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Mona N. posted a link
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September 22 at 7:38 pm - Link
HAI Mona! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
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O HAI DER! Dude, these images are huge :\ LOL - Mona N.
He's right-handed! - Akiva Moskovitz
LOL wow - Shawn Farner
O_O - Rochelle
BRAVO! - Michael Forian
Turning him 90 Degrees apparently turns him on. - /(bb|[^b]{2})/ (Kamath)
What? It's the Onanistic Groping Corporation. - Christopher Harley
the OGCs in my old neighborhood would approve. - Carlos Ayala
hang on I don... LOLOL - James Cooper
LOL - Tyler Gillies
LOL! - Zach Flauaus
LOL!! - Akiva Moskovitz
LOL!!! - Mona N.
OLO - John Worthington
clearly the logo is happy. How could this be a fail? - shaun mclane
What, a broken eight on top of a C? Totally harmless. ;) - Pete Delucchi
I am having a hard time understanding the humor in this. ;) - ron k jeffries
I don't get it. edit: OH. LOL. - trextor
hahahaha - Anna Haro
Happy snowman! - Chris Baskind
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ron k jeffries posted a message on identi.ca
“@wordalchemy I hesitate to admit that it took me a while to realize that identi.ca was not resizeable. I trust Sir @evan will fix this”
August 20 at 8:31 am - Link
what do you mean by resizeable - Todd Dewell
text (font) size can not be changed. he must be specifing size as absolute values - ron k jeffries
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Jeremy Zawodny published photos on Flickr
Barnes and Noble as Kittens
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August 3 at 8:22 am - Link
Barnes and Noble? :) - Charlie Anzman
great looking cats. why did you wait 9 years to post these pix? - ron k jeffries
because flickr didn't exist 9 years ago... they were on my personal site but I'm kinda refactoring that too - Jeremy Zawodny
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Bjorn Tipling favorited a video on Vimeo
OpenMoko Train Wreck
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July 31 at 7:13 pm - Link
The OpenMoko FreeRunner's out-of-the-box interface is pretty much a trainwreck, with a keyboard so bad all you can do is laugh and shake your head. - Bjorn Tipling
The good news: a few ~thousand~ early adopters of OpenMoko Freerunner are working like crazy to dramatically improve the inadequate software. - ron k jeffries
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Peter Dawson posted a message
“Just me said - "I admire Gandhi, Nelson M, Martin Luther . I have a morbid curosity on Hilter,Pol Pot and G.W.Bush" - What do you think ?”
July 31 at 7:14 pm - Link
This is round robin on whom you admire and whoquark's your morbid side in terms of personality on their historical contributions to humanity in the 20th century. yeah, I would like to know what you think and have to say !! - Peter Dawson
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I might not like his leadership, but comparing Hitler or Pol Pot with G. W. Bush is just ignorant. - Bjorn Tipling
Why I am " ignorant" for lumping 2gether "Hitler , Pol Pot with G. W. Bush" on a personality profile ? Could you quantify ? - Peter Dawson
People should remember that Hitler came dangerously close to winning WW2. Scary. - ron k jeffries
@ron, yes IMHO, Operation Barbarossa was Hilter's donw fall, IF he had seceded then whole of EU would be speaking German today ! - Peter Dawson
re: Bjorn's comment--Pol Pot and Hitler (and Stalin, for that matter, among others) carried out systematic extermination of their own populations, they were dictators in the classic sense who used militarism, coercion, murder and manipulation to consolidate and hold power in direct contravention of their nations' political structures. George W. may be a terrible president, but he will undoubtedly step down in January. I think that is why one might not choose to group him with the other two. - Bren
identi.ca
JA Castillo posted a message on identi.ca
“indenti.ca or twitter? indenti.ca or twitter? indenti.ca or twitter? Hate cross-posting and duplication buggery...”
July 30 at 9:30 am - Link
For me, it would be a decision based on three factors: 1) bottom line: which service I like more 2) where most of my followers are 3) which service has the most third-party support (apps, etc). That said, I think FriendFeed needs a way to send a comment as a dent. - Phil Glockner
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@J. Phil - yes. As I am hardly "connected" or a part of the social media/networking scene, it's been interesting to ponder this. What does either afford someone "off the street". - JA Castillo
Never heard of indenti.ca :P - Bwana McCall
Have tried using identi.ca as a sort of redundant backup against Twitter fails, but the place feels like a ghost town to me. (Reminds me a little of when I subscribed to eWorld in the old, old days.) I guess it comes down to the vibrancy of the community for me, and at least as of this moment, identi.ca doesn't measure up. - Bill Barol
with due respect to Bill Baro, I find identi.ca to be very vibrant. it's a smaller service than twitter, many geeks, great access to http://identi.ca/evan the developer - ron k jeffries
Identi.ca is great, and getting better all the time. The move towards XMPP Pubsub will make it even better, and of course an open standard benefits all. - Jack Moffitt
identi.ca wins hands down for me. I find the community small but friendly, intelligent and well informed. I also think laconi.ca, federation and OMB is an exciting development. - Andy C
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Brian Sullivan posted a link
Saudi religious police ban pet cats and dogs - Yahoo! News
Saudi religious police ban pet cats and dogs - Yahoo! News
July 30 at 8:24 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Banning cats makes perfect sense but dogs? - Brian Sullivan via Bookmarklet
dogs are considered as "infidel's " !! - Peter Dawson
I can understand banning dogs. But cats? - ron k jeffries
cats ? they have nine lives.. :)- - Peter Dawson
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Chris Baskind posted a message
“OMG. I wandered over to Techmeme -- which I've never read very much -- and found something cool and useful.”
July 28 at 9:30 pm - Link
it happens. - ron k jeffries
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Do you have a link to which one was useful ? - LPH™
Yup. It will show as a shared item soon, but here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1112... - Chris Baskind
Wait for it.... The echo chamber ia about to pounce :) - Aaron Brazell
It's a trap! - John Worthington
Not I. If it was a Web 2.0 service, you might have a ball game. :) - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
I'm filled with trepidation. - Chris Baskind
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possible248 posted a link
Foxconn deliberately sabotaging their BIOS to destroy Linux ACPI
July 25 at 5:45 pm - Link
The emails with Foxconn are shocking. "Dear Ryan, Stop sending us these!!!" wasn't a good idea for Foxconn to send. - possible248
wait a second. keep reading and you'll see they are cooperating and will make the suggested corrections. - ron k jeffries
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John Hood posted a message
“Soft proofing digital photographs!”
July 26 at 8:59 am - via Ping.fm - Link
I'm not familiar with term "soft proofing" doe sit mean "looking at images, but not printing them out?" - ron k jeffries
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Nathan Rein posted an entry on Delicious/myroblyte
The Pogues, "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda," from Rum, Sodomy & the Lash (WEA Int'l., 1985)
July 25 at 7:59 pm - Link
thanks Nathan. good stuff. - ron k jeffries
a favorite by them. - edythe
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Outsanity posted a message
“Plaxo: any good or is it iShit?”
July 25 at 7:53 pm - Link
no reply must mean it's horrible - Outsanity
Plaxo is OK. better than LinkedIn is a few ways. - ron k jeffries
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Michelle Marie Miller shared an item on Google Reader
Amy Winehouse immortalized in wax
July 23 at 6:57 pm - Link
Wax or coke? - Outsanity
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Her wax likeness looks amazing. - Yolanda
yeah, it's a little uncanny. - edythe
I have never even heard one song from her - Bjorn Tipling
bjorn, ! not even rehab? ("no, no, no") - edythe
Bjorn, she's a great singer. Just ignore her behavior outside the studio. - Yolanda
I hope Amy can still clean up her act. she has a great talent that is being squandered. - ron k jeffries
She's no Trent Reznor... - Outsanity
I thought emphasima diagnosis was confirmed? If so, things are not looking good no matter what she does 'cleaning up' wise. - Michael W. May
edythe, doesn't seem familiar, I listen to rock alternative stations mostly KITS 105 in san fransisco. Although sometimes I listen to Alice Radio which plays stuff like Nelly Furtardo. That's probably the only way I'll ever hear new music. :/ - Bjorn Tipling
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Paul Buchheit posted a message
“It seems that there is a cognitive limit to the number of social relationships a person can maintain. Twitter created an interesting product in part by limiting updates to 140 chars. What if they also limited them to 140 friends? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...”
July 25 at 3:42 am - Link
social MEDIA relationships have no limit :) - Luigi Centenaro
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Nice idea. Though when you hit the limit, you would end up having to chose who to kick from your list. Unless that kicking were automated. Which brings us back to the original problem that defining such relationships in the first place often adds more worry than an auto-triggered-by-your-everyday-actions kind of approach (which does have its own world of problems, admittedly...). - Philipp Lenssen
Did they meet Scoble? - Steve Rubel
Tag+Rate>set strike out limit/Filter/reduce/visible tags+but hopefully soon lists fold/collapse>file view../ Tag/Rinse repeat. This will come in handy also for Stephen Colbert when he joins his Thetruthiness room;-D, and I bet for you too Paul/FF Co, for the wood for the trees it may need a nice hot air balloon/or summat like a hand held mini helicopter which runs on its own propulsion! filter etc, Anyways a bit of Friendfood for the road, speaking of which its tummytime!:-P - Jason Brooks
The number of relationships one can maintain is clearly limited but the number of information sources one can process is far greater. I suspect most of the Twitter/FF/other social media friends are much more like RSS feeds than relationships. - timepilot
I seem to remember reading some research that theorised that the maximum size community/relationship we can maintain is limited at around 200 people. I'm trying to find where I read it now... *edit*: hah-nevermind, clicking on your link showed me exactly the research i was citing. - David Adam
Social media apps need multiple friend "TYPES", i.e. family, real-life friends, colleagues, online friends / acquaintances, and business contacts. This way you could have multiple groups of friends. I can dream... oh, wait Facebook already has this - they have groups with permission controls - and yes I really use that set of features!! I love that! - Susan Beebe
Dunbar's number is usually taken to be the maximal size of a cohesive group, not the maximal number of relationships one person can maintain. Some sources (including the Wikipedia article) confuse the two. It's an interesting question how the social sites would change with a friend limit. A room size limit on FriendFeed would also be an interesting experiment. - Michael Nielsen
Limiting Twitter friend count to 140 would drive slackers to other micro-blogging platforms. ;-) No really, we have (an growing number of) tools to filter relevant content from much greater number of users. - Nenad Nikolic via twhirl
Let us also not lose sight of the fact that, all other things being equal, the human organism is an engine of adaptation. I don't have a background in neurobiology or in developmental psychology, to say nothing of anthropology, but it's hardly dizzying leap to imagine that the emergence and subsequent evolution of the human mind was (and is) an exercise in testing and overreaching boundaries...[to be continued] - Derrick Burns
[continued]...which is to say: humbug. The internet with its shiny social media toys is nothing more or less than a novel environment, with its attendant resource distributions, evolutionary pressures, and selection mechanisms. What I think we'll find is that those pressures and mechanisms will affect us not only intellectually, but, over time, physiologically as well. Have 140 friends, or 1400. Whether for the better there's no way to say, but we will adapt. It's what we're best at. - Derrick Burns
150 relationships to maintain, sure: but isn't the old mantra of if you aren't building your network, you're doing it wrong also true? You may only really interact on a regular basis with 150 people, but if you only choose to subscribe to or friend 150 people, you'll never find out about new people or new ideas. Maybe subscriber 151 and higher are people trying out for slots 1 through 150: oh dear, did MySpace have it right with their top friends list? - Mark Trapp
I wonder how much that limit may be changing, though. It seems like we interact with more and more people all the time. - Christopher Granade
If you assume that the sole purpose of Twitter ought to be to the maintenance of social relationships then this might make sense. If on the other hand you look at Twitter as partially being about maintaining social relationships but also partially about getting fast breaking news early, meeting new friends, forming new social relationships, being informed about interesting subjects by fringe connections, broadcasting your own social media, etc. then the 140 limit becomes a significant barrier to use. - Thomas Hawk
depends on the degree of reciprocity. I can be a follower to many (with the right tools), maintain a sense of their identities (sometimes aided by good UI), and have only rare interactions with them that, while ephemeral, can be rich, useful, and/or meaningful. I think the new forms of asymmetric friending/following and the tools for interfacing among these folks change the rules. What is a "social relationship" in 2008? What is the cognitive overhead to "maintain" it? - tonx
LiveJournal did this for a while. People just got multiple journals and X-posted between them. An online friend isn't always the same thing as a real friend. - Jonathan Tang
What is better needed is an actual way to filter the significance of a large pool of social relationships from strangers to closest friend. The answer here is relatively simple and straightforward. Allow users to use a 10 point rating system for every contact with 5 being a default. By incorporating this rating data into future systems of rank, relevancy and eventually search it would be more powerful than anything that exists in social media today. - Thomas Hawk
There was an argument a while back that Free Twitter should be limited to say 150 followed, more should be paid for as that is increasingly the realm of pro-sumerdom. That would also allow us to discover the marginal value of online friendship. - Broadstuff
I don't think we have much in common with the villages, tribes, and other organizations that Dunbar was studying. All of the groups he studied had a common interest in cohesion as a unit as a means for survival. I'm not convinced that many of us view our social network interactions as "necessary" (at least, I don't see it that way). - Jason Wehmhoener
Dunbar's number is the reason I prefer to work for companies with fewer than 150 people. - Ginger Makela
If you can and want to keep up with 150 people then you will. Some of them will fade in and out of your social circle, effectively giving you many times that number if needed, but only around 150 at a time. (In your head that is.) - xero
The Dunbar number was arrived at by studying primates picking fleas off each other, not tribal humans ;) - Broadstuff
=Derrick, =timepilot. Also, note that even though we know about Dunbar's number, no one imposes an actual limit of 140 real-life friends. - j1m
I'm not sure that the people I have on my FriendFeed are what I would term "friends" or even "associates." They are contacts whose opinions I value, but if I don't hear from them in a while, it's not like I go out of my way to get back in touch. Same with some twitter folks...?? - Justin Long
agree with susan beebe. need to be able to group and prioritize friends. tweetdeck is starting to get at this - rob zand
The issue largely is that fringe contacts and even strangers produce valuable information even if infrequently. But by subscribing to large numbers in order to best get the chance of getting this information you also have to manage noise. Hide helps here. But fundamentally there are top contacts that are more important to you than strangers. By allowing users to rate these contacts as 10s and strangers as 1s you get the best of both under a new category of daily information based on personal relevancy. - Thomas Hawk
As Seth Godin always says it's not how many but who that's important - Jeremy Campbell via twhirl
We deliberately made the UI limiting within 30Boxes so that you would only try to keep up with 2-10 people (ostensibly those that matter most and impact your scheduling and decision making)... - Narendra
Thomas, I agree with your thinking completely. But in theory I can stay under the Dunbar's number here on FriendFeed (I am currently, and I hope to keep it that way) and still get the best of all worlds and the most valuable info so long as a few of the people I am subscribing to uber aggregate like you and Scoble. - Robert Seidman
Robert, even subscribing to the uber aggregaters though you miss a lot. Do a search for a term that you're interested in more broadly on FF and you'll find people you aren't subscribed to that are sharing interesting content that the uber aggregaters might miss. A system that allowed you to rate your higher priority contacts while still including the occasional quality content producer could produce the pinnacle of personal relevancy. - Thomas Hawk
Why does everyone try to define social software by just "friends?" That really sucks. People online are NOT my "friends." They are people I want in my social network. I have more than 8,000 business cards. Are you going to tell me that I haven't met 8,000 people and that I don't need to find a way to keep 8,000 in my rolodex? I would NEVER use such a software. Facebook limits me to 5,000 which makes it far less useful for business purposes than if it didn't have those limits. That said, I'm sure... - Robert Scoble
...that there is a market for such a limiting service. It might even be very popular. But then lots of stupid things are popular on the Internet. - Robert Scoble
140 chars limit instead of duct tape on Scoble's mouth ;) - silpol
This assumes a lot. Like that Twitter can count. - XDpaul
Paul this limit was invented by the famous 150 number in a time when society worked completly different. This is like saying "because a hundred years ago a person would read 10 books in their lifetime and could not grasp more, how about we limit it to the same number today?". People just need to learn what works for them, how _they_ are comfortable using these systems and then apply it. - Nicole Simon
Thomas,Even at 140 people I had to utilize a lot of the hide always functionality to make things manageable, and that was with a lot of time to screw around with it. Using "search everyone" to follow topics of interests works very well for me as is, and they could retool the "Best Of" some to surface the best stuff across wider areas. There are perhaps a lot of ways to achieve being the pinnacle of personal relevancy but none of them are easy :-) Still, I'd love to see it achieved. - Robert Seidman
Twitter's 140-character limit wasn't arbitrary, it worked well with SMS making it useful on the go. Is there some specific thing that having only 10 friends would help you with? - ⓞnor
Here's the problem with "best of" today. Everyone's "best of" ought to be influenced by personal relationships. If my wife posts something with 3 comments and 3 likes this is more personally relevant to me than a thread about what music people are listening to with 30 comments and 30 likes. By weighting my higher value contacts you ensure that my wife's post is seen in my personal "best of" daily stream even if it pushes out the overall higher ranked thread on music. - Thomas Hawk
perhaps a better system would be 10 friends and 100 people you know then unlimited follow relationships. You could even automate the promotion of people from follow to know. Then weight the best of pages with this info. - John Cooper via fftogo
Dunbar's 150 limit theory is a group theory, not and individual theory. A group is pretty united at that number, but if it passes the 150 limit "people start becoming strangers to each other". But an individual can handle way more interactions. I mean, it all depends on how you view "friendship". If you believe that intimacy is a must to consider people friends, than your # will be low. - Jay Cruz
I think that would be an interesting experiment. And I'm sure it would have avoided some of the scale issues they hit. - Dave Hussein Winer
Jason realized that his limit was 750 .. (but why email?) - Vishwajith
aren't all relationships social? - Jeremy Toeman
It is surprising that there's not more implementation of XFN across social web apps; as imperfect as it is, it certainly adds much-needed value to the "friend" paradigm. - mabisa
Implementation of XFN or FOAF? "That's the wonderful thing about standards-- there's so many to choose from!" Of course, with so many services implementing APIs nowadays, it's not unreasonable that someone could use Google AppEngine or similar to create XFN from pre-existing services. Such tools may spur more services to start directly implementing XFN. - Christopher Granade
that's a really cool idea...maybe I'll stop at 140 on identica and see what happens! - Sarah Perez
a limit on number of relationships has merit. hard to say what value of N should be. I am positive that tens of thousands is the WRONG answer. people with very high numbers use Twitter et.al as a publishing platform. - ron k jeffries
If you want to pass from theory to practice, let me recommend you the book "Knowledge Management Strategies: A Handbook of Applied Technologies", which has a chapter called "Implementing Communities of Practice to Manage Knowledge and Drive Innovation"... I also have here a paper called "Distributed Consolidation: Identity, Reputation, and the Prospects for Online Social Interaction", written this year, but I didn't read it yet. - Marcos Marado
Thomas, on filtering: why not be able to dynamically identify score by staring individual posts, like slashdot and plurk do - if I star a post, I give you a certain number of points; if I star a comment on a post, I give you a certain (but possibly lesser) number of points; and be able to give perhaps multiple stars to indicate significance; two kinds of negative stars: "don't show me this" or "block user" so the system can learn. Then people can aggregate points over time, too... - Justin Long
I would like some kind of Top Friends or Best Friends layer in both FriendFeed and Twitter. It can be anon or fully socialized. - Elliott Ng
I like the idea of limited friends. What if you start with a fixed number, lets say 25, and once certain criteria are fulfilled (activity, no. of posts, etc.) you are allowed more... - Bastian
I've just finished reading Malcolm Gladwell's "The Tipping Point". Very interesting and inspiring. - Niv
identi.ca
Robert Scoble posted a message on identi.ca
“identi.ca is one place my wife and son don't yet hang out. So it's one place I can escape and be myself. Heheh.”
July 24 at 11:03 pm - Link
cute LOL - Mona N.
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at how many places a person can be there at a same time ? before it was twitter then friendfeed and now identi.ca :) - Abhishek
Don't worry, they'll catch on. - Louie
They'll be on there, too, before you know it. ;-) - Cathryn Hrudicka
two-timing bastid ;-) - JodyUnwired
Abhishek: you gotta get Twhirl, then you can be in four places at once! - Robert Scoble
If only you didn't crosspost to FF (which nullifies your assertion). ;) - l0ckergn0me
l0ckergn0me I wish you would spell your name in some way that's easy to type. But, yeah, you're right. I forgot that my identi.ca messages are brought into FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble
Except that it posts to FriendFeed - so it's kind of like hanging out someplace with a 2-way mirror ;) - Lucretia Pruitt
LOL - I was thinking the same thing. My wife knows everything I do because of Twitter. She's going to be clueless if I stop posting there. - Jesse Stay via twhirl
Robert, when are you not yourself? heh - Daynah
Try ping.fm. You can say the same thing at the same time at a lot of places. - Rutger Blom
never heard of identi.ca, what is it anyway?? but, being on FF and Twitter at same time using one program is more than enough, I guess.. - Sebastiaan van den Akker via twhirl
Sebastiaan, identi.ca is another microblog. http://identi.ca - Daynah
Yeah, just checked it out, kind of like twitter without the fail whale issues? - Sebastiaan van den Akker via twhirl
Yes.. and without the user database too. It seems to be working well, but personally, I only post on Twitter, Friendfeed, and random stuff at Plurk. - Daynah
I hear ya!! One good thing about having a small userbase :) You can worry less about all of the eyeballs. Unless of course you add the identi.ca account to Frienfeed :)) - Danilo da Silva
LOL - fbrunel
Talked my wife into not blogging three times so far ... Whew :) "Why does my husband sit in front of that thing for hours every day .... Does yours?" - Charlie Anzman
:) - mhmazidi
So you're honoring your word to stevegillmor to bring everyone on over? ;) Well, everyone except said individuals. - Dr. Apps via twhirl
lol - right http://tinyurl.com/scoble-iden... ;) - mike "glemak" dunn
@robert - so you aren't being yourself at all other times? - Jeremy Toeman
I'm debating linking it to FriendFeed actually - Sarah Perez
Here we go. identi.ca is next. - Andrew Baron
I can hang out on Jaiku. No one knows me there. :) - Morton Fox
there goes the (identi.ca) neighborhood [Scobleizer will drive down property values] <g> - ron k jeffries
Well there goes identi.ca . If Leo Laporte gets on it too, we're going down. *snickers* - Candace Holly
I like identi.ca because, as a developer, if anything does go wrong, I can at least have some part in fixing it. Twitter is closed doors, all the way. - Jesse Stay via twhirl
this is really funny - John Tarter
FriendFeed
Bwana McCall posted a message
“Taking a different approach with my feeds. All my followers may want to pay attention and update their hide filters. Here comes the rain.”
July 23 at 8:45 am - Link
Bring it on. I have the bits. - Akiva Moskovitz
Bring on the noise. I like it loud in here. - Mike Doeff
I am not convinced that multiple DUPLICATE posting sources is A Good Thing. YMMV - ron k jeffries
I aggressively hide things, so bring it on. - Rob Diana
FriendFeed
Peter Dawson posted a message
“Have you ever "Requested a Subscription" on FF ?”
July 23 at 9:34 am - Link
I see some folks with ' request subscrip tion" and then I get turned off.I have never actually asked any1 to be able to follow their screech. What do other FF users do in this kinda situtaion ? - Peter Dawson
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I also don't subscribe to people with that, seems like they don't want to be subscribed to. - Bjorn Tipling
When someone subscribes to me that has a private feed, I request a subscription. Let them decide if they want to allow it. - Mark Trapp
Once. I believe it was someone who had subscribed to me. - MiniMage LightBlueRanger
I don't bother requesting subscriptions. - Alan Le
If I wind up seeing some of their stuff or comments and they seem interesting and I look to subscribe and they have a private feed, I request to subscribe. - Robert Seidman
why do some people choose to make their feed private? I don't get it. - ron k jeffries
Yea. My Boss, even though he hasn't shared any feeds yet. =) - Winston Teo
To me, private feeds run counter-purpose to what I perceive FriendFeed is all about so I tend to avoid them. - Akiva Moskovitz
I get turned off by private feeds. Seems counter-intuitive to the whole friendfeed vibe.... - George Smith
I agree with most of you. It turns me off and I haven't requested any. - Kamilah Gill
I have once or twice... but not in a few months. - Tad - the Meme Maker
I do. - Yuvi
I wish I wouldn't have to Request it if they are already subscribed to me, but it really doesn't matter, I ask anyway. - Shey
Turn off -- haven't ever requested a subscription. I'd request if they added me first, though. - Nick Munson
Just once, with someone who'd subscribed to me. I figure they want to be left alone, if they've locked everything down. - eve shot first
Yes - Rah™
You're missing out. Some private feed people, for example Susan Beebe and melmcbride, are really interesting. - Hao Chen
I never subscribe to people with private feeds as it is more difficult for me to figure out whether or not they are interesting. - possible248
@Hao agreed - Shey
I've requested many feeds. Some people who comment/like my stuff have private feeds. Women in the middle east (e.g. Persian photographers) seem to have private feeds. April Buchheit (child) has a private feed. Feeds become private also if someone blocks you. - Mitchell Tsai
i tend to ignore this and go elsewhere - Kol Tregaskes
Hao Chen, lol, i watch that susan beebe go from "like to short word comments, to full sentences, i figure one day, late 2008, the door actually might open on the page ... then i will block it though - Gregory Lent
To protect against the 50 cent people, there are also a lot of people in China who keep their feeds private. - Brad Collins via twhirl
FriendFeed
Steve Isaacs posted a message
“What's your ONE favorite FriendFeed room so far?”
July 19 at 12:06 am - Link
http://friendfeed.com/rooms/lo... - Ryan Kuder
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Paul, there are currently three ways: 1) Join the Friendfeed Rooms room: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/fr... Lots of rooms are announced there 2) Google it: http://www.google.com/search?h... 3) Check out the Friendfeed Rooms Directory made by felix: http://ffrd.appspot.com/ - Mark Trapp
http://friendfeed.com/rooms/co... ComicCon - Charles LePage
http://friendfeed.com/rooms/la... - Michael W. May via twhirl
http://friendfeed.com/rooms/co... - ComicCon - Steve Isaacs
ComicCon - for sure! http://friendfeed.com/rooms/co... - Brian Ries
hmm this seems like a post to plug the ComicCon room. - Alan Le
Was actually just curious/wanted to find some new rooms, but didn't get a whole lot of new ideas :) - Steve Isaacs
I like the main room the best. - Akiva Moskovitz