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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. -- Ansel Adams
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LOL!!!
- Kol Tregaskes
I held Ansel's dodging tool in his darkroom. One of the highlights of my life. His projector let him control exposure on parts of the image too (it has a grid of lights he can turn on and off).
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I always liked how accepting Ansel Adams was of using tools and technology to improve his photographs beyond what came out of the camera. There's a show of his work going on at the SF MOMA right now.
- Thomas Hawk
I love that Mr. Scoble commented on this from his iPhone!
- Dane Deasy
10 Affordable Pens Geeks Love - http://www.lifehack.org/article...
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Doesn't include my favorite, the Uniball 207 (make mine a Micro, .5mm tip, please). Got turned onto it at Moleskinerie. It's wonderful to write with, and the ink is fade proof, water proof, acid proof, and all kinds of other proof. Uniball markets it as "Prevents Check Fraud!!" (from check washing), but when I'm writing in my little Moleskine that I use for "deep thoughts", I like the idea that the ink will pretty much outlast the paper it's on.
- Josh Bancroft
I always have the Fisher Space pen on me. It's on that list. So small and convenient!
- Sam Grover
Here's the link to the review that convinced me to make the Uniball 207 my pen of choice: http://www.moleskinerie.com/2006... (hat tip to @tiesque on Twitter, who sent me that link when I asked for pen recommendations). It's easy to find (you can get it at the grocery store, Target, etc. as well as the office supply stores) and it's cheap (usually about $1.50 per pen). It comes in black, blue, and red. I love it.
- Josh Bancroft
It's also the "official pen of that check forger guy behind the story/movie Catch Me If You Can", because the ink is chemical proof. Or something. :-)
- Josh Bancroft
I'm mainly hooked on the Tombow Zoom 414 multipen at the moment - a nice metal multipen that takes standard D1 refills. Parker branded refills are nice - smooth and dark black. He does have some good choices, though. I'd second Josh's points on the Uni Signo 207, though - nice style and good to write with. I'm usually a fountain pen fan, though, and I love the Lamy 2000, and Pelikan Souverans.
- Michael Randall
I'd add the Pilot Razor or Razor II (both fine-point felt-tips) and the Zebra F-301 (a small non-gel ballpoint that can go on a keychain).
- Jon Adair
So odd that geeks should share preferences in pens. I am all about the uni-ball deluxe micro. And you can quote me.
- Ed Guinn
Port of Long Beach Responds to Incident of Photographer Harassment - http://thomashawk.com/2008...
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Photography is not a crime!
- Philipp Mertens
I was very disappointed with the response from the Port of Long Beach. Their Officers just blatantly lied and the Port executive staff seems to be excusing their behavior.
- Thomas Hawk
damn, Thomas, forget their response. That photo is awesome. I love great night shots like this.
- Karoli
Thanks Karoli. It was an interesting bridge to shoot. I've got lots more photos from our shoot that night that I'll be posting over time. I love long exposure night photography. Fun stuff indeed.
- Thomas Hawk
Papers please, we are concerned about *your* safety.
- Bjorn Stromberg
Tthe great tool of fear and fascism is the false belief that the state must be our protector and benefactor, that we cannot know our own best interests and that they 'only have our safety as a concern.' Bollocks, Thomas. That response is pure, uncut bollocks.
- Bob M. Montgomery
from twhirl
I spelled 'bullocks' wrong... see, this is where a State-sponsored spelling dictator would be of some use.
- Bob M. Montgomery
from twhirl
Thanks for posting about this, Thomas. Hate hearing stories like this. We just wrote about the incident at LAist. Keep us posted! http://www.laist.com/pda...
- Andy Sternberg
from fftogo
Thanks Andy, appreciate it.
- Thomas Hawk
Damn, I live a couple miles from there, in Downtown LB. Too bad I missed you.
- Nick Dynice
Let's see if I understand this - it's for your own protection that you must register with the authorities? Outrageous.
- You.
RT @Kevinwmurray:Jesus only had 12 real followers and still has the most well read blog of all time. (only beating Scoble by a bit.)
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FriendFeed's Growth Rate Continues to Eclipse Twitter - http://siteanalytics.compete.com/friendf...
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A few weeks back I predicted that FF would overtake Twitter in users in less than one year. Compete's new June numbers are out now. Last month FF grew 33.7% while Twitter grew 5.4%. Assuming a static month over month growth rate, based on June's numbers, FF would have more users than Twitter in a little over 6 months.
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
Interesting - For me, Twitter and FriendFeed still serve different purposes and that seems to be the case for a lot. So while many Twitter-ers may adopt FriendFeed - I don't see it completely surpassing it in 6 months....
- George Smith
Awesome. Keep watching this space.
- Hao Chen
I'm guessing the overlap in the user bases should be pretty high. So even though the rate of growth of Twitter may be much lower, i have a feeling most of the people who joined FF recently are already on Twitter. Till we have a comparable number, it may not be a completely true analysis to say people are preferring FF *over* twitter, would it? I too believe they serve different purposes and should co-exist.
- Parth Awasthi
They may have different purposes but they are definitely competing for the same attention width.
- Brian Sullivan
George, I agree, I have them both open right now, is that weird?
- Cody Heitschmidt
Certainly FF is siphoning off some of Twitter's growth. I think though that FF is much more addictive and multifaceted than Twitter and is the stronger momentum play right now. If I were running a hedge fund (I'm not) and these were both publicly traded companies (they're not of course) I'd be tempted to short Twitter and use the money to buy long shares in FF.
- Thomas Hawk
This chart also likely corresponds with the amount of Scoble's Friend Feed sticker giveaways :)
- Brian Ries
Thomas - Thanks for your thoughts. When twitter has negative growth three consecutive months we will have another facet to discuss.
- Russellreno
I'm with George Smith on this one. This is not an either or. These are 2 good tools and I'm sticking with both for now. BUT, with every Fail Whale I see, my doubts grow.
- shelisrael1
The initial growth of FriendFeed, but if you look at the total volume of users of both services, FF has a ways to go before it's going to overtake Twitter.
- Brandon Wood
when either gets to 10m users they we will have a story
- David Henderson
from twhirl
i see the need for both but would like to see friends collapsed as 1 set
- Lee Kent
we'll know these companies have made in when all the good people have left, the comments are full of pr0n spam and your mum asks you for your username...
- Barry de la Rosa
I think one of the main reasons for more adoptiong is the ability to have a tru conversation, without having to hunt for messages every few seconds. I think it would be great if they do some more features to make it easier
- Shivanand Velmurugan
from twhirl
comparing month on month growth rates isn't really that helpful here. obviously the doubling time for FF is going to be less than Twitter because it is starting from a smaller base. In terms of users/month Twitter has been growing faster than FF, something I expect Twitter are pretty happy with given their recent problems.
- Samuel Bostock
Samuel, that's what people said last month. Since then FF's growth has only gotten stronger though while Twitter's has gotten weaker. month on month growth rates certainly are anything but accurate forecasting tools. Still, perhaps FF will eclipse Twitter's growth even *more* next month.
- Thomas Hawk
I never imagined this would have this fast
- Akshay Dodeja
The big question in my mind is when will the FF graph flatten out? Trees don't grow to the sky and every site / service will start to plateau at some point. Either way, this will be fun to watch.
- Mike Doeff
Just imagine how fast they would grow if they incorporated Facebook status and Myspace content. Right now they are siphoning from a small pond, Twitter and the microblogging networks. There is a lot more opportunity for growth if those two are brought into the fold.
- Andrew
I don't think it's a shock that FF growth rate is high. Twitter broke new ground. Most FFers are Twitters also -- and Twitter was probably the first mircoblog we've all used. Making the switch is easier.
- Rob Williams
uuhh.. is *no one* here discussing how compete.com gets it's data? vitally important..
- Barbara K. Baker
I'm seeing much less response on Twitter, and I hope it's not because I've gotten boring- I think the conversations are on FF.
- Brian Carter
I definitely spend more time on FriendFeed these days than I do on Twitter, even though I have orders of magnitude more friends on Twitter. I would say there's not much competition there!
- Scott Jarkoff
Its interesting to watch. But there is still the simplicity of Twitter that keeps many who have grown accustomed to a society that offers crap service as the universal standard.
- Curtis "Billy" Cross
from twhirl
It depends which way you look at this data. I'd rather have Twitter's curve.
- John McCrea
It sure is funny to watch the these bloggers push FriendFeed, like they are getting paid or something!
- Thomas Capote
from twhirl
It looks like social media aggregation is a major rising tide. Check out Plaxo Pulse vs. FriendFeed. Remarkably similar slopes. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/friendf...
- John McCrea
JMc - Plaxo is growing faster than FF, and I have not seen any hype around Plaxo.
- Russellreno
but still, i can't help but think FF is rising BECAUSE of twitter. people come here to check it out. if they stay, great. if not, they've still got the numbers. right now it's like a few months ago when everyone was talking/blogging about @twubble and other "twitter-pack" type apps and bots. i had a HUGE follower surge. same shit, different month.
- Hillary Hartley
Russellreno: It's because we chose private sharing and conversations for mainstream users around circles of family, friends, etc.
- John McCrea
Clearly, though, I use both services (and really like them both). As the British would say "horses for courses." (Different horses are better for different courses.
- John McCrea
John - Agreed. My Plaxo invites come from friends that would not find FF useful. Just the same, when the Twitter v FF conversation comes up Plaxo isn't mentioned although it is tracking with FF.
- Russellreno
I've been watching Compete's 'Velocity' tracking between FriendFeed and Twitter. It has grown exponentially. I am definitely convinced at this point that Twitter is to Friendster like FriendFeed is to Facebook. I only wish I could buy stock...
- Philip Ryan Johnson
Dear Microsoft, I know full well that the software I just installed requires a reboot. Please quit bugging me every 5 mins about it. I'll reboot when I'm good and ready.
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The worst part is if you happen to be typing when it pops up. I think the default is 'yes, reboot now', which is pressed by hitting space. I end up leaving the prompt on the screen, just pushing it off to the corner so it's almost gone. Lived that way for about a fortnight until rebooting this morning.
- Michael Randall
from twhirl
Dear Microsoft, why the hell do I have to reboot every time I install software? Surely there is a better way.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Of course you don;t have to reboot after installing all software, or even most of it. Even most OS updates these days do not need a reboot.
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
doesn't stop windows from asking. that message sucks...
- Chris Harris
@Rahsheen Porter no reboot with linux :D
- Anthony Farrior
FFFFOUND! - http://factoryjoe.tumblr.com/post...
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Who made this "sculpture"?
- Bruno Pedro
A big lesson we should be learning from the Twitter experience: Putting all our eggs in one basket is a bad idea. Twitter has too much power and it's just a corporation, with limited abilities and lots of interests that aren't aligned with those of users. The web is not like that. More in comments..
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What Twitter gave us is wonderful, but we should strive to re-create the experience outside, in the wilds of the web, where no one but the government controls what we do (that's bad enough). I see a lot of people rushing to FriendFeed to replace Twitter, I find myself wanting to do it too, but it has the same danger. It's not just about keeping the servers up. Centralization is inherently dangerous. Not saying we should do anything other than think and keep our eyes and ears open.
- Dave Winer
You can say limited abilities again.
- Andrew
as someone who's twitter account is currently entirely broke, and feels like she's been put on mute, I'd have to agree.
- Erin @queenofspain
I don't get why people put all of their messages into one service. I have most of my Tweets linked up through ping.fm that posts them to multiple services, not just twitter
- Tyler (Chacha)
from twhirl
chacha it's a time issue for me. twitter was the fastest and easiest. was looking at others, but didn't have the time, like a real early adopter might, to get into a bunch of other things.
- Erin @queenofspain
I agree. its annoying when you know about all these services, or might not know, and then if you don't have enough time to figure out if it is a waste of time or soemthing acctually useful, kind of just stops you from trying the beta stuff.
- Tyler (Chacha)
from twhirl
Erin, I think you're missing a bit of Chacha's point. While it's true that keeping up with every new service is difficult/impossible, Chacha was speaking more to the fact that services like ping.fm allow you to "spread your bets", so to speak. If you post at a site that posts to other sites for you, you can focus on the site you like, but still have a presence at others. That way, if you have to switch, you're not completely starting from scratch. There's still network disruption, but it's lessened.
- Ken Kennedy
Dave, "Centralization is inherently dangerous." tell that to the honey bee !! But seriously its not bad, if all users in utopia mode :)-. I believe that the expectations of society in and by itself needs to change. The greed for materials and money is the shortcoming of humanity. As you walk thru The Corridors of Time o you will certainly see that humanity comes together and then breaks down b'coz of ego and greed. Technology hives are no different. I agree, FF, Jaiku, Pownce all have the same dilemma !!
- Peter Dawson
I wonder whether it is not possible to establish an open format for microblogging and especially commenting. Subscription and specialized search engines should be enough to follow conversations. is that too naive?
- Heinz Wittenbrink
from twhirl
centralization is very bad. Vote Republican... we aren't for the single government corporation. Put your vote where your mouth is and don't support the brown shirt Palestine supporting National Socialists.
- Noah David Simon
if you think internet tyranny is bad for your comments... just wait for the reality tyranny to come knocking on your door. It is called Obama and it smacks of internationalist tyranny.
- Noah David Simon
Here is the funny part. All the Comments in Friend Feed are all in a Single Basket. I like the fact that FriendFeed Aggregates all of your content so that the acctually sharing is decentralized (You have a list of your shared stuff on Google Reader and Delicious, etc) But all of the comments you post up are completely on FriendFeed. Is that going to be the next step? Maybe allow all of your comments to be hosted on your blog and then aggregated?
- Tyler (Chacha)
from twhirl
If we allow "the government" to control what we (or corporations) do, there will never be a "bigger and better" version of Twitter.
- Craig Eddy
I'm sorry, but this is crap. One poorly designed application architecture isn't a call for large-scale revolt. Blah, blah, blah. I'm so beyond tired of the whining and bellyaching. If you have a better idea, then build it. If not, then quit complaining about it. It doesn't accomplish a thing to sit and bitch.
- Cyndy
Twitter down doesn't bother me much since I only use Twitter a few times per day, and I use it for different reasons and with a subset of people that don't -- and I suspect won't -- use FriendFeed. So, my messages are strung across services: friends from high school use MySpace; friends from university use Facebook; friends from India use Orkut; other friends use Twitter; strangers I talk to use FriendFeed; etc. That's why I scoff at the "email is dead" notions -- email doesn't feel fragmented to me.
- Kirk Kittell
Yeah, his brand of "IT" = "Internationalist Tyranny". Got that right.
- William, CPU Media
Well this really isn't a big revolt. It a bunch of people coming to realise that keeping all of your content in a single area prone to crashes is really a bad idea.
- Tyler (Chacha)
from twhirl
Chache -- that's exactly what I'm saying.
- Dave Winer
I wish I could string those services together...
- Kirk Kittell
@Kirk I doubt email will ever really be dead. Kind of like Postal Mail Today. Its the backbone communication system that you know is almost always reliable, aand for the most part private
- Tyler (Chacha)
from twhirl
BTW, since you use twhirl, I'd like to point out another way we can get safer. If our clients create an archive of everything you do, but not on Twitter or FriendFeed, that's a good way to: 1. Recover if the system you're using fails and 2. Encourage the development of parallel systems to do innovative stuff with our tweets and FFs, etc. If you think it's a good idea -- send Loic a message. He likes video messages, I hear. :-)
- Dave Winer
My last comment is a big one guys. If we can get users to ask Loic for this feature, I promise -- developers will be able to do cool stuff with it, and not just guys who can keep huge honkin servers running. You'll see an explosion of new creativity.
- Dave Winer
I'm always amazed when I read comments like this. Twitter is a free web service that no one forces you to use. The original premise was "What are you doing ?" so it was just a bit of fun. If you base your business/web presence/your indentity on Twitter then you are in trouble. A decently hosted website and email are the most important things for your activity on the web.
- Paul Nash
I hear ya Ken. I guess what I'm saying is I didn't know about Ping or others until well...now.
- Erin @queenofspain
"A decently hosted website and email are the most important things for your activity on the web." Yup. And make sure you have an office with a pretty receptionist. And take out some ads in the Yellow Pages and the local TV stations, too. And hang a shingle. ;-)
- Josh Bancroft
Dave has an important point regarding archiving (no matter how you define it). Tweets and FF shares and comments now contain interesting info and pointers to more of the same. So keeping a record of these could be important.
- Bill Anderson
from twhirl
"so keeping a record of these could be important. " - yeah google knows everything :)-
- Peter Dawson
I agree on the concept, definitely. Jon Udell has been evangelizing these concepts as well for awhile; a good overview here, called "Hosted Lifebits": http://blog.jonudell.net/2007...
- Ken Kennedy
@Paul Nash I understand your point but i still disagree. web 1.0 was about one person on an island sending out bottles via email lists. Web 2.0 is about a NET of networks intertwined and dependent on each other for communication. p2p is the backbone for today's successful technology and even though twitter is centralized, it also plays a huge part in a how to business model. the discussion here is amongst content publishers and we need twitter or something like it to function properly, imho
- Anthony Farrior
I'm not sure there was some huge downside to embracing Twitter. The conversation has moved to FF almost instantly given their reply problem over the past week. It seems to me that the zero switching cost of the interwebs is in full effect here.
- Jason Calacanis
Hey so what the hell? Peer to Peer twitter. let's code.
- bugtank@gmail.com
Is It Time to Serve The WINE? - http://www.lockergnome.com/theorac...
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I just put $2 in a special place in my wallet so that I'll always have it there. For the rest of my life whenever I'm asked for money on the street I am going to offer whoever asks $2 in exchange for taking their portrait. I'll also get their name and try to learn a little about them.
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I really like this concept. I think I will steal this idea from you.
- Jeremy Hall
That's a great idea
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
That is an amazing idea! Absolutely brilliant :-)
- Maria Reyes-McDavis
from twhirl
Wow! Considering the number of such instances that one comes across; it is potentially an huge number of subjects! I'm gonna steal this idea as well!
- Parth Awasthi
idea now officially stolen! Nice one Thomas!
- jerry
Technically, not a street, but this is the information highway...can I have $2? You may need a 12,000,000,00mm to get my portrait though ;)
- Ace
better not forget the wallet ;-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Ace, if you run into me physically on the street and ask me for it I'll give it to you. ;)
- Thomas Hawk
Stolen in LA as well.
- Tsega Dinka
Dobromir, my wallet and 5D go with me everywhere. And since I plan on carrying a camera around with me for the rest of my life this shouldn't be a hassle.
- Thomas Hawk
Good idea.
- Mary Anne Davis
I've thought about doing this - I think it would be cool if you had 3 set questions you asked each subject. This could turn into an interesting project.
- Sam Purtill
I hope you didn't get a patent on this idea cause I may have to still it too :)
- Sam Purtill
it was a joke Thomas I carry my wallet wherever I go too, just sometimes it's hard to find :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
I would want more than 2 dollars :)
- Photo Larry
from twhirl
Need a flickr group $1 photos
- Yolanda
If you caught that youtube video about fake panhandlers, beware who you give those $2 out, they could be making more than you an hour!
- Colby Olson
Some people might want more than $2 and some people might not want to do it at all. But that would be their choice. I suspect others might appreciate the human interaction in addition to the money. I don't mind if a fake panhandler got $2 from me if I got his portrait.
- Thomas Hawk
You could create the first location based DB with profiles for panhandlers :-)
- Gabriel Biguria
I see a new flickr group in the making... $2 portraits Cool idea TH
- gfurry
Beautiful idea, I love it.
- Brandon Wood
PayPal me the $2 and I'll send you a photo, save you the bother of getting your camera out :-)
- Anthony Burns
Gabriel, sadly that already exists. Will you guys make sure to follow through on this! I want to see these portraits.
- Frankie Warren
Will beg for Flickr
- TranceMist
When did the going rate for panhandling go up to $2? Now I know why they stopped asking me. I've still been giving a buck.
- Kevin Shannon
Check out the 100 Strangers group on Flickr. Here's what they're doing: Step out of your comfort zone to a new level of portrait photography. Start by taking 100 portraits of people you don't know. The idea: The One Hundred Strangers project is a learning group for people who want to improve the social and technical skills needed for taking portraits of strangers and telling their...
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- Lisa L. Seifert
Stupid comment character limit... And the rest: Who are they? What is their life like? Try to tell a small story with each photo you take. This may be a story about the person or how you felt approaching that particular individual. You may have, for example, tried a new approach or used a new photographic technique. Try to learn something from every encounter you make. http://www.flickr.com/groups...
- Lisa L. Seifert
Lisa, I love the 100 Strangers Group. Trejack was working on this in Las Vegas when we were there. Has anyone done it in a single day yet?
- Thomas Hawk
Sounds like a good idea...
- Mike Wills
you have a good heart. That's an awesome idea ! And the idea of blogging what they tell you -- that's awesome. Maybe you should put your $2 in the camera phone sleeve ...
- General Kafka
Thomas, that is awesome. Forgive me for stealing it from you.
- Joe Mac Stevens
Very happy FriendFeed stayed up and fast through the WWDC. Good work, everyone at the FriendFeed HQ!
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rock solid
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Go FriendFeed!!!! EPIC WIN!
- Steve Isaacs
FriendFeed was rock solid throughout. Way to go Bret, Paul, and the rest of the FriendFeed team.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
I never had any doubts. Nice job, guys.
- Louis Gray
Love Ya Friendfeed!
- Parth Awasthi
from twhirl
Indeed ! that's was very nice! Have you done anything special about this Bret? (Like twitter's folks)
- directeur
very nice. anyone could guess Friendfeed would make it.
- SolidSmack
from twhirl
way to keep the fail whales away
- Jeremy Raines
We did move a few things around, but nothing temporary - the event inspired us to optimize a few things we had been meaning to optimize anyway.
- Bret Taylor
yay scalability!
- Neha Narula
Bret: Big! Congrats! You've done a very nice job ! :)
- directeur
I guess that I will be hanging out with ya'll for the rest of the day. :)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
FriendFeed FTW!
- mathew ingram
unlike the oh so much stress Twitter will be having FriendFeed will be up and running
- Outsanity
I'd like to second this notion: well done Friendfeed, you guys have your shit together and I respect that.
- ryangraves
Rob (Radez) actually just said the same thing. Good work, guys!
- Gabor Cselle
Even wordpress hosted sites are down! FF is well hosted and manged!
- Lakshman Prasad
from twhirl
well done you guys.
- Tsega Dinka
Me think FriendFeed cousin Googawl...
- directeur
It rocked... simply the best place for live updates.
- Vince DeGeorge
FF rox!
- anna sauce
This was great! FF had updates faster than the folks liveblogging the event.
- Jennifer Dittrich
ya, man, FriendFeed Rocks!
- Ralph Poole
from twhirl
Kudos..It was your stress test
- Varun Mahajan
nothing beats FF!
- Dieter Schwarz
FriendFeed triumphs yet again
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
well done! friendfeed deserves all the hype it can get!
- Chris Hofmann
Does it count as hype if it's true?
- Amit Patel
pity we cannot say the same for twitter :)
- Photo Larry
from twhirl
Amit: A wise man once said it isn't bragging if it is true.
- Russellreno
Twitter made it through the Stevenote & was great at updating us on what they are doing, great job guys http://status.twitter.com/post...
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Getting better! Good to see. :-)
- Alex Williams
from Alert Thingy
Congratulations! The bird is doing his homework. Keep rocking guys.
- israel
Hats banned from Yorkshire pubs over CCTV fears - http://www.reddit.com/goto...
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Scobleizer: The Movie - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Patrick Minze, John Linthicum, Michael Lehman and 17 other people liked this
Oh, I get this a lot.
- Robert Scoble
Come to think of it, the resemblance IS troubling ;-)
- Rubin Sfadj
who can give me the full list of friendfeed's rooms?
Beebo Wallace, Daniel Schildt, robb enger and 12 other people liked this
That's what I am looking for as well, is there like a directory?
- Joe Dawson
Guys, I want the list too.
- Jick Nan
That would be something very useful.
- Jorge
Just been looking for that too- thought somebody here might know :)
- Mike
Yes, we need the directory.
- Roger Chen
This is needed. Tired trying urls
- FrenchW
I don't seem to find many that work either
- Joe Dawson
yes, a room list would be nice ;)
- Kyle Weller
Looks to me like this might be the only one
- Ryne Nelson
See Jeff Clark for his Google search http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Russellreno
468 Results- http://www.google.com/search...
- Mike Fruchter
You can join this room to get notified of new ones: http://friendfeed.com/rooms...
- Glen Stansberry
500 Rooms is the MacDaddy of all lists. http://blogoscoped.com/friendf...
- Russellreno
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Re: Robert Scoble and 20,000 People Walk Into a Bar (or, what I learned during the Twit-Out about Twitter vs. FriendFeed conversations) - http://mrontemp.blogspot.com/2008...
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"Very clever and creative!"
- Thomas Hawk
I'm still trying to figure out how to order off the menu at "the friend feed" :)
- Frankie Warren
excellent discourse on islands of chatter. the analogy is very clear and brilliant.
- Peter Dawson
Please Retweet, Folks: via @arielwaldman: "Twitter refuses to uphold Terms of Service"... Important stuff. http://arielwaldman.com/2008...
Michael Randall liked this
@anjrued NOBODY expects the Unscheduled Downtime! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise....
Michael Randall liked this
My husband thinks you all need to see this. http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons...
Michael Randall liked this
You can no longer blame Twitter's problems on me -- I haven't been on all day and it still went down.
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but you've been going here constantly http://istwitterdown.com/, admit it!
- Melissa Pierce
Is friend feed down? (kidding kidding)
- Doug Brooks
HA! And now http://istwitterdown.com is LYING to us in a feeble attempt to cover up for Twitter's shortcomings.
- Nathaniel Payne
I cannot believe how unreliable it is being!!!! But it manages to fool http://istwitterdown.com/... it says no but I still cannot connect to it!!!!!
- Paolo Barone
what's funny is that since i made "twitter come back" - it's been down more than ever - driving more people to my music video! :)
- Allen Stern
Well it's down, and yet it's not down. I can't reach the pages properly, but I don't get time-outs either. Just a blank page.
- Rosana Kooymans
it seems to happen around 4:30 / 5 or so (EST)
- Tim Broder
it is down and not working for me. sux
- Photo Larry
It's down BECAUSE you weren't on it. It needs your tweets to survive.
- Louis Gray
I am trying...just keeps erroring out
- Photo Larry
As much as I haven't really cared all that much about an hour here or there, it is starting to get to the point where I expect it is down, and that is very bad for Twitter. Now I come to friendfeed to talk with people rather than Twitter. I hope they can get things solved quickly.
- Caleb Elston
@Louis - HA! Twitter's hungry for Scoble tweets!
- Hutch Carpenter
louis, c'mon you know you are the force- you are the "luke" if you will
- Allen Stern
AHAHAH istwitterdown.com says "of course" BAHAAHAH
- Allen Stern
They have issues that are beyond out of control at this point it is hurting them badly
- Todd Cochrane
from twhirl
Yeah... hopefully they can get things figured out... quickly...
- Adrian Nadeau
istwitterdown.com says No, Twitter still says Nuh Uh.
- MLx
Your fault still! They were fixing it for your traffic and when it ceased, their fix did not work. hehehe
- Rom Feria
now istwitterdown does not respond... do we need a "istwitterdownDown" service? :-)
- andrea
LOL. Robert has an alibi
- Bwana ☠
is boycotting twitter today cuz it wont work
- Photo Larry
i already thought you tried to export your followers to friendfeed or something …
- kosmar
@kosmar yea I found an import tool so guess no big loss. Just was starting to like twitter and its been down 2 days now so its annoying me
- Photo Larry
scobleizer, okay - though, tell the guys at friendfeed thats their big opportunity now ;-)
- michael h
One benefit of the Twit-Out. I didn't know until now (3:00 pm PDT) that Twitter went down today. My life is more peaceful as a result.
- Ontario Emperor
If FriendFeed goes down today... guess who we're blaming?
- Vince DeGeorge
I was gonna be a dick and go to twitter to say I didn't hear about the twit-out on twitter but on a blog (note: useless use of the internet), but it was down, so now I can be all smug and whatnot and go back to doing stuff. Well, that, and talking about Twitter on Friendfeed and how we are using Friendfeed for this. And you WONDER why no one makes money? Cuz we are retards, srlsy.
- Eric Rice
Wait....what? :)
- Bwana ☠
Its gotten so bad that "istwitterdown" had to update their site to say "Of Course"
- Nik Butler
to spin bless you eric for saying that. Indicates you are prolly a little less reatrded. That is a good thing.
- Mark Forman
can we blame you for facebook being down?
- Jeff Quinton
Just don't bring your voodoo to FF! ;)
- Anthony Farrior
That's why. :)
- TranceMist
Blame it on me: http://twitter.com/xhtmlcss my bot posted MORE tweets than Scoble... I feel bad.
- directeur
LOL
- Mitchell Tsai
Sally Church, accesine, Robert Stribley and 16 other people liked this
I saw that Shey, too funny!
- jcunwired
I'm still laughing...oh man
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Love it :)
- Colin Walker
It's like a daily maintenance period... in the middle of the afternoon!
- Morton Fox
middle of the afternoon? no, it's when the majority of Twitter users (in Japan) are waking up and coming online. Maybe some piece of Twitter is choking on some Japanese Unicode and taking the whole thing down with it :-)
- Karim
Chinese Earthquake Captured in Wedding Photos!!! [Pics] - http://reddit.com/goto...
David Angier, Andrey Andreev, Andrew Dobrow and 3 other people liked this
wow.
- edythe
I don't know how to describe these photos. Wow starts to.
- Robert Scoble
I "liked" it, but not really. Got to go put more food cans and water bottles in my garage now.
- Geoff
the bride in her dress against the rubble...
- edythe
A comment on the site claims they are photoshopped ... not sure if they are, but they look good anyway
- Peter Cattell
If photos are posted somewhere with comments enabled, someone *must* post a comment claiming they are photoshopped. It's the law.
- Michael Randall
from twhirl
Google Reader, Why Dost Thou Taunt Me? - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
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"What if this "number inflation" suddenly sweeps through all Google apps? Will I seem more popular on GMail even though nobody e-mails me there? Will miles be added on to every trip when I get directions from Google Maps?"
- Louis Gray
I've been experiencing that a lot tonight, Louis. The sidebar will say I have 200 items, but the main area gives me what you pictured. I was able to clear it up by signing out of Google and signing back in. Annoying to say the least.
- Mark Trapp
Phew. Not just me. I like the Google Reader app and the team, which is why it's in part fun to show this. They do a great job, but that's an amusing bug.
- Louis Gray
GReader must not like you guys, I haven't had even the slightest hint of trouble at all today.
- Shawn Kirsch
@Shawn: Inside, I am crying. :-(
- Louis Gray
and here I am with FeedDemon working flawlessly as usual :)
- Steven Hodson
Steven, whatever it takes to make you happy and cranky-free. We are at your service.
- Louis Gray
Shawn, have you let GReader get recklessly high in unread items? At one point, I was well over a thousand unread entries, and was chalking up the weirdness to GReader's (not so) silent protest.
- Mark Trapp
Scratch that, now it's going goofy on me. And yes Mark, I've had well over 3000 unread items before, and as they kept on coming (really busy news day), it took me about 6 hours to get through them.
- Shawn Kirsch
I want more options instead of just like. Such as "dream of seeing this." I considered it a success to have my reader under 100 once this month.
- Cyndy
So Cyndy, how does that happen? I check in multiple times throughout the day and bring it to zero.
- Louis Gray
Same problem here!
- Maryam Ardakani
Dunno, Louis... more feeds? Gah. 300 more in the time I was making a child lunch for school. It's WEDNESDAY people! Stop writing! Wednesday is supposed to be a SLOW catch-up day!
- Cyndy
Google Reader has been acting weird all morning. Only now has it's stop giving me error messages.
- Paul Grav
I've got the same problem >1000 new items and no unread items? Meh.
- Sally Church
yeah, GR has been doing the odd on me today too. Not catching up with the read items properly.
- laurence timms
from twhirl
very scary
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
You've been secretly cut-off dude. Did you buy someone at the reader team a caff instead of a decaf when you were there?
- Charlie Anzman
Sounds like something you late nighters faced! :-) Maybe Google did some maintenance overnight thinking you night owls would be in bed.
- Hutch Carpenter
I gave up on Google Reader - and all readers - a while ago. Much better to actually go to blog pages than to see a denatured version in a meta-browser.
- Edward Vielmetti
I agree with Edward, but then again I don't check 1,000 feeds like Scoble does. Techmeme, reddit, digg and tweets are all the recommends I need.
- Justin Gardner
from twhirl
I live in the land of the feed reader. I'm right there with Scoble 1000+ feeds to read every day. And I have the scattered across several online feed readers (I like to play around), doesn't stop me from adding more feeds, I don't even flinch.
- Shawn Kirsch
As an information junkie, I regularly check out close to 500 feeds: saying just go to the blogs is like telling a heroin addict to just chew gum.
- Mark Trapp
Even I was confused with my GReader for sometime. But it got fixed soon
- Varun Mahajan
Google Readers been screwy alot reacently- at the moment I can watch new shared items come in from friends, it flashes yellow, and then when I click there's nothing new. Very irritating, but when it works, it's awesome so I don't mind too much,
- Fearghas
This just happened to me - I hope "screwiness" means a new feature coming.
- Vince DeGeorge
Had the same issue.
- Steve Rubel
This was one of the main reasons I switched to a desktop reader. I was sick of being beholden to when Google decided to check for updates.
- Tris Hussey
from twhirl
I get messages like that occasionally. Usually combined with the old "j key doesn't work anymore" trick. I take it to mean that I need a break. If I log out and walk away, it seems okay later. Strange.
- ha3rvey, not a sweetheart
@Tris +1 Well, that and the fact that they couldn't seem to count higher than 1000, which seemed ironic for a company named Google.
- Cyndy
10 Friend Feeds Worth Following - http://thomashawk.com/2008...
Admiral70, Tyler Gillies, Mitchell Tsai and 64 other people liked this
Thomas, you are too kind. Thanks for the mention!
- Louis Gray
Louis, you do more to help people on this site than anyone. I think that's great.
- Thomas Hawk
Hey, I'm in there! Thanks :)
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Your note about adding Flickr imaginary friends reminds me of Dave Winer's FlickrFan. I've been turning on a spare Mac just to let the FlickrFan screensaver run. When people come over, they just stop and stare at it.
- ha3rvey, not a sweetheart
Extremely appreciative of the mention, Thomas! Thank you! Though... um.. Matt Hardwood? ;-)
- Matt Harwood
Wow I made the list! *blush*
- Benjamin Golub
ha3rvey, I still need to try out Dave's FlickrFan. My problem is that it's Mac only and I only have a MacBook Pro (that I'm typing on now and that is my primary computer). For media consumption at home though I use a Vista Media Center PC and three XBox 360 extender units. I use Slickr to download all my Flickr faves on the internet and then run similar slideshows with my Media Center PC.
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas, that is a great tip: to see my Flickr connections faving photographies on FF!
- Jeroen De Miranda
Great post. Additionally another random source is to check the "everyone" tab occasionally - I've found more than a few interesting things that way. I also like to randomly search for topics of interest and subscribe to the posters.
- Doug Brooks
Thomas, Thanks for the link to the app for importing Twitter friends into FriendFeed. FF should do this on its own, but the app provides a great service.
- Gregory Pittman
from twhirl
I don't see the advantage yet to viewing Flickr photos in friendfeed vs in your RSS Reader. I was already seeing what my favorite Flickr people were fav'ing by subscribing to their fav feed in Google Reader. Plus you get to see the "unsafe" photos in Google Reader too (I think).
- Kevin Reed
@Doug I've found a couple folks that way
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I only have a handful of my Flickr contacts added to FF via "imaginary friends", but it's been a much better set-up than via RSS. I don't have to subscribe to both their stream and their faves; I simply get both.
- JA Castillo
And the subscribers start coming; 7 so far since you posted this have subscribed to me.
- Benjamin Golub
Benjamin: one more :)
- Matt Harwood
Thanks for the mention! coolio! Yep, the subscriptions are on fire baby! woo hoo! <Twit-Out! FTW!>
- Susan Beebe
@Kevin Reed, the design and layout of imaginary friends Flickr feeds on FF is a much cleaner, better, look than the Flickr RSS feed. Plus I can see it all here where I already am without having to go to an RSS reader. I've stopped using RSS readers entirely now.
- Thomas Hawk
@Doug Brooks. That's another GREAT tip!
- Thomas Hawk
Lots of useful information here! Thanks...
- Simon Bisson
Thanks for the mention! I commented on your blog entry too but the Blogger comment system doesn't like me. Hope it went through.
- Morton Fox
feling... shunned. :(
- Jeremy Toeman
No mention here either but I'm fine with that. You see, I would never join a club that would have someone like me as a member. Heh heh heh.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Just finished reading it - really great post. A few good people, and a few good ways to find more people. And a few tips to get the best out of those people. Nice one, Thomas.
- Michael Randall
from twhirl
@Thomas Wow, stopped using rss readers. I was wondering how to handle the balance/overlap between rss reader and friendfeed.
- Kevin Reed
@ Thomas - how are you now keeping tabs with what you gathered via RSS feeds?
- JA Castillo
Excellent post; really good to see so many posts explaining how to get the most out of FriendFeed- really preventing me from doing revision!
- Fearghas
This is the first time I was mentioned in a top 10 list. Speechless. Thomas your involvement here will help the FF community grow.
- Russellreno
Jeremy, you know I love you. That's the problem with these sorts of lists. Inevitably people get left off simply because they didn't come to mind right away. You are definitely someone worth subscribing to and I think the work that you do to introduce business to social media is invaluable!
- Thomas Hawk
Agree @thomashawk @Louis Gray is the patron saint of FriendFeed
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Michael and JA Castillo, RSS is dead to me now. Like Twitter. At some point I may need to take some of my top RSS feeds and make imaginary friends out of them, but hopefully those bloggers and news sites will just join FriendFeed instead and I can subscribe to them here. RSS was way too noisy without effective hide functionality. FF is a far better way to consume content. I'm also finding much more interesting new phtography news here like the story I just found from JA Castillo and blogged.
- Thomas Hawk
Thanks for the reference, Thomas! Now I have to live up to being interesting :O! I was wondering why I was getting all those subscription notifications all of the sudden!
- Fa La La La Lindsay
I follow pretty much everyone in this article already! And I try hard to follow more people than are following me. Ok, it's not that hard actually.
- Phil G
You're becoming the ultimate feeder amongst my friends!
- Steve Rubel
I'm still surprised by the amount of people on Twitter who haven't yet jumped on the FriendFeed bandwagon.
- Eric Florenzano
BTW I would argue that Scott Beale (laughing squid) needs to be on that list as well :) http://friendfeed.com/laughin...
- Doug Brooks
Doug, Scott Beale's a great guy as well and a good San Fran photog pal.
- Thomas Hawk
Thanks for the mention TH. Much appreciated.
- Chris Nixon
Thanks for the mention Thomas!! Appreciate it!
- Bwana ☠
just looked through it and found myself. lolthxbai
- kosmar
i like the point on the noise
- Tyler Gillies
apparently I'm not good enough for you :-(
- Duncan Riley
People have this habit of following some top users just for the heck of following and reading what they talk among themselves. I'd rather follow my friends and have a good time then follow some A listers who won't know you exist.
- Palin Ningthoujam
Thanks for the great list. I really like the one about adding your twitter friends to FF. I shall be working on that. Oh well I guess I will make the list next time ;)
- Admiral70
Twit-Out: Let's talk about why we love Twitter so much. We put up with so much, yet we don't hesitate to recommend it to others. Express yourselves.
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The sex. But seriously. The speed. The numbers of people you can interact with efficiently. The fact that every message has a permalink (I wish I could permalink to specific comments here).
- Robert Scoble
I love that it's an avenue to express what I'm thinking right now
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
For me it's the truly dynamic nature of the service. The spontaneity creates an ever-flowing sea of information surrounding so many topics. It's so accessible, so easy, yet so hard to explain to others :) If I had to create a value proposition for Twitter to any executive, I'd be stumped. It's just so darn cool.
- Bwana ☠
I also love getting a peek into what others are thinking
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
The speed... not always.
- Morton Fox
I like the speed, real-time interaction and conversational / debating dynamics that occur here! very cool. I like Scoble's idea of permalinking to a single comment; heck I still want a REPLY feature to a single comment too!
- Susan Beebe
I can talk to RTM and reach people via SMS. I can see what people "smarter" than me are reading/writing/thinking
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
from Alert Thingy
Sex, expression, speed, dynamics. We have the makings of a major motion picture here. Seriously, I echo Rahsheen. Who would have thought that a concept so simple could provide for the sharing of such rich information? Its a true glimpse into the human network.
- jcunwired
Exactly!! this is why I love FriendFeed and enjoy it so much!
- Susan Beebe
Just started more activel using. Got a little bored with Twitter. Miss the chatroom-like energy, but like the links to deeper (and often better) content.
- Clayton Donley
from Alert Thingy
For me, the greatest power of twitter is that people are listening. When someone tweets they expect a reply...whereas FF seems to be a bit more of a bookmarking utility (which i still enjoy a ton). In addition, there are few things more exciting than using twitter at an event and catching the stream-of-consciousness from all attendees. I've even enjoyed going back and reviewing post event.
- Tyler Hannan
I feel like I work in the office of the people who's blogs I admire... I get to stop by thier office and even catch them in the hall between meetings.
- Nancy Babyak
(1) The simplicity of Twitter lets you use it for whatever you want. (2) SMS is a fantastic interface for those who don;t "get" the web. I have relatives who ONLY use SMS to Tweet. (3) Twitter is a grea tplace to start a discussion and (4) Twitter has great people.
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
1) there's a magic to twitter and all of a sudden it occurs to me that one of the reasons we're so enamoured with it may just be its fallibility. it makes it all the more human. 2) my friends on twitter are awesome. what can i say. 3) i really like the easy way to personalize the look. the change in avatars alone is entertaining.
- isabella mori
I started my Twit-out this morning. Being in Malaysia, Wednesday came really early. :P 14:25 now...just a few more hours to go. Strangely tho, I feel kinda ok not Twittering today.
- Paul David
Its simplicity. You can communicate in seconds. Right now I'm emailing posts to a pseudo-microblog, and hopping through many more hoops than I would if I just typed something in slandr.
- Ontario Emperor
Absolutely the speed. Twitter is such a part of my distributed information workflow that when it goes down I feel seriously cut off from the world. But I'm willing to wean myself from the Twitter Teat (tweater?) for a day just to see if this makes a difference.
- cecily
That you know - It is guaranteed: "Less gab in one entry!" =)
- Erhan Erdogan
Twitter solves the tl;dr problem.
- Morton Fox
Simplicity. The fact that your messages can be promiscuous or private. The sheer voyeuristic frisson of knowing What Someone Else is Eating for Dinner. The fact that it's a status board, a 2-way communications system, and a blog WITHOUT HAVING A MODAL SWITCH. The similarity to Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park. The fact that it sometimes fulfills our Deep Inner Need to Complain. The fact that it is both CB radio and a Message in a Bottle.
- Karim
I thought I was the only one tweeting my dinner. Now it's a Twitter stereotype? Funny!
- Morton Fox
Also, the light hypnotic trance achieved by contemplating the question, "What are you doing?" Zen koan or accusation? YOU decide!
- Karim
The 140 character challenge... And my own unexpected answers to "What are you doing?"
- Lisa L. Seifert
I really don't have much interest in social networks like Facebook - Twitter is a social network, but lightweight enough to work for me. No fending off app requests, or visiting page after page to leave quick messages for people. Simplicity.
- Michael Randall
from twhirl
in time of social networks, twitter is the best, the reason is the people here, intelligent users give the network it's value
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
I concur with most of the comments above: brevity, simplicity, quick(when it works), gets the word out, etc.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Twitter has the potential to be the fastest news reporting services on the planet.
- Vince DeGeorge
Communicating with masses in mere seconds, Twitter FTW. I love it for its sexinness, speed, and apps up the wazoo.
- Jon Bishop
Another point is the size of the group you are addressing. In FriendFeed, this comment thread is basically a small conversation between us, and anyone who happens to wander in. If I were on Twitter now, I would automatically be conversing with a few hundred people at once (or, for Robert or Jason, thousands upon thousands). A whole different dynamic of conversing.
- Ontario Emperor
I agree Ontario -- To me, the beauty of Twitter is it's 140 char limitation. No complex convos involving multiple parties make it easier to say what you have to say. No worries about not getting heard because folks are reading more than they are writing.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I used to get a lot of my news information and announcements from sites like digg. But now that I have and use twitter I find that the fastest and easiest way to find and get information delivered directly to me instead of me having to dig through my rss subscriptions. Friendfeed is also a great way for me to get new, information and announcements but I still need to dig through the information.
- Jeff
from twhirl
I've got a little twitter fatigue right now (which is why the twit-out is so appealing) but ultimately, I love that it is my life's back channel. I don't care about how many people use it or what the twitter buzz is. I care about what the people in my life, or people I find interesting to my life, are thinking, feeling, finding important. The sense of connection and sense of community in the truest form of that word is what makes twitter special.
- Jason Toney
One reason that I love Twitter is because messages can be directed to me and, if people follow the syntax (use my Twitter handle at the beginning of the tweet), I will find them. Look at Shey's comment 3 above this one; I very easily could have missed it.
- Ontario Emperor
OK, I'm turning off Twitter. There's a group of us having a "TwitOut" and using FriendFeed instead. See ya there!
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Please convince Friend Feed to get rid of the eye-bleeding grey text, and I'd be happy to come over here.
- Lucretia Pruitt
I agree with the text comment, hard enough to look at monitor 8 hrs, then this? I do like the feel and hope ff would be more consistant!
- Pentaxfan
I like the interface, but maybe they could apply themes for the people who don't like it.
- Alejandro
Get Firefox and learn to use the "Zoom" feature. That makes the text bigger and less gray.
- Robert Scoble
we should not need a "Zoom" feature to read this. That's ridiculous.
- Jacob Nahin
Get the Firefox extension called "no squint"; press Ctrl + key, to ENLARGE the font!! and Ctrl - keys to reduce font ...very cool!
- Susan Beebe
Robert, If my eyes aren't deceiving me, friendfeed was showing my post of the moblogic video. (FBI created terror group) You had commented. Now, my original post is gone from friendfeed, and all the comments went down the drain. Maybe I'm confused.. seems very odd.
- bill giltner
Usability feature request: Soft Ivory background, darker font, and text size options please!
- Susan Beebe
Do you seriously think that will do antin
- Mike Wills
from twhirl
any apps that will automatically update friendfeed? tired of refreshing
- Jacob Nahin
Fine with me, I'll stay on Twitter and enjoy the increased reliability coming from the drop in users. :)
- Shawn Farner
from twhirl
The FF user interface needs a good usability review.
- israel
I find it interesting that on this "TwitOut" of Scobles, we are all commenting via Twitter
- Jacob Nahin
UNCHECK the little box below the comment entry area so you don't cross-post your FriendFeed comments as replies over to twitter.
- Susan Beebe
Simon: I can read it and my eyes aren't that good. I don't get why you all hate it. Google Talk's fonts are even smaller and that's how I read Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
I think the gray font, and the font size, are definitely readable. You can always install the FF Stylish extension and modify it to meet your desires, should you really want to change the font. Also, I'm surprised someone has not hacked together a twitter-like interface for FF which just displays FF-type posts (i.e., *not* data aggregated from various services). Should be fairly easy, especially with their API. In fact, I've thought of doing it myself but just have not yet had the development time.
- Scott Jarkoff
"You can use firefox zoom/install an extension" is not an answer to poor readability. The grey text must go.
- Ian Betteridge
I love the gray text, actually and don't get why it's not readable. I think every font choice will get some ire. Maybe they should offer some design choices. It's just a CSS style sheet anyway and easy to change font types.
- Robert Scoble
I agree with the comments on the text as well, try wearing sunglasses as it makes it darker ha! I'm going to have to try that now!
- Joe Dawson
Yes, that will teach those twitterguys! Hmm, what exactly is your point?
- Nico Lumma
My point? That you can replicate much of the addictive qualities of Twitter elsewhere. But, seriously, why does everything need to have a deep point? Twitter will probably be down sometime during the day anyway.
- Robert Scoble
it reminds me of my time as a student at the university. to pressure the authorities, we went on strike for a few days. boy, they were really impressed. :)
- Nico Lumma
@scobleizer About not getting why this is not readable to some, if there is one thing we ought to realize by now it's that aesthetics are as personal a sense as the sense of taste. I think themes/skins help.
- Kamath (नमः)
I don't mind the text. It's readable, and doesn't detract from the original posting. Anyway, thanks for pointing me towards FriendFeed, it seems much more useful (to me) than Twitter (which I personally never got).
- Paul Grav
ryo even if, he would have to hide most of your stuff as it is not in english and as ff does not take the language problem serious, there is only one way to deal with it: do not subscribe.
- Nicole Simon
I hate the grey text too, that's why I like Alert Thingy's white text on black, it's easier on the eye if you have astigmatism. It's not the size of the text that's the issue, it's the pure paleness of it.
- Sally Church
How can I turn off certain/all friends of my friends. I get loads of noise in my daily FF email when I'm not interested in that data. No offense Scoble but I prefer to see what you have to say via Twitter or your blog via RSS and occasionally browsing your FF on my own terms.
- Jon West
good for Friendfeed.
- SolidSmack
from twhirl
Have you noticed that your blog is no longer one of the top blogs on the Wordpress dashboard since you started twittering/friendfeeding?
- TimTheFoolMan
from twhirl
The readability of the gray text is directly proportional to the brightness/contrast of ones monitor. That's not a good thing; I shouldn't have to adjust my monitors settings or the font size to read stupid dim text.
- James
My last option would've been Friendfeed. Jaiku and Pownce seem to lack quick posts that show up on Friendfeed. But if I'm inclined to do it, and I see at lest a few of my followers do it, then yes.
- Josh Jenkins
wouldn't it be nice when I hide something in friendfeed, twhirl actually to know about that
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There is no reason it shouldn't; the FriendFeed API tells you when something should be hidden (it contains a hidden: True in the JSON). But this is not really documented very well in the API documentation.
- Benjamin Golub
Things in life that are addictive: digital photography, Flickr, Tommy's cheeseburgers, those tangy sea salt and vinegar blue chips in the blue bag, coffee, Red Bull, and friendfeed.
Nick Humphries, Travis Koger, sam b-r and 28 other people liked this
Red Bull is training wheels for Crystal Meth. I'm already a caffiene addict - don't give me insane amounts of it!
- Internet's Tad
Chocolate, NFL Football, The Office, oh and FriendFeed
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Checking my web site stats on Mint (http://www.haveamint.com/)
- Thomas Brox Røst
Coding. Cigarettes.
- Mohamed J
"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the can of Red Bull that thoughts acquire speed, the clothes acquire stains. The stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion." [sips Red Bull]
- Karim
and twitter. tommys burgers are nasty. ewww
- Photo Larry
6 replies and nobody mentioned sex? Fortunately I am here to remind you :)
- funkyboy
The other replies mentioned voluntary addictions...
- Internet's Tad
I love *ALL* that cool stuff listed in your post above! :-) Life is Good!
- Susan Beebe
I have a couple of substitutions: Red Mill burgers, Kettle Chips' Beer & Cheddar chips, and Irish cream lattes. Okay, that was more than a couple. I also agree with NFL Football (but would also add the EPL), the Office (but would also add 30 Rock). Oh, and FriendFeed. Also agree with coding (but would add mathematics). I've pretty much ruined this thread. }-{ELLO!
- Akiva Moskovitz
The internet in general
- Nelson de Witt
from twhirl
Yea Tommy Burgers.
- Russellreno
Mine would be cycling, digital photography, Flick/Twitter/FF, cappuccinos. Just like drugs all of these have a "gateway" drug. Mountain biking led to road biking. Starbucks led to Peets. Minolta F100 led to Rebel XT led to 20D led to 5D. Email led to web surfing, led to Facebook led to Twitter led to FF. Hi, my name is John and I'm and addict... Everyone? Hi John...
- John Wright
Scoble references this very conversation. http://scobleizer.com/2008...
- Russellreno
WOO HOO! I'm famous now so you better look out!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Dark chocolate, twitter, friendfeed, PSP, coffee, ice cream, biking, reading my friends' shared items on google reader!
- Maryam Ardakani
morel mushrooms!
- lisa-k
fried fish, curry, more curry, geocaching, Where's George, Postcrossing, Twitter, Friendfeed, Flickr, and writing really clever scripts in Vim and Perl.
- Morton Fox
Blueberry green tea (it's my crack), and Curb Your Enthusiasm
- Matt
You're channeling me, man!
- Mykl Roventine
Green Hills tea, Friends and Friendfeed. :)
- Alejandro
Apple products, mobile phones, energy drinks, magazines, books, music and Twitter.
- israel
Ahhh...so this is what it means to have a friend feed conversation.
- Todd
Guacamole to go with those chips, hummus, email
- Greg Tarnoff
FF is becoming quite crack-like - I had to really restrain myself today so I could get work done
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
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