Mark O'Neill - Likes

I share all sorts. :-) Lots of photos, photography and tech stuff though. Feel free to sub to me if you like. :-) BTW, you can see who is following you here: http://www.google.com/reader... #whatsyoururl - Kol Tregaskes

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http://www.google.com/reader... - Michael Hocter

Thanks, Michael. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... :-) - Müjdat Korkmaz

More often I end up sharing directly through FF even if I find it on GReader, but sometimes I share there. http://www.google.com/reader... - Tony, Paradox of FF

http://www.google.com/reader... Just about internet! - ★ Soner Gönül

http://www.google.com/reader... I'm glad you asked this right now. I just realized that several people are following me and I didn't even know it. I hope it hasn't been this way for long! - Michael Fidler

Michael, it's not been clear until very recently, you can see notifications here: http://www.google.com/reader... - Kol Tregaskes

Love yr posts :-))))) - Johni Fisher

http://www.google.com/reader... - Lode Nachtergaele

mine is http://www.google.com/reader... ;) - alebaffa from twhirl

http://www.google.com/reader... - OnuRC

thanks for starting this thread - here's mine http://www.google.com/reader... (mostly social media stuff, a little food, and occasional randomness) - Chris Rogers

http://www.google.com/reader... - James Slater

Kol, thanks! I wish it would tell me when they started following, I'll have to keep a better eye on it now. - Michael Fidler

http://www.google.com/reader... - Kevin Mohr

http://www.google.com/reader... - LouCypher

http://www.google.com/reader... - zsafwan 

http://www.google.com/reader... - Tony C (Unrated)

Mine is http://www.google.com/reader... - hope you enjoy! - outofmyarse

Just noticed that Reader now allows grouping of people you follow! Wondering: is Reader going to become a competitor (instead of complement) to FriendFeed? - Chris Rogers

http://www.google.com/reader... - Steve Lowe

http://www.google.com/reader... - Always looking for more ppl to share links! - Liza

http://www.google.com/reader... - M F

Ah so that's your name, M F! ;-) I'm wanting to live in that area too, nice around there? - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Simon Tracey

Yes it's alright I moved here two years ago, I was in West London before that - M F

GREAT FEED - I am finding so many great ppl to follow - this is great. - Liza

M F, I like to move to just over the other side of the stream from you. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

And your pics are great! I am going to be stuck in greader for a while! - Liza

http://www.google.com/reader... - phil baumann

Well wave your hand Kol when you get here - M F

http://www.google.com/reader... - Jason Wehmhoener

http://www.google.com/reader... - But I only really use google reader as a simple RSS reader. Follow people on FriendFeed. - Anton Tanderup

http://www.google.com/reader... - Andy Sternberg from fftogo

Hehe, M F. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

mine is http://www.google.com/reader... - Kim Landwehr

Thanks for your latest bookmark there, Kim. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - mridul

feedly.com :) - Zach Landes

https://www.google.com/reader... - Bryan R. Adams

http://www.google.com/reader... - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

http://www.google.com/reader... #greader #whatsyoururl - Ron Bailey

http://www.google.com/reader... - Parvez Halim

http://www.google.com/reader... but everything I share in reader comes on to FriendFeed. - Aram Zucker-Scharff from twhirl

http://www.google.com/reader... - Daltonsbriefs

http://www.google.com/reader... - the stuff I share there is also on FriendFeed. - Hanna Wiszniewska

http://www.google.com/reader... mine are mostly science items - Sally Church

Mine is http://www.google.com/reader... - Mostly Tech. - Svartling

http://www.google.com/reader... - Nick Humphries

http://www.google.com/reader... - Ozgur Uckan

http://www.google.com/reader... - mixed up content in Portuguese (mainly), English and Spanish. - Marcos

Liza, oooh I love the post on generating Mandelbrot fractals in Excel! - Sally Church

http://google.com/reader... - Anton

http://www.google.com/reader... - Shawn Farner from twhirl

http://www.google.com/reader... - Kevin Whalen

@rogersdc / Chris, Google Reader is obviously been trying to become more social, but I'd really like to see FF come out with a bookmarklet that makes sub'ing RSS feeds to FF easier/faster. Right now it's a manual process involving either a new Group/Room or Imaginary Friend. Should be 2 clicks tops.. Also see: http://friendfeed.com/alexsch... - Alex Schleber

http://www.google.com/reader... - Andrew Leahey

http://www.google.com/reader... - Eric Geller

http://www.google.com/reader... - Zachary TG

http://www.google.com/reader... - Vince DeGeorge

http://www.google.com/reader... - Lin Yong from NoiseRiver

http://www.google.com/reader... - Baard @ Pixum

http://www.google.com/reader... - Jason A. Nunnelley

http://www.google.com/reader... - Louis Gray

http://www.google.com/reader... - Travis B. Hartwell

http://www.google.com/profile... - James (!?)

http://www.google.com/reader... - Warren Butler

http://www.google.com/reader... - Brandon Ball

http://www.google.com/reader... - "Jazzperous" Isaksson

http://www.google.com/reader... - Joe Dawson

http://www.google.com/reader... - guilherme

Thanks everyone! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - dkb

http://www.google.com/reader... - Adi

http://www.google.com/reader... - Mathew A. Koeneker

http://www.google.com/reader... - Alex Scrivener

Here is mine : http://www.google.fr/reader.... I share (mainly on French sites and blogs) about libraries, literature and arts, human and social sciences, photography :-) - Nadine Pestourie

http://www.google.com/reader... Google and other tech stuff, as well as other random things of interest. - Californian

http://www.google.com/reader... - Chris Luckhardt

http://www.google.com/reader... - Peter Ghosh

Thank you. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/profile... - Kim

http://www.google.com/profile... http://www.google.com/reader... - Kamilah Gill

http://www.google.com/reader... - Robin Barooah

Keep 'em coming, I'll add you all later today. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Patrik Johansson from Android

http://www.google.com/reader... - Dobromir Hadzhiev

http://www.google.com/reader... - Arthur Guy

http://www.google.com/reader... - Nathan Rein

http://www.google.com/reader... Politics, photography, humor, news, tech, entertainment - amygeek

Thanks for starting this conversation Kol! - amygeek

http://www.google.com/reader... - Shevonne

http://www.google.com/reader... - Dean "Karnatos" Michaud

http://www.google.com/reader... - Eric Johnson

No worries, Amy. :-) Thank you all! - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Andrew Roche

LOL here we go again :o) http://www.google.com/reader... I share a lot of blogs and funny stuff that I read, it's neat how I can share and it gets posted all over by friendfeed. - David Gross

http://www.google.com/reader... - Joe Bonner

http://www.google.com/reader... - Vlad Bobleanta

http://www.google.com/reader... - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

http://www.google.com/reader... - Ivan Pavlov

Thank you. - Kol Tregaskes

Don't know that I have one, as I eschew most things Google.... - Mike Shields

Not sure if I've already shared it, but my URL is http://www.google.com/reader.... - Tyson Key

http://www.google.com/reader... - Ethan

Thank you guys. - Kol Tregaskes

your welcome kol - Tony C (Unrated) from IM

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

I think that I over-loaded my poor G-Reader by adding all of you. ;-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

Here is my feed: http://l.clipotech.com/shared - I will try to add all of you on this list :) - Svartling

Don't forget to add all out new contacts in to groups. Otherwise we cant comment on each others shared items. - Svartling

http://www.google.com/reader... - Almost exclusively tech, including humor/cartoons and productivity. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

http://www.google.com/reader... - I share items about productivity, gaming, movies, and misc. stuff from the Google "cool" via Recommendations feed. Thanks Kol for starting this thread because I've been trying to cut down on the number of feeds I subscribe to and instead just follow interesting people. - Dusty Edenfield

Svartling: good point about adding people to groups. I noticed I couldn't comment on items that were shared by some users. - Dusty Edenfield

Thanks everyone. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - (jeff)isageek

http://www.google.com/reader... - Roberto Bonini

http://www.google.com/reader... - ★Kristy

I've (we) written a lot of more good tips on how to use Google Reader in Google Reader comments. It's too bad we don't have permalinks in Greader so we can share our notes and comments. Otherwise I could have posted a link here. Here are some on friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/svartli... - Svartling

http://www.google.com/reader... - David Peacock

here's mine! Love some of the new features... http://www.google.com/reader... - tomit

http://www.google.com/reader... - Ken Sheppardson

I don't think I added mine yet: http://www.google.com/reader... - LogEx

Thank you. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - DGentry

Almost missed this one! http://www.google.com/reader... - Patrik Arwengrim

http://www.google.com/reader... - Frode Stenstrøm

http://www.google.com/reader... - Aaron Krug

http://www.google.com/reader... - Tristan Seligmann

http://www.google.com/reader... - Russell G

http://www.google.com/reader... - Dani Radu

http://www.google.com/reader... - Kenton

http://www.google.com/reader... - Remo

I guess I best start sharing stuff, then. :D - http://www.google.com/reader... - Bette Cooper

http://www.google.com/reader... - I guess I'm a bit late to the party, but here's mine. I share mainly technology, photography, design... and other random stuff. - Ryan - @magicofpi

Thank you all. - Kol Tregaskes

Yes! The list I was looking for! I'll get my info on here as soon as I get on my netbook - Kamilah Gill from email

http://www.google.com/reader... - George Hall (Australia)

http://www.google.com/reader... - Gtp19

http://www.google.com/reader... - ha3rvey (wants confit)

http://www.google.com/reader... - Kamilah Gill

http://www.google.com/reader... - Bluesun 2600

http://www.google.com/reader... - CAJ, somewhere else

http://www.google.com/reader... - Martha

Thanks for posting this Kol. Never paid any attention to my shared items folder before but just did! - Martha

http://www.google.com/reader... - Eric Logan

The conversation is really blowing up (in a good way) on Reader. The most important reminder currently is to set up groups and allow commenting. That is NOT on by default! - Vince DeGeorge

http://www.google.com/reader... - Tapio Kulmala

Vince, exactly! - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Nik

mine is http://www.google.com/reader... - Daryl Hunt on FF

Not sure how I missed this thread. I share lots of tech news, some programming stuff and a little more at http://www.google.com/reader... - Rob Diana

There is also a group that collected a bunch of reader shares at http://friendfeed.com/share-y... - Rob Diana

http://www.google.com/reader... - Nick B.

http://www.google.com/reader... - Mike Nencetti

http://www.google.com/reader... - Slappy Line

http://www.google.com/reader... - Sean Brady

http://www.google.com/reader... - Spidra Webster

http://www.google.com/reader... - Or just go to: Sharing settings on your google reader shared items and search for: Avi Joseph - Avi Joseph

http://www.google.com/reader... - Pete Delucchi

Thank you all. I think I have subscribed you all now (except those feed in languages I don't understand) Here is mine again: http://www.google.com/reader... - Svartling

http://www.google.com/reader... - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

I've started to follow a few of the people here but there's quite a few, so will take me a while :) - My currently fairly bare feed is: http://www.google.com/reader... - Roy Herrod

http://www.google.com/reader... - Steven Perez

http://www.google.com/reader... - edythe

http://www.google.com/reader... - http://friendfeed.com/kevinar... - Kevin Arth

http://www.google.com/reader... - topics include a bit of everything, but there's a fair about of Android-related stuff in there - Chuck Falzone

http://www.google.com/reader... - Damond Nollan

http://www.google.com/reader... - Californian

http://www.google.com/reader... - Mike Reynolds

http://www.google.com/reader... - AJ Kohn

http://www.google.com/reader... - MLx

http://www.google.com/reader... - German - mostly politics and crude funny things. Maybe some new technology - JoeD

http://www.google.com/reader... - Jesse Stay

http://www.google.com/reader... - Grant Bierman

http://www.google.com/reader... - Neal Jansons

Thank everyone. - Kol Tregaskes

There are a few entries here you might like to read to help you. This one: http://ff.im/6CkQj explains about adding people to groups to allow them to comment and why some don't stay in groups. In this one: http://ff.im/6F9pQ I suggest a way to track a large number of shared items using PostRank. This: http://ff.im/6Ci0P and this: http://ff.im/6AM35 has a few tips on using GReader as a lifestreaming service. And this: http://ff.im/6EMT1 gives a few examples of GReader bundles. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... I mostly share ART with a little bit this and that thrown in for good measure. - Kimber Scott

http://www.google.com/reader... - michael sean wright

http://www.google.com/reader... - Bryce Roney

http://www.google.com/reader... - Jon, the Beartato of '10

Ryo: Same here :) "completely moved to Google Reader / Twitter / Posterous" All my followers, please subscribe to me on Google Reader: http://www.google.com/reader... or my lifestream: http://l.clipotech.com/lifestr... - Svartling

http://www.google.com/reader... - Alexander Kruel

http://www.google.com/reader... - Tristan Hambling

http://www.google.com/reader... share various science research and news - Colby from iPod

http://www.google.com/reader... - George Moga

http://www.google.com/reader... -- nothing shared yet; still learning several social networks & services, so it might take me a while... - Dennis Jernberg

http://www.google.com/reader... - Adrian Scicluna

http://www.google.com/reader... - Mark O'Neill

Those of you above whom I already follow on FF/Twitter/etc., I've subscribed to your feeds. As for the rest of you: if you follow me on GReader, I'll follow you back. - Dennis Jernberg

I'm sharing some pages now, including a few of my past blog entries. - Dennis Jernberg

http://www.google.com/reader... - Imabug

easier to just follow and edit groups from search url>http://www.google.com/reader... - Ru Viljoen

http://www.google.com/reader... - John Ladd

http://www.google.com/reader... - Marko Saric

http://www.google.com/reader... - Pete Gilbert

Because I have issues with data duplication, I have merged this list with the google reader shares room feeds. You can view the Google spreadsheet at http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc... - Rob Diana

There are a bunch of shared feeds that I could not resolve the Google username for because they did not have a named profile set up. - Rob Diana

tristanhambling, your link didn't work. :-( - Kol Tregaskes

Thank you very much, Rob! - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... Right now I'm testing it in comparison to Netvibes. It's yet to be seen if I end up making the switch. - Brad Williamson

http://www.google.com/reader... - ronin

http://www.google.com/reader... - Muge Cerman

https://www.google.com/reader... - Mo Hall

http://www.google.com/reader... - Tal Shafik

http://www.google.com/reader... Mainly photography related things. - Sven

It would be really handy to have all these shared feeds as an opml file. Has anyone added everyone? Care to export an opml of the shared feeds? - Paul Jacobson

My shared stream is at http://www.google.com/reader... - Paul Jacobson

Paul, can do that but it will be out of date the moment I post it as I'm getting more new users all the time. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Damond Nollan

Maybe someone could hook up something via Yahoo Pipes (or whatever) to automatically generate the OPML? - Tristan Seligmann

http://www.google.com/reader... - Yant

Damond, I'm getting that deja vu feeling. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Whoa, hey, I'm late to this. I'm here: http://www.google.com/reader... :-) - Jordan Hofker

I'm http://www.google.com/reader... Not really comfortable with the custom URL though since it can only be your gmail username. Makes it really easy for spamspiders I think. - TobiasVerhoog.com

Tobias, possibly but not had any problems myself though Gmail has the best spam filters around so I probably not noticed. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... Please dont tell me I have to add everyone manually like I did with Facebook yesterday?? *sigh* - Julia Ault

http://www.google.fr/reader... - Olivier Castets

http://www.google.com/reader... - Chris Hofmann

http://www.google.com/reader... link to my bundle with all my feeds that i have in friendfeed too - Chris Hofmann

http://www.google.com/reader... mostly webdev, photography news, music, world news which i get interested. plus half of them may be article in Japanese. sorry. :-p - browneyes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Edmund Tay

http://www.google.com/reader... - Jez Arnold

Thanks all! - Kol Tregaskes

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

spread those tentacles thats what i say (I'm generally sharing comics, animation, and interesting weirdeness) : http://www.google.com/reader... - Paul Greer

Exactly, Paul. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Gerald Hildebrandt

There are a few people that have not added me to a group and so I cannot reply to some of your comments. :-( - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - flaimo

http://www.google.com/reader... - Charles Owens

http://www.google.com/reader... - Johnny

http://www.google.com/reader... - Kenley Neufeld

http://www.google.com/reader... - OK I'm in. Late as always. Will post my thoughts, feedback and pleading requests for help over in Google Reader so please follow me over there. Eat your own dog food and all that. - Andy C

MF/Kol = I live in Kingston on Thames. It's OK apart from the traffic (continually gridlocked) and the shops (girls just lurve them). Handy for getting into London both airports and out to the Thames Valley for work type things. Richmond Park and the river in walking distance is great too. - Andy C

phew.. - Paul Greer

Andy, Richmond Park and the others around there are the appeal really. Good place to go photographing and cycling while being very close to London I think. - Kol Tregaskes

Teddington (across the river from Kingston Upon Thames, is where I think I'd like to live. Just 'cos it's cheaper than everywhere else around it. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

https://www.google.com/reader... - Customized with numbers - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

@Kol many years ago, we made the mistake of asking an estate agent in Surbiton whether it was any cheaper than Kingston. She replied 'No - of course not. We are on the fast line to Waterloo' and looked at us as if we were dog excrement. - Andy C

I've checked rental prices in the area several times over the last 2 years and Teddington is definitely cheaper. I'm not buying, no way I can afford that. ;-) All a pip-dream anyway, need a steady job and I've not had that for a while. :-( - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... Enjoy! - Arvin Dang

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com.au/reader... - Threepwood

http://www.google.com/reader... - jcunwired

Mine; http://www.google.com/reader... - S.D.Allen

Thanks guys. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - masstrovato

http://www.google.com/reader... - Chris Myles

http://www.google.com/reader... GReader, Twitter, and Delicious (plus my own sites) are my primary hubs now. Y'all please join me on GReader. - Chris Baskind

http://www.google.com/reader... late as always - Raymundo Roxas

Thank you. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - barbarars

Trying Google Reader.. Share your friendfeed feed WITHIN Reader. (see http://ff.im/6WRIk) - Chris Myles

http://www.google.com/reader... - Claude LaFrenière aka climenole :) - Claude LaFrenière

anyone use google reader on windows mobile professional? I cant seem to get it to work and when I try to go to the mobile site it takes me to the regular site. - David Gross

Nope, sorry can't help you there, David. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Christopher A Carr

http://www.google.com/reader... - Russ jackson - Russ Jackson

Sweet! http://www.google.com/reader... - Jesse Baer

http://www.google.com/reader... please add! - Brendon Wadey

Jesse, I saw your share of this FriendFeed thread on Google Reader! - John E. Bredehoft

David, I use mobile Google Reader on an older phone with Windows mobile. My bookmark begins with google.com/reader/m/view - John E. Bredehoft

Here's mine...http://www.google.com/reader... - Oscar Antonio Moralí

Aloha! http://www.google.com/reader... - Ryan

check it out...http://www.google.com/reader... - Cos

Will share tech, science and skepticism, and education news stories: http://www.google.com/reader... - TC

in case anyone missed it, mine is http://www.google.com/reader... - David Gross

http://www.google.com/reader... - Irma Vermaat

more cool - Brent - Loving Life

http://www.google.com/reader... - Anthony Citrano

http://www.google.com/reader... - James Ferguson

http://www.google.com/reader... - Otto

I share interesting articles about Internet music, social media, open content and copyright issues: http://www.google.com/reader... - David Holmes

Since Senators engaged in open extortion and bribery to enact Reid’s government-run healthcare plan, it is hardly newsworthy that Washington is riddled with corruption. But the magnitude of sleaze is probably far greater than most people realize. There is a new study from a couple of academics at the University of Michigan, who found significant relationships between lobbying and bailout money, as well as a greater chance of getting bailouts depending on a bank’s ties with either the Federal Reserve or key members of Congress. Hopefully, people across America will draw the obvious conclusion and realize that big government is inherently corrupting, as discussed in this video. Reuters has the details on this latest example of big government and malfeasance: U.S. banks that spent more money on lobbying were more likely to get government bailout money, according to a study released on Monday. Banks whose executives served on Federal Reserve boards were more likely to receive government... more... - Eric Logan from Bookmarklet

Bunu her dinlediğimde bir yerleri istila edesim geliyor :)) - Ercüment Büyükşener

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Dark Side'a bile geçerim ben bunu dinledikten sonra - Onur Baykal

come to daddy Luke - iwfx!

I love this. thanks for sharing. its "Dick Cheney" theme song :)))) - Mycaptain

zö - iwfx!

the song you love to hate - echostreamer

who put those wussy flutes in the middle of the song, wait until Lord Vader hears about this! - echostreamer

ub - iwfx!

what for? don't they think emperor holds divine powers? - ffcode

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Next thing you know, he'll be kissing the Pope's ring. - Alex Scrivener

You do know that the deeper the bow, the less respectful it is, right? - Rene Wirtz

LOOK EYE! ALWAYS LOOK EYE! - Akiva Moskovitz

Heck, Obama is only trying to do the right thing and show other world leaders the respect that comes with the position. It's expected that it's reciprocated, particularly, when they come to the US, and there's an outcry if it's thought that they don't. - Ian May

Akihito did something really good? is he a great man/ warrior etc? - ffcode

don't know what it should be like, but from this perspective looks really wrong... - Lui.aka.Gi ►►

Why does this matter? In the grand scheme of actions worth mentioning, how someone effective says "Hello, I acknowledge your presence" is near the bottom of the list. - Andy Bakun

Why in hell is bowing a problem? It's not like he kissed his boot... - Spidra Webster

<sarcasm> OMGWTFBBQ!!!11!!!1!! HE BOWED!!! Well I guess it's all over now, isn't it? Might as well sign the country over to Japan. </sarcasm> - Bette Cooper

It sure beats throwing up all over the emperor *grin* - Rene Wirtz

+1 Rene :D - Bette Cooper

*bows* - Rene Wirtz

just unzipped my fly - Noah David Simon

ND Simon: if you're done peeing on our page, please zip up. The only thing important about the bow is that Obama thought to do it and how the Emperor considers it. - Douglas Hopkins

No, never look eye. Only gaijin look eye when bowing. - rowlikeagirl

It's only a problem for small-minded people who oppose everything about those who FAUX News tells them to disagree. - ·[▪_▪]·

It's only a problem for small-minded people who practically swoon over everything that President Obama does. - Akiva Moskovitz

I don't think it's a huge issue, but Presidential protocol/etiquette is certainly not off limits, regardless of which party is in power. And, folks always swoon over what Presidents do, again, regardless of which party is in power. - Kurt Starnes

Your last statement is true, Kurt, but this is the first time in my life that I've seen people swoon over the man (note that I was not alive for JFK) and not the office. I keep thinking of footage of girls shrieking as the Beatles landed in the U.S. for the first time. - Akiva Moskovitz

Akiva - I think it's because of the historic significance of Obama's presidency. The swooning is more frequent, both the negative and positive swoonage! The double-edged sword of fame. - Kurt Starnes

Good point, Kurt. As much as people swoon senselessly (and often defensively) over everything he does, others have turned on him more quickly than I've ever seen people turn on a President once they realized that they would not, in fact, be receiving puppy dogs and ice cream in return for their vote. - Akiva Moskovitz

It's bad that an American president shows respect towards other leaders of the world. Maybe instead he should start throwing bombs at, and strong-arming countries into following his agenda. God forbid that the man is humble and understands that he is but a man, not a king. - Rasmus Lauridsen

I have avoided this thread until now, but seriously? He shows the humanity of one national leader by bowing before another? "the man is humble and understands that he is but a man, not a king" and then bows to an emperor? - Alex Scrivener

And he shouldn't have? When in Rome, do as the Romans do and all that, you know. Seriously, there is ab-so-lu-tely nothing wrong with bowing to the emperor, since it is exactly the same as shaking the hand of the English prime minister or Queen Elizabeth and no-one thinks anything of that. And in a way that is far worse, since the English crown used to control this country. - Rene Wirtz

Actually, it is this lack of decorum, a decorum that no-one wants Obama to show, that gives all Americans a bad name. For a civilized country a lot of people are seriously lacking the basic social skills. If you want't to be barbarics amongst each other, that's all fine and dandy, but in an international setting you better know how to behave yourself. - Rene Wirtz

Yeah, let's see him kiss the Pope's ring when he's in Rome. - Alex Scrivener

That makes me wonder if JFK ever did. As a practicing Catholic, he'd be expected to, but as the President (and the first Catholic one) there'd be an uproar if he did. - Spidra Webster

You know what, I'll bet you Obama will. And not necessarily because he wants to, but because it's the proper protocol. - Rene Wirtz

Right. Talk shit about the King of Thailand, in Thailand, expect to go to jail. Because in Rome, you do as the Romans do. - Christopher Harley

Why is this even an issue at all? He's in Japan. In Japan, they bow. If he didn't, he would probably be viewed as culturally insensitive. He can't win either way. - Rodfather

I think Obama is very cool . He knows what will it takes to be a real leader. I bow to him. - eynollah

"Bows are the traditional greeting in East Asia, particularly in Korea and Japan. However, bowing is not reserved only for greetings. Bowing is a gesture of respect. Different bows are used for apologies and gratitude, to express different emotions, humility, sincerity, remorse, or deference, and in various traditional arts and religious ceremonies."... In other words, he shook the man's hand. - Johnny Worthington

It makes so much sense if you use the word 'bow' as in a 'bow tie'. - Akiva Moskovitz

Would it spin? - Johnny Worthington

I think everything involving Obama has some kind of spin one way or the other. - Akiva Moskovitz

so des, Akiva - Josh Haley

Everything in the States has spin to it :P Even the No Spin Zone has spin... Honestly, we get dizzy sometimes - Johnny Worthington

So true, Johnny, so true. :D - Bette Cooper

I live in Japan and I rarely bow. But if I had the opportunity to meet the Emperor I would bow. By the way, culturally he has a nice bow. Dropping the head. With H1N1 is bowing not superior over, shaking hands? - Robert Higgins

And here we have the essence of web: 10% sensibility & 90% unwashed hoi polloi with strong opinions devoid of education (talking above 6th grade). Twenty-five years ago, I was thinking the need to type would always keep the internet somewhat enlightened. Guess I should be thankful I'm about the onbly person who has discovered digital dictation! - Douglas Hopkins

Lennon? - awd

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I only hear ff - JSNFLMNG

Friendfeed - RAPatton

Shatner. William Shatner. - Derrick

I believe in Chuck Norris - Onur Cengiz

Louis Gay or I mean Gray - sofarsoShawn

I believe in coyotes. - s t e v e

I believe the children are our future... wait, wrong thing. - Kendra <3 Three Lions

Kendra wins - Mary Carmen

also, you should believe me as I write your eval. ;-) - Mary Carmen

Which one will burn when put to the stake? And do either of them float? - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

I believe in Swordfish! - Mary Carmen

Friendfish - Joe Silence is ashes

well Friendfeed is looking a bit pale these days. Not the same kind of party as before. So I would say Friendfeed : Dead, Scoble : Alive - Mark O'Neill

Can't they both be right? - Kevin Shaum

FriendFeed's less shiny, but that's a good thing. Scoble? His opinion matters as much to me as that of any other A-lister. - Walt Crawford

The Walrus. - Robert Scoble

*lol* Nice, Scoble ;) - Archangel ωαřмaiden

Paul - Jesse Stay

Doesn't look dead to me. - Amit Morson

Does this make us necrosomethings? - Rochelle Rochelle

Neither, in this case. Though "the Walrus" is a good answer. :-) - Chris Baskind

I'm still here. - Alex Scoble

I don't believe Robert Scoble uses FriendFeed anymore after saying it's dead. Whoever uses his account on FF must be a ghost writer. :P - imabonehead

imabonehead: there is life after death. - Robert Scoble

Who said Alex was dead? - Matthew DeVries

Matthew: I did. Many times when we were kids. - Robert Scoble

Glad you weren't so big on follow-through back then. - Matthew DeVries

We may need to send the Ghost Whisper after Robert Scobe. - imabonehead

Not so good on follow through now either - Ed Millard

Matthew: our bark is worse than our bite. Who is PetuniaGreenBeans? And why doesn't Petunia know how to use Google? - Robert Scoble

42 - Steve Mott

42 is dead too - Amit Morson

Google is dead - Amit Morson

kanye west lol - zʍıɔ

The Guardian has a new series: 1000 Songs Everyone Should Hear. It starts today with Part One: “Love.” (Note: The URL proudly emblazoned on today’s dead-tree Saturday supplement is incorrect; the page is here). - Jez Arnold

"You can share any large image you find on the web with this amazing new service from Microsoft Live Labs. Of course, everything featured here on MakeUseOf is free, but there’s more – there is no need to sign up anywhere. Just go to Seadragon and enter the URL of your image. It processes your image link and gives you URL that you can tweet, share on Facebook, or bookmark on Delicious, or whatever you wish." - Michael Fidler from Bookmarklet

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This is worth checking out! - Michael Fidler

Is...Microsoft...wait........ Is Microsoft starting to wake up? ...from a bad dream? Should we start cheering for Microsoft now, or is it still too early? - sebastian☆rocket brother

I'm cheering for them. I think they are reinventing themselves. It's not Balmer; someone else is doing all of this. Ray Ozzie perhaps? - Michael Fidler

This is so cool. I'm going to try this with the highest resolution image that I have, which is really really big! I have something to do first, so give me 30 min. - Michael Fidler

I'm going to have to try this later - Michael Fidler

Herzeleid; Don't forget Windows 7! - Michael Fidler

I tried it with one of my picli.com images http://seadragon.com/view/604 - sjjh

sjjh; it came out nice. I love the zoom feature! - Michael Fidler

Hmmm....something about the design of Microsoft doesn't sit well with me...the clunkiness? the Live logos? I don't know. Just turns me off. Also, I just read this yesterday or so about some Microsoft product they're working on that will only be compatible with IE and Firefox only. Why not Chrome, Safari, Opera? ...It just feels closed and protected as much as possible. - sebastian☆rocket brother

Sebastian, this was done in Chrome, and there is an iPhone app for it as well; http://seadragon.com/view/60u - Michael Fidler

Sebastian; this image is 15000 x 5052 (76 megapixels) http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3182... - Michael Fidler

That is a BIG pic! I thought it crashed my poor old computer for a sec.. Why is the one in seadragon only 12MPs? - sebastian☆rocket brother

It was just a first attempt so I didn't want to overload it. Actually, the larger one took less to time to process - Michael Fidler

This is pretty sweet. Here is a panorama I have been working on. http://seadragon.com/view/6a6 - Jeff

I like the full screen option best. - Jeff

Michael - Thanks for sharing my article, glad you folks like Seadragon. Quite awesome isn't it? Works with Silverlight where its installed, AJAX where it isn't. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Mahendra; My pleasure! I think it's awesome, and I 'm looking forward to using it. I spent some time in livelabs today, and the photography division is one their most creative area's. This blew me away; Yosemite Extreme Panoramic Imaging Project 2008 http://xrez.com/yose_pr... - Michael Fidler

Wow, that is superb! Thanks for sharing. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Pure psychedelic... - Kaan Ertürk

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Not bad. Marvin Gaye would roll in his grave though if he heard it. - Mark O'Neill

I am sure Marvin heard this before his death ;) - Kaan Ertürk

I didn't really mean it in a literal sense :-) What I meant was that the song pales in comparison to the original song. - Mark O'Neill

That's pure CCR style and I find it as original as Marvin's :) I recommend you listen to the CCR album "Cosmo's Factory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...)" where this song was initially played... - Kaan Ertürk

Jamie, you'll need to add the FB FF app, I think the URL is this: http://apps.facebook.com/friendf... - Kol Tregaskes

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We were just talking about that app at home... it seems to just embed the FF mobile (/iphone/) interface into FB, it doesn't publish your content to FB, so it's just a way to use FF without leaving FB. No one on FB can see your FF content, it seems. - Andy Bakun

Andy, I've seen FriendFeed posts on my Wall. I think there are some settings that you have to apply first, though. - Tyson Key

("Settings" menu -> "Application Settings..." -> Select "Show Authorised" from the pop-up menu -> Click "Edit Settings" next to "FriendFeed". Be sure to select all 3 options on the "Additional Permissions" tab, and you should then see them). - Tyson Key

Not sure if you have to select "Access my data even when I'm not using the application" too, although that option's enabled here. - Tyson Key

there seems to be another thing that needs to be done - Noah David Simon

Merci. :) - Brome

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il est beau - αяf

Tu lui as donné un petit nom? - zooz

Non. Il n'a pas d'oreilles, faut dire. - Brome

Chapeau, monsieur! - directeur

Et bien bravo, il est vraiment beau ! - Claire

Pour allumer un barbecue ? On manquent souvent de petit bois au départ... - robert

robert !!! - αяf

J'adore aussi les Bonsai ! j'en ai quelques uns, je posterai des photos quand je serai plus dispo... Je vois pas trop bien sur la photo c'est un Orme du japon ? (en tout cas il a l'air de rigoler :D) - pingouin info

Que de sagesse, Robert !! ;-) (tiens, tu ne connatirais pas un certain Dylan?) - directeur

bob ci très bien :) - robert

Pingouin, c'est un frêne. Robert, pas touche ! - Brome

that is so cool. - vijay from iPhone

Stylé... - Alexis Taugeron

Beautiful!! And good work, Bonsai is no easy task! - Rachel Lea Fox

Lovely. - Ayşe E.

This should be planted by a bonsai mailbox at the end of a bonsai driveway where the bonsai cars drive into the bonsai garage of the bonsai house where the bonsai people live. - MicahBear78

20 ans ?! Quelle patience! Moi, les seules choses que j'arriverais à conserver 20 ans ce ne serait que des bouteilles de vin ^^ - Remi

Je ne l'ai pas acheté, je suis parti d'une jeune pousse qui sortait à peine du sol. Ça fait effectivement 20 ans que je l'ai. - Brome

its very nice :) - آریـوبرزن

Beautiful! - Ladybug Heather

Thank you all for your nice comments and likes! - Brome

Colis, c'est incroyable! WANT! - sofarsoShawn

Bravo il est très beau ton bonsaï, moi j'ai un sérusa et ça fait 5 ans que je l'ai, j'espère que le mien tiendra aussi longtemps quoique j'ai un palmier de 15ans.mais 20 ans pour un bonsaÏ bravo ! - ranjiva

Zen indeed! :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

Wow, where did you learn to do it? You were a kid when you got it I assume... - metalerik

Euh ... Il a pas une forme classique le bonsaï ! - Yann Leroux from iPhone

Yes, Metalerik, I was a 14 year old teenager. My mother had a few bonsai, so I watched and learned, and wanted to have my own. And I read books. - Brome

En effet, Yann. D'ailleurs, l'essence n'est pas très classique non plus. - Brome

Cela dit c'est un beau bonsaï ! Bravo ! - Yann Leroux from iPhone

trés joli! - Bren -- Making Contact

http://ff.im/5Hm6c - Dobromir Hadzhiev from Bookmarklet

A Brown Bear Mauls you for 352 cuteness damage. - Geoff Schultz

oh absolutely robin, I just had to reshare :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Love this! - *Tiffany Diamond*

Remember, people kill them all the time, and their parents too, for no real purpose but trophy. It's too bad. - Patricia

I mean, reporting the illegal content. Dont click the link above btw. - Burcu Dogan

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:( - Daniel J. Pritchett

Man, how can I report *you*? - Daniel J. Pritchett

User deleted. Thank you. - Kevin Fox

I sent an email to feedback@friendfeed dot com linking this thread -- I think this is the only way to report them illegal stuff, at the moment - alieb

I can't help but wonder if that's the link I saw last week. I'm scare to click thru... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Thanks Kevin, that was sick. - Burcu Dogan

=( Not clicking thru, but the one I saw was definitely disturbing (and reported in general but without a link in Feedback). Thank you to Kevin for deleting the user. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

+infinite on a "report this" button or something, maybe with input type=text to explain what's the deal with it - alieb

FWIW here's the FFFeedback post I made last week and the resulting discussion http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

It would be pretty awesome to be able to report with a single click. There are other alike content on FriendFeed which is dangerous for this service's future. - Burcu Dogan

Burcu, I'm working on building in a one click report button into my hidden item search. All you have to do is hide the item and log into the service and select report this post to FriendFeed, currently you have to add the user and post information to the body, which I'm working to modify. You can find it at http://hiphs.com/ff/ - Jimminy Fuller

Ideally there would be an item link in the drop down that would hide the post, block the user, and report the item to FF staff all in one fell swoop. I know that people will report material that they find personally objectionable that is simply a matter of opinion, but whether we like it or not there is material being posted that is not a matter of opinion but is in fact illegal everywhere. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Yes, freedom is not being free enough to go illegal. Thank you. James, I'm going to take a look at your application. - Burcu Dogan

Tina, I'll work on adding the block the user in to the app, it shouldn't be to hard to add to the functionality, for now if you see it go ahead and hide it immediately, as seeing it is illegal also, whether or not you were looking for it. - Jimminy Fuller

Wouldn't it be best if the form requested a reason for review, with someone at FriendFeed monitoring that? So that folks don't use it just to target stuff that they found objectionable or generally dislike for some reason, even if the content at hand isn't illegal? - Tyson Key

Tyson, that's pretty much what I'm asking for. Having that one option would hide the post for me and block me from ever seeing the user again, plus report the profile to FF staff. If they delete it for illegal content that's great. If I mistakenly rewported content that wasn't illegal they wouldn't delete the accoun but my block would still be in effect for my own viewing preferences. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina) from fftogo

Aah, OK Tina. I roughly suspected something like that. - Tyson Key

If anyone still has the link/person or anything, it should be reported here - https://secure.missingkids.com/missing... More info here - http://www.usdoj.gov/crimina... - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Or does FriendFeed staff already report it? - Jannifer @wordsforliving

if that link above is illegal, somebody, ff, please delete it ... and a solution? ..every social board should have a button "Police" , linking to local police station, who would look up the entry, and if illegal, start immediate investigation ... see, freedom is not chaos, and criminal jungle either .. problem is, our rulers are spending money(hundreds billions $) on foreign colonial wars, investing abroad, NOT caring for America, for situation here - Petr Buben

that deleted user (gaykedi) is back, http://friendfeed.com/homokedi - hayati

what exactly is his problem? - Petr Buben

Deleted user had no child pornography on his post . They were totally legal pictures. For example one of those pictures was taken by Jock Sturges. His work defines as ''Fine Art''. http://www.paulcava.com/STURGES.... Some moralfags are manipulating this post... - 5 Posta

So I can not post Scorpions Virgin Killer LP cover? Here's the link to the ''illegal wikipedia'' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Burcu Doğan DON'T CLICK THE LINK... - 5 Posta

The problem is that some moralfags trying to get him (homokedi) banned because of he is gay. And the guy was trying to start a discussion about child pornography. (I am talking about the first link in the beginning of this post). He was saying that those kind of legal photos was DISTURBING... But some people can not discuss and FF is absolutly not a discussion forum. You are just allowed to post pictures of your cat... - 5 Posta

I am not talking about you Mark... - 5 Posta

Yeah whatever .... Please write a user guide for us, then we'll know when we use photos on our posts... - 5 Posta

Goodnight... - 5 Posta

Are you serious about turning this in drama? No matter it is fine art, FriendFeed servers are located in United States and they have very strict rules about child nudity. Even the views to certain end-points were tracked by governments to stop this issue. Your ego is going to shut down a start-up. Wikipedia had a long term discussion about Virgin Killer cover as well. You are acting... more... - Burcu Dogan

''turning in drama''???? http://www.paulcava.com/.. Servers are located in United States. When you report it, you were not reffering to the ''law''. You said that ''it was sick''... İs it the law? Or your own opinion? I'm done... No more discussions about this... - 5 Posta

It was sick to get attention by abusing nudity at that level. Thanks. Anyways, FriendFeed made it decision, nothing left to discuss. FriendFeed is not a democracy, it is run by a company. Link it to your own server and I'd never complain. - Burcu Dogan

Kevin Fox: Why delete the user? FWIW, in this particular case the user seems to have written an anti-child porn post, and his aim in including the visuals seems to have been to disturb and raise awareness. Although I have not seen the original post, based on the kinds of things he has been writing on his blog for years, I have no reason to doubt these assumptions---he is a prominent... more... - mkz

Was it illegal? I was under the impression that photos of nude children were not, as long as they weren't lewd. I didn't see the photo in question, nor do I want to see a bunch of naked kids on FriendFeed, but I want clarification and truth. Wikipedia discusses it. Don't follow this link, if you don't want to see their examples. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

well what about "naked people". how is that different from children nudity ? i think it might be treated all the same ...... and a note, depiction of violence, mayhem, shooting, aka, culture of violence, aka, your regular videogame, and movies, is MUCH worse than adult nudity.... /im just stating a known fact/ - Petr Buben from IM

I don't think naked people belong on the main feed. Yeah, that's different from what I used to say, but my boss is on FF now (LOL)! My knee-jerk reaction is to ban naked children from FF entirely, but I don't want people going around calling it illegal, if it isn't. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Legality isn't usually a "to me, for you" type of thing. Either it is against the law or it isn't. Since Wikipedia does have pictures of kids sans clothing in their nudity topic, I'm going to guess it's not illegal. Sometimes bad things happen when people fail to make a clear distinction between what we consider inadvisable/immoral and what's truly illegal. Of course, IANAL., but do I need to be to make this point? - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Girls he posted were looking like sexually abused. One was looking like she is masturbating (cant actually remember the details) and another was wearing heavy make-up, it's not like material on wikipedia. They shouldn't have banned the user but ask a lawyer if it is legal or not and remove images only if they dont suit. No matter if it's art, using -18 for sexual impact is forbidden.... more... - Burcu Dogan

More details and links to screenshots are in this post:http://ff.im/5HTkH It now seems clear that gaykedi's aim was to state that he is disturbed by some of the stuff that is considered legal art. - mkz

That sounds pretty illegal to me. [edit: This kind of thing--what gaykedi was writing about--is why I cannot disagree entirely with Mark. There are always people who will go too far, and there are always people who will use even the most innocent photos for twisted reasons. How do we protect the children without going to extremes? What are the extremes?] - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

And why dont these people speak out loud while Google is filtering sexual content like crazy? I'm totally against to Google in terms of restrictions, but opposite view always comes out when a power hits it directly. This is unfortunately turned into a death match between FF users. I've seen almost 30+ threads discussing this and blaming the other. - Burcu Dogan

MiniMage, these are indeed tough questions, I don't claim to have easy answers. But on "growing the business in a prestigious way", let me say that what one considers prestigious may be considered "knee-jerk reactive" by another. It is hard to aim for universal approval. Part of the reason I like FF and contribute here is that some of the FFers that I follow at various levels of closeness (Paul, Kevin, Bret) had behaved in ways I found decent, even inspiring at times, when they were Googlers. - mkz

All on-line businesses, even those that "grow in a prestigious way" (whatever that means, as mkz has pointed out), need to be aware of things like the DMCA, which provide protections, under certain circumstances, for how to deal with policing user provided content. So while it's easy to say "we'll remove anything related to X", but then you miss a few entries or have to make a judgment... more... - Andy Bakun

here. here. bring it! - Clint McManaman from BuddyFeed

Glad some other people are interested in this. I am really surprised FF doesn't provide it. Seems it would help promote friendfeed. - scott willeke

aaaaaaand ordered! - holly

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And here I was thinking going pants-less was a guy thing. Huh. - CAJ, somewhere else

definitely not :) - holly

I wonder if it would confuse people to wear this shirt with shorts? - CAJ, somewhere else

Google's Engineering Director has promised that its forthcoming Chrome OS will see 'the end of malware'. Google is promising what the latest issue of New Scientist magazine refers to as "a carefree antivirus nirvana" with its forthcoming Google Chrome OS. Linus Upson, Google's Engineering Director, has promised the company is: "Completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work." - You from Bookmarklet (edit | delete) - Praveen Vasudev from Bookmarklet

Of course, who is going to give Google viruses? - Zachary TG

Heh, good luck with that. - Tanath

Given that Google has had to issue security updates to Chrome itself, this is a BS claim. - LANjackal

lol - That sounds like a quote someone may be forced to eat in the future. - Tad from fftogo

No userbase, no viruses...? - Jemm

^ LOL, nice one Jemm - LANjackal from IM

Of they built their memory stack bottom-up, they could eleminate buffer overwrite exploits. - Robert Hafer from iPhone

Yes, you can see FREE for free on Scribd. In his revolutionary bestseller, THE LONG TAIL, Chris Anderson demonstrated how the online marketplace creates niche markets, allowing products and consumers to connect in a way that has never been possible before. Now, in FREE he makes the compelling case that in many instances businesses can profit more from giving things away than they can by charging for them. Far more than a promotional gimmick, FREE is a business strategy that may well be essential to a company's survival. - Eric Logan from Bookmarklet

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Geographically restricted to the US? Fail. Considering the content & author... epic fail. - Tanath

+1 Tanath - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

+1 Tanath - Micah Wittman

Another "Only available in the US" regional restricted link. Once again rely we must on bittorrent.. - Morten Blaabjerg

That FREE it isn't "Sorry, this content is geographically restricted Due to our agreements with our publishing partners, the document you requested is only available to users located in the United States." - ianf ⌘

@Morten: can Scribd content be downloaded in the US and then bit-shipped? I rather doubt it, unless wrapped in some kind of outer, platform-dependent, content "skin" (akin to Fluid app on the Mac). Scribd stuff looks like all-realtime web browsing/ reading to me. - ianf ⌘

It was available worldwide on the first day ... on scribd, and even that was inconvenient to read. I have to Pay to know what Chris Anderson thinks about Free ? - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

I got the audiobook from Wired's site last week. It is free; it is available worldwide. - vijay

Yeah, but ve vant PDFffff :) - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick from IM

Chris Anderson (if it indeed is THE Chris Andreson of "Spy," and New York Magazine's fame) is always worth reading, on account of his not inconsiderable iconoclasm, etc. On second thoughts, probably not a bad thing that Euros and others only get to consume him in paperback, because then we'll at least be expected to read what we've bought; and also the entire process will take less time with a physical book in hand than hunched over a computer screen. - ianf ⌘

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