"Yeah, this thing spread so quickly it's almost impossible to find the original source at this point. Dmitri is a character some guy in Toronto does, but whether the voicemail is real or yet another fake viral ad for something else remains unknown."
- Christopher Masto
No Dave Eggers, George Dyson, or Julia Sweeny? I guess it's by popularity, so I can't blame the editors. Still, as entertaining as Jill Taylor's presentation is, I would probably have wanted my money back if I'd, well, had the opportunity to pay a bunch of money to go to TED.
- Christopher Masto
Trying FriendFeed for follow-ups.. also @firstclown: I guess I'm dubious that the solution to "the problem" (which is its own discussion) is FriendFeed and/or ping.fm. And especially not both. I have an RSS reader for feeds, and I have a Twitter client for Twitter. I appreciate wanting one-stop-shopping all the Stuff a person generates on the Internet; in the old days we'd be talking...
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- Christopher Masto
Interesting perspective, for sure, since most of the things you see on FriendFeed will, probably, be in your feed reader. I guess I use FriendFeed a little differently (right now) since I haven't used it to replace Twitter or my feeds. My feeds are still the same. I follow people on FriendFeed only if I want to see their updates immediately. And, I use it to track the untrackable: http://cdevroe.com/notes... -- And I filter OUT Twitter updates on FriendFeed so I don't see things twice.
- Colin Devroe
"The story goes that they wanted to minimize the length of the wires used to connect different parts of the computer. The optimal shape would be a sphere, but it would have been impossible to get inside to wire it. So they went with the next best thing and made it cylindrical. The cooling system went around the outside and the bench was added to cover it up (and as a warm place to sit, I suppose). It also looks cool."
- Christopher Masto
Have you every thought about just "tweeting" on Friendfeed? I'm wondering how viable that is.
- Joe Erickson
from twhirl
I'm trying to understand/like FriendFeed but basically what it seems to do is make me have to read everything at least twice. It's just copies of stuff I'm already subscribed to in other places. Maybe I could tweak the settings or mess around with it long enough to get a better experience, but who has time for that in this post-web-2.0 world?
- Christopher Masto
"Believe me, when you're running out of Valtrex and your flaming ass herpes is about to flare up you do NOT want to buy refills from a Tijuana street vendor."
- Christopher Masto