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XKCD Tech Support Cheat Sheet Flow Chart - http://laughingsquid.com/xkcd-te...
Ryan Kessler, Wang Yip, Sam Levine and 3 other people liked this
Don't you hate it when people say that Linux is "hard to use"? - Linux Magazine Online - http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online...
Travis Smith, Hanna Wiszniewska, Ryo / Fuck Facebook and 6 other people liked this
Ease of use is subjective
- LANjackal
All computers are hard to use; general-use operating systems can do very little about this. What matters is how *discoverable* the system is.
- i80and
Cool, maddog Hall. I had once the honor to meet him. Great man.
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
I usually say that Linux is hard to use, then I hate myself. They should do an usability study on people who never touched a computer, so that we will have a more objective answer.
- Francesco Balducci
In Pictures: Hollywood's Top-Earning Actors - Forbes.com - http://www.forbes.com/2009...
Kol Tregaskes, Sam Levine and WorldofHiglet liked this
what's that earring?
- Puya
@shadwstalkr IMHO it's good to compare what the other side is doing, and how our side stacks up. I think it's important to stay aware of it
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Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - http://www.fullmetalalchemist.com/
Sam Levine, Matt Ruiz, Lindsey is Fierce! and 5 other people liked this
don't wanna start, have mıdterms.. don't wanna start, have mıdterms.. don't wanna start, have mıdterms.. damn.. rapidshare
- denizoktar
I hate you guys, I am going to fail. watched the first one
- denizoktar
heheh >:p
- LouCypher
Is this one related to "full metal panic" and "full metal panic fumoffu"?
- directeur
No. "Full Metal Panic" and "Fullmetal Alchemist" are two different stories by two different writers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- LouCypher
hey I thought FMA brotherhood was something new. Its actually the remake of the first one. I need a new story
- denizoktar
Thanks for the explanations, LouCypher! I saw that big robot (in Fullmetal Panic it's called an AS (Arm Slave)) So I thought it was related. So, I think, like denizoktar... don't wanna start, I have work and deadlines, work-deadlines, work-deadlines... damn! I'll use my mega-mass-downloader :)
- directeur
Just download them all, watch later ;)
- LouCypher
This pleases me :>
- Sam Levine
Yeah I don't quite understand why they needed to redo the anime just to follow the manga more closely.
- ronin
my only hope is to see at some point, new episodes will come
- denizoktar
It occurs to me watching all the C-SPAN clips on the daily show how often they use poster board for presentations in the House and Senate. I don't think I have made something on poster board since junior high school science fair, yet there are Ivy League-educated staffers using construction paper and glue sticks every day to run this country.
Tom Stocky, Nicholas James, Louis Gray and 40 other people liked this
Is there a projector in Congress? Like a DVI-cable-for-PowerPoint-style projector? Do they do things like that in Congress?
- Bret Taylor
Bret: they didn't let me use my laptop in the Senate Chambers. They have signs that say to leave your electronic devices outside. The rules in Congress are asinine.
- Robert Scoble
It is kind of amazing that they drafting important legislation like TARP, and to get it to pass, someone has to spend time pasting pictures and construction paper on poster board to make it happen. "The Senator says it needs more glitter, and he perfers Comic Sans for the title."
- Bret Taylor
On the other hand, they do use Wordpress in the Speaker of the House's office: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Robert Scoble
And Congressman John Culbertson uses Qik and Twitter: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Robert Scoble
I think there's some benefit to keeping PowerPoint out of government hearings. They're bad enough already.
- Jim Norris
Jim: There are a lot of benefits though. They are electronic and contain indexable text, and since congressional hearing are (or after some number of years become) part of the public record, PPT or equivalent would mean you could publicly archive presentations much more effectively than videos of poster board.
- Bret Taylor
I love talking with Katie Jacobs Stanton about her experience going from Google (arguably one of the most connected, high tech places on earth) to the White House (arguably, well ... not). They're changing things over there, though. The question is, how can we get more people like us -- career technologists and inventors -- to spend more time over there.
- DeWitt Clinton
Perhaps it has to do more with not wanting to sit in a dark room and also letting the TV cameras see what is being presented?
- John Cooper
No electronic devices does seem crazy. Instead of sleeping, the representatives and senators could be googling all sorts of stuff to see if what their colleagues are saying is actually true.
- Robert Felty
Robert: I think that rule was just for the press, though. Congresscritters carry a Blackberry or two and John Culberson was trying to Tweet and Qik from the House floor.
- Robert Scoble
It might have something to do with security (or the theatre of security). Working in DC now, I have to register my laptop to enter federal buildings and sign it out when I leave. Mostly theatre - they know I have a laptop when I get there because they scan my bag, but they don't check if I have the same laptop, or a laptop at all when I leave.
- Sarah Miller
Tweet I saw the other day from @webb: "in DC, we need people who can translate geek into wonk." missed speaker name #tsp09
- Laura Norvig
Wait, there's a job translating geek to wonk? I've missed my calling!!!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Isn't it amazing how backward our leaders are, not that I endorse a crackberry using Prez.
- Jason Nunnelley
PowerPoint is a bad way to communicate and a horrible way to deliberate. Courtrooms tend to use poster boards and other low tech presentation techniques as well (though they will show videos and the like as necessary). It's somewhat more work for the presenter, but I don't think it's really all that awful, and it forces people to pay attention to content rather than whizzy tricks.
- ⓞnor
It explains a lot. Everyone in DC is high on Sharpie ink.
- Steve C
@FFing: By the time you get from thinkin' Geek to walkin' Wonk to actin' Hack the signal loss approacheth five 9's, no matter the presentation media.
- michael silverton
Fills you with confidence, don't it. :(
- Robert Hafer
It's as if our method of government -- as opposed to system -- is still operated by Pony Express, so that we can communicate with and aggregate the Will of the People in every covered wagon on every homestead settlement. Granted, there are a handful of moderns who have reluctantly adopted the automobile and who haltingly realize that "As goes GM, so goes the nation." I once heard Senator Conan say that, "In the year 2000, we'll have Digital Direct Democracy," but what of the Tyranny of the Majority? ;-)
- michael silverton
I think part of the issue is that the House and Senate chambers weren't built with the use of projectors and screens in mind. Just looking at pictures of the rooms, I can't really figure out a good place to put a projector without having to kick Senators/Reps out of their seats to clear a spot for the projector and a path for the projection. And with the presiding officers sitting smack...
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- Brian Chang
Yeah. we would like to reduce the number of UK MP's and would happily replace them with projectors (or maybe just lamps).
- pazzer1
Most hearing rooms don't work well for A/V. During the August recess, we used to watch a movie every Friday afternoon in the main hearing room. It never worked well. The windows are big, the lighting is a zoo (they have several sets of lights for TV, etc) and the members' seats are on a stairs that folks were tripping over. We ended up aiming the movie on the side wall as it was the only one big enough without paintings or other things. Poster boards are just the easiest way to do it.
- Andrew Leyden
Someone probably told the Congressional aide, "just make sure you don't buy the Monster cable", and he bailed on the projector idea altogether :)
- Ana
Ubuntu 9.04: Wow | TechRepublic.com - http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensou...
John E. Bredehoft, Philippe, Antony Jepson and 15 other people liked this
"As you all know I have been using Linux for a long, long time. I have installed countless distributions: Some of them have seen long-term use, while some of them have been nothing more than a flash in the pan. Ubuntu is one of those that has come and gone for me. I have used it on many occasions, been generally impressed with its offerings, but ultimately gone back to another distribution for one reason or another. I have seen, over the last few Ubuntu releases, a serious decline in performance. Starting somewhere around 7.04, each successive release grew progressively more and more sluggish. From boot times to application start up times, Ubuntu seemed to be coming to a slow painful crawl. With 9.04 Ubuntu has made a complete turnaround."
- Alejandro
from Bookmarklet
Cool, but will I finally get sound on my laptop?
- Adrian
I completly agree: ubuntu 7 was really fast, 8 was a bit slower but still enought for me. I updated to 9 because I read it was faster in some aspects, but is not true. Perhaps it's only the intel video card issue but if they don't fix it in short I'll go back to 8. BTW, which distribution have you switch to?. Un saludo!
- jmiguel rodriguez
yeah 9.04 is a whole new variation of previous versions. I use it as my primary O/s though of course it is not without it's problems but it has certainly improved.
- Raymond Marr aka Knatchwa
It is pretty.
- CW™
9.04 is 8.10 with new wallpaper and faster boot. What people want: most addon hardware still don't work. This should have been labeled 8.11. Most defectors I see, and that is most who try it, defect because a webcam, a USB device still doesn't work on it. 9.04 did nothing to fix those problems. Is faster boot a real issue for serious users? You're joking. PC Mag agrees: http://tinyurl.com/c73o4l
- Bob
@freemor: thank you, I tried it and looks faster, but it freezes (mouse works) after 10 minutes or so, so I went back to original config. I'll keep on Jaunty waiting for a new driver. @bob: I upgraded to v9 because that was just what I expect, but in fact I've got a slower system (not to talk about amarok 2.0 sh!t)
- jmiguel rodriguez
@jmiguel: I've seen a lot of comments about it. Most people recommend going back to Amarok 1.4 http://ff.im/2sBxp
- Alejandro
@Alejandro: I've already done it. Most of my mp3 collection (those strange things not in spotify :-)) didn't play with amarok 2.0. Cannot understard this ubuntu movement...
- jmiguel rodriguez
Amarok is independent of Ubuntu. btw, because of the Open Source movement, you can choose among several free applications that provide the same functionality. I personally don't use Amarok, I prefer Rhythmbox.
- Alejandro
Never used it, I'll give a try. I've been using amarok for long. I did the comment about ubuntu because looks like they have prefer to release at time instead of waiting for something more stable.
- jmiguel rodriguez
8.10 was fine and 9.04 is a bit better. I have an intel card on an HP DV2000 series. Upgraded to the new Uxa thingy and it's quite stable. I use this computer with Ubuntu all the time these days. My main current gripe is not having found a good equivalent for Windows movie-maker. Now trying to fathom Cinelerra.
- howard shippin
Sharpening the Intel Driver Focus (State of the Linux graphics drivers) - http://keithp.com/blogs...
ⓞnor and Sam Levine liked this
"The good news is that our redesign is now complete, and we have the architecture we want in place throughout the system — global graphics memory management, kernel mode setting and per-window 3D buffers. This means that the rate of new code additions to the driver has dropped dramatically; almost to zero. Going forward, users should expect this ‘perfect’ combination to work more reliably, faster and better as time goes by."
- imabonehead
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Sharing on FriendFeed from the command line
Mike Chelen, lemuel, Alfredo and 83 other people liked this
i hope this is a picture of the actual command line that you used to submit this post, leading to much back and forth writing of command line, photo editing, and then pressing return back in the terminal :)
- Alex Gawley
It's mostly the actual command line (the fist posts went to a test account). There wasn't too much back and forth because osx numbers screen shots sequentially, so I knew what was coming next. Here's the code: http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2008...
- Paul Buchheit
sips: that's some sort of mac thing?
- ⓞnor
Sips seems to be the only image scaling program installed by default on the macs (and imagemagick is kind of hard to find, when last I tried).
- Paul Buchheit
cool
- xiaoxiao
Friendfeed is blocked in my company. I think the web filter out there is screwing up. What to do? Can I do something?
- pankaj
If FriendFeed is blocked in your company, get back to work as they obviously don't want you checking it while on the clock or off.
- Sam Levine
pankaj, see: http://rdr.to/0EX
- Goran Zec
haha nice!
- Jay
Very nice!
- Anthony K. Valley ©
I still like making my Mac talk
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Ubercool =)
- Ozkan Altuner
THAT is GEEKY!
- Asbjørn Mikkelsen
El corral de los niños, Romana
Amin, kandanadam, Tyson Key and 7 other people liked this
Awesome! Where have you found that?
- TiLeNpWneD
I was searching some linux articles then this came up :).
- Eren Öğrül
e m p e r o r s r a g e d o t c o m - http://www.emperorsrage.com/
Emerson Seiti Takahashi, Vaughn, Sam Levine and 4 other people liked this
Hahahahahahaa ha aha haah... Wait; that's not funny.
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
So true it hurts :-( LOL
- Dread Pirate PJ
I do everything on vim. If I had to code an operating system, I'll do it on vim! A love letter? vim!
i80and, Sam Levine and Morton Fox liked this
Well, vim does have spellcheck, and you could use *roff for formatting of the love letter.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
I do a lot on Vim too. Twitter client on Vim. I had a plugin for posting to Friendfeed too but that's not needed now that Friendfeed has improved their direct posting options.
- Morton Fox
If keeping it real means spending $150k at Nieman Marcus, I want that job.
Lindsey is Fierce!, Karoli, Sam Levine and 4 other people liked this
I'll take the cash, don't know about the Nieman Marcus :)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Palin is soooo far away from Joe Plumber it's not even funny
- Susan Beebe
Straight from Wasilla mainstreet
- Steve Spalding
I think I just did my Geek Civic Duty. The lady at the toy store just told a bald-faced lie that you can only get new DS Stylus' direct from Nintendo. She knew I saw her lie and I informed the lady who asked that they are avaiable from one of the major department stores. I feel bad but don't just lie cause you don't sell them.
RAPatton, Jeff P. Henderson, Sam Levine and 4 other people liked this
Don't feel bad, she was the one who was wrong
- Lindsey is Fierce!
... Lie cause you don't sell them.
- Johnny Worthington
Lying to customers is reprehensible and just plain stupid.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
four years of publishing 6 to 12 a day, and I still get a little nervous before a blog post goes live
homaid, vijay, Colby Olson and 3 other people liked this
Aweseome! That means you still care about what you do!
- JA Castillo
+1 JA Castillo. Four years! that's a lot of memories! :} I remember about 2 years back when I first discovered lifehacker and I thought the girl who was on the previous homepage was you! :D Only later did I find out it was a model , from DI's Amit.
- vijay
CodeProject: Tutorials on creating PDF files using C# 2.0. Free source code and programming help - http://www.codeproject.com/KB...
Sam Levine liked this
Good post. Another SDK to check out for PDF creation is Solid Framework (there is a free version of the product if you just want to create PDF files). Sample code for using it can be found at http://www.soliddocuments.com/framewo...
- Sam Levine
Andy on Enterprise Software » You did check that spreadsheet, right? - http://andyonenterprisesoftware.com/2008...
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"A lawyer on the Barclays buyout of Lehman Brothers defunct assets had drawn up an Excel spreadsheet detailing the particular trading contracts that Barclays was prepared to accept as part of the deal. The lawyer took out 179 particularly undesirable contracts, but rather than deleting the cells, marked them as “hidden” cells in Excel. This was all fine until a first year legal associate who was helping to put together the final paperwork converted the spreadsheet to a PDF file and, you guessed it, managed to include all the hidden cells as well as the items Barclays was supposed to be agreeing to buy. The deal has now gone through, and Barclays are frantically trying to reverse this mistake. I imagine that the Lehman’s administrators will be most sympathetic when the case gets to court."
- Brian Newman
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Note: Creating a PDF form that uses 'expanded' Reader functions, you only get 500 form uses (saves), or pay Adobe for an Extended License
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To Avoid Being 'Depressed,' Palin Skimps on Campaign News | The Trail | washingtonpost.com - http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-tra...
Aaron Hood, Joe Silence is not dead, Sam Levine and Rick Powell liked this
No wonder GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin harbors such hostility toward the mainstream media: her staff imposes limits on her access to it.
- Darryl
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VeryPDF - PDF Writer, PDF Creator, PDF Converter, Convert PDF to WORD DOC, HTML to PDF, PDF Editor Converters - http://www.verypdf.com/
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Solid PDF Creator (exe), from Solid Documents - Free Downloads on ZDNet | Shareware, Trialware, Evaluation Software - http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstrac...
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Creating a PDF or PDF/A as easy as printing with Solid PDF Creator. This simple-to-use utility is a quick solution for creating PDF documents from any Windows program.During the creation process Solid PDF Creator lets you optimize the PDF output for its intended use. You can make documents small for Web display or high-resolution for printing. You can also add password protection to restrict viewing and editing of documents.Version 2.0.115 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fi
- Rotkäpchen
Free PDF Creator - Convert to PDF from Any File You Can Print - PrimoPDF - http://www.primopdf.com/
Sam Levine liked this
Might be a good tool. Had use for it today.
- Vince Outlaw
Another great PDF creation utility you might want to look at can be had for free at: http://www.freepdfcreator.org/
- Sam Levine
I hate TV news. I *really* hate local TV news. Usually I go to the office when Tracy flips it on. Tonight I decided to sit and watch while we ate ice cream (nom, nom). Within a few minutes they talked about 5 different murders, a murder trial, & a kidnapper/sexual offender. I left.
Sam Levine, xero, Mike Reynolds and 6 other people liked this
Those 5 murders were in about as many neighboring counties. So they really went out of their way to find all the bad news today!
- Paul Reynolds
If it bleeds...
- Jared Smith
I am so with you on this one Paul. This is why I get my news from NPR and Yahoo News.
- Alex Scoble
so true. and i bet they said stuff like "this just in" "breaking now" or some such thing
- MikeAmundsen
They say "If it bleeds, it leads." I hate that statement. Some of the local news stories make Buffalo look like it's a crime riddled city, which it's not.
- Mol, Time Warping
Yes, I too get agitated when local news comes on.
- Mike Reynolds
then there's the teaser: "later - a common household product we all have and it just might kill you. do you know which one?. we'll tell you about it after the weather."
- MikeAmundsen
How do they know that's what people want to see? Do they get feedback like, "you guys only had one stabbing in the 11pm edition tonight". Do ratings go down when there's not enough horrible news? I can't imagine how paranoid and depressed I'd be if I watched the 6pm and 11pm local news every day.
- Paul Reynolds
Also, I am no better off in any kind of way for hearing those news stories and neither is anyone else. Does that mean some people find it entertaining in some twisted way?
- Paul Reynolds
Yep. Our #1 news station in CHS is #1 because it is the most tabloidish of the bunch.
- Jared Smith
@Paul: i'm w/ ya. i'm appalled at the level of 'journalism' in US local TV markets. and there *must* be some consulting cadre out there telling these guys how to program, cuz it's all over the dial in every town. such a mess.
- MikeAmundsen
That question came up today during the tour of WMBF - new NBC station in Myrtle Beach. The news director's short answer is "when murders don't make the ratings go up, they'll drop down in importance."
- Dave Slusher
Local news here (Washington State) is total rubbish. Where is the national and international news? 1/2 hour nightly news? puh-lease.
- Chris Johnson
Americans who depend on local television news get little meaningful information—much less in-depth explanations or exposés—on what is going on in the world around them. Instead, they get a distorted caricature of their communities, a daily drama of crime, accidents, traffic tie-ups, stormy weather and other calamities, leavened by cheerful video of photogenic events like parades, charity walks and county fairs." [http://law.indiana.edu/fclj...]
- MikeAmundsen
Ignorance Is Bliss, and It May Soon Be Vice President Too - http://mattmaroon.com/?p=510
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"But the consensus in favor of anthropogenic climate change is beyond overwhelming. Someone with a B.S. in communications and journalism disagreeing with the vast majority of climatologists on a climatological issue is the equivalent of a mechanic saying “Yeah, Stephen Hawking says black holes give off thermal radiation, but I just don’t believe it, because I read on a blog that...
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- Paul Buchheit
Matt's writing is very funny. I love it!
- Ashwin Bharambe
Because they know better....
Tzury Bar Yochay, Ryan Anderson, Marc and 32 other people liked this
Awesome! Sarah Palin says that she can see financial recovery because she can see a BofA branch across the street!
Ontario Emperor, Jason Toney, Guillermo Esteves and 71 other people liked this
Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!! You're killin' me here!
- Miranda
LMAO!!!! now i can walk to the post office with a smile on my face. HA HA HA
- Anna Lynn M.
Steve!!!
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
from fftogo
i must reshare this everywhere. this is brilliant.
- Anika
lol
- imabonehead
Thank God! We're saved!
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
OMG that was funny! thanks for the laugh!! ha, ha!!
- Susan Beebe
Good one, Steve. Rim shot. http://www.instantrimshot.com/
- Pete Delucchi
Thanks, needed a laugh :)
- Mike Reynolds
ZING!
- Kevin Bondelli
I feel much better now... Thanks! =)
- Anthony K. Valley ©
pit - does that video somehow make you feel better about Sarah Palin?
- Steve Isaacs
haha...damn...that's a good one!
- JA Castillo
This joke has epic win.
- Sam Levine
Wow. that's a relief.
- Bonita Garrabrant
yuk yuk yuk
- Cee Bee
Hehehehee!! Epic, epic win.
- Roberto Bonini
Oh a much needed laugh this morning, thanks!
- David Selders
Why I’m Getting Tired of FriendFeed - http://www.newsgrange.com/2008...
Kevin Whalen, Amir, Lu Tao and 66 other people liked this
From NewsGrange: "Yesterday, people posted screenshots of their desktops – the day before – pictures of themselves – tomorrow, it’s going to be a picture of their feet. FriendFeed (or at least the part that I am subscribed to) is becoming a completely self-referential community that creates less and less value for me."
- Louis Gray
from Bookmarklet
Agree? Disagree? Let them know in the comments. (And no, this is not my site or opinion)
- Louis Gray
It's a little harsh, although I do accept that there has been a serious shift with FF. Where as it was once primarily a secondary discussion around posts, today it's a full blown social network in its own right. And I might add, it's a network I'm happy to be part of, and unlike facebook, it's one I'm happy to spend time in
- Duncan Riley
It's impossible to create aggregator that shows exactly the content you want. FF can be fine-tuned with lists and hides to filter, but it can't be perfect, either. I think all the meme's etc bring the community together and makes them more likely to add more useful content, too :)
- Jemm
Agree
- Stefano
They should subscribe to fewer people. My tech list doesn't participate in most of the memes and I don't click like on many of them either.
- Robert Scoble
So come on, who's going to start the "Photo of my feet" meme?
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
I think tagging / categorizing would bring more value as I want to add both fun and tech content. Tags would help filtering data for my followers from my end.
- Jemm
use the lists feature, which i find to be a great sorting tool on FF, and adjust your filtering strategy. personally, i don't mind the pictures of people, and their feet... it brings a little bit of humanity to what is an essentially unnatural activity...sitting in front of a computer, that is...
- .LAG liked that
FF needs to step up its filtering. None of the noise referenced on Newsgrange -- a nearly naked site, by the way -- would be evident if the author could exclude posts containing the word "meme" in the title. Beyond that: boo-hoo. Sorry to track our muddy feet across your pristine, sterile, unsocial network. People are noisy, and people have arrived.Figure out how to see what you want or move on to the next Pure Land.
- Chris Baskind
I would have to disagree. Maybe its just the people but I honestly didn't see many post about the list at all. And also, sure there are many useless memes, but I see may great photos, news stories, personal stories, funny things, etc throughout the day. I don't know what Friendfeed your referring to, but its not the one I'm a part of.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
if you're only getting your feet wet with Friendfeed and playing around in the home feed, then yeah, I agree it's convoluted (although, personally that works for me). However, with just a little tuning of the rooms and lists, you can avoid most of that stuff, if you really wanted to. For me, I'm only peripherally interested in the tech news, it's everything else that goes on here that really strikes my fancy.
- Pete Delucchi
Chill out dudes, it's not that serious bisnes. It's funny and nice to see what people has :)
- Kristian Salonen
ببینید این ها هم از فرفر خسته شدن !
- Milad.p
Todays "Picture of me as a child meme" makes me think that he's right. Its really getting on my nerves.
- Roberto Bonini
Agree with Duncan. Also, conversations seem to start around threads begun in rooms like "Apps" or "Goodies". Where the context is set.
- Stu Andrews
The page is blank. :(
- Kevykev
ff key: separate signal from growing noise
- Igor Poltavskiy
I for one appreciate the non-tech posts, just as much as the tech posts. Friendfeed isn't just for discussing OAuth...
- Matt Harwood
I agree, this isn't Techfeed or Oneparticularsubjectfeed, this is Friendfeed which means that pretty much anything and everything can be shared. That is why you can connect so many different services to Friendfeed and why you have rooms based on different topics. Yes, there are some instances of noise. But, I must say that even as I've subscribed to more and more people I'm not really encountering any noise. And the only things I find myself hiding are post in languages other then English.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
on the topic, i think duncan said it well early in the thread & louis what sort of site have you linked to, its a void except for this mindless "hating" ff now that its diverse post - that's not like you...
- mike "glemak" dunn
I see the point but it's simply a matter of subscribing to the people who interest you/who post articles/shares you are interested in. I don't get it. Doesn't this person know how to do this? Was FF created for tech news only? The name certainly doesn't suggest that. You can share what you like, if the reader doesn't like it then they can unsubscribe or create a friend list tailored to their needs.
- Kol Tregaskes
Great buttons on FF.. Hide, Unsubscribe & Block. Don't like what someone says, just hit one of those buttons. Problem solved. :) Wish I had them in real life. Granted I probably would be as alone as Wil Smith in I Am Legend.
- CW™
After joining FF, my activity on all other sites has not slightly decreased, but I am happy with FF cos' now I don't have to login to all those sites just to see what others have posted. I log into them only if I want to post something. Otherwise I carry on discussion only on FF. In simple words, I love FriendFeed!
- kunwar
Mike, I saw the site left a trackback on Robert's list. It does seem to be a bit of a hit and run.
- Louis Gray
Bah, whinging because of FF's increasing variety and diversity - it's still social media, so there will be social aspects. FF's slowly diverging from it's original tech bias, deal. Use the tools provided, block, unsubscribe, or use lists to remove what you don't like or simply be more discerning in subscriptions.
- Mo Kargas
Talk about linkbait... well, he got what he wanted.
- Sprague D
I don't find anything wrong with a random meme when you are still contributing to the tech community. If the early adopters would like a tech list to dabble in information create a room and hang out in it! I happen to like a bit of diversity on FF... it adds to the value for me. Isn't too much of a photo meme the same as me getting pissed off on the 30000 Google Chrome posts? Or the iPhone App posts that litter my home feed? You can get tired of stupid, funny postings. You can get tired of random noise and
- Kyle Lacy
chatter. The last thing you need to do is get tired of FriendFeed. If you are tired of personality and a community of diversity, go quarantine yourself in Strandz. :-) This is what social media is all about. Have a good day everyone!
- Kyle Lacy
Definitely Kyle, once again on the ball mate
- Mo Kargas
Louis, and all, I did stop by and thank the author for sharing his/her opinion. I have no worries with listening to the opinion and am not offended. Robert is fairly accurate in his assessment, as is Mathew (and many others). I have come for conversation on all manner of topics. I am interested in more than simply tech, and I hope that my likes and comments reflect that. I have begun to really enjoy the oddball humor and many interesting recommendations that come from everyone I subscribe to. Keep it up.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
I don't understand why any of you who are involved in tech and promoting new applications would feel like the growing popularity of Friendfeed is a bad thing. Why would anyone publicly discourage the growth and development of any application in the mainstream? Is it only a great application when it's shiny and new and yet undiscovered by the masses? Personally, I get tired of reading the same tech posts linked by 20 different people.
- Trish R
This happens to every social site - as the community grows, it tends to trend towards the kind of stuff that a large community can agree on, which tends to be funny pictures and dumb memes more than thoughtful commentary. Bolstering the rooms feature for more topical discussion would help greatly with this; in the meantime I'd suggest just culling your friends list.
- Eric P
You can't tell people what to do or share. You can just filter the people you find interesting, and make good use of the rooms and lists features.
- Alejandro
I like friendfeed as it has become. its a community of different people and different ideas. to qoute public enemy "bring the noise!" :)
- (jeff)isageek
USEFUL CONTENT MEME! LOLzorz.
- teh Dork Knight
This is what turned me off FriendFeed for awhile, and after trying to come back the same thing. I'm not going to call out any names but I got tired of seeing FUNNY PICS and just silly things that isn't new, just midly interesting, and most of it I had seen before on sites like Reddit, Digg, etc. .. My goal of FriendFeed was to be able to connect to people of like-mindedness on things I am interested in. Perhaps it's the people I'm subscribed to but even searches for things I'm interested in don't turn...
- Bartek Ciszkowski
(Continued comment) .. up very intriguing results. I've participated in one or two memes because I was bored but the FriendFeed problem is the same as any social-based network: You have your star players, they get all the attention, they post most of the links, and it becomes centered around them. It's too much effort to block/unsubscribe and filter it all out so now I'm stuck thinking how I can make FriendFeed useful for me.
- Bartek Ciszkowski
I know how you feel.. I can post a link and it'll get ignored. Someone else with a higher profile will post the same thing and it'll generate a load of activity. This is a central problem I notice across the net - it's billed as the great equaliser but it isn't, people don't have a fair shout because of human nature and its tendancy to coaless around "prominent personalities" and cliquish behaviours. I doubt this is a "problem" that can be fixed by technology as it sits much deeper.
- alphaxion
@alphaxion I've had that happen a few times. At first I was kinda miffed that I'd posted something topical and relevant and got no response, and then someone else had posted the same link a couple of hours later and got 30-40 comments. Still, I still post stuff I find interesting, and that I hope others will too. If we don't post links, because we think that it will always only be the high-profilers ones that get read, then it WILL always only be theirs that get read!
- Ian May
Kyle, you said "I don't find anything wrong with a random meme when you are still contributing to the tech community." The problem is when a bunch of people participate in every meme: those people stop functioning productively in the tech community. P.S. I'm glad my month-long curmudgeonry about MemeFeed has finally gotten mainstream!
- Mark Trapp
There's something productive about the contributions of the tech community? News to me - a thousand people going "ZOMG Google Chrome!!!" and "Dude check out my iPhone!" strike me as being about as useful as lolcats but less interesting.
- Eric P
There's a tech community on FriendFeed? Where? I see a lot of talk about Web 2.0 sites and using webapps, but very very little about tech.
- Jason Carreira
@Mark What is a productive tech community?
- Kyle Lacy
@ian I know, I have the same philosophy with everything - I post to my site even though no-one goes to it, I produce podcasts that no-one will see nor hear. I don't care about any lack of traffic, I do it cause I want to. If someone else picks up on it, ok. If I change one persons opinion, fantasic job done. @jason we are there, it's just we don't have many subscribers to hear it ;)
- alphaxion
It was just Sunday night - everyone is more relaxed over the weekend.
- Jesse Stay
+1 Jesse. Thank you
- Kyle Lacy
Agreed to a certain point. (I still like having fun with you all.) I will do my best to be more informative instead of entertaining. I will go for being 80% informative and 20% entertaining/fun. I don't want to treat FriendFeed like a Face Book or MySpace application or see it become one. I originally came to FF to follow some of the greatest tech minds ever and learn from them. I’m not apologizing for following the meme’s, but I will cut back from some of them.
- David Cook
Breakfast is still for WINNERS!
- Thomas Hawk
at this point, for most people (ie not tech bloggers who have a vested interest in staying on the cutting edge) fun and cutting up has more value than more information. I lost interest in friendfeed when it was the opposite -- when all my FOAFs became saturated with attention whores whoring after the attention of my early adopter friends with floods of links and already beaten-to-death analysis of the latest tech news quantum. I'm not including L.G. in this, but -- I'll take thedesktops and picture memes.
- Jeremy Raines
I still find it to be pretty useful. I don't check it everyday mostly because it requires more time to dig through everything and involve myself in some discussions that interest me. Yes there is a lot of noise but that unless your FOF is completely unmanageable there you can often find some great stuff buried in all that noise.
- Devlin Dunsmore
from twhirl
The problem I'm seeing is that people spend more and more of their time on the silly memes - which I suspect leaves little or no time to read worthy articles that are shared (often by less-popular users), and certainly almost no time to comment on them, especially considering how quickly they get buried by the meme entries. FF will need to overcome this.
- Aviv
The past 2-3 weeks have seen a huge upsurge in FF photo traffic, which is a direct result of the new photo feature being so easy to use now after the recent FF beta went into production (some of us were aware of how to use mail2ff app (which I think FF later acquired). So, I was expecting this increase; however, it certainly went viral when all these "meme" photos popped up. Early on, I suggested a MEME Room to contain all the madness so folks could manage their preferences to opt in/out. Cont'd.......
- Susan Beebe
Cont'd....... Also, I think we're seeing a genuine interest in folks getting to know each other better. This generated the whole photos idea, which seems to have cemented new online friendships and opened the door to a plethora of new "memes" thereafter. I still think we need a "meme room" to filter in/out this new content type. In the end, this all may be just a short-lived trend.
- Susan Beebe
as for the "silly meme" trend on ff, i don't mind them but haven't really participated much (i have very little time) - i have created a specialty list called "high volume" that gets most of these out of my primary feed/lists, it has cut down the noise but i still can go scan through them when time allows - works for me...
- mike "glemak" dunn
Gang, is FriendFeed specifically geared towards tech, or was it simply the early adopters that found and spread the concept of "life streaming"?
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
If Newsgrange doesn't like what the people they follow are posting, they can simply change who they follow. To whine about this is a total waste of their time! Talk about ironic and not having a clue.
- Dread Pirate PJ
I think FriendFeed is becoming more than just a place for tech. Depending on the people you subscribe to, you could have a nature feed, you could have a geeky feed, you could have a tech feed and so on. I think FriendFeed is able to grow along with the diverse users. FriendFeed has the power to become a strong and powerful resource for anyone. Period. Regardless of anything, literally.
- Amir
Game Over. - http://www.duncanriley.com/2008...
anna sauce, Sam Levine, Steven Perez and 15 other people liked this
staggering....
- Hayk H.
game over -- that's the best way to describe it... unfortunately.
- Brandon
This is just plain scary, I guess the US have to deploy the 700 billions dollars plan now.
- Dennis Bjørn Petersen
from twhirl
Here is an update on this story, also from Reuters: is it a blanket ban? I dunno: http://www.reuters.com/article...
- Mark Dykeman
Wow. Be interesting to see what Obama and/or McCain do with this.
- Stu Andrews
China's going to precipitate a collapse of the US economy and send the value of its massive investment plummeting? Yeah, right. What's with all the doom mongering? It's bad enough without piling on.
- Sprague D
Interesting way for China to weigh in on the bailout. Clearly they won't stop outright but they're clearly worried about their investment. This slow down is a shot over the bow so to speak.
- AJ Kohn
@Sprague - not sure why all the economy doom porn. You woudl think people would think this through a bit more - but its feeding right into a sort of wallow factor.
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
Seems like the South China Morning Post was not following the party line with its earlier story - This story from Reuters is entitled 'Update 3' - http://www.reuters.com/article... but goes to show you how flaky things are.
- David Petherick
That quote is so true. Just wait till China starts dictating terms of repayment :/
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
It's going to be a mind blowing couple of weeks
- Charlie Anzman
Oh not good....but I'd do the same thing in their place.
- Jaemi Kehoe
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