Rob Diana

Very smart move by eBay. Did they really announce 2 acquisitions this morning? Is the DBA deal real or just still rumor? - Rob Diana

Rob: Forgive my self-promotion, but I couldn't quite understand the DBA.dk deal either, so I did a little research and now I think I know why they boiught it. http://www.thebetanews.com/eba... - Dennis Bjørn Petersen via twhirl

So, eBay is looking to rev up Kijiji. Not a bad strategy actually. - AJ Kohn

Watch, now that it's getting attention on FF it will make TechMeme. I totally don't get TechMeme. A lot of news doesn't get reported there. - Jesse Stay via twhirl

TechMeme has a heavy bias towards previous sources. So, Scoble has the reputation already and his posts generally get considered. Because other "big-name" blogs pick up the story, it hits techmeme. I do not totally understand techmeme, but that is the general pattern I have seen. - Rob Diana

Essentially. If I want to hit techmeme, I've got to write it on Mashable or a "known" blog. Personally I take almost no stock in Techmeme anymore. - Ben Parr

+1 Rob - TechMeme just doesn't know you yet, but your post was really interesting & informative! Great work. - Sarah Perez

@Tom Beardshaw responded: "Hey Alexander - good point. I think your description of the attention economy is spot on, but perhaps we should also think about the contexts and purposes of communication. I don’t think that substance will die… in fact it may become more important than ever, depending on how people’s values shift (and it seems that within the US election, the electorate is shifting towards placing more value on substance - let’s see how they vote, anyway)." - Alexander van Elsas

I answered: @Tom I hope you are right. I’m not so optimistic. Media is trained to think in terms of sound bytes. It’s a process that is hard to fix, unless we fix it ourselves. If all we do is go for the one-liners then nothing will change. If we are willing to explore, to get our hands on substance, which means investing time, then things will change eventually. - Alexander van Elsas

Strands and FriendFeed aren't competitors as much as they are complimentary. Also, Strands' operation Mainstream is quite a good idea, if they can pull it off. - Louis Gray

It's not just *what* your friends share too, it's learning their tastes over time...like knowing that Louis likes 50's rock...because he's old ;) j/k - drew olanoff

drew, that's obviously an interesting idea but it will only work for a close circle of friends. But if it could help build a list of topics (or tags) for every user to help others find the people they will actually be interested in listening to, this could be truly great. - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl

Very good point about soundbites/headlines. I think the problem may be that people stop at the headline because they feel they do not have enough time to read the whole article. Of course, you could learn more by reading the whole thing. - Rob Diana

To me it feels like a deadlock situation. Media is trained to talk in sound bytes to draw attention, we seem to take less time to get into the substance (that's one of the side effects of the attention economy). Just look at the presidential election going on now. No substance, all one-liners. And that is to acquire the most powerful job in the world. Scary. It can only change if we change our consuming behavior. - Alexander van Elsas

For those wanting to go a little old school, solutions to the SICP exercises. If you do not know what SICP is, think of it as an intro to programming but using Scheme (a variant/subset of Lisp) as the language. - Rob Diana

Haha, anyone on FF could have told you that mate :) - Mo Kargas

@Rah, hmm, some of them may even have had kids :/ - Mo Kargas

When revealing your age, say specifics, such as "I stopped working on my college thesis to watch the M*A*S*H finale" or "It was groovy to find 'Sugar Sugar' on the jukebox." (P.S. It wouldn't play. I was sad.) - Ontario Emperor via fftogo

love the new pic. thanx... did you do it for me? Uhm... NO!!! - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ

Nice read. Been thinking about this for the past few weeks too as I am working on growing my blog. - Winston Teo

No, I have a dream that I carry on conversations with ppl on FF. The problem is thinking they're real after you wake up. - Brandon

Pete - Thinkin' that might be scarier. Are they in color ? :) - Charlie Anzman

I used to have dreams about Lambda Moo all the time. - K Welch

May the iron chef force be with you. - imabonehead

Second phase is done...will do third phase tomorrow...then it's time to fry up some grub! - Alex "Maverick" Scoble

Wokka Wokka Wokka - Fozzie Bear - Kelly

awesome! so electrifying! - imabonehead

I presume you have to be tall to wear that - Glen Campbell

Prince: Electric Intercourse http://friendfeed.com/e/b23301... - MiniMage

I think I might have too many other unfinished projects, though. - James Williams (willia4)

You may be busy, but that sounds like a very cool use of the API. - Rob Diana

That could be useful for other things than just migration. People could copy each others' queues for funsies. - Paul Reynolds

Paul - Well, if I write it, my EULA will require the user to never use the word "funsies" again. - James Williams (willia4)

Brilliant - Mo Kargas

rotflol! so good! - dkb

LOL - this is still funny - I've just come back to this days later and almost spit beer through my nose laughing ... bwahaha .... yes, i'm a simple, simple man. - dkb

In a moment, I'll give you one more. Congrats! Big milestone. - Chris Baskind

congrats Mark! Hopefully I am not far behind! - Rob Diana

Thanks guys. Rob, you and I seem to be neck and neck, like, forever. :) - Mark Dykeman

Glad to help, dude! Keep rockin'. - Remarkablogger