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My iPhone Wallpaper
Michael W. May, Bonnie Foster, Holly Rae, FFer and 32 other people liked this
RAPatton got me thinking of posting mine. http://ff.im/bQZYz
- Josh Haley
ooh ooh gonna post mine too!
- Carlos Ayala
DO EET
- Josh Haley
love. Also, LOVE!
- pea
Hi, pea! Zoe misses you.
- Josh Haley
<3
- pea
Zoe...is out of...focus....babby...is moving!
- Mike Nayyar
She never holds still fast enough for the slow iPhone camera. I like the way this one turned out, though.
- Josh Haley
Zoe! x_x
- Anna Haro
++++++++++ cute!
- Martha
Thanks!
- Josh Haley
To all who asked, I am worried about how fear is irresponsibly being used to manipulate Americans into hate and deeper division.
Donald C. Lindsay, Karoli, Ozkan Altuner and 4 other people liked this
Ironic isn't? Once "they" were no longer able to use threats and violence to contain us, "we" figured we were "free" or something like it. But alas, no. Fear turns out to be just another easy and convenient way to suppress the masses and exploit them as needed. I guess humanity is just an endless dance between the downtrodden and their rich overloads.
- Paul W. Homer
I find it helpful sometimes to question the assumption that a decision always has to be a cause to fear. Or that fear must always necessarily be associated with the making of a decision. Neither of these assumptions is true in every case.
- Donald C. Lindsay
"even Hungarians are not using hungarian notation any more."
Paul W. Homer, Michele Costabile, Javier Aroche and 2 other people liked this
Because I'm bored to tears right now: STORY TIME! Add a line and keep the story going.
johnpiercy, Greg Guitarbuster, Tyson Key and 23 other people liked this
Once upon a time, there was a kingdom known as the Principality of FriendFeed.
- Steven Perez
from IM
The ruler of Friendfeed was an evil man named Steven Perez.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Where no one agreed on anything. Even this was a point of serious debate.
- Alex Scoble
The evil Lord Perez had outlawed bunnehs throughout all of the Principality of FriendFeed.
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
The kingdom was in peril (as all good kingdoms are).
- Paul W. Homer
One day, while out picking cilantro, Gunny decided he wanted some chicken and waffles.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Lord Perez asked: "But where shall we go to get the Chicken and Waffles?"
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
Someone noticed that Gunny was picking cilantro and told him that cilantro is gross. Another person chided him that it's called coriander. A fight broke out.
- Alex Scoble
The fight quickly ended when the Wild Bunnehs of Helms Deep attacked.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Soon after the fight broke out, The town Scribe Sir Scobleizer posted about it on his blog.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
As the fight was not between two chicks no one cared to watch so Perez went back to his main focus and sent all his loyal minions to the magical land of Bacon in search of Chicken and Waffles.
- Steve C
"AND BRING BACK SOME CILANTRO!" commanded the High Time Lord.
- Steven Perez
from IM
At that point someone stole the time lord's sonic screwdriver and made away with a great cackle...Twas the Master AKA Josh Haley.
- Alex Scoble
Meanwhile trouble was brewing in the land of Twitter. The citizens there were growing tired of having to speak only 140 letters at a time.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Suddenly a giant waffle Chicken showed up, brandishing a fierce clump of CILANTRO!
- Paul W. Homer
The evil Master Josh Haley ran all the way to the Land of Twitter, the Dread Lord's sonic screwdriver in tow, determined to break the 140-character limit with the Time Lord's technology, when he suddenly came upon the Giant Chicken of MySpace!
- Steven Perez
from IM
And a bunneh rabbit bearing the bomb that brother maynard carries with him.
- Martha
The Giant Chicken of Myspace was quite emaciated however, and was now only the size of a small cat. Josh Haley punted the Chicken in to outer space where it remains to this day.
- Alex Scoble
This all would have been reported on the internet, but sadly, RSS is dead.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Thankfully, the Chicken dropped his stachel of Magic Cilantro, which revived the RSS Feeds of Infotainment and powered the Great Chatter Machine.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Someone else chimed in to say that RSS is in fact not dead and that Dave Winer is quite proud of this fact, thank you very much.
- Alex Scoble
The Bunneh, however, dropped his bomb on that blabbermouth and went off with Master Haley to the Land of Twitter.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Unfortunately, the Corporate IT Nazis had set up a firewall blocking them from getting to Twitter.
- Alex Scoble
As Master Haley and the bunneh pondered how to break the Firewall of Doom, the other subjects were still searching for the Chicken & Waffles Stronghold.
- Steven Perez
from IM
The small band of warriors in the lead of the search were comprised of Gunny the Brave, Alex the Scoble, Helen the Songbird, Katie the Oblivious and Shey the Sniper.
- Steven Perez
from IM
They were charged with crossing into the lands ruled by the Nomura, an army of young girls who insisted that everyone carry an iPhone.
- Steven Perez
from IM
If they could cross into those dangerous lands without being branded by the Force of i, then they would find sanctuary in the Kingdom of the Penguin, ruled by the beautiful and beneficient Princess Stripey Socks.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Little did the Nomuran's know, Gunny's Blackberry Curve had a camouflage function and they were able to cross their territory undetected.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
"Get rid of anything with the logo of the Window on it," said Gunny the Brave to his band, "If you carry anything like that into where we're going, the Nomura will find us and make us slaves in their Mac mines."
- Steven Perez
from IM
Quietly, the intrepid band crept across the glossy lands of the Nomura, keeping a sharp eye out for trouble.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Suddenly, there came a cry across the plain. "OMG YOU GUYS THEY'RE OVER THERE!" Zounds! One of the Nomura had found them!
- Steven Perez
from IM
Shey the Sniper tried to pick off the oncoming Nomura, but they moved too quickly from one place to another. Things looked grim.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Luckily the Nomurans were deathly afraid of bunnehs and kittehs, and the intrepid band of adventures were armed with them.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Suddenly, Helen the Songbird opened her mouth and let loose a burst of song at the Nomura. "NOOOO!" the Nomura said. "OPEN SOURCE MUSIC! WE CANNOT HANDLE OPEN SOURCE MUSIC ***AND*** BUNNEHS AND KITTEHS!!!"
- Steven Perez
from IM
Thus repelled, the Nomura retreated to their White Towers of Jobs, vowing revenge on the Time Lord's Children of Time.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Steve woke up, thinking "I have to stop reading LOTR and FF before I go to bed."
- anna sauce
Unfortunately, Steven was caught in a dream loop, brought on by a meal of bad lobster. Only the purest cilantro could break the loop.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Hopefully, his warriors would soon return with cilantro, and some chicken and waffles, and his sonic screwdriver.
- Steven Perez
from IM
As the warriors exited the land of the Nomura, they soon found themselves at Castle of the Flightless Queen, Princess Stripey Socks.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Standing guard at the gate was Sir Haggis, Captain of the Guard, who demanded a password from the group to gain entrance.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Alex the Scoble, who loved arguing with people, soon began an argument with Sir Haggis over whether or not passwords were legal in the Lands Beyond.
- Steven Perez
from IM
While Alex argued with Haggis, the rest of the group found the secret entrance and snuck inside.
- Steven Perez
from IM
At last Sir Haggis attempted to end the discussion by saying "You shall not pass," at which point the Scoble said simply, "Enigma" which, being the correct password, compelled Sir Haggis to open the door. He did so with an oath: "Oh, Ffing enigma!" he said.
- Jim Hearts FF
Soon, the band of warriors were reunited and ushered before the most beautilful princess in the land, Princess Stripey Socks.
- Steven Perez
from IM
They looked up, each agape with wonder. The Princess smiled.
- Jim Hearts FF
"Brave knights," the Princess said, resplendent in her finest rainbow gown and colorful striped socks, "take your rest tonight, and in the morning, I shall give you the map to the Fastness of Porcine Foodstuffs, where you may find what you seek."
- Steven Perez
from IM
The knights were ushered into resplendent rooms where they could refresh themselves before the feast that night.
- Steven Perez
from IM
After some rest and a wonderful feast, the Princess begged the knights to play a song for her.
- Steven Perez
from IM
The knights graciously agreed, and here is the song they played: http://friendfeed.com/silas21...
- Steven Perez
from IM
And the cheers from the assembled throng were many and happy, as the band finished their song.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Suddenly, from outside the palace, came a hue and cry. OH NOES! The song had attracted the attention of the Wild Bunnehs! They were assaulting the castle!
- Steven Perez
from IM
"O NOES!" cried Princess Stripey Socks. "How will we repel the Wild Bunnehs? I need a True Hero to save my palace!"
- Ladybug Heather
"Brave Sir Haggis, can YOU save us all?"
- Ladybug Heather
Alas, Sir Haggis had disappeared beneath the onslaught of bunnehs.
- Ladybug Heather
And the Princess didst sing from the turret at the northwest corner of her fastness, "I need a hero! I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night!"
- Jim Hearts FF
Suddenly, the Lord of Time appeared on a white steed, a bag of magic cilantro around his neck and all the armies of FriendFeed behind him, shouting a mighty war cry of "DEATH TO WILD BUNNEHS!"
- Steven Perez
The Wild Bunneh's unbeknownst to the Time Lord had developed the Carrot Hole. Head Wild Bunneh gave the command, "Lettuce commence our attack."
- Janet
"Roger, Bunneh Leader, Bunneh Five going in"
- Michael R. Bernstein
The Wild Bunnehs fired the Carrot Hole at the Time Lord in a great flash of light and sound, the scene going bright orange and smelly slightly of carrot bread.
- Steven Perez
from IM
The Time Lord was wallowing in a sea of cream cheese icing. The planned worked, Roger Bunneh made five carrot general, he was hailed a hero.
- Janet
Ah, but the clever Time Lord was also a Kwitzach Haderach, and so called forth the rains to wash away the icing trap, while at the same time sweeping aside the Bunneh Army.
- Steven Perez
from IM
AHEM. NOT THE END. THIS ENDS WHEN I SAY IT ENDS.
- Steven Perez
from IM
NOW THEN, WHERE WERE WE? Right: So, having vanquished the Wild Bunnehs to a pocket dimension outside the Time Stream, Steven addressed his merry band of explorers, admonishing them, "Now don't forget: chicken, waffles, cilantro. And try to bring back some bacon, too. Here's some more money to help you on your trip."
- Steven Perez
Rescuing the brave Sir Haggis, Princess Stripey Socks charged him with joining the brave knights in the quest for good grub, giving a magic sword, enchanted shield, and a bag of holding containing a secret weapon.
- Steven Perez
The bag was moving, small sounds were heard. Sir Haggis was overjoyed when he glanced into this magical secret bag. A litter of babby bunneh cuteness could be seen.
- Janet
The brave warriors woke early the next morning, refreshed from their stay at the Castle, and set off to the West to find the Bacon Stronghold.
- Steven Perez
Unbeknown to them a Elf was following them eating the Cilantro that was leaking from the bag.
- Kim Landwehr
The merry band made their way across the Enchanted Fields of Flightlessness, eventually reaching the borders of the A-List Bloggers' country.
- Steven Perez
Gunny the Brave said, "Now be careful not to get into any arguments here. The people love to argue even more than -".
- Steven Perez
from IM
He had not even finished the sentence before Alex the Scoble got into a heated debate with Michael the Errington, a well known brigand and fool, and Chris the White, a born argumentative goof. Soon, even the Songbird and the Oblivious were arguing with several well-known bloggers whether Twitter or Facebook was better.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Gunny, seeing that this matter would require no small amount of time to resolve, sat down to eat an early lunch: cilantro in a cilantro wrap with cilantro mayonnaise.
- Jim Hearts FF
with a side of twisty fries seasoned with coriander.
- Jim Hearts FF
Suddenly, inspired by the cilantro coursing through his veins, Gunny hit upon an idea; he whipped out his Blackberry and tweeted the following: "STEVE JOBS IS AT THE STARBUCKS AND IS TAKING QUESTIONS."
- Steven Perez
Steve Jobs tapped him on the shoulder...
- Nick Taylor
Gunny fled the restaurant without paying, leaving his blackberry on the table. In the distance sirens... helicopter rotors... Gunny panics and climbs up a tree. Curious onlookers gather... Gunny shouts at them to go away...
- Nick Taylor
But there was no going away this day. No, Going away had been banished. The mighty over lord Steven had declared it to be so. Going away now had been replaced with
- Brent - Loving Life
singing! Gunny, with great relunctance, began to sing "We gotta get outta this place, if it's the last thing we ever do!"
- Jim Hearts FF
Gunny finding quickly that his singing basically sucked and the curious onlookers were getting closer, decided that the Not Going away command declared by the Steve Overlord was in need of some serious fixing quickly. Gunny thought and thought and thought and came up with an Idea, a brilliant idea, and just as the Curious onlookers were just getting to curious for safety reasons, Gunny
- Brent - Loving Life
Picked up a lazer ray gun and cut all the curious on lookers in half. "That will teach you to mind your own business." shouted Gunny.
- Brent - Loving Life
Gunny began to wonder if perhaps he had been a little hasty.
- Kevin J Hatton
But it was too late. The soapy nasty evil cilantro had altered his mind, and history forever, so-
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Gunny decided that Cilantro was never going to pass his lips again.
- Brent - Loving Life
My lips are on file, Gunny said; as the cilantro was secretly dipped in acid.
- Joel Robert Perez
'Damn that's hot!' he exclaimed and began to ponder his next move.
- Kevin J Hatton
Suddenly Gunny realized that Steven shared part of his name with Perez Hilton, so..
- JazJaz
And that's when a large bucket of ice cold water drenched Gunny from head to toe; Haggis had saved him from some bad cilantro. Meanwhile, the A-List Bloggers, thrilled at the mention of Steve Jobs somewhere in the area, ran to the next Starbucks over, which just happened to be next door, allowing Gunny and Haggis to gather Helen, Katie, and Alex and make their escape, after they grabbed Gunny's secretly cloaked Blackberry.
- Steven Perez
The intrepid band of heroes knew that they would soon need supplies, as their cilantro had been tainted by the dreaded IMHO Virus, a known cilantro-killer in the land of A-List Bloggers; luckily, Katie, who was usually oblivious to such things, knew of a secret stash of cilantro, borracho beans, Spanish rice and flour tortillas, so they headed off to the Mexican Restaurant at the Edge of the Mountain.
- Steven Perez
Soon after sitting down, they realized that a cloaked figure in the corner had been watching them with great interest from the moment they entered the restaurant. The Scoble began to be anxious, "I know that cloak, Haggis" he whispered.
- Jim Hearts FF
The cloaked figure, short and stout, made its way silently to the table, withdrawing its hood to display its large red mouth and row of sharp teeth, saying, "Greetings, fair travelers. I am Domo-Kun. I am here to lead you to our ruler, Princess Pea Awesomesauce, and she will grant you a boon for your trip. But first, finish your enchiladas before they get cold."
- Steven Perez
So the band of warriors had some yummy enchiladas and sopapillas, along with the finest tequila.
- Steven Perez
After their meal, Domo-Kun led the band to the edge of the mountain and said, "Now we must ride the wind. When I give the signal, we will jump off this cliff and be carried by the Rocs of Ages to the Stormhold of Pea. Get ready!"
- Steven Perez
From far away, a great raptor's cry echoed across the wide valley, soon joined by a chorus of calls that could have come from no ordinary birds.
- Steven Perez
"Sweet!" cried Gunny, through cilantro-colored teeth. "I've always wanted to be in a story like this!"
- Jim Hearts FF
Katie handed Gunny a toothbrush and said, "Better hurry, cuz I think we're about to go flying."
- Steven Perez
Then the rave began.
- John E. Bredehoft
At the rave, Gunny was given some cilantro laced with X. He passed out.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Katie smacked Gunny awake. "Focus, man! The Rocs are coming. Finish brushing your teeth and get ready to jump!"
- Steven Perez
The flapping of wings became louder and louder as the Rocs, huge winged raptors from legends long since past, came into view, preparing to sweep the cliff and pick up their passengers on their journey to Domo-Kun's homeland.
- Steven Perez
But first the winged wonders ate at the base of the tree with all the dead bodies.
- Brent - Loving Life
"Stupid Rocs," growled Domo, "always getting distracted." He produced a bone whistle from his robes and let fly with a silent blast of noise. The Rocs looked up from their meal and flew towards the travelers on the cliff.
- Steven Perez
"OK," said Domo. "On my mark ... ready ... ready ... NOW!"
- Steven Perez
The group of warriors leapt from the cliff onto the backs of the swooping Rocs, all of them easily landing on the soft downy surface. The Rocs pierced the air with their battle cry and flew high into the air towards the Stormhold of Pea.
- Steven Perez
STELLA!!!! was the war cry of The Rocs.
- Joel Robert Perez
Gunny, with freshly brushed teeth looked around dazed and confused.
- Brent - Loving Life
Suddenly, there was a trembling and shuddering deep within the heart of the world, as the light blue of the Principality of FriendFeed changed to a darker, more evil hue.
- Steven Perez
OH NOES! The world around them had changed to resemble Teh Evil Kingdom of BookFaced!
- Steven Perez
"THIS WILL NOT STAND!" cried the Time Lord. "WE MUST SAVE THE KINGDOM BEFORE IT CRUMBLES INTO DUST! Or, at least, before stuff like search and posting files doesn't work anymore!"
- Steven Perez
Leaping from his throne, the Time Lord hurried to his lab, where his podcast partner, Time Lady Amber of Spence and her assistant, the lovely Lady Shevonne, were tinkering with a circuit board.
- Steven Perez
"Hark!" cried Lord Steven. "Time to get it in gear, you two. Fire up the TARDIS and let's go! We have to gather our forces and prepare for the assault!"
- Steven Perez
The Fair Queen Stripey Socks was locked in the Tall Tower , against her wishes by the Evil Duke Haggess ... The Knights of the Crooked Table , Sir Perez , Sir Haley , Sir Worthington , met in secret quarters in the Castle to devise a plan ... to rescue the Fair Maiden ...
- johnpiercy
i was as bruised as the bloody Knife held in my hand " how was i going to be clever with the police walking up the stairs i just woke and there were dead animals around me it was a upmarket hotel in Barbados a dead horse a donkey bleeding and some other thing that are to disfigured too be identified how do i explain this "How procedurals , nok nok its the police yes just a moment as run...
more...
- Gratten
"Zounds!" said Lord Steven. "The time fractures are getting worse. Now other realities are beginning to bleed and merge into our own. We have to find the others quick so we can seal the breach and defeat the enemies of FriendFeed!"
- Steven Perez
Throwing up the chronal shields, the Time Lords and his companions streaked across the cosmos towards the Stronghold of Pea, hoping that the intrepid band of heroes mentioned way back when in the story were acquitting themselves with honor and dignity.
- Steven Perez
Making a brief stop at the Castle of the Flightless Queen to pick up Sir Haggis and Princess Stripey Socks ("No, you can't do drunken karaoke now! Yes, you can bring your PSYCH and SUPERNATURAL box sets with you! Yes, Sir Christian can come, too!"), the TARDIS made its way the Land of Domo-Kun ahead of the BookFaced Wave of Destruction.
- Steven Perez
In Facebook, you can "Like" your own posts.
Navid Ht, β-Кот Шредингера, Nop and 224 other people liked this
LOL!
- Steven Perez
ahahah
- Cenay Bayülgen
It's good to be the king of the jungle.
- CAJ, somewhere else
ROFL
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Hehe... I suppose that's because "like" doesn't really do anything in FB.
- Christopher A Carr
i try not to judge.
- Trish Haley
Actually, as far as I can tell, Like in FB does do something: it's basically an empty comment, so you get notified of new comments that occur after you Like it.
- Glen Mistletoe
BWAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA
- Parth Awasthi
Gl3n: Oh, yeah, there's that.
- Christopher A Carr
Hahahahaha
- Geoff Schultz
We were always told it's okay to like your own post.
- Robert Kenney
And you "like" your own posts because you can.
- Mr Saturday Morning NFG
Because you can, indeed. Just like Mr. Lion, here.
- Josh Haley
lmaaaaaaaaaao!!
- vijay
Exactly what vijay said! :D
- directeur
You mean... ROFLMBO: rolling on the floor licking my balls off?
- Adrian
haha
- Rodfather
Dude. ROFLMAO!
- Carlos Ayala
jaajajja xDDDDD
- Drea
Just telling it like it is.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
I make it a point to like my posts daily. heh.
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
I Like myself. ;)
- Dennis Jernberg
xaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxa
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
I like me.
- Christopher A Carr
lol
- Rick Cogley
:) :) :)
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
I wonder if I should post this on Facebook .. :D
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
LOL!!
- Ethan
I'm seriously hurting from laughing so much!
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
*Throws Tylenol bottle at Mahendra*
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
"jealous!" LOL
- Ron Thompson
from iPhone
Yes. I think it's exactly like a lion licking its own balls.
- Jason Huebel
from iPhone
+1 adrian, ROFLMBO.
- mjc
liked the title :)))))
- Viva Vida
just the titile, the pic is rood
- خیزران kheyzaran
@Glen: it's true but what bothers me most is that unlike friendfeed, fb delivers a separate mail for every person that comments on that post. #lame
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
hahaah. lol
- Mehmet Fatih YILDIZ
I would just like to go on record here and clearly state that, were I able to do what this lion is doing, I WOULD NOT! NO! NEVER! EVER! Thank you.
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Mark, not even if they were dipped in chocolate?
- Adrian
lol Adrian :D
- vijay
lol
- mikepk
No! Not even then!
- Mark "DerBingle" J
:D
- Kaan Biryol
To be honest, Mark, I don't think there are many people who would lick a lion's balls, so you aren't alone there.
- Slappy Line
Thank you ! Best of the day !
- Desirade
I love your FriendFeed background picture so much Big balls !
- Desirade
LOL Oh yeah thats the spot
- Jim Goldstein
from iPhone
Desirade, that just may be the best comment I have ever recieved!
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
strum above the hole, people!
- Jim Hearts FF
Damn, Jim, you beat me to it!
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Hahaha
- Ricardo Vidal
from iPod
1UP Jim
- Josh Haley
wewt?
- Danny Minick
lol
- Brady
Something to do while GMail is down.
- Josh Haley
Yau'll are some sick _ucks. Let the King have a private moment for God's sake. Shame on you people. Can't yau'll see he's welcomed in the jungle. He went down south :)
- Jeunelle Foster
sick _ucks, is that like hiccups?
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
LOLLLL
- Mil∂d
Very funny photo, just like a kitty cat
- F1Community
but why would you "Like" your own posts? that would be like...
- David Gross
hey if you don't like your own $h!t then who will?
- Tate DA FF MVP
it's good to like yourself unless your emo ;-p
- Loc
Laughing & crying at the same time... geez that's funny & contemporary #fb
- Yann Ropars
It's my birthday and I'll Like if i want to.
- Josh Haley
Can You Solve This Rebus?
Kol Tregaskes, 'Like' robot (frɐnc), Paul W. Homer and 10 other people liked this
No takers?
- Christopher Harley
I don't understand. Your friend's what?
- Glen Mistletoe
You'll see, Glen!
- Christopher Harley
*blink*
- Josh Haley
up an S = up an ass?
- Josh Haley
Nope.
- Christopher Harley
This is a riddle?? Could've fooled me.
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Under S. undressing?
- Josh Haley
Could've fooled you? It *is* fooling you.
- Christopher Harley
No, Josh. Not there yet.
- Christopher Harley
ox, ass, manservant, maidservant :( btw, that's not an "S" at all is it?
- Josh Haley
Yes, it is.
- Christopher Harley
I remember someone in my distant past saying it as, "Don't take advantage of your friend, "S"" with some connotation for cursive writing. That's all I've got.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Capital S = capitalist? but then...what
- Josh Haley
Nope. You've got the S, though.
- Christopher Harley
S hole. Asshole?
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Don't take advantage of your friend's kindness?
- Josh Haley
It's clever but it *is* a rebus so don't plan on it blowing your mind or anything. Rebuses are just kinda cute, really.
- Christopher Harley
And no, Josh.
- Christopher Harley
Oh, cute. Ok, we're going with cute..... hm....
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Don't take advantage of your friend's "desire to solve riddles" ???
- Paul W. Homer
Sorry, Paul :(
- Christopher Harley
Is it serif?
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
It's cursive.
- Christopher Harley
ENTER S. Don't take advantage of your friend's interest?
- Josh Haley
You've had some really thoughtful answers, Josh! Your mind scares me. But no answer to this rebus.
- Christopher Harley
The cursive S is kind of shaped like a duck... friend's duck?
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Largess, Big ass...I am running out of ideas.
- Josh Haley
is it "bottom counter"? The holes in letters are called counters and the arrow is pointing to the bottom counter...
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
BINGO< HALEY!!!!!!!!
- Christopher Harley
Largesse
- Christopher Harley
*headdesk* Don't take advantage of your friend's largesse.
- Jennifer Dittrich
WHA? Dayum dude.
- Josh Haley
Are you saying you friend has a large ass?
- Paul W. Homer
Ok, I had to look up that word.
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
My favorite answer is John's. :D
- Ayşe E.
I spelled it wrong
- Josh Haley
You knew. That's what counts. "Don't take advantage of your friend's largesse"
- Christopher Harley
I kinda like "Don't take advantage of your friend's large ass" too. They're both lessons for living, I'd say!
- Mark "DerBingle" J
This: http://www.youtube.com/watch... :-)
- Paul W. Homer
"Many have tried but only a select few have been able to take advantage of their friend's duck."
- Christopher Harley
I love a good riddle. Sometimes. :)
- Josh Haley
Well, you worked that one! Good job.
- Christopher Harley
:p I haz a tired brain
- Josh Haley
Largesse makes sense.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Yay Josh!!
- Yolanda
MOVING ON: http://ff.im/8lTQO
- Christopher Harley
When startups fail they often offer employees their PC, cheap. Obviously I need to choose ex-employers more carefully.
Paul W. Homer and i80and liked this
If the startup succeeds perhaps you can buy a huge chunk of Dell and get your PC for free ....
- Paul W. Homer
Given my history if the startup succeeds... then I must not have been working there.
- DGentry
"One thing’s for sure. God always punishes evil." "Oh yeah? Then explain Europe to me."
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He was here...
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HAHAHA
- Admiral Anika
haha, so true!
- Bora Mesut PALAS
Re: Microsoft Releases Linux Paravirtualization Driver Source - http://codingrelic.geekhold.com/2009...
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"Its possible. Another snippet I saw this morning implied that the drivers Microsoft released had been violating the GPL by statically linking to GPLd code, and releasing the source was a way to get positive press from something they were going to have to do anyway (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009......). I don't really buy this explanation, large companies tend to view the GPL as being toothless and don't generally respond so quickly."
- DGentry
Yes, I don't trust Microsoft either. They always have an agenda, and it's never "do no evil" or "lets make software better".
- Paul W. Homer
I'm looking for great tech/socialmedia/web blogs that most people have never heard of...the only condition is that they post once a month at least (and that they're interesting of course...) .... and it can be yours.
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along the lines of Louis Gray's under the radar series http://www.louisgray.com/live...
- Zee.
Zee, do you know http://www.gravity7.com/blog...? Not sure how well know Adrian's blog is. I particularly enjoy the Social Interaction Design posts
- Matt Hooper
no i don't, thanks Matt
- Zee.
Wink WInk. Nudge Nudge. :) - But seriously, I have stumbled across a few by randomly clicking stuff here in FF, so hopefully those people see this thread.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
long, analytic articles: http://blog.agoeldi.com/ (english blog from a swiss entrepreneur living now in Boston. Disclosure: He's also one of the authors of the german techblog I'm the editor of.)
- Marcel Weiß
Here are a few that I enjoy -- under the radar? I'm not sure: http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/, http://digitalroam.typepad.com/digital..., http://www.hinutech.com (mine...definitely under the radar).
- Josh Asbury
keep em coming folks!
- Zee.
http://www.scumbagmillionaire.com? Not strictly tech, but...
- drbeanbagmd
"Great" is a stretch for certain but I am trying here... http://buildcontext.com/blog
- Ben Hedrington
I'd love some more exposure for Shared Creation - http://www.sharedcreation.com. Its starting to turn into a useful resource so any shout out to help it along would be great
- Robert Davies
Copy cat. :)
- Louis Gray
@Louis, Zee said 'along the lines', not exactly the same! LOL
- Jorge Escobar
Mine's is not a tech blog, but I would love to have your comment on my latest post on social-media http://adkaal.blogspot.com/
- अभिषेक(Abhishek) Das
I'm not great, but I am technical -- http://theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com/
- Paul W. Homer
My favorite NUI blog -- http://theclevermonkey.blogspot.com/
- Paul W. Homer
Mine of course! :) http://www.dailypatricia.com -- i wouldn't say it's a social media blog, but i write alot about the internet platform and business around it.
- Patricia
Snap. http://garin.me
- Garin Kilpatrick
@Louis, dont worry - i promise i'm not stating a series of posts...just want more blogs faster than your 5 a month! :P
- Zee.
Great idea Zee. Always good to highlight great writing. :)
- Sheryl
www.futurity.org showcases original research from universities regarding tech, the web, society, etc. It's actually run by the universities themselves
- LANjackal
One side benefit is that I might subscribe to any here I haven't seen before, which makes them candidates for next months' lists.
- Louis Gray
well http://minZuD.com may qualify as a Tech blog. Its a tumblr tumblelog I maintain. Has a lot of your stuff in it Zee. It's easy on the eye and is something I am proud to maintain.
- ZuDfunck
Web/tech/social media - check.... Nobody has heard of - check... Once a month - check.... Interesting - I'll let you be the judge. http://www.jimyiapanis.com
- Jim
I'm working on a podcast & blog called Moms Gone Geek. We'd love to see what you think of it :) http://www.momsgonegeek.net Thanks!!
- TheMacMommy
You can visit mine at http://softwarecritics.info and tell me what you think.Thanks!
- Mathdelane
http://www.politechan.com/ is one I started to focus on the politics of technology and government tech efforts.
- Andrew Leyden
http://www.socialfeds.com | Blog with a gov2.0 "roundup" front page, topic is social media/new media in the government.
- Sara
http://www.communityorganizer20.com/ - this focuses on social media/web uses by nonprofits. Some of it is very basic, but there isn't any other blog like this that's not just basically self-promotion for some consultant.
- Amy℠
Since you asked, my blog focuses on collaboration practice and technology, including social software. http://lehawes.wordpress.com
- Larry Hawes
Hi Zee- one of the ones that I enjoy is Paul Bradshaw's Online Journalism Blog at http://onlinejournalismblog.com. He focuses on worldwide online journalism but integrates tech, tech analysis and the analysis of the ever-changing state of the web. - submitted by Debra Askanase
- Debra Askanase
since you asked my own www.the-techshop.com
- Rob Cairns
Everyone has heard of this one, by Valeria Maltoni, but I HAVE JUST GOT TO SHAMELESSLY PROMOTE this blog: Conversation Agent!!! I love that blog!!! http://www.conversationagent.com/
- J. D. Ebberly
I am gonna plug myself: http://yagglo.org I teach people the Internet
- Shawn Hickman
Well, unless you're a rabid fan of Lifestreaming chances are you've never head of mine :) http://lifestreamblog.com
- Mark Krynsky
Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/
- Polly Potter
I write http://www.bagofspanners.com - I'm a software developer / web designer - it's filled with stuff I have discovered, found interesting, or want to remember :)
- Jonathan Beckett
Dutch 'Ambtenaar 2.0' ('Civil Servant 2.0') aka gov20 http://www.ambtenaar20.nl - and the translation by Google Translate: http://translate.google.com/transla...
- Jeroen De Miranda
awesome stuff, keep em coming!
- Zee.
I focus more on the less-than-tech audience, but there may be some content you'll like http://www.dennisoneil.com
- Dennis O'Neil
I recently launched Social Photo Talk, focusing on the intersection of social media with the photography industry (specifically aimed at photographers): http://www.socialphototalk.com
- Aaron B. Hockley
NEWSFLASH: Earth's Gravity in Crisis but currently only limited to Dogs.
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Vader Dances to Hammer You Can't Touch This Dance: Star Wars weekends 2009 Disney - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Fucking EPIC.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
thats awesome!!!
- (jeff)isageek
And the crowd cheers - LOL
- Brent - Loving Life
Thats just wrong...
- DGentry
Mike Arrington, Bret Taylor and Robert Scoble starting the "Online Mobs" discussion.
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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
Announcement!! (by Bret)
- Micah Wittman
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
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
Arrington: We have complete agreement that I am right.
- Louis Gray
Thanks, Jérôme.
- Micah Wittman
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
Who's Abandoning Twitter? - http://valleywag.gawker.com/5311026...
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Jannifer, is your name Oprah?
- Louis Gray
lol - perhaps I should read the article... sorry, I was just answering the question! I'm not someone that matters like Oprah!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Never really used it much in the first place.
- Jeff P. Henderson
While it was a great bit of mainstream exposure for Twitter, I'm not sure Oprah matters like Oprah. 33 days? A shame.
- The Letter M
Twitter (and FriendFeed) are great forms of entertainment, but ultimately for both I find that the flow of stuff is just not enlightening. Do we really need this information or are we just playing around?
- Paul W. Homer
If more of my friends were on FriendFeed, I would in a heartbeat
- Keith Bourgoin
Quite a few. According to Nielsen, "more than 60 percent of U.S. Twitter users fail to return the following month, or in other words, Twitter’s audience retention rate, or the percentage of a given month’s users who come back the following month, is currently about 40 percent. For most of the past 12 months, pre-Oprah, Twitter has languished below 30 percent retention.". http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsen...
- Aviv
Since I really use FF, I don't use twitter directly anymore. I'll soon abandon the twitter service.
- DAL
My mother in law recently said she wanted a twitter acount. So I'm gone
- Martin Liechti
from fftogo
This is funny. I said this to a friend just the other day. The more successful that Twitter becomes, the more likely it is that early adopters like some of us will not want to stick around. We kinda like our peace and quiet or at least a dull roar that we feel we have some influence over. :)
- Sid Burgess
hopefully spammers but I am guessing that is no
- (jeff)isageek
LOL Martin!
- Bonnie Foster
I'm just about there... just when it's going mainstream...
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
I've left Twitter for identi.ca. Most laconi.ca-based websites are spam-free, and there are a lot of interesting people on identi.ca.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
I keep a Twitter presence because a lot of the people I want to communicate with are there. Some days I feel like Twittering a lot; other days I feel more like FFing.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
I use FriendFeed more for interacting with people, but Twitter's still got a larger userbase, so it's essential to have a presence there - just like it is on several other social networks
- Nathan Chase
Not abandoning but preparing to lessen the TwitShit by spending more time here and other places that link here.
- Ron Hagenhoff
Ron, you know that in Twitter you have the marvellous ability to *not follow* people? :) Seriously, if you find someone on Twitter is too noisy/spammy/whatever, just don't follow them.
- Ian Betteridge
Talking to @LarryMendte on the phone. Amazing amazing person. And the call drops. I #BlameDrewsCancer AND AT&T
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Who Is Your Audience And Are Audiences Different? - http://regulargeek.com/2009...
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Great article Rob! I do believe that blog audiences are segmented but there's not much we can do about it. You just have to put your best content out there, even if it's across a range of topics (i.e. highly technical to social). Thanks for the mention as well.
- Jorge Escobar
Jorge, actually the title of your post is what started my thinking. I am glad you liked the post, but I have to admit I feel like I rambled about a bit too much.
- Rob Diana
What you call rambling I call 'covering the subject well' ;) -- the only thing you didn't touch in there that I was kind of expecting was the long-tail audience -- those people that find you via search. For example, two of my posts (one is about enabling memcached using yum in Fedora and the other one is about video duration in YouTube) bring a lot of people because the keywords rank fairly high. Those are audiences that you need to try to convert, because their bounce levels are around 95%
- Jorge Escobar
Search users are an odd case as well. They are people looking for something specific, and bounce rates will typically be fairly high. The difference is whether they ever come back later. This is getting a little too meta-blogging, but I am not sure whether search users can be grouped at all because there is a significantly different purpose to their content consumption.
- Rob Diana
I think a blogger can capture part of this search audience by having recommendations or more links that can "trap" the user. It should be high-priority and I think about how to capture more of this people fairly often. Even though their initial purpose is different, doesn't mean they could become regulars.
- Jorge Escobar
The Myth Of Original Creators | Techdirt - http://techdirt.com/article...
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"Law professor Peter Friedman recently had a few interesting blog posts that helped highlight this. First, he noted that the very notion of an author as the originator of a new work is a relatively recent phenomenon, and part of the Romantic Movement. However, prior to that, the view was much more akin to what we're actually seeing today with online tools of creation: "creative endeavors are derivative and collaborative, that originality is not the product of isolated genius but of, well, remixing." "
- Todd Hoff
Yet it's still mine dammit! LOL...
- Todd Hoff
"I predict a return to blogging as people discover the power of being able to finish a thought" http://www.scripting.com/stories...
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I had thought blogging has been growing steadily, globally. Admittedly I don't have a good chart/stats for it.
- Mark Essel
I really like this statement - but will people return to blogging as we've known it?
- Tony
Are you perhaps over estimating the allure of thinking?
- Todd Hoff
Micro-blogging is good for idealets and infotainment, but it really is turning the web into a mindless medium like TV. Of course, there will always be the equivalent of PBS trying valiantly to raise the bar somewhat. Blogs will always have the possibility of transmitting real knowledge.
- Paul W. Homer
The interesting thing for me is I think we have lost the definition of what a blog is. Everybody jumped up and down about what Steve Rubel did, but really I see his change as a shift of platform. If he posted that same content on wordpress, nobody would have said a word. Just because he did it on posterous and called it a lifestream, people took issue with it. So, what is our definition then?
- Robert
I think Steve still has a weblog, he's just submitting posts to it in a "different" way. Like Dave's link says a weblog is "... a hierarchy of text, images, media objects and data, arranged chronologically, that can be viewed in an HTML browser." Pretty much sums it up, I think. Steve's post is going to generate attention, and debate, but in the end it's a weblog.
- Rob Fahrni
Robert, I know you're asking Dave a question, but I don't think the Posterious way goes against the definition. If I'm not mistaken Radio could post via e-mail, and I know Blogger supports this feature. Maybe I need to dig into Posterious a bit more but isn't that what it does?
- Rob Fahrni
Rob - That is my point. This in my mind is one of the major problems with looking for a "new name" for these social products. We see it as something different because it is called something different. Posterous, from what I can see so far, allows for the writer to interact with their "weblog" in a different way, just as you said...
- Robert
from email
Huh?
- Dave Winer
Dave - I think your "huh?" was towards me... We call Posterous a "life stream", I say it is a blog, that we have given a different name to. That is what I am saying.Rob - I agree with you 100%, and that is my point exactly. I keep reading these post about blogging being dead, or blogging being alive... but those that say they are not "blogging" are still "blogging" Maybe I am not making sense, but I hope I am...
- Robert
from email
Robert - Precisely! I think Posterious is trying to find a why to differentiate their product, so they've coined a new phrase. It's still a weblog, how the data arrives may be different, but it's just a weblog all the same. When I read Steve's story last night, from his new site, I thought I was going to find a link on it to something "new and innovative", then I realized I was AT the actualy site, his "life stream."
- Rob Fahrni
Robert - Right on!
- Rob Fahrni
Blogology is a still too young science, and definitio usually comes when plays are over. What I feel sad for is the lack of opportunity future literature and social behaviour experts will suffer not using post's content ( and graphics ) as sources for studying today's world zeitgeist. Borges prophecy is at work, few understands - too many doesn't even know what they're writing about: a...
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- valerio fiandra
from iPhone
Robert, the photo sharing site you've used recently is structurally a blog too. It differs from normal blog software mainly in that the chronology is by date of occurrence, not date of posting.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
It's funny that this sentence and a few lines from Anthony Trollope's autobiography should have crossed paths in my consciousness on the same day, since it's almost the same idea, thrown back two temporal orders of magnitude. Trollope tells of a correspondent, a vicar, who had enjoyed his clerical novels but was upset by Lady Glencors'a contemplation of adultery in the Pallisers series....
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- Amyloo
This is silly. Blogging isn't defined by the tool, it's defined by who's doing it. Read the piece I pointed to. I don't mean click on the link and hit the Back buttton, click the link and READ.
- Dave Winer
Agreed, Dave. Heck, we blogged back in the day via FTP uploads; that's what moved you towards developing "Edit This Page", in fact (IIRC).
- Ken Kennedy
This subject keeps coming back - blogging will never die.
- Jesse Stay
Before Web 1.0 we listened, conversed, collaborated and then we wrote. Writing was the synthesis of all the thinking that occurred in the first steps. In the new medium, the thinking process is the streams, both personal and community. Blogging is the synthesis of this new kind of community thought process.
- Joolio
Dave - haha! - that is awesome :D
- Susan Beebe
Pity there's no "Really, Really Like" button.
- Chris Baskind
Of course bloggin won't die, but you better have compelling content, because people have little tolerance for long articles.
- Todd Dewell
I think a large percentage of bloggers were really microbloggers, they just didn't have the correct apps to do that. The people that actually have something to say will keep blogging and those that just like to say something small or share something interesting will continue microblogging, or lifestreaming, or whatever variant you want to name it. Blogging is akin to publishing articles...
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- xero
This was known since the times of IRC: you can only have idle chatter or quick focused questions at that speed.
- Michele Costabile
Michele, if that premise is true, then kids only absorb important life-long lessons from their parent(s) when they're sat down for a full length lecture. No? :)
- Micah Wittman
The best food for thought always come in easily digestible chunks, however, sometimes you need to digest some larger/harder stuff to give you the ability to digest that chunk.
- xero
Agreed, well said, Xero.
- Micah Wittman
I thought completing a thought was the beauty of FriendFeed.
- Alan Eggleston
Microblogging is very much a product of the times, very ADD, very video-game-ish; so I agree strongly with the idea of longer.
- Rick Cogley
Just FYI, when I started Scripting News in 1997, it was entirely "microblogging" -- look in the archive. http://www.scripting.com/1997...
- Dave Winer
Dave - I very much appreciate you keeping up this fight. When I heard this past weekend the term "Lifestreaming", and seeing it picking up momentum. No, this has to stop. Twittering is an aside to your thoughts, or a highlight to pull people to your thoughts, if it's you only thoughts, you need put your head below the surface of your lifestream while carrying a big pile of rocks and...
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- Matthew DeVries
LOL, unfortunately, I don't think this problem exists just for blogging :)
- Armando & Cindee Edrosa
from iPhone
This isn't a fight. I love all this stuff. I was just saying what I think.
- Dave Winer
Even calling it a "Lifestream"? That's the creepiest sounding thing in tech, since Steve Balmer was threatening to "Squirt" his music onto my Zune.
- Matthew DeVries
Who really quit blogging? Even the most active lifestream addicts never really quit. For me, the blog is and has always been home. Everything else is somewhat ancillary, even when it's the first place I go. Critical thinking sometimes requires the depth of a written post.
- Ken Camp
Question: Of those of you out there who use posterous, do you use it as a replacement of your blog, a mirror of your blog or something different?
- Curt Mercadante
Ken - Rubel quit blogging.
- Matthew DeVries
One of the things I like about blogging is the ability to not finish a thought, not to try so hard to say all I have to say or say come to any definite conclusion in a single post. The unfinished thought is what encourages conversation. Let someone else add to your thought. Let others challenge your incomplete premise. I don't know everything, why pretend I do? My thoughts are never finished.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Wow, you're right Dave, scripting news was indeed VERY much a microblog. Interesting & thanks for pointing that out!
- Rick Cogley
Just last night, my sister sent out a vague tweet that made no sense to me out of context: http://twitter.com/awarnoc... So I suggested she blog about the topic so that readers like me would understand the context. http://twitter.com/awarnoc... http://zelzega.blogspot.com/2009...
- Peter Warnock
Just because you can finish a thought, doesn't mean people will read it.
- Will Higgins™
Tell me about it. That happened earlier in this very thread. But at least you ca read it yourself.
- Dave Winer
Just as your diary became your journal and then your log, your log has become your stream. The web has become your life..... AND SO IT WAS, that in the year naught-nine, the web-log was renamed to life-stream, dissected, and it's pieces scattered about the hundreds of "cloud" services, from which it could fall as raindrops of thought, pinging here and there in an attempt to spread ideas to where they were needed the most.
- Joel Bennett
No time to read it. Can you give us the gist of it in 140 characters or less? Thanks.
- Diego Barros
Here's a picture, even easier than 140 chars. http://tr.im/qrBb
- Dave Winer
Haha, love it!
- Rick Cogley
Love the idea!
- Sampad Swain
Come on, Dave. Where's your sense of humor?
- Diego Barros
Where's yours?
- Dave Winer
If you were joking, that's cool. I can take it. :) (I was joking, honest)
- Diego Barros
Me too. :-)
- Dave Winer
Blogging is still the platform of choice for sharing a clear/uninterrupted flow of thoughts from a single perspective. Then comments rapidly add value to the original post's material (most of the time). We're witnessing the link power of blogging decline because that functionality (which is monetizable) is moving to social media. We are left with the question, how best should bloggers monetize if they're losing link passing strength? I'm working that issue now by frankensteining several parts together
- Mark Essel
Personalized/Customized ads based on public user status. Semantic tools (via API), memory (local user profile database), and the passing of information to an ad aggregator will help produce custom (dynamic web matched) advertisements. It should serve all parties involved (social media, bloggers/front ends, semantic processing houses, and advertising aggregators).
- Mark Essel
What do you mean, I have always been able to finish a ... ooh a nice shiny object...
- Marcel de Jong
Isn't it ironic that this post contained a clear and concise thesis, in under 140 characters?
- Mike Chelen
Good point Mike...
- Mark Harai
There's NOTHING wrong with brevity. There is a time and a place for discussion and lengthy discourse.
- Will Higgins™
Mike Chelen - "a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning ... the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning." - Nope, not ironic
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew DeVries: that covers definitions 1 and 2, yet the 3rd is an "incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result," where in this case the expected result was to explain how new platforms prevent thoughts from being finished, and the actual result was to the contrary :D
- Mike Chelen
If you say so. I never saw that definition, but I have no reason to doubt you, or motivation to find the source myself, so, I'll allow it.
- Matthew DeVries
aren't we all copying from the same online dictionary? http://www.merriam-webster.com/diction...
- Mike Chelen
No, I rattled mine out of something I memorized years ago.
- Matthew DeVries
wow, you got it perfectly word-for-word, remind me to pick you for my crossword puzzle team :)
- Mike Chelen
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I really like the last bit: "The right information at exactly the right time!"
- Paul W. Homer
Thanks Paul :-)
- Alexander van Elsas
6 - 6 * 6 = ?
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You should see the flamewars that start in World of Warcraft's Trade chat over this little math problem.
- Jason Huebel
-30
- Andy Bold
0?
- Admiral Anika
-30. Andy is right.
- Mark H
*whispers* Math is stupid.
- Admiral Anika
Andy is correct. The equation should be evaluated thusly:
- Jason Huebel
6 - ( 6 * 6 )
- Jason Huebel
6 - ( 36 )
- Jason Huebel
6 - 36 = -30
- Jason Huebel
How does that work? Surely 6 - 6 is 0. Multiples of zero are still zero...
- Martin Bryant
I read online recently that you're supposed to do the multiplication first. I was taught that you go in order if there are no parentheses.
- Admiral Anika
Multiplication/division are always evaluated before addition/subtraction.
- Jason Huebel
multiply/divide have precendence, so it's like 6-(6*6), or 6 - 36, or -30. Side question, what's the average SAT score in the WoW Trade chat forum? ;-)
- Andy Bold
@Amber +++++ Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction
- Shevonne
@Andy, probably around 500, which is the lowest score you can make on the SAT's, I think.
- Jason Huebel
Must be the 'new math'. </old lady>
- Admiral Anika
I was always taught to work through sequentially.
- Martin Bryant
+1 Shevonne. So if I had put ( 6 - 6 ) * 6, Anika would be correct. But only because I forced the subtraction to take precedence by putting it in parenthesis.
- Jason Huebel
Yes. My math teacher in middle school helped us learn by this expression: (P)lease (E)xcuse (M)y (D)ear (A)unt (S)ally =D I thought it was silly when I was a kid, but it worked!
- Shevonne
WolframAlpha and google say -30 http://www49.wolframalpha.com/input...
- Rui Pereira
If any of you are on a Mac, just pull up a terminal window and type python. Then you can type the expression in. Programmers learn pretty quickly that multiplication has higher precedence.
- Cristo
In my opinion, if you don't use parenthesis in an equation then you're doing a disservice to the person who's trying to solve it. #mathgeekcomplaint
- Jason Huebel
Yeah, I learned the Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally thing for equations *with* parentheses, but I also remember being taught the same as Anika re: equations *without* — you go in order. I have no math recall anyway. God knows how I made it through to AP Calc in HS. -_-
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
I only learned the order of operations while learning BASIC. I'm not even sure they ever addressed it in math class. But according to Google, the order of operations has been around for a while. Apparently there's some controversy as to whether multiplication has higher precedence than division, or if they have equal precedence, like addition and subtraction.
- Victor Ganata
If you're on a Mac, forget about opening the terminal, CMD-Space and type your expression. Jason, what's the background to the WoW forum issue?
- Paul Grav
It's just a little trolling fun, admittedly. A friend of mine will post something like this occasionally just to see the sparks fly. He'll say something like, "hey, need help with my math homework. What is 6 - 6 * 6?" People will respond with various answers. Then when someone says "No, you all are stupid. It's definitely -30." my friend will post that his math teacher says it's -12. THEN things really go nuts. ;-)
- Jason Huebel
from IM
LOL. How do you get -12?
- Victor Ganata
Use BODMAS. Brackets, Others, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction. Makes things like the square root of (9 - 5 * cube root of 6) make sense.
- Rich
That's the point. ;-)
- Jason Huebel
from IM
Now I am curious. I think most computer languages and Google will just evaluate multiplication and division left-to-right, but how do human beings do it? For example, how would you read 3*10^3/6*10^6? Or how about 1/2 x, where x = 6?
- Victor Ganata
(3 * (10^3)) / (6 * (10^6))
- Jason Huebel
from IM
1 / (2 * x)
- Jason Huebel
from IM
I was told there would be no math on Friendfeed! ;)
- holly
Actually, on that second one, it depends on if you are saying that 1/2 is a fraction or if you mean 1 divided by 2. The distinction is significant.
- Jason Huebel
from IM
(3*100)/(6*1000000)=300/6000000 = .00005
- Shevonne
Second one is 2x...I think
- Shevonne
I guess the lesson is to not leave it ambiguous. Google evaluates 3*10^3/6*10^6 as ((3*(10^3))/6)*(10^6)
- Victor Ganata
Or 1/2x
- Shevonne
Half of x would be 3. But 1 / (2 * x) would be 0.08333...
- Jason Huebel
from IM
one-twelth, that is.
- Jason Huebel
from IM
Yeah, if multiplication and division have equal precedence, then you get 3. If multiplication has higher precedence than division, then you get 1/12.
- Victor Ganata
@Victor, ambiguity is the root of all evil. :-)
- Jason Huebel
social math is fun!
- ishak
Yeah, but liberal use of parentheses makes it a whole lot clearer.
- Jason Huebel
from IM
Even when it's something as simple as x * y + z, I still add parentheses. Habit, really.
- Jason Huebel
from IM
Well, except for that time. But only because I was repeating your equation. ;-)
- Jason Huebel
PEMDAS = Please Execute My Dumb Annoying Siblings
- Louis Gray
@Louis, I think your math teacher was bitter about something. :-D
- Jason Huebel
Google knows it's -30
- Head Ov Metal
Google is all-knowing. So that's not surprising. ;-)
- Jason Huebel
Yeah, it's -30.
- Steven Perez
I <3 that this simple math problem/discussion made Best of Day. :-D
- Jason Huebel
Yup, basic arithmetic, order of operations, PEMDAS. -30. You can get twelve if you adjust a power and a sign. 6 - -6x6^0, but then that's not the same evaluation.
- Pete Delucchi
There's one ambiguity: is multiplication higher precedence or equal precedence with division? Although in practice, I think all software considers them equal precedence.
- Victor Ganata
I generally do multiplication first.
- Jason Huebel
from IM
Now I know why I didin't do well at math. Thanks for the reminder :)
- Roberto Bonini
My apologies, Roberto. ;-)
- Jason Huebel
Yep, 30
- Peter
-30, actually. :-)
- Jason Huebel
What Jason said.
- Kate Foy
well I thought it was zero too. oh well. ;)
- Simon Tracey
from BuddyFeed
I can't believe some people don't know how to do this.
- Alejandro
Math isn't everyone's forte...
- Jason Huebel
I wasn't trying to insult anyone, it just surprised me. ;)
- Alejandro
I'm not sure how often this scenario actually comes up for the average person. I don't remember the last time I had to remember the order of operations in order to calculate something. And when in doubt, I use parentheses.
- Victor Ganata
true Victor
- Alejandro
Order of operations: "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally". Given that logic the result would be -30.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
In most programing languages, the answer is -30. But if you're working in Smalltalk, which doesn't respect the standard order of operations, then the answer would be 0.
- Joey Gibson
The order of operations in Smalltalk is *very* simple and easy to explain to anyone. No complicated "levels of precedence". Just left to right for operators. That's important when you can invent an operator at the drop of a hat... you can still look at a local section of the code and know how it is parsed.
- Randal Schwartz
@Randal, I can definitely see the power and flexibility of that.
- Jason Huebel
This is why I switched to RPN years ago. 6 6 6 * -
- Robert Hafer
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Snow Leopard being $29 is spin; it's valid if you had Leopard. Let's say that's 70%... that leaves 30% with a different & more mysterious pricing structure. (I couldn't find it on http://www.apple.com/macosx)
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@Wade that's a very good point
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Someone left this comment on the post: "I have a MacBook and a PC. I’ll definitely be downloading the Windows Vista Service Pack for free. But there is no way I am paying $29 for the Snow Leopard service pack.. It’s time for Apple to start doing some development and release a new OS not just Service Packs."
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It's an interesting point
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You have to buy the full retail version of Snow Leopard if you don't have Leopard. That will be $129, like previous upgrades.
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@Ian yea that's correct... The point though is less about price and more about choice. I don't even know which version I'd be able to upgrade to or pre-order
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I haven't heard that Apple is going to change their pricing structure. They always come out with 2 versions of the OS: the client and the server. The only other variable that determines how much you're going to pay is how many licenses you need. For the client, you can get a single license or a family pack. For the server, you can get the 10-client edition, or the unlimited edition. So, not dead-simple, but not that mysterious, and nowhere near as convoluted as Windows' multiple crippled versions.
- Victor Ganata
Victor - great points however apple does a great job making the licensing clearer even on the packaging
- andy brudtkuhl
Also, at least since Tiger came out, Apple has always allowed you to upgrade to the next major version for a small fee if you bought your Mac within a specified time frame before the release date. I guess the new thing is that this time, all you need is a pre-existing version of Leopard.
- Victor Ganata
One thing that looks encouraging though: did Microsoft really get rid of their ultra-lame Home Basic edition, that has almost no features?
- Victor Ganata
@Victor Home Basic is not being sold retail, but it's not gone, according to http://www.winsupersite.com/win7...
- Wade Dorrell
@Victor Also note that tomorrow PC makers will announce what the upgrade pricing is for new PCs bought tomorrow... see here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows.... Could very well be $0... and that is a bit confusing... whereas Apple charges $10 to go to Snow Leopard if you buy a Mac today, that is simple.
- Wade Dorrell
hopefully it's 0.00... But I would just hold off on getting a new PC unless you absolutely need until it ships in October
- andy brudtkuhl
You think all that's confusing, you should be in Europe.
- Ian Betteridge
@ian yea that blog post from M$ said something about that... i assume it's even worse ??
- andy brudtkuhl
@Ian - also why.. because of EU's lawsuit?
- andy brudtkuhl
Basically, MS is not selling upgrade versions of Win7 in Europe - you have to buy a full retail copy. They're blaming the EU judgement for this, although the Competition Commission says that's crap and they don't have a problem with MS selling upgrades. However, to make it even MORE confusing, MS is having a "limited time" offer where you can buy a full copy for what's effectively upgrade price!
- Ian Betteridge
@Ian. What Microsoft have said is they haven't tested the upgrade process from Vista to Windows 7 on the E version. So their choice is either to delay the launch until they have or simply not sell it.
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