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Total Immersion: How I Learned to Swim Effortlessly in 10 Days and You Can Too - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss - http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog...
Karen Padham Taylor, Daniel Dulitz, Dave Dash and 14 other people liked this
Yet another life changed by Total Immersion. In November of 2007, I could not swim 100 meters without sucking wind. 10 days ago I completed an Ironman (2.4 mile swim). TI is swimming for geeks.
- Christopher Sacca
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“Hey FriendFeed!” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
Alejandro, Dobromir Hadzhiev, Marten and 16 other people liked this
We should be able to choose who appears in the right hand "subscriptions" rail. The default uber-bloggers are a nice start, but its not a good representation of the user's friends, and it also makes it hard to find your own ACTUAL FRIENDS' FEEDS as you add more people.
- Steve Isaacs
I got the same list as yours...
- AJ Batac
I third that. All the same peeps
- Toby Graham
Yeah, the most popular defaults makes for blandness. :) I was also thinking this morning that I wish I could see a minimized listing of all my subs on one page - no icon (or maybe a small one?) and not their feeds. That'd be nice.
- felix
Why not sort it by the "People that you find interesting" as seen at http://friendfeed.com/setting...
- DeWitt Clinton
I like that idea, DeWitt.
- Hao Chen
I third that....again
- Toby Graham
I should be able to support who I want to support, and also be one click away from my faves as well. I never see the feeds of my real-world friends because they are buried in noise. FF has been around long enough that we don't need to see the same 10 people over and over again on almost every user's page.
- Steve Isaacs
DeWitt - that doesn't work for me - the people I find interesting aren't necessarily who I want to promote/keep one click away from me.
- Steve Isaacs
I'm going to drop my blog from my FriendFeed account. I don't like how FF posts my blog posts automatically without images. I'm going to drop my blog feed from my FF account and just manually share items on FF directly from my blog. This way I can include images that go with stories. I think.
Nilesh, Éric Senterre, Chris Luckhardt and 49 other people liked this
My posts often have a lot of images. I've felt sheepish about direct posting them to FriendFeed with the images, but perhaps I should try direct posting too.
- Hutch Carpenter
lately I've been sharing the blog posts with images on FF and then just manually deleting from FF my blog post when it shows up without the image. But it's a pain to do that and since almost every entry on my blog includes an image I think that this represents a better way to post my blog content to my FF account.
- Thomas Hawk
Good idea. Can't FriendFeed automatically include images?
- Benedikt Koehler
FF should just turn itself into a blogging platform and be done with it
- Brian Sullivan
Thomas, what do you use to publish your posts?
- Roberto Bonini
Benedikt, they don't at present. I think it would be a good feature to have, but probably not easy as oftentimes blog posts use multiple images and FF wouldn't know which one automatically to scrape. That's why doing it manually this way might be the better way to go -- at least for me.
- Thomas Hawk
Thanks for bringing this to my attention! I never even check to see how it looks, Oy, sometimes I wonder how I make it through the day!
- Karen Swim
@Thomas: True, it's not that easy. But I don't want to drop my blog from my FF account because it kind of defines my identity here. There are no profiles, so you just have the list of your (potential) friends' feeds.
- Benedikt Koehler
Just checked the API. It supports uploading images. I have a Windows Live Writer Plugin I'm thinking of including auto image upload in.
- Roberto Bonini
hmm. good point Benedikt, maybe I'll leave my blog and then just keep quickly deleting my blog posts as they post to FF manually instead. Might be more work to do it this way though. Will have to see how it goes. I just think that blog posts are enhanced immeasurably on FF when they have images and a snippet of text from the post to give the reader an idea what the blog post is about beyond a simple blog headline.
- Thomas Hawk
one thing maybe FF could do would be to somehow autodetect any embedded flickr/zooomr/smugmug/picassa, etc. code in a blog post and use the first image to accompany a blog headline. Might also be nice to see the first few sentences of a blog post's text along with the headline as well.
- Thomas Hawk
@Thomas: Absolutely! First thing FF could implement would be the ability to switch auto-feeding of your blogs to FF off and on. So you would not have to delete your blog from your "not-quite-profile".
- Benedikt Koehler
I've been thinking the same Thomas. I was thinking of re-sharing via the bookmarklet, but that just causes echo. Your solution just makes more work and takes the point away. Perhaps FF should scrape the first picture within the body of the post at the very least?
- Justin Korn
I'm falling behind on the conversation apparently. One step further to what has been suggested would be to allow your blog post to post private first, allow you to add pictures, comments etc, before it goes "live" on FF...
- Justin Korn
I agree that this is a deficiency of FF. Not sure how they would implement it automatically though.
- Jeff P. Henderson
++ Thomas' last recommendation, this would be great.
- jcunwired
Thomas: Just realized one lost if you do that is you lose the use of the FriendFeed plugin on your blog.
- Justin Korn
hmmm.. I never thought of that. Thanks for mentioning that Justin. That's a pretty good reason not to delete my blog posts... grrrr.. I wish that there was just a way that I could get my photos from my posts apended to my blog entries. Even a "share image with this post" button on FF afterwards to add a graphic could be helpful.
- Thomas Hawk
Wish there was a good way to make things work for you! I need to rethink a lot of the services I import, too.
- Andy DeSoto
Thomas: Agreed, that would be nice. I actually sent an note to Glenn Slaven (author of the WordPress plugin) to see if there is a way around this. We'll see if anything comes of it.
- Justin Korn
Thomas, perhaps keep double posting (Blog & bookmarklet), but don't bother to delete the blog (e.g. Louis Gray leaves a twitter, blog post, and Google Reader on FF for all his articles). Searches by service (blog) won't find your articles. Usually bookmarklet will beat the blog post by a wide margin, so it gives comments time to accumulate on the bookmarklet post.
- Mitchell Tsai
second mitchell. people will want to see your link from your profile, search through it - and most people will ignore the double postign or can act to it.
- Nicole Simon
I think posts with a picture garner more attention on Friendfeed, so that seems wise.
- Meryn Stol
though about a autodetect for flickr, zooomr, etc. option, would be a massive feature
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
There should be a FriendFeed plugin for WordPress - haven't looked for it - that does exactly this. Analyze your post, then offer the title, excerpt and an image. Just remembered: that wouldn't help Thomas, since he's on blogger.com. Hmm. Maybe some kind of Greasemonkey script?
- Holger Eilhard
I think FF should add support for better addition of blog post together with photos.
- Daniel Schildt
+1 for FF plugin for WP
- Ernie Oporto
It would be great to get WP plugin for FriendFeed but problem remains for people who use hosted service at WordPress.com or somewhere elso who can't add plugin to blog software.
- Daniel Schildt
I was thinking about same step - de-registering. BTW, some blog platforms might have event-driven API and, as consequence, on event of posting you might get called also FF's code (bookamarklet?)
- A.T.
@Thomas, I have created a new WordPress Plugin to automatically post link to your blog posts with images to FriendFeed every time you publish a blog post in WordPress. Plugin can be found at http://sudarmuthu.com/blog.... FriendFeed Discussion at http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Sudar
I am also working on a script for non-WordPress platforms like blogger. Please let me know if you have any feedback
- Sudar
The non-WordPress version is available now at http://sudarmuthu.com/project... Let me know if you have any feedback.
- Sudar
I only use my own photo blog to post photographs (why post anywhere else in addition?). They are picked up from the photo blog feed by FF just fine.
- Ulrich Hilger
@Ulrich, what software are you using to host your photoblog?
- Sudar
@Sudar: I developed it myself using Java and Java Server Pages. I run it on my own Linux server using Tomcat and MySQL.
- Ulrich Hilger
Just looked at the entire discussion here (not just the post from Thomas). I guess to pick up photo posts in blogs requires a change in how a particular blog publishes RSS feeds from new content for FF to recognize posted photos correctly. Just a guess, the creators of FF might be able to describe it better...
- Ulrich Hilger
Another problem with deleting your blog from FF: If you would be using a plugin like WP-Friendfeed-Comments (I guess, there will be more soon) that integrates the Friendfeed discussion into your blog, it cannot find the discussion.
- Benedikt Koehler
Twitter is profiled in tomorrow's edition of USA Today http://tinyurl.com/676eub
Michael Markman, Bibi, Gary Schmidt and 15 other people liked this
Do FriendFeed people actually read USA today?
- Nicholas Molnar
Great. Expect a wave of new users. Enough to introduce them to the Fail Whale?
- Al Degutis
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twitter... what is twitter?
- Noah David Simon
@Al Degutis - judging by the comments left by readers, there might not be many.
- JA Castillo
Ha, I love the comments on the article. Thanks for pointing them out @JA Castillo
- Andy Murdoch
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