why? whats happened? - Zee.

I think Robert means to get as many new people into friendfeed as possible - Jay

oh...i thought early adopters were getting attacked - Zee.

Aww, was it the Mashable article? - Daynah

The Center Networks piece? - Chris Baskind

Zee: you gotta check out http://mashable.com/2008... and http://www.winextra.com/2008... - Robert Scoble

Steven Hodson's piece - Hutch Carpenter

lol - Jay

link? - Duncan Riley

Chris: nah, Allen at CN is right that the recommended page in FriendFeed is totally not good for us. I don't want to be a default. - Robert Scoble

If we didn't have early adopters we'd never know what's good and what's not. - Alex Scoble

I'm about as early as they come, and I don't feel attacked? :) - l0ckergn0me

So Mashable just called each and every one of their readers douchebags. I'm sure this made sense in a meeting at some point... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

l0ckergnome: tomorrow is pick on Chris Pirillo day. :-) - Robert Scoble

Tomorrow shall be fun. :) Let's start with the hat. heh - Daynah

@Robert, I think you started with the labeling - Jason Carreira

hmm I'm up for that! - Jay

But aren't we all early adopters of FriendFeed? We WERE here before the new one launched! :) - Mona Nomura

I think some people don't like early adopters who adopt early just to show off their new "toys". If the intention is otherwise, than I say these people are pioneers. Hats off to you for that, and taking all the flak for it. - Josh Haley

ugh, can't stand Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins after he made some retarded remarks re:Loren Feldman and race and all that bull. I think I ended up blocking him here. can't remember. I usually like Mashable, too. he's tainting it. that "your mom would use it" bit is faintly but irritatingly sexist. - Kamilah Gill

Just gets more fun every day doesn't it. @Robert Mona was here before you ... she just didn't tell anyone. She was 'hiding' herself. - Charlie Anzman

OK seriously you guys, stop. This will now be the second night I've not gamed and instead sat here with popcorn. How am I going to ever get my friggin S2 or finish Twilight Princess (round 3)?! - Candace

Charlie: there were thousands of people here when I joined in February. I'm hardly the "earliest" adopter. I just watch what a large group of early adopters tries and uses and wait for the first wave to repeat to me over and over that something is cool. That's how I found Evernote. - Robert Scoble

Robert, Louis, I'm grateful for early adopters like you because it allows me to see much more of what's out there than I could see from any traditional source. I get to taste cool technology and play with it, and share it with others. My parents won't use most of it (nor will they use Facebook), but for those that have a use for it I can share it with them. And no, I didn't vote democrat last election and I love Facebook. - Jesse Stay

Robert (1) I just read the Mashable piece and not only was the stereotype way off (at least where I'm concerned) but I think I just wasted 10 minutes reading the piece and the comments. (2) The other post about you and Mona was a joke (3) I will continue to idolize both you and Louis :) - Charlie Anzman

BTW, it's posts like this that have caused me to remove Mashable from my RSS Reader (that, and his Mormon post a week ago where he quoted me entirely out of context). I'm losing respect for Mark's posts lately. - Jesse Stay

Jesse - My Mom still won't use a microwave ... - Charlie Anzman

Charlie, my dad still uses a handsaw and refuses to buy most electrical tools - Jesse Stay from twhirl

Jesse: I think it's funny to be attacked for being an early adopter by a site that reprints press releases and competes with TechCrunch to get onto TechMeme with the latest shiny object release. I also didn't get why my politics got pulled into a discussion about early adopter behavior, either. But, hey, makes for some entertaining reading at 5 a.m. in Berlin. - Robert Scoble

Robert, yeah - it seems he's looking for the latest topic that brings in traffic. I hope that isn't the case. What I like about "early adopters" is they're real people like you and me, living the technology they're talking about. - Jesse Stay from twhirl

All I know is if I flew around as much as Robert, I'd be seriously dizzy! - Charlie Anzman

I like you Charlie - you bring reality to every situation :-) - Jesse Stay from twhirl

I don't think I attacked the early adopters, but I did have something to say, and I said it Monday. - JustinLL from twhirl

Robert - back up your statements. Show me a press release we've reprinted. We never attacked you or even early adopters - I described a stereotype - apparently I struck too close to home with you, and you felt you needed to lash out at us. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

That's every day, no? - john conroy

so Mashable are just saying that they aren't as passionate about new products and startups as Robert and Louis are? No surprise there - we knew that before because it comes across in the difference between how the passionate early adopters like Robert and Louis cover technology and how Mashable covers it. There is a lot of irony to that post that I think buzzed over the authors head. - nik

As I said in a recent post, early adopters are some of the most generous people I know. And I'm a cranky old fart, too. - Ro (Lilyhill)

I checked out the Mashable "article" and it looks like a transparent flamebaiting write-up. They seem to be just fishing for page hits. - Chris Luckhardt

Irony is awesome. - Paul Reynolds

Come on guys - There's a simple view of all this: There's passionates, non-passionates and then PR people...damn PR people suck! - Kevin LaHaise