i hid all of his friend of friend items, which made me a bit sad but has cleaned things up a lot. he definitely need to go a bit easier on the like button - Alex Gawley
there's an option for that. Click "hide" and then more options. There's an option that should say "Hide items from Scoble's friends" or something like that. - Alejandro S.
Sign up to more active, relevant people then. - Louis Gray
No, I see the problem. I more or less like the same stuff scoble likes, and i dig his reccomendations. In Google Reader, I can handle his normal volume (even when it was at it's peak). In FriendFeed format, though it pains me, I have to mute a whole lot of his entries and FO reccomendations. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
i want to be clear that i am not slating scoble (given the recent sport of scoble-bashing that seems to be consuming the webinet). i think the problem comes from the way we use FF. sometimes i will just sit diown with it and have a big old liking session. the fact that this happens all at once clogs other people's feeds. difficult to work around this without losing the immediacy that is so important in FF. ho hum - one more problem for the team to solve - good luck guys ;-) - Alex Gawley
That noisy baaaaahhhhsssssttttttaaaarrrrrrdddddd!!!! Sorry for the noise. I use it to signal cool stuff that I see and I use FriendFeed a LOT. I'll settle down soon. Probably tomorrow cause this week I'm VERY busy. - Robert Scoble
been off friendfeed for last week as its gone far too meta.. the like algorithm bringing back old items needs to be way toned down. recency needs to rule - ben barren via Alert Thingy
like ben's idea. and agree about the meta thing. - Alex Gawley
I like ben's idea as well, liking something shouldn't necessarily make it more poular, it sohuld also be ranked against the recency as well - Chris Jones via twhirl
“Unsubscribing from Techmeme and Engadget in Google Reader, sick of Slashdot-esque "controversies" (AT&T Takes Away Free WiFi for iPhone! Oh wait, not true! Oh wait, yes it is! NOOOO!!!" Find myself asking "who cares?” more often than finding useful information”
I too find that Engadget isn't worth having in Google Reader anymore... but Techmeme often has great topics and all related discussions. - David Kaspar via Alert Thingy
Maybe I'll try unsubscribing from Engadget first and go from there. FWIW, It's not that I don't want free wifi on my iPhone, it'd actually be great. I just hate seeing little things turned into big controversies with play-by-play updates and sensationalism - a YouTube account suspension becomes "Google Censorship!"; a minor bug in Windows becomes "Stupid Microsoft!" repeated 10+ times. AT&T helping the government spy deserves 100s of blog posts, AT&T *considering* a new feature doesn't - Roshan Vyas
I still like Engadget simply for the odd & oftentimes interesting gadgets, but TechMeme I too removed from GR as I virtually get all the same info here in FF. - Ran
I wish that there were a way that FriendFeed could include more than just the last 25 or so things I faved on Flickr. Sometimes I'll spend hours faving and add several hundred new faves. In total I've got over 35,000 favorites in Flickr now: http://www.flickr.com/photos/t... - Thomas Hawk
Thomas: I love the work you do bringing the community's best work to all of us. Thank you! - Robert Scoble
“@Scobleizer because lack of supply increases demand? They seem to have a habit of doing it.”
7 hours ago
That's just not true. No one at any big company purposefully holds back supplies. But this is a common myth. It does increase hype, though, because mainstream media covers things that are in short supply. Especially during Christmas. - Robert Scoble
what about toy manufacturers undersupplying for the xmas season!? - Haim Schlesinger
If you think that's done on purpose you're sorely mistaken. usually it's because they totally misguessed how popular an item would be (and you can't increase supply that fast). - Robert Scoble
Wow, so many conspiracy theorists! the notion that a company would deliberately encourage you to spend money on someone else's product because theirs isn't available ON PURPOSE is lunacy! - Robert Seidman
Not to mention it's worse at Christmas time. THis year's hot product is rarely next year's hot one (Wii notwithstanding). - Robert Scoble
I never presume to know the depths of Apple's hubris with regards to their products. Mainly because I know that I personally would wait for the Apple product rather than buy the alternative. I don't think the idea that Apple would trade on the loyalty they inspire in fan boys like me is ludicrous in any way. - Brad McCrorey
this xmas toy you promissed your son, you will buy in January when available again, after buying something else for xmas - Haim Schlesinger
So far: 1. Camera is sharper. 2. Phone is smaller and has fewer moving parts so should be more water resistant, etc. 3. lots of little fixes to UI and syncing experience. 4. Flash is better. 5. I hear GPS is better, but haven't tried that yet. 6. Flickr upload worked, always had trouble on N95 for some reason. 7. Contacts have pictures from Plaxo. And I'm still discovering new things. I'll test battery usage tomorrow as well as 3G. - Robert Scoble
The biggest ones? Maybe. But it's a subset of the Marketing/PR function and should be handled there. - Louis Gray
There's external social media, and internal social media. The internal stuff - getting the advantages seen out here - is tougher. How to get employee participation? Perhaps another angle on the mainstream adoption meme. - Hutch Carpenter
gotta admit the term Social Manager made me cringe at first :) - Steven Hodson
I know. I used "social media" instead of enterprise 2.0. Enterprise 2.0 has a "tools" ring to it. I wanted to focus on participation inside the workplace. Social media is a better term for that. - Hutch Carpenter
DreamFish (social network software for private organizations in beta) has a "Facilitators" box which I liked: (1) Community Manager (2+) any other facilitators. Aside from the other DreamFish stuff (basically Ning), this was my favorite DreamFish feature. Eventually: we might have high-level & low-level facilitators/"social media managers" of various types. - Mitchell Tsai
Some videoconferencing groups use live facilitators who watch people, and say "I think John would like to say something". There are also eye-trackers and gesture-trackers which try to automatically shift video to the videoconferenced-people who seem-to-want-to-say-something. - Mitchell Tsai
NCDC (Northern California Dance Collective) had a cool role in their meetings: "Vibe-watcher", someone to help manage overheated situations. We alternated roles at each meeting. It's sometimes useful to rotate the "devils advocate" role, so one person doesn't feel like they always have to be the "bad guy". - Mitchell Tsai
good point about responding to random accusations. I should just put up a "ScobleFAQ" that I can point people to. - Robert Scoble
Yet, not even an FAQ can get people happy. I was once told my "about" page was as useless as tits on a bull. - Louis Gray
Scoble: Maybe just send people to a permalink ScobleFAQ at FriendFeed. :-) - Mitchell Tsai
I thought it was an honest question, if a bit pointed :-) And Robert gave an honest answer. If someone evangelizes something, people are bound to wonder what's in it for the evangelist (especially if the evangelist is not known to you personally). [INSERT PRODUCT PLACEMENT HERE ;-)] Sadly, I'm not sure a FAQ will help -- people were up in arms when Valleywag posted Robert's phone number, even though it has been plastered on his blog forever. - Karim
“@Scobleizer This is a serious question. Are you on FriendFeed's payroll?”
8 hours ago
I am not on FriendFeed's payroll. FastCompany forbids working for companies (or owning investments in) that its journalists cover. - Robert Scoble
Drew, this was a dumb question. I don't get why people can't accept consistent enthusiasm, whether it be re: FriendFeed, Readburner, whatever. There's no reason to go negative just to maintain credibility. - Louis Gray
Well respected technophile and blogger, Robert Scoble, likes a service and sings its praises because he knows the more who join will continue to add value to a service. No story here. - Vince DeGeorge
The more enthusiasm Robert has for something, the more attention I give it. He's usually right on the money, though I still disagree with him about Facebook. - Karoli
Some great points, some things I don't agree with, but intelligently written and deserves consideration and a thought-full response. - Elias Bizannes via twhirl
Cause Gillmor wants to make you use Google. Or something. He likes being different just so we talk about him. - Robert Scoble
I gotta say, it's weird. Rob La Gesse mentioned a post about the idea; do you know the whole rationale behind it? I'm not grokking it prima face. - Mark Trapp
Because by not using the @reply, he opens the conversation to others who may have @replies filtered, but have a contribution to make. - Karoli
Evangelizing the Track functionality under GTalk perhaps -- I was turned on to it today. Amazing stuff. - Mark Samuelson
Because all he needs to see is his own name, he's got the track vanity feed going, on that, the @ is redundant -- and he figures others are the same way, also tracking or tweetscanning their own namse and will see it anyway. It's his way of privileging track use. - Prokofy Neva
Thanks guys, I understand the mind of Steve Gillmor a bit better now. - Mark Trapp
Just look at his follow/followers ratio to get an idea of the goal. - Louis Gray
That's what I was looking for, Mike, thanks. I feel like I need to be on something mind-altering to understand this article, but I do appreciate the subtle irony of links sprinkled in and around it. - Mark Trapp
"D’Angelo said in his letter that he would remain a strong and enthusiastic supporter of the much-hyped start-up" -- Hnh, I wonder if that's what he really said. - j1m
Wild. The adults are taking over. It'll be interesting to see if that's a good thing or not. - Robert Scoble
This is what happens when a company stops listening to early adopters and influencers, though. The adults try to replace everyone. What new features has Facebook added in the past year since the application platform came out? Not many. Well, there was Beacon, which was a bad idea and poorly explained. - Robert Scoble
More granulated privacy controls. That was important. - Prokofy Neva
Well, they've also done pages, chat, translations, friend lists, removing the 5000 friend limit, and scaled to 100m+ users... - Phillip Kast
Phillip: they also kick people off for doing pretty typical stuff. Just last week someone at Microsoft wrote me and told me she'd been kicked off for just talking with her friends. Pages? Yawn, we wouldn't have needed those if there wasn't a 5,000 friend limit. Chat? Annoying, if I wanted IM I would have used IM. FriendLists? Useful. Scaling to 100m users? Good, but most people don't notice that except when Facebook gets slow. - Robert Scoble
Scaling is amazing: I always noticed when there were all of a sudden twice as many users and the site didn't slow down. I didn't get bored and go elsewhere; I was thoroughly impressed. I notice it all the time when facebook stays fast. - Rob Schonberger
VIDEO 3:55: Lindsay Campbell, the host of the Moblogic was arrested Wednesday at a New York protest against the three police officers who were acquitted in the Sean Bell trial. For those not familiar with the case, three New York police officers in plain clothes shot an unarmed Sean Bell 50 times. Campbell’s crime on the day was to not move away from the legal protest. - Mitchell Tsai
Hmm, in Journalism School I was given a stern talking to when I wanted to become part of the story. I was taught that journalists should report and not become part of the story. Bloggers, however, are not stuck to such rules. - Robert Scoble
Per Robert's comment, when I was the crime reporter for the Daily Cal at Berkeley back in 1997, I once recovered two wallets stolen in an armed robbery. After contacting the victims, I called Berkeley PD, and agreed to give everything back, in exchange for all being interviewed for the story. I was dissuaded from writing, "The wallets were recovered by a Daily Cal staffer." - Louis Gray
It's like the change in psychiatry & coaching, coaches are making themselves personally involved... Perhaps a change in society to be more involved at many levels (like blogging/journalism). - Mitchell Tsai
"Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long." - Hunter S. Thompson - Chuck Lawson
The comments on TechCrunch sure are funny, aren't they? I wish we could get rid of anonymity on the Internet, but alas, it's here to stay. - Robert Scoble
Totally hoping you make a series out of this like you mentioned on Twitter - Corvida
I fully intend to, once my move is complete (hopefully that will be tomorrow :) ) - MG Siegler
it would be interesting to have "comparative" posts where sites like Ars are held to the fire when tehy obviously "copy" other peoples work without proper attribution. - Steven Hodson
mg, there's an obvious pun on the ars technica name that i'm glad you're restraining yourself from using because it's so obvious - Eric Eldon
I have no such restraint myself -- Arse Technica. Childish and obvious, but I think of it every time I see it. - Vince DeGeorge
@steven - yeah I'm thinking that's how it should go, the problem is that I'll have to actually read the site again, I stopped cause it was just annoying and a rehash - MG Siegler
