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doesn't bother you in person?? :) - Zee.

very - Lindsey is Fierce!

No, not really ... *hurls in corner* - Steven Perez

bothers me , that a one legged man is standing up that high ... - johnpiercy

oh oh oh.. WANT TO GO! - CW™

I wanna know where the other leg is - johnpiercy

Not at all ... this is awesome! - Penny

Only a bit troubled that the shoe is definitely not steel-toe and therefore not a worker...so a suicide is imminent, which is not cool. Otherwise great photo. I love heights. - Josh Haley

wow, that's really amazing - Susan Beebe

i'm deathly afraid of heights. so yes. - Morgan

He'd definitely damage a car. I'd sue - Gordon Swaby

quite - William Harryman

Watch that first step. It's a doozy. - Larry Kless

JESUS IS ALIVE! - €€€€€€€€

Do it, do it, DO IT!! - Carolyn Chan

Oh noes -- we need a barrier that extends all the way to the top? - Richard ¿digame? Walker

When I went to Toronto, we went to the observation deck of the CN Tower. It has a glass floor. - Ontario Emperor

little bit, yeah. Especially if you knew the distance from the bridge itself to the SF Bay below. I like the old picture of the construction workers on the steel beam eating lunch. That always gives me a spot of the vertigo. - Pete Delucchi

no - Glen Mistletoe

Yes, those shoes don't go at all. - Todd Hoff

YES!!!!! And I can't stop looking!! - Lea Daugherty-Moon

damn! - fbrunel

Before 2 weeks ago, I would have said yes, However, after hanging out of a moving aircraft at 11,000 feet, not so much. :) - teleken

Yep, still have their IBM Selectric II typewriter on their desk too right? - Susan Beebe

... - Jake (aka Jawee)

Amazing -- they won't invest in their own productivity. - Dave Winer

Still, that means 42% DO use RSS which I suspect is much higher than average. - Andrew Smith

Most journalists don't read other people's pieces since they're only concerned with their own. Now bloggers on the otherhand... :P - Mona Nomura

It's strange that it's not higher. Does that mean that I could be a journalist, coz I read lots of blogs and use RSS? Not likely - Will Higgins™

I know a few journalists, I should talk to them about how the use technology in their profession. - Will Higgins™

Information Week's tech team should be the first to catch up. - just an observation. - Mona Nomura

I've been banging on to anyone that would listen about RSS for the last four years. Many tech friends of mine still don't use it or really know what it is, or else they're deliberately acting stupid (I can't believe they don't know) - Ian May

I bet journalists read more blogs than they realize are blogs. The RSS stats are the more appalling stat to me. - Ed Kohler from twhirl

I'm only a participant in 2. Friendfeed and Twitter. I've yet to discover a need for anything else. - Keith - @tsudo

I pretty much just participate in FF, with a li'l Twitter and SocialMedian on the side. Shiny shiny doesn't cut it if I don't feel the urge to interact. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

I wouldn't say that. I keep joining to them, but of course I'm using just few of them. - Bibi

I had high hopes for Rejaw, but once Mona stopped using it, it became way less interesting - Kevin L

Well, you don't have to start using Yammer. :) - Morton Fox

I just have FF. Life is busy enough. - Roberto Bonini

Ah just link them all up to FF - James Tenniswood

Does that mean you don't want my super private alpha invite to an innovative new network I'm starting?? :) - Amanda Mooney

Alright Steve. You stay put and you will get lapped by the rest. :-) - Louis Gray

C'mon Steve... you must make room for Plaxo. ;-) - Jennifer Leggio

I'm so there. It's Louis' fault - Charlie Anzman

Social saturation.:) - Igor Poltavskiy

And boy howdy, did she nail that whole "Fargo" accent ... - Steven Perez

Yeah she was made for the part. Completely nailed it. - Dave Winer

Fun that this is how I watch TV now, on Friendfeed. I don't have TV at home, so I just let Dave find the good stuff. : ) - Chris Brogan

Classic - James Tenniswood

She did do a brilliant job. - Zee.

Not clear whether the appropriate response is to laugh or cry ... - Tom Stocky

Depends where they go with it. - Dave Winer

Wow she totally nailed it - Dave Peck

Best line: "I can see Russia from my house!" - Shelly Brisbin from twhirl

On hulu: http://www.hulu.com/watch... - Michael Leggett

On NBC.com: http://www.nbc.com/Saturda... - Dylan Parker

uuuuuuummmmmmmm Yummy Yummy , i would like to bite his/her nose :D :D - Farzad

Cute gangsta! - BeeLing

That's more Little Rascals than gangsta... - Donna Mugavero

lol tina - Karim

hahaha Donna :) - Anna Haro

cutttttttttttttttttteeeeeeeeee :) - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Is that the cat after the cheezburger? - Sally Church

No Sally: that's the cat getting ready to steal the cheeseburger. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

omg cute! it's the cheezburglar! - Carmen

رونوشت هم به ویداااااااا :D - Farzad

+10, Carmen!! - Trent Olson

Notes the lack of a Cat in the Hat reference :D - Moved to Facebook

Workin' down at the docks... - Lisa L. Seifert

Awww so cute! - David Adam

LOL lisa. - mjc

No 1 told me dat alaska iz cold... - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

I can haz bummed smoke plz? - Geoff Schultz

Hey Yolanda! :) - Mona Nomura

That sign must be located in a state other than Utah. - Kevin D. White

Or Montana... :O - Mona Nomura

Homer just needs a donut. - TDavid

Yummmmm doooooonutsssssss - Mona Nomura

So much for the boycott M ?? :) - Charlie Anzman

I boycotted for a night. ;) - Mona Nomura

What were you boycotting, Mona? - Lindsay

Hehe - Charlie Anzman

FriendFeed, Lindsay! - Mona Nomura

but... why? - Lindsay

I already forgot. :) - Mona Nomura

boycotting non-geeks that don't know what a browser is? ;) - Cheryl Allin from twhirl

Or people who want a feature added / taken away. "But it's ONLY one (text) box!" - Mona Nomura

LOL now that's a sign... - Cecil Sandus

Just Photoshop it - and make it animated! <evilgrin> - Cheryl Allin from twhirl

Not so bad:) - Igor Poltavskiy

with a global hops shortage on the horizon....this might not be true for long. - eric mortensen

but if i had to pick one or the other, i'll go with the beer, eric! - Mona Nomura

i can do either between blindness and allergies - Cecil Sandus

can or can't, Cecil? ;) - Mona Nomura

Oh Sh!T sorry i CAN'T stupid 'T not drunk just bad proofreader D'oh - Cecil Sandus

It's brilliant. - Akiva Moskovitz

:) yeah, i thought so :) - Zee.

I must be sleepy because I can't stop laughing at that cartoon. - Trish R

BRILLIANT! SO ME! - mjc

Trish, i know exactly what you mean...lol - Zee.

THAT IS SO GOOD - Zach Landes

BRILLIANT! - Ron

oh goodness that's quite a few friends of mine. LOL - Admiral Anika

I love pointy-haired boss's reaction. So droll. - Stu Andrews from twhirl

That isn't brilliant. - Andrew Trinh

super brilliant? - Zee.

+1 Zee - Kyle Lacy

*spectacularly* brilliant! - imabonehead

brilliantly brilliant - Pete Delucchi

brilliantastically brilliantabular - Pete Delucchi

Lol... - Zee.

Sounds like about 20% of the people I interviewed back in the day. Smart as hell, dumb as a post. - Sparky

so it's settled then.. this was, in fact, brilliant. - Zee.

Just like the guy I interviewed a couple weeks ago. - Charles

I can recall a time years ago when I was told by my boss to hire an MCSE/A+ for a system admin position who I thought was an idiot. Turns out I was right, on his first day he asked me to help him setup his outlook account then stared at his screen for 30 min before I decide to help him out. Come to find out he simply used braindumpcentral.com or something similar to get certified. - Steve Sebestyen from twhirl

My old strategy have been: longtailing (often gets commentary months after a post and it can re-ignite the discussion) = blogs, noteblocking (commentaries less but is somewhat a way to discus bout an topic that isn't mine but something I have found)=tumblr and shorthand-firing it up (discussion heaten up but dies after an hour or a day and never is shown again) =Jaiku. But after this weekend with Jaiku down Friendfeed is a beacon and I haven't missed Jaiku. - Niclas Strandh

Totally false. You're making the mistaken assumption that people will respond to what you post here. For the vast majority of us, that *never* happens. For most of the remainder, it is so rare as to be disheartening. Only for a very few at the tip of the iceberg is there enough "discourse" to keep you involved. - Glen Mistletoe

Glen: FriendFeed is cool because every post can become a discussion spot. The down side is 1,000,000s of "spots" which never get much discussion. It does suck that until you reach some critical-awareness (or "group" of followers) that no one comments or likes your posts unless you get a FofF effect from someone liking/commenting your item. I don't think it's on purpose. Just no one here can follow everything... Join active threads/spots and post good stuff...eventually people may discover you. - Mitchell Tsai

@Glen Campbell (glenc): I have hope that the more I respond (intelligently, which admittedly is a stretch for me) to the posts of others, the more my own posts will receive responses. I know that I need to do better than I have been doing with my own posts. I can't say I know the experiences of others. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF from NoiseRiver

Well... if this isn't a discussion of juice and fire I haven't seen any anywhere :) : http://friendfeed.com/e... - Niclas Strandh

"eventually people may discover you" - this is a little like the web in general, isn't it? If you want to hurry along the process then doing what @MiniMage suggests is good advice @Glen Campbell. - TDavid

agree. that's why I have Friendfeed plugin for my WP. getting the best of (hyper)streaming ;) - ~C4Chaos

Word to that. - Alex Scoble

Same here. Allowing comments on the Status updates is the catalyst for me. - Mike Doeff

Facebook is the true social network...it looks clean, works seamlessly and more people are joining in. It's my hub. - Miguel Albano

Using it, well no but certainly sharing more to it. I have been adding any photographers I can find on FB but that's it atm - Kol Tregaskes

my 2 aunts who are like 60+ years old are on FB. I just closed my account after finding out. - Mark L from twhirl

Yes. Seems to be more actual communication, less game-playing and showing off. - Timothy B. Taylor

I've never stopped, love FB. Have definitely noticed a downturn in the annoying apps spam though which I appreciate. - Kate

Nope. Not into limiting myself to intranets. I really don't get it.! - Steve 'Chippy' Paine

Nope...I was huge into playing a lot of the racing games for six months, but got bored with that, so now I'm using Facebook rarely. Doing a lot more friendfeed. - Alex Scoble

Nope. The death of Scrabulous has confused my less techie relatives, who dislike the Scrabble alternative, so games have dried up. - Louis Gray

Nope - Capn' One Eye - adrift

mainly use its as an 'outpost' (great term of Chris Brogan); as a content aggregator. Indeed, the new user interface is much more agreable! - Jeroen De Miranda

After a long lull, I am suddenly getting a hell of alot of emails from FB requests and notifications, forcing me to use it more. More than autofeeding is more. - Michael W. May from twhirl

Less for me though. I'm just there to play games with friends. - Carolyn Chan

we can check out at FB Steve, but tell us how in a blog post - we're still following you. ;) - Kevin OKeefe

Yes, the new design makes it much easier - you should give it a try if you haven't already. The filtering is much better than FriendFeed's, but it's more about people and not news - Jesse Stay

I just joined this week. Late to that arena. Turns out that a lot more of the folks that I have made friends with in my travels over the past 18yrs can be found there. - Mathew A. Koeneker

Love the new design. Always been a big user of it though. It's my main social portal. - Rob Record

yes, although I am resisting, I'm finding myself checking it again - Ivan Pope from twhirl

I got dragged in to play scrabble.. thats the only reason that I am there - Peter Dawson

My facebook use has become somewhat sporadic. I prefer Friendfeed for now. - Mattb4rd

agreed, except my 1400 facebook inmails late and their inmails management that still sux so bad don t you think Steve? - Loic Le Meur

I just realized that a bunch of my friends used it so I am trying to friend them - Tyler (Chacha)

I am using it less than ever since becoming a friendfeed fanatic. I might play a game or two on there once in awhile, but I can't get any real networking done there. - Laura Norvig

Well it's great to see some support for the site...it's been nothing but negative talk for a while now, which frankly I don't understand. - Zee.

Not really... - €€€€€€€€

FB is great for storing stuff and for keeping in touch with friends who only use facebook, as well as with friends who network over a wider range of platforms. The games are a distraction. I have found a surprising, diverse number of old and new friends are using facebook. - Chris Loft

Yeah ever since I joined Twitter and Friend Feed I haven't really been on facebook. - Sheraz Mahmood from twhirl

That's not FriendFeed. That's FriendChug. - Ontario Emperor from fftogo

Just started, so I suppose I should wait another beer or two to post & comment, no? ;-) - Bill Sanders

Let's make a drinkin' game. Everytime someone "likes" your message...take a drink (k, you make-a-rule) - Jeremiah Owyang

Yah Bill -- see you right here in 30 mins. We expect some progress ;) - Marko Bon

"Officer, I'm not as think as you drunk I am" - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

@Jermiah, deal! - Marko Bon

every time your post is ignored on FF, (I.e. Noone likes it), you have to drink the rest pf the bottle. (hic) - Bill Sanders

Drinking and FriendFeeding don't mix. It's a deadly combination....like if you type on your keyboard and your finger gets stuck between the keys. :) - imabonehead

bone, my prophlatic approach is to buy by the pitcher an d use an iPone. <hay, wateris, 'nother round please!> :-) - Bill Sanders

w00t comment #11!! everyone celebrate with 11 beers! - hellonm

I didn't think you were at Gnomedex? :-) - Duncan Riley

I can't grip the mouse after 8 likes... - Bill Sodeman

The "luck" aspect mentioned is true. But as Thomas Jefferson said "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." - Hutch Carpenter

Amen, Hutch! - Bill Sodeman

depends a lot on what you mean by "successful" - mathew ingram

no... you need t be linked to by others - Prolific Programmer

Luck and the blessing from others plays way more than just content. - Bryce Moore from twhirl

No. But I'd put content high up on the list. And ... though many may not with to hear it, SEO comes second IMO. Then luck for sure. Though #1 and #2 are hard work. The old adage of luck is where preparation meets opportunity. - AJ Kohn

No...you have to write content consistently and often over time to be successful. You can be the greatest writer in the world, but you won't get noticed blogging once in a blue moon. - Alex Scoble

Luck is a huge aspect of linking and blogging. - Kyle Lacy

No. You have to present a human story - Francine Hardaway

In Facebook's case I would actually make the point that instead of just making a new style of ad they would be well off to find a way to make an ad that is essentially a Facebook application. Applications have definitely proven that they can be many times more engaging than just traditional advertisements and this would be a great way for Facebook to finally monetize one of their most popular features while providing an advertising solution that better aligns with users' motives when in the social space. - Devlin Dunsmore

great scoop and analysis , Jeremiah. Thanks! - Ed Terpening

Thanks Ed - Jeremiah Owyang

An incredibly timely piece for me since I am pitching a Facebook ad campaign to a client next week. This post will help them *deal* with the dismal CTRs @ FB. Any advertiser on social media sites like FB need to commit to the long-term regarding advertising. Yes, that’s hard to do. But FB @ least is giving us tools *beyond* the old flyer ads. Thanx, as always! - Barbara K. Baker

I really like this post Jeremiah. I would add that engagement ads are complete bullshit unless it adds value for the user: emotional, monetary, content,..etc - it's that simple the ad has to be good -translation it has to connect and add value to the user(s) - John Furrier

Good point John - Jeremiah Owyang

Pretty much all social media has to follow the GUT rule if it is going to be effective. Genuine, useful, and thoughtful (I'm actually writing a blog post about this at the moment). Marketers can't just take the old advertising paradigm and apply it to social marketing but lately I have seen a lot more better efforts from brands than at this time last year. - Devlin Dunsmore from twhirl

I think that should be GUTorF i think the funny factor can be as effective. - Allan Anderson