Mike Arrington, Bret Taylor and Robert Scoble... - Louis Gray

Awesome, thanks. - Matt Ruiz

He was never a heavy user. Heavy aggregator maybe. - Richard ¿digame? Walker

Arrington: I loved friendfeed right from the beginning and was one of the biggest users with one of the biggest accounts. But what I noticed is that mobs form easily on friendfeed. - Louis Gray

Arrington: Mobs start easily ahead of the facts. - Louis Gray

rad thanks for letting us know, turned it back on - James Hull

Hoping there will be archived video somewhere :) - Frankie Warren

(Showing a film clip) - Louis Gray

Watching it now! - Herb Hernandez

gratuitous - Richard ¿digame? Walker

lol I love this clip. And that's Doctor Cox from Scrubs. - Matt Ruiz

Arrington: If I knew anything about video editing, I would have had names. - Louis Gray

Arrington: They are unconcerned with the truth and reality at all. - Louis Gray

I don't see you Louis? - Matt Ruiz

Arrington: It's one thing on blogs, but on FriendFeed, these things break out and get angrier and angrier and angrier. - Louis Gray

Robert's audio not working. - Louis Gray

(Paused) - Louis Gray

Bret: Most of the time when people talk about social quality of FriendFeed, they compare it to twitter. Conversations are attached to entries on friendfeed. - Louis Gray

Bret: It can be a strength and a weakness. What would have been a decentralized reaction on a site like Twitter can be centralized on FriendFeed. - Louis Gray

Arrington: There is a tiny percentage of people who is completely insane and real threats can happen. - Louis Gray

typical overstatement - Richard ¿digame? Walker

Arrington: If something bad happens, because of what happened on FriendFeed, it's your fault. - Louis Gray

Bret: That's a complex set of comments in a simple sentence, so I am going to ignore what you said, - Louis Gray

So anger doesn't build (for the agitators) from one blog post to another? —the anger on and around TC only started since the advent of FF? - Micah Wittman

Arrington: You admit there is a problem about mobs forming on FriendFeed. - Louis Gray

Bret: People who have very few followers or very many, the discussions aren't great. - Louis Gray

yes Micah it's all FF's fault ... is the main thrust. - Richard ¿digame? Walker

Arrington: I expected a big back and forth on deleting the account, but it was very efficient. - Louis Gray

Bret: We haven't had many complaints with the exception of your incident. - Louis Gray

Bret: One of the main things we are going to do is give the option to turn off comments in specific entries. - Louis Gray

Link? - Rochelle

"I would say that I--" "Agree." "Well," "But you were going to say you agree." (??!) - Kevin Fox

Bret: You can turn off comments in your entries and feeds. That's a practical thing that we can do. There are other ideas, but they are being tested. - Louis Gray

Announcement!! (by Bret) - Micah Wittman

http://www.techcrunch.com/crunchu... - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Bret: Let's say you are following Barack Obama, that's going to have reactions from a political spectrum. You might want to only see comments from your friends. He's not really your friend, but is a connector. - Louis Gray

Poor Scoble :) - Jérôme Flipo

Arrington: You are going to test things to disperse your user base? - Louis Gray

Lame. Ustream crashes my browser. I'll look for a transcript later. - Rochelle

Scoble: The real-time Web is going to bring it into your comments and other places. There is a mob mentality, and we caused it. - Louis Gray

I can't believe this discussion is happening. - Rodfather

Micah, it isn't really an announcement. Paul recently gave some hints about future FF developments. Watch here: http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009... - Jérôme Flipo

Scoble: We brought a huge crowd, and you got into it with the country of France, and people are going to get in the bleacher seats and throw rotten tomatoes every once in a while. - Louis Gray

Thanks, Jérôme. - Micah Wittman

Arrington: We have complete agreement that I am right. - Louis Gray

Arrington: I am going to reinstate my FriendFeed account, and I need techcrunch back. - Louis Gray

Best line ever: Bret: That's a complex set of comments in a simple sentence, so I am going to ignore what you said, - Brandon Mendelson

Surreal - DGentry

(Pretty much done) - Louis Gray

Some of the above comments are "best effort" and not direct quotes, of course. Bret is now off-stage. - Louis Gray

I'm very glad Arrington is coming back - Matthew DeVries

I don't like most of what he writes, and that is why he's needed here. I don't want an echo chamber of people telling me I rock all the time - Matthew DeVries

the mob issues a mea culpa , arrington returns, everyone saves face - Richard ¿digame? Walker

Bret rocks - James Hull

"I am going to reinstate my FriendFeed account, and I need techcrunch back." <---- that's not the voice of privilege, now is it :) - Micah Wittman

"Mike, if you want this account back, DM me. Or something." <------ Group description of http://friendfeed.com/techcru... - Micah Wittman

Whoever re-registered the techcrunch account put it in the bio that they'll willingly return it to Mike. - DGentry

Allen: theatrics. Yes, plain and simple. - Micah Wittman

I don't think entirely. Partially, flirting with mostly. But a big chunk of real. - Matthew DeVries

Matthew, I'm not entirely denying that. In the lifestyle that some choose to live, the real and the theatrical become fused into one. - Micah Wittman

That was so unfair! I think we should turn into an unruly mob now. Kidding - Michael Fidler

Too bad there's not a room for this. - Michael Fidler

Free advice: Not to minimize the problem of threats, but it does not make one automatic martyr for life. Others have been threatened, and don't make a federal case over it. IMO. - Richard ¿digame? Walker

Welcome him back here! http://friendfeed.com/dariusm... - Matthew DeVries