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Facebook changing, taking cue from Twitter in sharing? - http://digg.com/tech_ne...
"Posting this just because conventional media trying to understand Teh Innernetz is funny...Newsflash, AP, Facebook already HAS a filter that allows you to customize what content you receive for which friends. *rolleyes* More news from some friends, less from others. It burns my toast when I see things like this. To me, and perhaps I'm wrong, it just makes sense to me that journalists would make a better effort to understand and make use of Social Media than the writer of this article does."
- Sabrina
Trust me… - http://digg.com/movies...
"Little did they know..."
- Sabrina
Famous Canadian author L.M. Montgomery committed suicide - http://digg.com/celebri...
"This woman, who was and is an inspiration to so many lived in silence with this depression for heaven knows how many years. How very isolating it must have been to live during the author's lifetime with such a thing. If there is a stigma attached to depression now, imagine how much more profound the depression would have been then. Staggering. I love her books so much and have read everything I can about this author, the knowledge of her struggle makes her more real to me somehow. I hope she has peace now."
- Sabrina
CAO dismissal finalized - http://digg.com/people...
"It is quite amazing that this travesty went on as long as it did. A lot of good people were affected and the town lost good employees and council members over it. They resigned because they just couldn't take the crap being served by the former CAO. Good riddance to bad trash!"
- Sabrina
William Katt (Greatest American Hero) to guest star in upcoming Heroes episode - http://www.newsarama.com/...
I think TGAH just confirmed that Nikki is still alive...I can't wait to see him in this show...
- Sabrina
Yeah, she's still around...
- Mark Dykeman
Amazon.com: Make Your Own Sex Toys: 50 Quick and Easy Do-It-Yourself Projects: Matt Pagett: Books - http://www.amazon.com/Make-Yo...
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Social media makes distance irrelevant - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Sabrina, Carsten Pötter, Ha3rvey (obviously wrong) and 5 other people liked this
Arent you putting pretty much the entire Internet under the umbrella of social media here? E-mail makes distance irrelevant, being able to listen to the Yankees game 3000 miles away over the Internet makes distance irrelevant, all kinds of things that I wouldn't label as social media per se (like your website itself!) make distance irrelevant. Are all those things "social media"?
- Robert Seidman
Robert: to your point, I have left things a bit broad and I may need to look at that again. However, I *do* consider blogs to be "social media".
- Mark Dykeman
Commented on your post (too long for Friendfeed) ;-)
- Alexander van Elsas
It is nice that you guys always discussing Social Media theory. I welcome you to participate in Social Media Advocacy http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
I have to agree with Robert on this one. The internet itself is the delivery agent, I was writing websites and communicating with people all over the world in 95, pre-social media and/ or blogging.
- Duncan Riley
I would say that Social media is the evolution of social text, just like hypermedia is the evolution of hypertext. So I'd define "Social Text" by us people using _tools_ like emails, IRC and news groups to exchange "textual" information. Now we still do the same but we take it to another level: sounds, videos, pictures... Hence my conclusion: Internet has been and will always be "social" :)
- directeur
like: directeur's comment, my pov too :)
- mike "glemak" dunn
Good input, folks. A telephone can make distance irrelevant and no one's been putting that under the social media umbrella either... or should we?
- Mark Dykeman
Pressed ENTER too quickly... directeur, you have an interesting line of thinking there. I hadn't been thinking about the concepts of "social text" or "hypermedia".
- Mark Dykeman
Everything we do now is just an extension of what we have done before but it's just a question of scale. Megaphone, telegram, telephone, fax, BBS, email (and reply to all), forums, IRC, IM etc. It's all a continuing evolution of ways to communicate over longer distances and with more and more people. Distance has been irrelevant to one degree or another for a long time but it is the increasing ease with which we negate that distance that we are now looking at.
- Colin Walker
from fftogo
commented in the blog, dude, good work...
- Sabrina
There’s Web 2.0 and then there’s Reality - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Shey, Jamaican of FF, Sabrina, Dobromir Hadzhiev and 2 other people liked this
commented on the blog...you hit the nail right on the head...excellent!
- Sabrina
Should we have high expectations of free Web services: http://broadcasting-brain.com/2008...
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commented in the blog, dude...
- Sabrina
Who's looking forward to the new season of Heroes?
I know I am, the way that TV seasons are structured now kinda gets to me though...There is such a long wait between new eps that momentum is in danger of being lost...and the fact that everything is every ep gets analyzed to death on Teh Innernetz...it's like, just watch the damn show and STFU! I love to get on and post on the BB like anyone else, when there is something new or whatever but, it gets kinda ridiculous after awhile...
- Sabrina
Yup, you got it. I wonder if - SPOILER ALERT - Nathan will die? (Is it a spoiler to talk about what happened last season?)
- Mark Dykeman
I was actually wondering that very thing...hmmmm!
- Sabrina
and no, it's not a spoiler to talk about what happened last season...IMO
- Sabrina
If you're not from America, I'm curious, what are your thoughts to last night's US political announcement? Do state where you're from
Sabrina, Gordon Swaby, Shey, Jamaican of FF and Brooklyn Art Project liked this
Canadian living in the US - Not sure what I think. Didn't used to think he could win the election but seems like McCain's imploding
- Marc Ryan
Jamaican-Canadian in Toronto: Obama > Hillary. Will be interesting to see how the rest plays out.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
German in Cape Verde: That was great, watched Obama's speech on MSNBC - I hope he will be the next president of the USA!
- ※Fu※
Canada - you know, despite the fact that some people think that the Democrats have weakened their chances at winning the general election by letting this go on for so long, at least all states got their say
- Mark Dykeman
Sweden. Glad it's finally clear who'll run against McCain. Right Choice. Don't think Hilary should be VP though. Time for a change
- Johan Bryggare
Jeremiah, early morning browsing through CNN indicated that virtually every country's major newspaper contained frontpage content on the victory, and indicated the historical significance of the event. I view this as a significant reading on the fact that there is much global excitement. Great question though, hopefully others will weigh in.
- jcunwired
Jeremiah, I don't think this question is appropriate. Why does it matter what folks from around the world think about our political system? I, for one, couldn't care less about anyone else's political system unless it's one that degrades basic human rights. I have no right to even hold an opinion on what France's system is like, or Italy's or, well, you get the idea. And the fact that it is getting such "global excitement" is quite scary.
- Gregory Pittman
from twhirl
Gregory Pittman sounds like he helped write the Bush administration's foreign policy blueprint :)
- jcunwired
:-) No, I didn't help write it. But I don't think we can operate well if we're worried about what other countries think of us. Don't we teach our children that it doesn't matter what other kids think about them? We teach them to be true to themselves, right? Why should it be any different on a national level?
- Gregory Pittman
from twhirl
Obama sounds like a better presidential candidate than Hillary, and I was really hoping he would clinch the nomination. I also honestly think that Obama is more intelligent than Bush. But then again, who isn't.
- Baard @ Pixum
Canada - I think it is very exciting, not just for the US but for the world. It shows that there is potential for change. Exciting that for the first time in North America, it actually looks like an African American may be elected President. This is huge! @Gregory Pittman, it absolutely does matter what the rest of the world thinks of a country's political system. All are affected by the outcomes of these elections. All are affected by the outcome if Obama gets elected.
- Sabrina
Last comment, I promise. Sabrina, here in America, we decry those who do not vote. They give up their civic duty, and we say they have no right to hold an opinion as a result. Every election cycle we hear people from all political ideologies say, "If you don't vote, you have no right to complain." Likewise, those outside our system, who do not vote in our system, have no right to hold an opinion of our system. I have no right, and I don't claim one, to hold an opinion of your system in Canada.
- Gregory Pittman
Mr. Pittman: Sorry, but who are you to determine who has a right to hold an opinion - about anything? We've had, in the past 7 1/2 years, an unprecedented track record of royally f%@$ing up the world, and the global view of America has seriously eroded. From your thought process, we have no right to hold an opinion of democracy in Iraq, nuclear weapons development in Iran, human rights in China, elections in Zimbabwe, etc. If the folks on planet earth don't care about each other, we're screwed.
- jcunwired
Ok, so I have to respond to Jody's evidenced lack of reading comprehension. Jody, did you even read my first comment, where I suggested we have no right to form an opinion of another "political system unless it's one that degrades basic human rights?" We do have a responsibility to stand up for human rights. I agree with you on that completely. But we haven't been "f%@$ing up the world." Come on. Let's be intellectually honest here.
- Gregory Pittman
Mr. Pittman, everyone absolutely does have a right to hold their own opinion. And I do agree with @Jody Carbone, "if folks don't care about each other, we are screwed." We cannot go through life thinking that only our own country's opinion matters, we are affected by the opinions and politics of the rest of the world, whether we want to believe that or not. That kind of arrogance is exactly the kind of thing that erodes the World's view of the US.
- Sabrina
I'm a liberal, so quite naturally incapable of being intellectually honest, apparently at least to certain individuals of opposing political belief. Disregarding going forward any narrow minded view of global opinion, I'm extremely curious, as Jeremiah is, of the world's thoughts on an extremely historical and globally significant milestone.
- jcunwired
JodyCarbone++
- Clay Newton
OK, this may be the last comment I make on this thread. It seems to have degraded into something where people are insulting each other's intelligence. And yeah, the rest of the world is of the opinion that the US, under the Bush administration, has royally %@$&ed up the World in the past 7 1/2 years. That is as intellectually honest as it gets.
- Sabrina
Are lifestreaming applications like FriendFeed the tool of: the maven, the connector, the salesperson, others, or everyone?
Phil Crissman and Sabrina liked this
FF is definitely for the maven and the connector - I feel it has moved beyond the point where Joe Public will pick it up and make good use of it.
- Colin Walker
from fftogo
not entirely sure which category I fall into but, I think that there are facets of FriendFeed and other SNS that appeal to all of these. I am dabbling in all of them, it seems and I love and hate different things about all of them. There is a definite shift in the way people are using the internet. i.e You have friends on FF, Lifestream.fm or similar and if you Fave a song on last.fm, other people check it out and fave it, and so on and so on...possibilities are endless...I love how it all shakes out!
- Sabrina
I think they hit just about everyone. Some are hear to sell themselves or their thoughts, some are here to learn more about "the next big thing," some are here as bridges between disciplines (tech, marketing, etc) and some are just here for the torrent of information.
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
@Colin - I think its more complex than that. (1) We tend to subscribe to the early adopter crowd, and that gives us tunnel vision. Here's a search on Disneyland: http://friendfeed.com/search...). Here's a search on accounting: http://friendfeed.com/search.... Here's a search on cancer: http://friendfeed.com/search.... Much more than what we see. (2) FriendFeed 1-2 years from now will be different than FriendFeed today.
- Hutch Carpenter
Hutch, quite agree about FF down the line looking different to now. I definitely need to step back and look at the service as a 'user' and not a geek. Might make a good experiment - might even sign up a new account to do it.
- Colin Walker
from fftogo
I have the unique position of not being a "geek" in the true sense of the word, I do not work in the tech field, not a programmer or anything. I just happen to have friends who are early adopters and share their invites and similar with me. I have no idea about the science behind all of the different SNS is but, I know what I like. It doesn't have to be super simple but, it does have to have a certain flow to the use of it. I think that the shaping of the service is really what makes it interesting.
- Sabrina
@Hutch - cool insight
- Mark Dykeman
Who's your guess for Democratic VP?
Ha3rvey (obviously wrong), Sabrina, Brooklyn Art Project and 3 other people liked this
Robert Mugabe?
- john conroy
HRC
- Steve Rubel
Lot of people would like Clinton. But I would say she should stick to being senator.VP is a lame duck position and she with her abilities will be very restricted and cant do much
- Arjun
Edwards, but I'm Canadian and don't know squat about such things. :)
- Mark Dykeman
Hillary doesn't deserve to be vice president after what she has done.
- Kyle Weller
Someone most of us have never heard of.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
HRC
- Peter Dawson
Anybody but Hillary
- Sally Church
from Alert Thingy
HRC to lock in a win for the party, found her speech a bit petty though...
- Brooklyn Art Project
I dream of an Obama/Edwards ticket
- Liz Polay-Wettengel
If he's smart: Edwards or Biden. If he's desperate: HRC
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
desperate?...you mean flippin retarded
- Anthony
I'm guessing not the Reverend Jeramiah?
- Steven Di Pietro
Ha pietro, maybe hell go with pastor ed hagey, or scooter libby
- Anthony
I think that Reverend Wright would be his first choice.
- Paula Hawk
Huh? :P
- Yuvi
Liz, interesting, Obama and John Edwards?
- Jeremiah Owyang
If McCain goes Huckabee, then Edwards. If he goes Crist, then one of the Virginians.
- Robert Peterson
Edwards. Or Biden if he wants to have fun.
- Mike Keliher
Definitely. I want change for the better, it is a long time coming. I think the Obama/Edwards ticket could bring us back to being a nation actually for the people. We need leaders who would actually rally behind us, support us, and make us proud of what we can accomplish again. Perhaps I'm being blinded by the concept that ANY change that could make things better, but a girl can dream.
- Liz Polay-Wettengel
Edwards: do not want. Let him be AG. I"m guessing Richardson, but I WANT Wesley Clark.
- Cyndy
No guess, but I don't think McCain will be a contingent factor; I think McCain will wait to name his VP till after Obama does.
- Phil Crissman
Donna Brazile, she would turn some heads
- Richie Escovedo
Edwards is a loser, nowhere near strong enough for the job.
- dkb
from Alert Thingy
i'm going for HRC, purely on the basis of the old maxim: keep your friends close, and your enemies even closer
- Iain Baker
I've heard Tom Ridge's name tossed out-- that might be a good choice.
- Heather Nasca Dulin
I agree with Iain Baker, then at least Obama will know where her fingers are...
- Sabrina
Bill Richardson
- Jason Runyan
I think Edwards has said no already. Bill Richardson, maybe?
- Ha3rvey (obviously wrong)
Rev. Wright ?!?
- John (ColderICE)
From CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2008...
- Ha3rvey (obviously wrong)
Clinton doesn't deserve it especially after the assassination comment.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Sam Nunn
- Jeff Beckham
@Jeff My husand wants Nunn for SoD. He said the VP doesn't do enough to waste Nunn there.
- Cyndy
Bill Richardson, New Mexico Governor
- Clinton Schaff
Is there another big bad guy out there in the Heroes universe who's pulling the strings, someone we haven't seen yet?
yes
- bob corrigan
There has to be...the element of the Big Bad is integral to the show, I think...
- Sabrina
More brains...more brains for...oh, who am I kiding? At this hour, there are no brains involved!
But it's in the afternoon! Surely you've got a brain cell or two kicking around? :)
- Mark Dykeman
maybe one or two...I work the night shift...it does strange things to a person...I have to say...thank you for the invite and sorry about the rogue post in the Heroes rooms the other day, was meant for another forum all together, not even in FF. See, the night shift...it's from the devil!
- Sabrina
I signed up for Plurk, too, but... it reminds me of Facebook statuses! - http://www.plurk.com/user...
I haven't seen anything that makes me want to go running back there.... see how it plays out.. the space is getting crowded
- David Harry
I like it, I think the big reason I like it is that it's the first place I can make my smilies and they are smilies and not just :) :D
- Paula Hawk
Smilies aside, the interface is interesting to look at, but annoying to use. It switches "views" a few different times and the "opening" of threads is just a pain.
- Rob Diana
@Rob - yup, I know what you mean about the views and thread opening
- Mark Dykeman
Ya know, I kinda like Plurk...It does seem very...um, Seussical, or something...kinda random, which appeals to me...
- Sabrina
The Forgotten Children of Attawapiskat - http://digg.com/politic...
"This is a child's plea to Minister of Indian Affairs Chuck Strahl, who halted the building of a new school for the children of the ATTAWAPISKAT First Nation in Ontario."
- Sabrina
Sheryl Crow to Sing with Fleetwood Mac - http://www.cnn.com/2008...
Ha, you beat me to it! I wanted to post this...It would be a perfect collaboration, IMO!
- Sabrina
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