piece at first.
- Hutch Carpenter
=O O_O o_O
- Anna Haro
I dunno, I find my interest level in porn totally plummets after like 15 minutes or so.
- Noah Belson
15 minutes is all it takes, Noah.
- Call me Bronco
I'm impressed, Noah.
- Derrick
My corn addiction far overshadows my porn addiction, frankly.
- Noah Belson
I thought that high fructose porn syrup was bad for you.
- Akiva Moskovitz
NO SHIT SHERLOCK .,,, WHO IS THE EINSTEIN SCIENTIST ?
- johnpiercy
This wasn't the goal of the study. This is what you call an incidental finding :D
- Victor Ganata
when i was a kid in my 20"s,we didnt have porn.... and...we LIKED it!
- james
I'm with Noah. I was thinking "40 minutes?" Are they watching for the PLOT?
- s t e v e
Shocking, lol
- Amy
"All men watch porn." ...although we only studied men in their 20s, we'll go ahead and assume that they represent men of all ages. Good call.
- Fleagle
Noah wadda ya do with corn?
- A.T.
What CAN'T you do with corn, that's the real question.
- Noah Belson
+1 Hutch. I thought the same thing.
- Curtiss Grymala
Curtiss, Hutch: http://www.theonion.com/content...
- Andrew C
Why can't iTunes make it easy for me to find free stuff?
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Cuz then, they don't make any money?
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Why you gotta be all logical about it? Besides, I thought when companies give stuff away, customers end up buying more stuff. Bait and switch. Loss leaders and all that
- Laura Norvig
from iPod
Free music from Amazon.com here > http://www.amazon.com/s...
- David Damore
I'm mostly looking for free TV shows and movies. There actually aren't that many free shows, although there are some cool old movies.
- Laura Norvig
from iPod
Grab the RSS feeds from sites like these: http://freeitunessongs.blogspot.com/ http://www.itsfreedownloads.com/ Plug them into your feed reader of choice and sit back while the free offers come rolling in.
- Christopher Harley
Thanks, Christopher. I do have a gadget on my iGoogle page that brings those in, and I just bookmarked those sites. I was just thinking that when you're already in iTunes, they should make it easy to find free stuff.
- Laura Norvig
from iPod
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Did you see that Amy retweeted this as netsquared, herself, and social by social? Yay! She has lots of reach.
- Laura Norvig
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