This article was how I found out that my friend Stolie was in a serious relationship. Okay, maybe she falls more into friend of a friend, but still. - Leah
Great post. Yay @leahjones! I'm going to use "Enabled Serendipity" all the time to describe this stuff now. :-) - Josh Bancroft
I am going to Tweet my life as I go to China! I wonder how many of you guys going to be in China? Probably very few! But I am in Japan now! Anyone needs anything let me know, maybe can help! - Igor The Troll
Always happy to create jargon! Thanks for the tweet and appreciate the feedback! - Leah
I would have to add something about bathrooms in office buildings that require keys even though you went through mega-security just to get up to the floor you're on. - Mike Marusin
that's true, we have to use a key for our bathrooms on one floor and our magnetic badges on another. There will clearly be a revised manifesto. - Leah
I just did it. Go find an image in your FriendFeed stream. Click "Hide". Then click options for hiding more stuff like this. - Josh Bancroft
FriendFeed should allow users to block specific kinds of updates, not necessarily just photos. - David Weiner
Oh, wait. I see what you mean. You CAN hide photos if they're from Flickr (and you want to block that person's Flickr photos, or everyone's Flickr photos), but if they're part of an item they posted directly to FriendFeed, the only option is to block FriendFeed updates or not. Being able to block photos IN FriendFeed updates would indeed be cool. - Josh Bancroft
For graphic free FF you can always read your feed via http://www.fftogo.com. It works just as well on a desktop browser as a mobile phone. As for making it easier to follow a large amount of people I can't see it being any easier, frankly. If you're subscribing to hundreds of people here it'll all go speed by like a blur, anyway. I learned my lesson using the other service. - Jim Stanger
Heh. Funny conversation considering this started as a comment about the most effective way to boycott twitter. My vote? don't use it on an important day for geeks (release of new iPhone) instead of don't use it on a holiday when we should all be unplugged anyway. - Leah
I found a way to do this. Right click on an image in FF and you can block it. - Steve Rubel
@Steve Rubel You sure? I can't get it to work. - Roberto Bonini
We should welcome images. Blogging / microblogging have been text centric. Blocking images here reminds me of when people used to turn off images in browsers in the dark ages. Sometimes it's better to show than tell. - Dean Terry
i'm with Dean on this one, I like the images, some of my favourite things on FF have been flickr images, or Youtube videos.... - Iain Baker
Everyone can customize what they see in FF because you can hide content types / services that you don't want to see. Personally I like photos because they tell much more in just few seconds without need to read text. - Daniel Schildt
Edelman in Atlanta has sent the most staffers of any Edelman office to its own social media immersion program in Chicago. There staffers learn how social media really works, how to measure it and when it’s appropriate to use with a client. - Leah
Are you are promoting social computing in your organization and being questioned about the low "participation levels" or "adoption rates"? Well, here are 5 points that should help you explain that it's not just about the percentage of people - Leah
An issue that seems to resurface frequently among freelancers, consultants, and the self-employed is the whole “getting paid what you’re worth” question. - Leah
Over half of my Chinese-Chinese friends on MSN have put the badge on their contact names, in defiance of all the anti-China bullying that they’re undoubtedly reading about in the Chinese newspapers, watching on the Chinese news, and scouring over on the - Leah
This is the life I wanted: to be pinned down. To never have to seriously consider what I am doing for Pesach or the Hagim. To be in a position where I can finally say that, after seventeen years during which every single Pesach Seder has been celebrated a - Leah
I guess what I’m trying to say here is that no poem will get you laid faster than a praise poem, but if you use one to sleep with another poet, you’re either going to wind up supporting them while they smoke all your weed, getting dumped in the middle - Leah
Really? It turns out we're just not all that special, when you break it down. Beautifully unspectacular, actually. And that truth is going to catch up with us whether we want to run from it or not. - Leah
This was cleverly calibrated to swell attendance, and it succeeded, because most Jews I know love to hear a sermon that offends them. So everyone came: people who hope to hear him slam Obama, people who hoped to hear him defend Obama, and people who like - Leah
But you can't buy a bed if you don't lie in it, so at noon on a Friday at a stranger's apartment, I tried out his bed. It was kind of funny in a Seinfeld sort of way--I imagine if it was Seinfeld, his girlfriend would have walked in and I would have been - Leah
The last time I saw my friend and veteran improvisor, John Mulhern, he called me to the carpet for not writing. Why is my screenplay in the bottom of a drawer? Why don't I write anymore, other than this blog? - Leah
