Besides a decline in linking, there has also been a decline in commenting. That's why services like Backtype Connect are so great because you get a view of all of the conversation taking place around a post.
- Justin Levy
It's a well-known fact that family portraits using Apple's PhotoBooth are always better than those you can buy at JC Penney's.
The song I am listening to on the Area channel of Sirius Radio has a chorus beat that includes a tone very similar to my "new e-mail" sound. Very distracting indeed.
Why I am using Peoplebrowsr for real-time search: I can quickly skim through 16 searches with three keystrokes using the right cursor key in just a few seconds. Bam. Zap. Mainlining the net with zero friction. I like it like that.
- Sean McBride
@ sean - using Peoplebrowsr for the same thing. seems a little heavy though.
- nicefishfilms
A bit heavy, indeed, but I don't know of any other real-time search service that comes close to providing the ability to navigate so much info so quickly and efficiently. Monitoring dozens of feeds on what is essentially a single screen is a breeze.
- Sean McBride
Sean: now some of the features that were available only through clients such as peoplebrowser can be had natively, making them more accessible to many users :)
- Mike Chelen
That is really the right headline for this FF feature: the fact that it's real-time for all these different sites. FF continues to be a powerful tool, well defined and eminently useful and usable.
- Andy Bakun
Jiffy Lube hasn't even given us a work order yet. The twins made it clear they needed to be bribed with food in order to behave.
- Louis Gray
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Google News and Blog Search need some attention to purpose and details. I rarely go to either place now because of FF, Twitter, and RSS feeds.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
Speaking of trends, why don't we have "trending topics" and "best of everyone"?
- Jérôme Flipo
"Top entries" of the day/week/month would make FF a Digg killer - although we can't sort by topic - and shows that Friendfeed is the ultimate social media service all rolled into: no need for a Tweetmeme, no need for a URL shortner, no need for a Twitpic, etc.
- Jérôme Flipo
I miss the state of the blog posts for louisgray.com. I know they stopped because of complaints, but I wish they were still being done.
- DGentry
DGentry, appreciate it. It was an interesting idea at the wrong time, and it got more negativity than positivity. Besides, much of my statistical data is very public, from all the networks, Compete.com, etc.
- Louis Gray
DGentry, I received several complaints as well whenever I did those "state of the blog" posts. People seemed to think it was bragging, where I was just trying to thank my readers for their help.
- Rob Diana
Helen Thomas is getting so OLD! I don't like the way that was conducted, and it was taken out of context. There are definitely questions that should be answered, but I'm not sure this is as big a deal as is being presented.
- Sheryl
Sheryl: BS. The previous administration was excoriated for supposedly letting in only Bush supporters. This administration is taking it to a whole new level, not only are they controlling who the audience is, they are controlling the questions they ask! Obama knows the questions and is scripted when he gives the response. He's not answering legitimate questions from real news people. If that's not a big deal to you, then I suggest you might as well move to Iran.
- Dawn
The really sick thing about this is how unnecessary it is!! The reason Bush used town halls was because the press was so hostile to him. The press, outside of Fox news, has been slobbering all over themselves, giving Obama great, positive coverage. So for them to be so hyper-controlling - more so than anything other administration ever - makes you wonder what they heck they are so afraid of.
- Dawn
Coming from the other side, as an Obama supporter, I have to agree that the Obama administration's policy of requesting questions in advance and giving him a list of reporters approved to call on is concerning. It has bothered me for awhile. Even if a bigger deal is being made of it than should be, as Sheryl said, it does give the appearance of attempting to control the media.
- Trish R
Helen Thomas is right. If a town hall script has to be composed in advance--due away with the theater of pretending it's a meeting.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
And it's not just dealing with the press. Remember the outrage about the Bush administration "cooking the books" in favor of going to war by playing on fear and false facts? The current administration rammed through the largest tax increase in the history of our country via the "cap and trade" bill. And they did it by using global warming as the threat, while Obama's own EPA purposely...
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- Dawn
Dawn: I think you misunderstand what I said. I don't think transparency is unimportant. I do think the conversation never got off the ground properly and I found the whole video a little ridiculous. It was far too disjointed and all it did was point to the lack of transparency. But neither side was very well spoken or really in these circumstances got an opportunity to speak in a way...
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- Sheryl