Pilgrim Five

Yup A bit time consuming but amazing. - Mahdi Ebrahimi

*scribbles notes* first... get a gun.... - Nine (sawsome aus)

Gun is also important :) - Mahdi Ebrahimi

jane fonda almost unrecognizable in the thumbnail. great photo. - edythe

i <3 that pic of chet baker. - Corie "Viper" Jones

I almost favourited every photo from this photog -- most are just great - Brian Sullivan

My name is joevita, i saw your profile today and became intrested in you,am looking for a nice man that knows how to take cara of a woman that can take cara of me in any thing .i will also like to know you more,and if you can send an email to my email address,i will give you my pictures here is my email addras(awajoevita@yahoo.co.uk) I believe we can move from here! Awaiting for your mail to my email address above joevita. - joevita

Take cara that, Thomas ;-) - Dave Roth

ROFL...oh man - Shey

But first she needs your bank account number so you can keep an eye on her inheritance for a while. - Tom Harrison

sorry joevita, already taken. - Thomas Hawk

i was afraid this would happen someday. - Mladen Srdić

omg.. .. @Thomas, dude get a life.. these type of streams are not conducive to your image . solly.. I can take a jab at the person with whom I am most comfortable with !! :)_ LOL - Peter Dawson

just found my first block - Justin Korn

Thomas, thx for subscribing. I've followed you as long as I've been on FriendFeed. Welcome, Cheers and Be Well - pilgrim5 - Pilgrim Five

the spam bots have arrived! Friendfeed has hit a high point. - Colide81 (James)

oh, man. yuck. - edythe

I love it! FF spam. - Jeff P. Henderson

No way, spam on FF, I see why there ias a block feature now :-( - Kol Tregaskes via twhirl

That is one of the more creative spam messages I've seen. Tom Harrison is right - where's the part about how joevita needs to get $25 million out of England? - Hutch Carpenter

I wonder when will the porn spam start? Or has anyone seen some already? - Colide81 (James)

i don't know if it is spam, but i remember seeing some groups. - Mladen Srdić

does joevita have a sister? - Cee Bee

I love it so much. - Meg versusMeg

one day i saw that you had subbed to my friend feed so not knowing who you are I subbed back just because I am new. Although I don't have a comment on this post I just want to say I like your posts and am glad I subbed cause its interesting contemplating the thoughts of a complete stranger named Trish.lol - Chris Conway

For real though, I think its the name "Trish" has a cool ring to it! - Chris Conway

Thanks, Chris, that was a nice comment out of nowhere. :-) - Trish R

One of my absolute favorites. Fantastic concept and writing. - Thomas Hawk

I'm about to start Season 2 and it's getting verrrrrrry interesting. - Trish R

My girlfriend "made" me watch it. Now I actually look forward to the episodes. - John Ford

The show is great. - Eric @ CS Techcast

I tried, but couldn't do it. - rambn via twhirl

I wonder if this show has softened the public perception towards polygamy. - Thomas Hawk

Love Big Love, can't wait to see it again, great on lots of levels - Pilgrim Five

I haven't left the house except to go to work in like 2 years. :) I'd say I'm an introvert. - Adam Turetzky

*Like* for JLM''s take on introversion! - Abby Martin

I would have to go with Introvert/borderline extrovert myself. great article. @adam your comment made me chuckle a bit, good times. - Percival Carti3r

I own a t-shirt that says "You read my t-shirt. That's enough social interaction for one day." So, yeah. - Marci Maleski

I'm very introverted, but that doesn't mean I don't want any social interaction at all. Social media helps me handle more social interaction (and control it better) than I could in person, without being exhausted. - Nathan Howell

I refuse to leave the house unless I absolutely have to. I love seeing other 'social introverts' here. - eve shot first

I tend to have an easier time making friends through social media, so when I actually do get to meet them, it's not awkward--I already know them well, so now we're just adding physical presence. - Stephen Shores via twhirl

those would even be fun to fall down on. - XDpaul

Note to self: Do not get drunk and try to go down these stairs. - Michael

...or up for that matter. - Corie "Viper" Jones

Corie- hee! Falling up stairs has been named my special gift by my sisters. A lifelong talent of mine. - Donna Mugavero

Beautiful death traps :D - Evan Sims

I really love the floating staircases. - "Czar" DJ Peterman

Yeah, I think that's my favorite as well. - Corie "Viper" Jones

Me, too... but it scares me. - Donna Mugavero

These are really amazing. - Anne Bouey

Aesthetically, I am with Corie and Czar...but from a practical standpoint I love the bookcases! - Bren

Bren, I really like the staircases too. Sooo nice!!! - Corie "Viper" Jones

would be nice to have somewhere inconspicuous to keep all my books... - Bren

Same with me. I have a crazy amount of books. Someday I want to have a huge library with a rolly ladder. :-) - Corie "Viper" Jones

yay, rolling ladder...and walnut built-ins, and a great chair (maybe an eames lounger)... - Bren

It's like you're inside my head. LOL. - Corie "Viper" Jones

sympatico...great minds think alike - Bren

True that. - Corie "Viper" Jones

I can't believe I'm up at such an hour, discussing my future library. - Corie "Viper" Jones

just look at our last.fm convergence.... - Bren

That is true. Mos def some random music in common. - Corie "Viper" Jones

:) - Bren

Is it wrong to want to put some of these in a random frat house and record what happens? - Kevin Bondelli

Sounds like a great idea. Hidden cameras everywhere! - Corie "Viper" Jones

Kevin - As an age4d "frat boy", that would be both funny and mean. ;-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

I have enough problems with an 11-month old and regular stairs... - Chris Rivait

Beautiful! - Mitchell Tsai

My Top 3: 1) Bookshelf Staircase - For its amazing practicality 2) Drawer Staircase - again for practicality and 3) Stairs with a slide - just because it keeps you so young! - Michael Beck

liking the balance as well (but still love the tech stuff too)... - mike "glemak" dunn

How so, Jason? Are you subscribing to new people to get the non-tech influx? - Lindsay Donaghe

totally the reason I wrote this blog post, pleaes feel free to pass around: http://www.jeffwoelker.com/200... - Jeff Woelker via twhirl

Agreed - that's why I love FF. Except when I see the pile on "group think" mentality. Independence is not over-rated. - LPH™

Yah, most of my Google reader is filled with Tech, Finance & Business. FF is a nice move away from that where I can go and discuss and see some interesting, more fun things. - Bartek Gniado

@Lindsay must be, certain folks like Mona N, Thomas Hawk, and edythe (and their associated crowd) share a lot of non tech stuff. I should compile a list of others... - Jason Kaneshiro

Non-tech photos & cool stuff: Mona N, edythe, RAPatton, Anna Haro, Mark Wilson, Thomas Hawk, Mrsth, Mahdi Ebrahimi, Eric (ejp1082), mhmazidi, Vincent X, Selma, Maryam Ardakani, Donato, Russellreno, shandiz, Andrew Baron, JA Castillo, Raoul Pop, Mladen Srdić, Corie Allison - Mitchell Tsai

Mainstream folks will use FF if there's something here for them to get out of it. Tech news bores people in general, so it's great to see different focuses arising. Heh, wait until the celebrity gossipers find this space. ;-) - Jim Stanger

I'm waiting for (1) movie fanatics (2) foodies. Delicious pics of food all around the web. - Mitchell Tsai

i stop checking it as much because it feel like quirky and fun articles don't interest me. i scan it and leave when serious discussion arises i listen but honestly i think some people do it to get a high "like" value and cute overload and yummy food are bound to get a reaction... - Caroline

Here's my current mix: Posts about bacon 42%, TechMeme echo chamber stuff 21%, Twitter rants 17%, posts about FF 10%, other 10% - Mike Doeff

I am actively trying to go for mostly tech stuff, since that is what interests me. You are probably subscribing to too many people if you are seeing all the other stuff. If it really bothers you only subscribe to people who are bringing mostly stuff you like. - Robert Scoble

Scoble, that doesn't work well on FriendFeed though. Let's say I never wanted to see another post about legos, bacon or Star Wars again. If I subscribed to the best people posting about Tech, and none of the people posting a lot of non tech I will still see, Legos, Bacon and Star Wars. I happen to love bacon, legos and Star Wars, but if I didn't, getting it out of my vision here would be a tough challenge. - Robert Seidman

"You are probably subscribing to too many people if you are seeing all the other stuff." ? look whos calling the kettle black .Scobles you were the first one that said, the more people you follow , the more interesting stuff you ge. Thereby, increasing knowledge base. did I misunderstand your therory or I stand correcte ! Of the 3.4K members that you follow , how many actually post tech stuff ? - Peter Dawson

http://friendfeed.com/rooms/bl... the art stuff is my way people.... but I don't allow censorship. so if you offend easy... hang out with the nerdy tech people and Obama. http://friendfeed.com/rooms/bl... - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ

so i'm relying more on rooms lately for categorical feeds or post - so appstore, comiccon, stories etc... means my main friends tab has things that don't end up in a room sort of - not perfect but it helps me... - mike "glemak" dunn

Peter: Just subscribing to 9 people - Robert Scoble, Louis Gray, Mona N, edythe, RAPatton, Anna Haro, Mahdi Ebrahimi, Maryam Ardakani, and Thomas Hawk - would give you a serious chunk of FriendFeed. edythe has 22,000+ comments/likes and Maryam has 14,000+. - Mitchell Tsai

Mitchell, not disputing anything at all. But what I am trying to saying is just following a large number of people , does not necessarly mean that you are getting interesting information from them. This breaks the philipsoy /theroy of following more FF people = wider varity of news streams. Rather Less = More value props are slowing emerging on this property.. - Peter Dawson

Mitchell, on second thought , let me repahse and pose a question. You follow 9 people , Scobles follows 3400 people. Who do you think has a better experince - Peter Dawson

Peter: lately I have been advising people "who you follow defines you." If you hate noise you certainly better not subscribe to more people. You should be hyper picky. Interesting that it gets noisy here, then I use the hide feature and all is good again. I hid about 20 posts about bacon yesterday and it was gone from my view. I like noise, so I subscribe to a lot more people. - Robert Scoble

Peter: I also have been telling people to actively block jerks. Why? Because if you follow jerks you become one yourself. Again, who you follow defines you. Another thing: I am more selective here than on Twitter. I only follow 3,000 or so here, 21,000 over on Twitter. Why? Because I found that I can't deal with the flow anymore, so will be more choosy about who I follow. I am changing how I will be defined by changing who I follow. - Robert Scoble

Peter: who has a better experience? Depends on your goals. If you only want to see when your wife and kid are posting, following just two people will serve your goals. If you are like me, though, and want to follow anyone interesting who is making you smarter, then will have a better experience following more. - Robert Scoble

"hyper picky"? Whoa. that's deep. :) - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

I really think it is good to have a good cross-section of material. Much as I like tech stuff, it's good to read non-tech stuff too. When I see something posted by a friend of a friend that I find interesting, I then check their feed, and if the majority of recent content seems interesting I add them. I guess many other users work this way? - Ian May

bacon? Is that a code word? - (that)Kenny

well said Robert - Jeff Douglass

I hid the bacon stuff too, it got a bit tedious after a while, but I'm interested in science and technology stuff, I just wish there was more science and medicine stuff. - Sally Church

Sally: Any suggestions for interesting science areas? Maybe I can snoop around & find some cool new things from the past 1-2 yrs... - Mitchell Tsai

totally agree Jason. I also agree with Sally about the bacon info and often hide it as well. - Ruth Ferguson

Bound to happen I guess, but I sort of liked the techie stuff. Still, I can't bring myself to hide or block lolcats, you know? - Sarah Perez

Peter: I'm spending an increasing % of my time visiting people's feeds and discussions & searching rather than the friends tab (1) 35% Searches & everyone (2) 30% Other people's feeds & discussions (3) 15% My feed & discussion (4) 10% Best-of page (4) 10% Friends tab. --- I'm using FF more like a combo of Facebook and a search engine. The Friends tab is less useful with more subscriptions - most people are completely swamped out & invisible. I have to visit Hutch Carpenter's page & discussion directly. - Mitchell Tsai

Ok good feedback. As such, I am thinking of capping and triming my followers to new levels . (a) Bacon and Mango noise hurt's my ears. (b) I am seeing really stale stuff come out from many of tech peeps and I really mean stale news. The convo's are surrunding the nes is fresh but at times, my mind is already made up and predisposed in a certain way. So a lot more hides happening and therefor I really dont inject myself into the convo. (c) I want to raise the bar in terms of experince for myself on FF :)- - Peter Dawson

To elaborate further - I do like the tech stuff, but if FF is going to appeal to more mainstream users, it's got to have broad content, and it looks like this is happening. - Jason Kaneshiro

I do pretty much the same as Mitchell and read people's discussion pages otherwise many are drowned by the A-listers and I am not online 100% of the time. There's a lot of interesting and valuable stuff out there from smart, intelligent people but you have to go look for it. - Sally Church

Jason - bingo!! If we only have techie stuff, then all the non-techie kids will run and hide! - Susan Beebe

Check out all the entries for NASCAR: http://friendfeed.com/search?q... - Hutch Carpenter

follow me - I post great non-tech, quirky and arty stuff regularly, it's my micro-blog! - Ivan Pope via twhirl

FriendFeed really became more interesting when I branched out and increased the variety of folks I follow. - Todd Jordan

TOPICS/Keywords: Perhaps it's time for FriendFeed to start auto-keywording posts... About the old stuff popping up, maybe FF could keep a running list of hide-URLs, so if those URLs pop-up again they will stay hidden (personally I never use hide. Comments are often more interesting than the original articles). - Mitchell Tsai

I have a question. How will the new adopters get their content to be viewed if early adopters are only following early adopters/frienderati? - Derick Valadao

Derick, there are people who don't just follow the early adopters/in crowd, and are actively looking for new voices. Participate and you will be heard. - Mark Trapp

One of the things I love most about FF is that it allows me to talk/share about all of my different interests. I try to stick to webby topics on my blog so twitter/FF has been a perfect way to geek out on politics, TV, music, etc. - Eric Berlin

I love posts like these. Always an inspiration to try sth new. - Daniel

It's a bit like this http://www.thebetanews.com/cat... - Dennis Bjørn Petersen via twhirl

Cool piece by Tamar - Charlie Anzman

Great article. Love to see what other Productivity geeks use to be more efficient. This needs to be updated quarterly, given how fast tools are updated. - Jericho

lifehacker is great - this is a good one but it is interesting that tamar is the only one that mentioned ff & the icon was so small on the graphic - mike "glemak" dunn

Robert: Have you done such a post in the recent past?? Would like to know what software and hardware you use! - Imran Hussain via feedalizr

I'm Pirilloman! - Outsanity

Happy bday! - Neal "thePuck" Jansons via twhirl

happy birthday. :) - edythe

Happy birthday Chris! - Vincent X

Ohh... You look stronger :D hahaha Happy Birthday - JCB

Happy Birthday! - George Smith

@maccast informed me that he, you and I are all Birthday sharers!! Happy Birthday - clearly, this was a good day for geeks to be born! :) (p.s. I'm way older...sigh) - Lucretia Pruitt

Happy Birthday Chris!! - Richie Keith

Cool!, happy birthday. Que Dios te bendiga :) - Rodrigo Amaya via twhirl

Is there someone else we should be asking? :) HB! - Hal Rottenberg via twhirl

Happy birthday! - Beth Kanter

Happy Birthday! - Shannon Nelson

Happy Birthday! Best wishes for a great year! - Pilgrim Five

Happy birthday! - JMakesAwesomeSauce

Happy Birthday! All the best! - David

So what did you get!? - Michael Narciso

happy birthday, Chris! - karen2

Happy Epic 35th, I'll be joining you in March! - Mike Lewis

Happy B/D - bummer about dinner tonight but we'll catch up soon. - Sean Alexander

Happy belated birthday, Chris. :) - Hao Chen

Happy birthday! 35 might be a milestone, or not. Wait for 70. - Francine Hardaway

Hey, happy birthday wild man. I guess that means I have 4 more before it's all downhill. - Adam Metz