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've pondered the duplication myself. Twitter was serving my aggregation needs and it was only outages that had me considering FF. @mediaczar once told me he "pees in the well, but doesn't drink it" regarding FF. - Barry Reicherter
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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
steve, i like twitter for the fact that you CAN'T post photos. it makes it hard to follow a large amount of people on friendfeed with flickr feeds and other noise getting in the way. a simple twitpic or tinyurl to a blog or photo is all i need if i'm interested in knowing more. 140 characters is all you need. - Matt Musgrave
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
leah, tweeps boycotting on iphone launch day?! never gonna happen. we'll all be using twitter to brag to those who don't have one! - Matt Musgrave
I found a way to do this. Right click on an image in FF and you can block it. - Steve Rubel
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
