Can you remind me again where to find those stats?
- Brian Johns
Brian, go to "Me" link (http://friendfeed.com/brianjo...) which defaults to the Feed tab. Look at the sidebar on the right, below Discussion.
- Micah
0.75 (926/1226) - still relatively new here
- mikepk
I only see my stats for the last week (17/14 = 1.21) Please tell me your 670 number is for more than just a week!
- Brian Johns
1.44 (566/391) for brianjohns (after week tally you should see a comma then 'all time' count - I can see it on your page)
- Micah
OK, sorry. I'm a total dumbass. I stopped reading after the weekly totals...
- Brian Johns
3.74, which seems way off of everybody else's. I wonder what that says. I comment a lot more than I like.
- Cyrus Lendvay
FFers use FF with their own strategy or simply default tendencies. The ratio is an interesting snapshot of behaviour. Thanks for joining in everyone, hope more keep flowing in.
- Micah
from twhirl
0.66 - I tend to 'like' things without needing to comment further, I guess, and I notice I usually like the things upon which I comment. Well, frequently.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
.39 (2457/6242) I guess I don't comment much. I do 'like' a lot of things, it would seem.
- Bren
0.62 then again i have over 11,000 comments
- Cee Bee
1.23 (5287/4229) - I am put to shame by Cee Bee's participation, good grief!
- Lindsay
So far: Average: 1.27 | Median: 0.81 ... (if you average 1 comment per like, you'd be 1.0 ... if you're 0.xx you might herd content more than discuss ... if you're whole numbers above 1 you may not 'like' much or discuss plenty or both)
- Micah
InPerpetualMotion(Gina k), I really liked this 'Like' of yours (in a series of pics, so I flickr fav'd it): http://friendfeed.com/e... and commented. Thanks!
- Micah
.68 6986/10194 Someone wrote a great article on the comment-like ratio a few months ago. Search on FriendFeed is crashing on me... I'll try to get the link.
- Mitchell Tsai
Thanks Mitchell (btw, search crashing on me too - lots)
- Micah
1316 comments/20221 likes (0.06), according to Windows Calculator, although I probably screwed up.
- Tyson Key
A recent change in FF: now the comment count shows total number of comments (previously multiple comments in one thread only counted as one) http://friendfeed.com/e... so all the numbers above are from the old methodology....
- David HC Soul
My new ratio: 0.76 all time (old methodology .52).... this week 1.39
- David HC Soul
Looks like my ratio as flipped again (comments back to dominating again). Seems to match my own awareness I've lately been commenting without Liking (commenting is my inherent recognition of value to me and the additional Like is when it merits an extra bump to help discovery by others).
- Micah
Rick, you mean that face with glasses I photoshopped tint into with an apparently disembodied arm which is actually very much attached to my eldest son? It's mostly just me :)
- Micah
Thanks, Michael. Yes, you have a rising tide of comment percentage (oh, wow, you were one of the originals from January - cool!)
- Micah
Yeah, that's a decent upward rise in comments, Nicholas.
- Micah
.6 (6,000/10,000) 3rd update - Now it's time to flip this on its head. My goal is to have (16,000/16,000) next time I post here. Regardless of what happens, I'm just looking forward to the next 10,000 comments, likes, posts, and new relationships I make here. It's all good!
- Michael Fidler
1.76 (7539/4290) My commenting habits haven't chanced much, but it felt like I clicked Like a lot less, and this ratio confirms that for me.
- Micah
.82 as of right now. edit: on January 8th it was 0.39 -- when I saw that, I decided to make more of an effort to comment. When I hit 10k "likes" I decided I wouldn't "like" anything else until I also had 10k comments.
- Bren
Jimminy, I'm copyrighting every single number. It's kind of a honeypot ;) Actually, it was curiosity mostly, but I also hope to build a sampling (small and self-selecting as it may be) for anyone who might want to analyze it.
- Micah
12.23 (844 / 69 ) I guess I take my likes seriously ;)
- Chris Myles
Wow I didn't realize I was so out of whack!! 12.23 that's got to be a record (and I don't even import my feeds with the summary as a comment)!!
- Chris Myles
Thanks JA, Chris (wow, 12+ is unusual :), Serkan and Nine!
- Micah
Micah.. I told you I take my likes seriously; ). You *might* want to ask (in a separate post) what percentage of likes were used to "bookmark" a post or save it for later VS actually "liking it". I NEVER used like for that.. but I did use a private group that if filled with my own topics (and comments)..
- Chris Myles
Likes are down relative to comments, which matches my much lower frequency of liking. I'm a more selective liker than ever.
- Micah
I don't think I could argue that any particular kind of ratio is "best", because if Lurkers like to Lurk and cultivate (via Likes) and the Chatty-ites love to chat, to pump out much many more comments than Likes, each can be happy and make for a great social experience.
- Micah
wow, what a difference time makes, when i 1st posted on this thread, 6.43%, now = 1.25%, for a 5.18% difference, :o (and this is the earliest post to date i've recovered of my activity on ff)
- chaz2b
chaz, I think there's been a big fluctuation for most people (maybe not that much). This is the oldest post on which you commented that you've recovered?
- Micah
When I first saw this: 1.91 Sept 28: 1.94
- MiniMage
536 comments in the last month has me at .8736...still creeping toward 1.00
- Bren
that was my third post... It's interesting to see how the number has changed. of course, I manipulated the number to a degree, because I stopped "liking" things for a while...
- Bren
Bren, the other thing that can seriously throw off someone's stats is a feed that upon each item it imports adds a comment automatically.
- Micah
true. that can seriously inflate comment stats, of course. Then you have someone like RAPatton, who posts a gazillion comments, in part because of his playlist posts where he will list each song in a separate comment. I found, after this post in fact, that I tended to "like" things much more frequently than comment on them, that I was lurking instead of participating. I have changed the way I use ff rather considerably, and I think for the better.
- Bren
In 4 days it will be 1 year since my first recorded stat here. My comments/like were almost a 1:1 ratio then. Now comments are almost double likes for me.
- Micah
75,415 comments/1,286 likes = 58.64 - i wish the auto inserted comments didn't get counted... the true number is probably much much close ot my number of likes
- Chris Heath
1.97%. thanks again micah, this has been a great metric to measure my first year here on ff. As the year went (this being the first record of me being here that i've found): , 6.43%:1.25%:1.97%
- chaz2b
Chris, Bren, thank you. And chaz2b, thank you too - glad it's a special marker for you. :)
- Micah
63.58 (97,534/1,534) -- interesting that my last three digits are the same there, eh? (note, i already posted a month or two ago when i first saw this thread)
- Chris Heath
0.87 (3770/4312), so I'm either getting more commenty or less likey. [0.74 (1970/2667) was what I previously reported back in June]
- In Search of Gender
Last year my comments were around 7000 and likes around 2500, for a ratio of 2.80. I consciously chose to do more liking over the last year. As of today my comments number 10,782 and likes number 7,666, for a ratio of 1.41.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Jason, Stephen - cool. Thanks for keeping updated here. :)
- Micah
Okay, Micah. <----I had to resist the urge not to post that because I know it's going to up my comment count. ;)
- Jenny H
But how many of those primordial, high interest posts are still active. Uh huh. :)
- Micah
Thanks, Morton. BTW, when you posted in February, it was exactly 0.13 also.
- Micah
Jenny, resistance is futile; embrace the rising tide of comments.
- Micah
Comments are more difficult and time consuming than Likes. I'd be happy about a high comment:likes ratio except that many are surely imported from feeds, while every Like is manual.
- Mike Chelen
it has changed to 2.2256 now as Sep, 6 2010.Labor Day. :) I added the date for future references.
- ۳۰ مرغ Loves Y'ALLLLL
Two years later and my ratio has climbed from 3.4 to 4.675. I've got a lot to say, apparently.
- Kevin Fox
Funnily, I didn't notice until after leaving that comment that when I reported my stat in 2009 I also followed it up with "I've got stuff to say." I didn't say it was *new* stuff...
- Kevin Fox
2.91; 6.43% (@ 2yrs ago) 2.33% (@ 1yr ago). for history's sake, this thread was started shortly after i found friendfeed, or friendfeed found me, so it holds a special place in my heart. thanks for keeping it around mr micah
- chaz2b
You're certainly welcome, chaz2b. In some way it feels like a living heirloom to me. :)
- Micah
3 (2.991) (and now the list has become too lengthy for me to track my progress, ;) [dumb me, i have a post not 10 lines ago in history, from 090711 2.91; 6.43% (@ 2yrs ago) 2.33% (@ 1yr ago) ;) ]
- chaz2b
0.75 (38,250 comments / 50,175 likes) (My entry above from 2 years ago said I had 10,782 comments and 7,666 likes for a ratio of 1.41. I've been busy, and my pattern seems to have changed.)
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Happy birthday to my beautiful son, Joaquin Valentino! He always has a smile on his face even through visits to the hospital with asthma (and some epic pouts). I love you!
Attended Michael's Trisagion Service tonight, will go to the funeral tomorrow. Family OK w photos, will post as memorial to Michael.
- Norman Demetrios Fletcher
Wish he could have seen us tonight. He just may have.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
"when tomorrow starts without me....." My heart and prayers go to you, Michael and you're family. May you're family find peace and comfort in the days ahead. <3
- Lynda Dmoch
Jimminy: *beats code with ugly stick until it's pretty* CODE Y U NO PRETTY? Y U NO CLEAN AND SIMPLE? Y U HAVE TO BE MINE? - http://twitter.com/Jimminy...
The fact that this popped up right after I realized the interface changes for FFTop20 were under a dev feature flag pretty much since then, makes me want to cry. Obviously, it wasn't clean and simple.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
Several days this week the forecast showed sun and partly cloudy. Instead we'd get overcast and snow flurries. Today's forecast shows clouds and fog. So naturally the sun has been shining brightly through the cloudless sky since sunrise. But they're forecasting sunny/partly cloudy tomorrow, so we'll likely get snow all day.
I wish I could have a job that allowed me to provide 'expert' forecasts and then when they were way off I could just keep providing 'expert' forecasts. OH WAIT! I did that as a travel demand forecast 'expert' for 25 years!
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
The idea is that you make 10 year and 20 year forecast of regional traffic levels, and then you move to a new region every 5 - 7 years. (They'll never track me down!)
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Also, it's 4:30 p.m. and I haven't had to shovel ANY snow today. I think that makes the first day in a week that I haven't done so.
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
I own beautiful books/paper that are still blank cos I feel like I need to fill them with special words. & I don't have many of those.
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
"…being pedantic about the language skills of perfect strangers is kind of an asshole move."
- Victor Ganata
"…the idea that there is only one right way of doing English – and everyone else is doing it wrong – is inherently flawed. And by 'flawed' I mean illogical, elitist and even oppressive. Judgements about what counts as 'right', 'good' and 'correct' in writing and grammar always – ALWAYS – align with characteristics of the dialects spoken by privileged, mostly wealthy, mostly white people."
- Victor Ganata
"…when people study dialects in an objective, scientific way (which is what cunning linguists actually do), they find that low-prestige dialects, such as African-American Vernacular English or Cockney English, have fully-formed grammar rules of their own that make just as much sense as any others. They are perfectly valid and functional forms of communication used by millions of people. The only difference is that they don’t have people running around telling everyone else to do it their way."
- Victor Ganata
The difference between a language and a dialect is a lot like the difference between a religion and a cult: privilege.
- Victor Ganata
I think I'm sensitive to this because my dad, who is a physician and knows three languages, cannot write (at least, in English, and in contexts outside of medical documentaiton.) I'm not just talking about his illegible scrawl. If you ever read anything he wrote in non-technical English, you might not even realize that he is an intelligent, highly-educated person.
- Victor Ganata
Sometimes it's overtly racist as well: I remember some argument here a couple of years ago, where it got heated, and one person kept on belittling the other person's grammar and spelling even AFTER it was pointed out the other person wasn't a native speaker of English.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Descrriptivism all the way. If you ever catch me correcting someone, slap me. I think English should evolve.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
I don't know. That's one extreme of the spectrum, but as someone who is tasked as a professor with making sure that my students can communicate in writing according to prescribed language rules of scholarship, there's value in having folks understand and use the rules for prescribed professional language, too. Literacy relativism, much like cultural relativism, gets useless after awhile if the goal is communication that lasts over time, particular in terms of written communication.
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
Sure, in a didactic setting, it makes sense to standardize communication, and to try to get everybody on board using the same language. A college classroom is, after all, a privileged space. But a random encounter on the Internet is a decidedly different context.
- Victor Ganata
I'm gonna agree with Warmaiden - there is value to a standard form of written communication that is understandable by the majority of speaker/literate people in the society. That being said, while I may make fun of grammar issues on signs (where more than one person, presumably, has looked it over) and in published works, I'm not about to poke fun at random strangers on the Internet. My...
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- WebGoddess
The other thing is that, even in the setting of higher education, every discipline has their own language conventions, and while there's overlap, it doesn't necessarily make sense to apply the conventions of, say, literary criticism to a physics paper, or vice-versa. I guess, as someone who grew up in a multilingual environment amidst multiple dialects requiring code-switching, I feel...
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- Victor Ganata
"I absolutely do believe there is a time and place to teach people about grammar and spelling – I should hope so, otherwise I’d have to fire myself, and that would suck because I really love my job. It is entirely possible for me to take a neutral, non-judgemental view of language and yet still realize that my students will benefit most from learning widely-accepted conventions that will give them the best chance at success in our society."
- Victor Ganata
I'm going to admit, I have trouble taking anyone too seriously if they're complaining about language privilege while simultaneously tacking "nazi" onto their nickname for the type of person they're complaining about. (This is directed more at Doctorow, since the author is using other terms.)
- Jennifer Dittrich
"There are probably situations where it’s appropriate to let someone know, for example, that their meaning isn’t clear, or they’ve made an unintentionally embarrassing pun. The important thing, in my mind, is the intent: Is this about reaching out with sincerity to help someone? Or is it about showing off superior knowledge, silencing someone, or taking a cheap shot for laughs?"
- Victor Ganata
If you ever see me unsolicitedly correcting someone's grammar or spelling, it's almost certain that I'm intentionally being a dick to them :D
- Victor Ganata
I only go after people I know IRL, and even then it's rare when I do. But trust me, if someone is having a discussion with me and they say "Your stupid", I will come at them with both barrels.
- Hookuh Tinypants
"3(b). So what are you saying, then? Be nice to people. Think about where they might be coming from. Understand that you might not know anything at all about their background. Realize that you very probably don’t know everything there is to know about the English language. Consider that mistakes are not the end of the world. Understand that flippant comments by a stranger on the Internet are not going to 'fix' a person’s language skills."
- Victor Ganata
"Consider the context, and whether making a correction is appropriate. If it is appropriate, consider that a polite and reasonable tone is a lot more likely to get you what you want than a douchebaggy rant. Think about how you respond to sneering criticism. Think about whether other people are likely to respond any differently. Realize that derailing a discussion to argue about grammar is going to annoy a lot of other readers."
- Victor Ganata
"Consider your true intentions. Consider that other people will read your response, and it will in turn influence how they respond to others. Consider that you contribute to a culture on the Internet (and everywhere else in your life). It is up to you to decide what you want that culture to look like. Use your voice accordingly."
- Victor Ganata
Among friends, I've only corrected someone's grammar when a friend fired a douchey comment first.
- Jed Harris-Keith
Stephen's point makes me want to remind people of the ax/ask split: Both were correct for a very long time, and relatively recently (in English's history) did "ask" become the dominant (read:prestige) form. So when people get upset about people saying "ax", it's hard for me not to assume there's more going on. http://thehackensack.blogspot.com/2009...
- kendrak
What a fantastic and surprising article! Thanks for posting this, Victor. I have definitely been guilty of correcting people in the past (almost always because they pissed me off) and it's not something I want to continue in the future. I will continue to correct spelling and grammar in the papers and reports I have to edit or peer review, but I am long over this notion that there is...
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- Kelli H.
One of the smartest guys I've ever known was a terrible speller. He was a native English speaker, well read and and had the advantage of a high education, but he absolutely didn't care about his spelling or what people thought. He'd often misspell the same words in different ways. I kind of admired his creativity. :)
- ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
From what I understand, that's pretty much how spelling worked before the days of the printing press :D
- Victor Ganata
I wonder if I could get a job just documenting Taglish. Of course, Filipino could just become Taglish: English vocabulary with Tagalog syntax and orthography. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Victor Ganata
"Question: someone asked this already but seriously what is the deal with these people who act like their characters are sentient beings beyond their control?? as the curator of the nanowrimo forums do you have any psychological insight into this? it's baffling. and like two steps away from those proto-schizos who think anime characters are real and connected to their souls or whatever"
- Jessie
from Bookmarklet
"Answer: I guess when your characters are all ripoffs or archetypes you learned about on TVTropes you don’t feel in control of them"
- Jessie
I can understand developing a character and getting unexpected ideas for the plot from them as you get more familiar with the character, but at a certain point you do have to say "No, I'm sorry, that does not happen in my story because it doesn't make sense." Regardless of how much you think your character *wants* it to happen.
- Jessie
There's been a lot of discussion about this. John Gardner (who taught me more about writing than everyone else combined) claimed that one time he was completely halted in the writing of a story for quite awhile because he simply did not know whether a character at a party would choose red or white wine (or maybe it was a choice of hors d'oeuvres). Then, one day, it hit him and he was...
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- Akiva
It's one of the many, many reasons why I loathe NaNoWriMo. You're not allowed that sort of thing.
- Akiva
Granted, but I suspect the Nanowrimo people writing about this are not at that level of craftsmanship. Based on the novel synopses posted there, I suspect they're still writing a lot of Mary Sues.
- Jessie
I've often wondered about this too. The few times I've questioned people who seem to hold similar opinions I've been told it's part of the "process" which, frankly, sounds a lot like bullshit. These people tend to not like that suggestion ;)
- Soup in a TARDIS
I totally get the Mary Sue phase of fiction writing. I think it's something everyone has to go through in order to get somewhere better. But it seems like some of these Nano posters are writing Mary Sues and thinking they're Anna Kareninas. Writing 50,000 words worth of Mary Sues and nonsensical plot devices might give you some insight into the writing process, but there's a hell of a lot more to writing than just getting the words down.
- Jessie
The way I see it is that a proper writer doesn't need NaNoWriMo.
- Akiva
Most NaNo people I know feel NaNo is ONLY about the word count. I'd like to think that claim is based in the notion that NaNo allows writers to realize novel-length works are "doable" and that the one month challenge is meant to illustrate that anyone can manage the sheer word total hurdle so that, at least, should not be a barrier to those who want to "really" write a novel....
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- Soup in a TARDIS
I'd be tempted to ask those people not how many they've written, but how many they've gone back and revised, whether or not they were intended for eventual publication. I can understand doing Nanowrimo on your first novel if it's *just* getting over the word hurdle, but if all your "novels" were written during Nano then you really aren't progressing as a writer.
- Jessie
Over the years, I think in an attempt to make it more inclusive they've tried to shift and 'soften' the original intent of NaNoWriMo which was to write 50,000 words over 30 days at all costs. But I still strongly believe that not only is it a stupid and pointless goal, it's also a cruel one. People who are trying to become writers who hop on the NaNo bandwagon are setting themselves up...
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- Akiva
I am a proper writer (though published articles, not novels) who uses NaNoWriMo as simply something stupid to do with my talent. I don't take it seriously. Instead I use it to clear the junk out of my attic. I don't run around thinking that what I craft in those 30 days is anything worth publishing or sharing with anyone. But I also don't run around thinking that everyone else participating in NaNo is an idiot for it. Every author has their own methods for how they approach writing.
- Hookuh Tinypants
Not sure if your comment's directed toward me specifically but I don't think a writer has to be published to be proper. Hell, Dan Brown's published and he's entirely rubbish. I've also not typed that people who participate in NaNoWriMo are idiots. I do, however, think that NaNoWriMo is idiotic.
- Akiva
I don't think that anyone is suggesting that everyone participating in NaNo is an idiot. I know many professional fiction authors are big advocates of it and several claim to participate as well. In the instances that I'm referencing (which is about a very specific group of people I personally know) there seems to be something of a missing-the-forest-for-the-trees sort of situation....
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- Soup in a TARDIS
I've wanted to do NaNo for several years now, but the scheduling hasn't worked out. I think it would be a good tool for me as long as I could find the time to storyboard all the necessary elements in advance, because for me personally I can't write without a roadmap. I think it's great that there are serious writers who use NaNo as a tool and there are serious writers who feel NaNo...
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- Jessie
Yay! The graphic has officially been flipped! No need for nostalgia.
- Louis Gray
Kenndy actually makes a good point here... :)
- Roberto Bonini
Merry Eggnog! ... and jeez, what's with the rude comments? It's the holidays. #relax
- Mona Nomura
I think everyone knew exactly what you meant jeremy :)
- Roberto Bonini
Jeremy, perhaps there's a misunderstanding. As a rule, FriendFeeders celebrate Festivus - maybe someone mistook this thread for the Airing of the Grievences ceremony. In any event, I got a lot of problems with you people! And now you're gonna hear about it!
- John Craft
With Paul's departure from Facebook today (November 12, 2010), I've heard several FFers talk about who's still at Facebook. I've seen various different numbers, none of which I think are accurate. This is my attempt to be more accurate. Information comes from publicly available sources where available. I drew on the list of FF employees from http://friendfeed.com/about... and http://blog.friendfeed.com/.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Overall status as of November 2010: Of the 14 people who were ever FriendFeed employees, 8 are still at Facebook (Ana Y., Ben G., Bret T., Casey M., Dan H., Jim N., Sanjeev S., and Tudor B), 5 have departed from Facebook (Ben D., Gary B., Kevin F., Paul B., Ross M.), and 1 is unknown (Goutham P.).
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
OK, took some editing but I think the above is accurate. If anyone knows where Ross M. or Goutham P. are now, please let me know!
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Updated Jim's entry. He's apparently left Facebook. (I think I remember him confirming this when I had lunch with him last month!)
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Overall status as of May 2012: Of the 14 people who were ever FriendFeed employees, 7 are still at Facebook (Ana Y., Ben G., Bret T., Casey M., Dan H., Sanjeev S., and Tudor B), 6 have departed from Facebook (Ben D., Gary B., Jim N., Kevin F., Paul B., Ross M.), and 1 is unknown (Goutham P.).
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Stephen, Goutham worked at RockYou for a bit in 2010 and now works for Google. Also, how have I not seen this thread before?! I remember you taking that picture at Kitchen Table - fun times :)
- Ross Miller
now this is creepy.. some1 is stalking all the former employees of FF :)-
- Peter Dawson
Stephen, also Goutham was a summer intern the year before the Facebook buy. He did not transfer to Facebook. Ross did you transfer to Facebook, I can't remember.
- Rachel Lea Fox
oh and I think Ben D. has left AOL. But I can't confirm that, I just seem to remember something about that. *shrug*
- Rachel Lea Fox
Anne, AeroFS looks cool! Congrats Jim!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Overall status as of May 22, 2012: Of the 12 people who were ever FriendFeed employees plus 2 interns, 6 are still at Facebook (Ana Y., Ben G., Bret T., Casey M., Sanjeev S., and Tudor B), 6 have departed from Facebook (Ben D., Dan H., Gary B., Jim N., Kevin F., Paul B.), and 2 were interns who never went to Facebook (Ross M., Goutham P.).
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Overall status, as of June 15, 2012 (updated on September 13, 2012): There are 12 people who were ever FriendFeed employees. (In addition, there were 2 interns (Ross M., Goutham P.) who never went to Facebook, per Tudor B., above.) So, of the 12 official FriendFeed employees: Currently, 5 of 12 are still at Facebook (Ana Y., Ben G., Casey M., Sanjeev S., and Tudor B), and 7 of 12 have departed from Facebook (Ben D., Bret T., Dan H., Gary B., Jim N., Kevin F., Paul B.).
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
So basically we're gradually losing FF advocates within the mothership. :-(
- DB, Just DB #TeamMonique
So clearly we need to either recruit current FB'ers to start using FF or get FF users employed FB, or both.
- Andrew C (✓)
13 Sep 2012: what was the cause of the outage? But perhaps more importantly, *who* kindly fixed it (and from where) ? [If FB open sources FF, who would be willingly to maintain it?]
- Adriano
And whoever it was, I'd happily buy them a nice dinner.
- Meg V. Meg
I think Sanjeev is most eligible for a FF Rent Party of sorts. More of a FF Thank You party.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
bump just to immortalise this pix and the start-up crew !
- Peter Dawson
Ana left Facebook, no more details.
- Tudor Bosman
Thanks Tudor -- I updated her entry. Overall status, as of September 20, 2012): There are 12 people who were ever FriendFeed employees. (In addition, there were 2 interns (Ross M., Goutham P.) who never went to Facebook, per Tudor B., above.) So, of the 12 official FriendFeed employees: Currently, 4 of 12 are still at Facebook (Ben G., Casey M., Sanjeev S., and Tudor B), and 8 of 12 have departed from Facebook (Ana Y., Ben D., Bret T., Dan H., Gary B., Jim N., Kevin F., Paul B.).
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Thanks Tudor and Stephen for the update.
- Meg V. Meg
Casey left Facebook as well (which, as he's Ana's husband, is no big surprise :) ). No more details.
- Tudor Bosman
Not sure how I missed Tudor's update back on October 2, but I have now updated Casey's entry.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Overall status, as of October 2, 2012: There are 12 people who were ever FriendFeed employees. In addition, there were 2 interns (Ross M. and Goutham P.) who never went to Facebook, per Tudor B., above. So, of the 12 official FriendFeed employees: Currently, 3 of 12 are still at Facebook (Ben G., Sanjeev S., and Tudor B), and 9 of 12 have departed from Facebook (Ana Y., Ben D., Casey M., Bret T., Dan H., Gary B., Jim N., Kevin F., and Paul B.).
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
An update of sorts, which I guess is in and of itself creepy. I was reading a recent piece on Google Reader, and I was struck by the fact that Darnell jumped from Google Reader to FriendFeed (there are similarities between the two orphaned applications, when you think about it). Then I saw that Darnell made his move right before the Facebook acquisition. After reading subsequent...
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- John E. Bredehoft
RT @bengoldacre: Second tweet for this historic editorial. BMJ insist that all data for trials they publish must now be accessible. http://www.bmj.com/content...
Now, who's crafty? How the heck am I going to get feathers on a shirt without a hot glue gun? I have two long feather boas and a green shirt that somehow I am supposed to make look like a bird.
- Laura Norvig
Rebuild shirt out of duck tape? Overlap so sticky side is mostly out? Elmer's glue will work for a bit but you'll shed and it's water soluble if anyone spills.
- Hedgehog
Sewing. Feather boas have a string interior. Locate that and stitch it to the shirt in strategic places. This is by hand sewing, not machine sewing.
- Spidra Webster
Jeffy says tie strips of the feather boa to a string or wire and then use binder clips to clip it to his sleeve and collar. I was thinking glue strands of boa to a thin strip of cardboard and duct tape the whole thing to the sleeves.
- Laura Norvig
Spidra, I can't sew for shit. I think I have some needles - not sure where the thread is ...
- Laura Norvig
This kind isn't very exacting so as long as you can go up & down and tie a knot, you're good.
- Spidra Webster
that might be the thing to do, actually. I just dread sewing in general ...
- Laura Norvig
There's very little that can go wrong in this case. You're not sewing in a tailored way. You're not sewing for the good looks of the stitches. You're just trying to hold one object to another object. And hand sewing can be unpicked and redone far more easily than machine sewing so even if you make a mistake, it's easier to fix.
- Spidra Webster
I found a travel sewing kit! Let's get this party started. I need something good to watch while I labor ...
- Laura Norvig
Cristo, I do have some Duco cement but I'm not sure how that would work with fabric.
- Laura Norvig
"People who've e-mailed Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan over the past year about Occupy Oakland probably didn't get much of a response. That's because he used a spam filter to dismiss messages sent to him with "Occupy Oakland" in the subject line, according to a federal court filing Monday. Same goes for the phrases "stop the excessive police force," "respect the press pass" or "police brutality." Instead of landing in his in-box, those messages went straight into his junk mail folder, which he apparently never looked at. Because of those filters, Jordan missed e-mails from other city officials and a federal court monitor, who oversees the department's compliance with court-ordered reforms stemming from a police abuse scandal. Robert Warshaw, the monitor, had sent Jordan an e-mail with the subject line "Disciplinary Actions-Occupy Oakland." Jordan told the court on Oct. 18 that he never saw those e-mails, infuriating Thelton Henderson, the federal judge in San Francisco who...
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- Spidra Webster
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Aw, he almost made it a whole year without having to read emails about Occupy.
- Andrew C (✓)
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