In Pic #3, I am holding my youngest brother (picture in 1984). In pic #4, I am with my younger brother who was a year behind me. He is sporting one of our Superman capes.
- Louis Gray
These remind me of Chris Pirillo's kid pics. Do glasses predestine you to become a geek? :) I think I'll ask the government for millions of dollars to study that question. Fascinating.
- Dawn
Adorable !! Thanks for sharing :) I wish I had more pics of my childhood (they're all at my Mom's house!)
- Susan Beebe
Some Beautiful Doga Covers, that I tried to upload with yesterday's post but was unable to do so, I am trying again to upload them here. I know it's not a Doga Fan Blog, so wont be flooding it with more Doga Stuff. Will be writing something on unknown or long forgotten Indian Comic Books Characters soon. Till then enjoy these covers by Manu.
- Abhishek
from Bookmarklet
Translations of Titles: (From left) Curfew; Unlce Ginger; This is Doga.
- Abhishek
There will also be a B'wood movie on Doga (2012). Fist time a comic book superhero to adapted on-screen in B'wood!
- Abhishek
Just was talking to http://www.friendfeed.com/garin and we came to the conclusion that if you are going to comment on a friendfeed item you should either be first or last. Why? They always are visible. So, here's your chance! :-)
Any worthy FF thread will engage interested parties enough to read most of the comments.
- iTad
Do I get bonus points if I end up being the thread killer?
- Kevin Johnson
Kevin you could always delete your 1st comment. :)
- rob friedman
Kevin! Yes, and we're having a great time watching this. It will get old fast, but for now it's really fun!
- Robert Scoble
Dang it I am 5 min too late. So I guess it is like posting on a blog post, you always want to be first.
- Jeff
Hey Enrique.. that would suck. Oh... LAST! Oh Jeff... Last.
- Ted Bradford II
That's why these threads just go on and on and on... people just want to have the last word. ;-P
- Chris Heath
Chris: I don't want the last word. I want the penultimate word. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Nope, I like the riffng of the conversation. Jump in anywhere. Enjoy the free flow of ideas and worry not about being seen by the scanners. Those who take the time to expand the thread have such a richer experience.
- michael sean wright
if i wasn't so tired i'd play that out Chris (as my last post was truly in jest). Late here in East TN. Gonna go tip a few cows and call it a day.
- Ted Bradford II
Ted: so was mine ... didn't you catch the winky tongue? (i'm on cape fear so i'm soon to bed as well)
- Chris Heath
Good point, unless you're actually using the RT chat aspect of FriendFeed, I guess...
- Andy Werner
I actually come back 5 days later to make comments so I can have the last word. Everyone has already forgotten what the conversation is about by then.
- Jeff
Chris- I did, but needed a segue into a cow tipping joke... cause I've never done so before. I do know this, tomorrow I will use the word 'penultimate' and dazzle family and friends. Hope alls quiet on the Cape bro. These storms have been a biotch. Annnnnnd Jeff just trumped us all. Tell him what he's won Enrique... nite all.
- Ted Bradford II
Second to last is always visible on my screen. :)
- Bwana ☠
Clever way to get the most commented upon comment on FF ever....
- Barak B
Ted, if you haven't dozed off- i'll have you know that the coastal winds tend to keep a lot of the storm systems at bay- if you're close enough to the water - a mile or 5 inland can make a big difference some days - and spot t/storms can be localized around here big time - for instance yesterday it rained (for a short period) at my house while i was at work 5 miles away getting no rain - only knew cuz the ground was wet when i went home for lunch... ok - it's really time for sleep now - g'nite FriendFeed
- Chris Heath
friendfeed should allow for "liking" comments so top comments can be the ones shown, no matter the chronology. And allow the users to watch comments by likes, threaded or chronologically.
- Charbax
A blatant attempt at gaming the FriendFeed statistics for no real useful purpose... Oooh, can I be last, Please Please!!!
- Peter Kelley
No, Peter, you may not be last. That's my position.
- Chris Charabaruk
Are trying to go for the longest comment thread again?
- Amit Morson
Amit: no, most times one post gets hidden.
- Robert Scoble
In a different timezone you can have the advantage :)
- Rene de Vries
Okay, people, nothing to see here. Just walk on. This is the last comment. It's all clear now.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
What if you write backwards? Does that help?
- Kieran Daly
Okay, people, nothing to see here. Just walk on. This is the last comment. It's all clear now. says Ruud van Wijngaarden
- Julian Edward
It would be nice if we could pick the number of comments shown at the top and bottom, I'd like to see the first 3 and last 3 for example.
- Kol Tregaskes
I usually read all the comments of something I'm interested in. I don't just read the top and bottom ones so I don't care where I come in. I comment on what I want to because I want to say something. It's nice if the original poster reads/responds to it, but not absolutely necessary. Most of the time the most fun/interaction comes from other commenters.
- Molly
Being last has one drawback. It makes you a thread-killer. I'm not sure some of us like being that. Sometimes I'd rather see the discussion keep going.
- George Hall (Australia)
Do like the suggestion made earlier that there should be bonus points for being the thread-killer...
- George Hall (Australia)
And there is nothing I hate more than reading that first comment that childishly claims "First!" and nothing more. "Last!" (until the next comment comes along)
- Jim Espinoza
By the way, I'm the last commenter in a very participated thread recently started by Robert Scoble, but that didn't gain me almost any new follower. I'm fine with this though, as I'd find silly being advantaged for being the last commenter ;-)
- Opensource Obscure
112 comments - but there can never be last comment, can there? Unless there is a FF limit on the number of comments - Paul, is there a limit?
- WoH: Minding her Steves
The current last comment is the next penultimate comment.
- Brian Sullivan
Not everyone is on here to market themselves to infinity. Why people, other than people who actually make money off of exposure, insist on wanting the most friends on ff/fb/ms/tt is beyond me. Not everyone is a Scobilite! Yes I did just make that word up... where do I copyright it? lol
- Jason Williams
Didn't someone blog about tinyurl's dominance a while back - about how they have too much power. Might have been Gillmor or Winer
- Bwana ☠
Winer. I don't think they have too much power
- Steve Gillmor
Kevin: i did not say it was spam. I put the smiley face indicating my partial joking nature. but only partial.
- Jeff
Robert: I could not figure out how to disable comments for particular post. It is really not a big issue since I have gmail, but I do think this post may never die.
- Jeff
I seem to be last on many of Steve Gillmor's posts @techcrunchit, the kiss of death to many a conversation. I should be so lucky here.
- Aron Michalski
from fftogo
A good way to stop? - Scoble puts in his penultimate comment Kevin Johnson says zaloom!
- Julian Edward
This is the Seinfeld of FF....the post and comments about nothing. I wonder what the record is for the most comments on FF?
- Jeff
As a fine-art platform, as a painting, do you think anyone would be interested in a full-screen image feed animated by Judith Supine? http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- stephen harlow
I like most anything distilled...information, bait...(distilled bait...is that like the worm at the bottom of the mezcal?)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
The difference would be that in this case the worm will stay on the bottom. No matter what.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
I reckon it'll be Ruud van Wijngaarden
- Julian Edward
I am not quite sure about that. But willing to accept it. (Wait! You just called me a worm? The most underrated but valuable animal on the planet, that brings us fertile ground and eats dead stuff? It is a nice compliment, but might be a bit much).
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
No, No! - I didn't mean you worm. Although as you say they are useful beings. I do hope you'lll be in heroic position of last commenter! This is a case of the last shall be second. (Kevin Johnson being first of course). Scoble is penultimate we would hope. I'm aiming for 5th to last!
- Julian Edward
Yesterday somebody asked: 'if you pass the number two in a race, which place are you in?' and I answered wrong. Passing the last one in this race will be hard...
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
you mean Twitter Gar1n? You were talking on TWITTER WEREN'T YOU! LIAR "friendfeeed Garin" pfttttt still the same bi-polar
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Interesting comment, SFSS, very interesting indeed. So interesting, in fact, that I think that nothing further needs to be added to this thread. Ever.
- WoH: Minding her Steves
אתם כל כך מלא חרא, אבל זו בעיה שלך, לא שלי :-)
- David Gross
from email
actually i don't know how not to be the last commenter :)
- İ. Emre Kutlu
If only I could puncture the depths of Scoble's scratch-the-surface brain fart, techno-vangelizing, then I'd actually care WHOLE HEARTEDLY about this meaningfully retarded thread.
- The Real sofarsoShawn
The only way this thread can be made even more ridiculous and anachronistic is to move it to identi.ca.. Myspace would work, too.
- Tal Shafik
And since you can't guarantee being last unless you are the originator of the thread or can convince the originator to end comments (but since Robert is AWOL that is unlikely) -- you better be first. ;-)
- Brian Sullivan
"After the introduction of the most anticipated gadget of the year, iPad, a lot of people were disappointed. Some of them created funny and smart pictures illustrating their thoughts about the iPad."
- Jackie
from Bookmarklet
I should have guessed we are now approaching iPad fatigue
- Shakeel Mahate
Pro tip: you can drop in "me" in place of usernames so it works for the currently authenticated user. So this is all of *your* friends minus iPad http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Benjamin Golub
iPad-free everywhere (not just saved searches) http://friendfeed.com/friendf... with configuration: var withWordsToHideArr = ["iPad","Steve Jobs","LG that Greader Oversharer!"]; var withWordsToHideActive = true;
- Micah
or may be we could ask for antiswearing filter - and just change default words for known buzz
- A. T.
I'm honestly not a hater or anything, Louis, and I know it's the story du jour, and this isn't personal, but is there some easy way to split the iPad posts out from your normal Google Reader shared items feed? It feels like everybody who ever thought about blogging has to write an iPad post and you're sharing all of them. Every. Single. One.
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken, I am not sharing every single one. Promise! You should see how many I have seen. Also, take a look at Wednesday and Thursday, there were many many articles, most of which I skipped. The shares that are getting through are the ones with unique angles or trusted sources. This is a blip, just like it is when Twitter or Google or FriendFeed have something big. I am using the same criteria I always use, and the higher iPad content reflects the source pool.
- Louis Gray
If you see those I shared yesterday, such as from Dave Winer, Alex Payne, Joe Hewitt, etc., those are also the ones being discussed and linked to today, from sites like Techmeme or sent out on Twitter. I assume my filtering process is doing okay then. :)
- Louis Gray
Yeah, I know, I know... We're in that inevitable wave of opinions from people who've never seen or held the device, but have to weigh in on what it means to humanity, and I know you're being selective... just had to vent a little. Carry on. ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Agreeing with you somewhat, you saw my post from last night, but in the 24 hours when I didn't write about it, there were people asking why I hadn't already. I'd rather get the story right than be the fastest to regurgitate. :)
- Louis Gray
I don't quite follow, Christopher, but I get the sense you just called me out for being hypocritical, right? ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Is this our fate? 60 days of snipping at each other over an inanimate object of consumer desire? I'm not immune, just lamenting. EDIT: and faux snipping.
- Micah
Ah... yeah, I get it now, Christopher. I guess the difference between this stuff and talk about Twitter or Google or FriendFeed is people can actually chose to try those products before they weigh in. Or at least they can talk to people who've used them. Right now it's like everybody's doing a review of Twitter based on screenshots.
- Ken Sheppardson
But I've found it to be a little buggy recently (in Chrome). On a few sites (BBC, FF and others) when I hit the bookmarklet the screen scrolls to the bottom and I cannot scroll back up. I have to use the original FF bookmarklet instead. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
The pictures are a little out of order
- Mike Chelen
Mostly stick with the regular one, and use the movable bookmarklet when something is blocked
- Mike Chelen
Cool. I was always hoping for a new Bookmarklet. And even if it's buggy, it's a step in the right direction. Nice Job
- Michael Fidler
Michael: It seems like the only way to uncover parts of the screen. Thanks go to April's friend for writing the code http://friendfeed.com/friendf... hope these pics help to see how it works
- Mike Chelen
Have you ever tried the Posterous Bookmarklet? I think it's one of the best around. It pulls everything off a page and allows you to choose what you want. It's similar to the FFeed one in a way, but I would like something like it, but combine it with the ability to pull in more than three pictures in at a time. Don't get me wrong, I love the FFeed one too, but there's something elegant about the way the Posterous one works.
- Michael Fidler
Michael: How well does Posterous stuff import to Friendfeed? If it were possible to import more than 3 pictures, that would be nice.
- Mike Chelen
Mike. Posterous imports well using the Custom RSS/atom feed , but I recall seeing a message from Gary, one of their founders, mentioning that he would like to have better integration with friendfeed. Before I enter the feed, I first run it through fflow, which gives me a MediaRSS feed which tends to display larger pictures. I use it on all my feeds. Love it. Here's the URL: http://www.fflow.net/...
- Michael Fidler
Michael: cool, fflow looks similar to feed buster http://feed-buster.appspot.com/ which i use heavily for multimedia import to friendfeed. will have to try them side by side and see if there are any differences. thanks for the tip!
- Mike Chelen
Whoa, fflow is new to me. Anyone know how long it's been around and who the developer is?
- Ivan Zuzak
I was wondering why nothing was moving. :-) Anyone else have this or just me?
- Kol Tregaskes
It's either broken or deliberately shut off to avoid iPad strain.
- Brian Sullivan
same for me, looks like they have a problem.. got 120 in queue after 10minutes of silence
- Yunus Tunak
I think whatever horrible nonsense they had going on earlier this morning might've prompted them to halt the real-time. It was very, very hinky there for a while.
- Jennifer Dittrich
I'm seeing it too. I'm guessing they disabled real time to keep the site up during the Apple announcement.
- Jeff P. Henderson
cant even like this post.. .. "Oops, there was a problem! Learn more..." :-/
- Roshan Ramachandran
My wife is now on FriendFeed - everyone say hi (and be gentle - she's still a little hesitant about this whole internet thing!) ;-) - http://friendfeed.com/rebecca...
She and I were just sitting next to each other, both with our laptops out, and I told her we should be on FriendFeed chatting. She's going to bed now but will check your messages later.
- Jesse Stay