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What was your First Computer? - http://geeks.pirillo.com/xn...
Michael Finney, ~C4Chaos, Adam Turetzky and 2 other people liked this
IBM PS2 with a 30MB disk and 2MB of RAM
- Stephen Pierzchala
Commodore 64 right after the 5.25 floppy drive came out, never had the cassette drive
- Jeff Quinton
PC/XT clone. Two floppy drives, no hard disk, 640KB RAM.
- Morton Fox
Commodore 64 and a dot matrix printer. That's right. No floppy and no cassette drive. Everything I did I had to program in BASIC, print out, and then type it all in again when I wanted to do it again. That lasted for about three months before I came home from school one random day to find a 1541 and a copy of Zork II waiting for me. My parents rocked.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I had the 1541, the monitor and the C-64 together
- Jeff Quinton
via school I first used and programmed a Commodore PET at school to print out bad words. First home computer was an Atari 400 with an awesome membrane keyboard.
- Shawn McCollum
Commodore VIC-20. With a cassette drive. Bought with my own money back in 1983, when I was 13. "Press PLAY on tape..."
- Joey Gibson
Amiga 500 with two floppy drives and an internal clock. Previously used a friend's C-64
- Nathan Howell
Commodore VIC-20. Got it for Christmas in 1981. Added the cassette drive later.
- Michael Hocter
VIC-20!
- Kevin Cearns
Apple IIe with dual floppy drive, extended 80 col. card, 128Kb
- mikepk
Apple IIe
- Mo Kargas
1975-era Cray supercomputer. Specs classified still.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Sinclair zx80. We were too poor to afford a TRS-80 at the time ;)
- Elliott Ng
BBC Micro model B with 32Kb of memory
- Timothy Griffin
Atari 400
- Craig Eddy
A Windows 98 PC but dunno the model lol probably had like 128mb ram and 12gb hdd
- Anatolie Diordita
from twhirl
A Timex-Sinclair 1000, that I built myself.
- Slobokan
Commodore VIC-20, with cassette drive and modem. I think it was a 300 baud modem, but might have even been 110 baud.
- DGentry
10 ? "hello world" 20 goto 10
- Phillip Jeffrey
First one I owned was a Memotech MTX512 (64Kb RAM, 4MHz Z80A processor, o/s=CP/M), as seen in Weird Science :)
- Paul Henman
The original IBM PC model 5150
- Bluesun 2600
from twhirl
Apple IIe
- Kevin Bondelli
Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer 2.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Amstrad CPC 6128
- Duncan Riley
Technically my first computer was an Atari 400, but we just used it as a game console and never got the BASIC cartridge nor the tape drive. The first computer I really used was a Commodore 64 with a 1541 floppy drive. 6502-based machines rock!
- Victor Ganata
Sinclair Spectrum ZX80, I think my Mum still has it in the cupboard!
- Sally Church
First one I really used a lot (but it didn't belong to me): a Xerox 860 dedicated word processor with dual 8" floppy drives, a black-on-white, vertical WYSIWYG monitor, and a touchpad cursor controller, back in 1982 at my student job in an office at MIT
- John McCrea
This was my first computer http://flickr.com/photos...
- Got80s
from twhirl
Sinclair ZX81. Eventually upgraded the 1K RAM to a 64K RAM pack, complete with "wobble" (you had to employ blue tac to prevent crashes). Also had a "dot matrix" printer, which worked by setting fire to silver-coated paper. Hi-res graphics were 256x192, but required "fast mode", in which display turned to static whilst calculating. So many happy memories.
- Neil Saunders
A Coleco ADAM was technically my first PC, but quickly moved to an original IBM PC (5150) dual-floppy with AST SixPackPlus bringing main memory to 640K, CGA card and modem, Hays 1200 baud modem.
- Phil G
TRS-80 Model III, with the 16K RAM upgrade and no floppies, just the Radio-Shack cassette recorder. Dancing Demon was one of my favorite apps. Later, I got dual disk drives for Christmas, which I believe costed my Dad $600 or so.
- Paul Salzman
from twhirl
Trash 80 Model 1
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Commodore VIC-20, with cassette deck
- Josh Haley
COSMAC ELF with 2-digit hex display, hex entry keypad, and 256 BYTES of RAM. You guys with the Sinclairs and the Colecos and the Commodores don't know how well you have it. We had to program the ELF from a cardboard box in the middle of the freeway, and wake up before we went to bed.
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
Commodore 64
- Valley
from twhirl
Apple IIc
- Adam Turetzky
Apple II+
- Alex Scoble
C-64 with summer job money seventh grade
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
IBM PC XT with a whopping 10MB hard drive.
- ~C4Chaos
BESM(Russia) (on transistors!:))
- Igor Poltavskiy
Sinclair Spectrum. Well, it was my brother's, but I used it too...:)
- WorldofHiglet
Apple II+
- Ruchira S. Datta
Acorn Electron, followed by an ancient Commodore 8032SK, then another Electron, then my first PC, a Watford Aries running an NEC V20 processor at about 12MHz with 1Meg RAM, two 5 1/4 inch floppies and a 250Meg MFM Hard Drive..
- Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane
@Sally - well, was it a Sinclair ZX80 or a Sinclair Spectrum??? :-)
- Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane
Commodore Vic-20
- Mark Krynsky
Todd Palin's former business partner files an emergency motion to have his divorce papers sealed. http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_dai...
don loeb, Bluesun 2600, ~C4Chaos and Jasmin Patry liked this
And in more relevant news, the sun will set at 8:55pm tonight in Anchorage.
- Slobokan
What? Who's looking up this stuff? And why?
- Ro (Lilyhill)
This matters because Palin and McCain say it matters. They brandish "family values" like a weapon, as if Dems don't have any.
- Kawika Holbrook
Always a problem knowing or some how attached to a person that becomes famous for something. The Spot Light of the media and others is huge. They look at everyone. Just wonder how many degrees of separation is required to feel safe?
- CW™
Bacon Salt: How two tech guys created a viral food sensation - http://www.inquisitr.com/2532...
Steve Isaacs, Duncan Riley, Tom Harrison and 6 other people liked this
Ok I'm hungry now
- Jeff Wright
@vincent that sounds awesome
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
In before the mona
- Geoff Schultz
Oh man, these guys are great. Back when they were getting started I helped them out with some paid advertising, I am really glad to see that they are doing better than ever. And the bacon salt is great too, I can vouch for it!
- Aaron Krug
Everything SHOULD taste like bacon!
- Michelle Feldman
Damn, as I read the comments, I swear I could smell bacon.
- Slobokan
Vincent - good thinking! Just wait until we come out with our jalapeno flavor for the holidays :)
- Bacon Salt
I wish there was a "dislike" option.
you ain't kidding. That would be #1 on my wishlist.
- Slobokan
I've said that, too.
- Donna Mugavero
Up North Mommy & The Swiss Family Priestap - http://www.upnorthmommy.com/2008...
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An awesome page about building the ultimate treehouse.
- Slobokan
Up North Mommy & The Swiss Family Priestap - http://www.stumbleupon.com/demo...
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An awesome page about building the ultimate treehouse.
- Slobokan
@andrewbaron - put your speakers on 11 and kiss my ass http://www.youtube.com/watch... i made mine, you was given yours. word.
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David Ward, Jeff Hoard, sean percival and 6 other people liked this
Definitely the best comment I have seen in a very long time.
- Slobokan
read the vwag run down on the CEO's, i'd still work for JC, just because lines like this
- shayne catrett
when this makes techmeme I will officially pronounce Friendfeed as "jumping the shark"
- Wayne Schulz
Would have gone with http://tinyurl.com/242udc but to each his own.
- Percival
You should have went with this http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Fred Grott
There's a New York ass kickin' for you. Great one, J.
- Frank Roche
Whats all the fighting about again? o_O
- Percival
Samantha sent a private message - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Alexander Kucera and Colide81 (James) liked this
I just got that message on Vox
- Colide81 (James)
Me too. Samantha is a busy bee tonight.
- Jonathon
I logged in to check.. lol I got the same message too.
- Daynah
We're all geniuses! Woot!
- Slobokan
First it was Samantha, and now I just got one from AdultspaceGiftsBot... Awesome!
- Vincent X
Chris Jones, Sameer, Rob H. and 11 other people liked this
Whoa. Congrats!!! How awesome is that?
- Slobokan
Pretty fucking awesome.
- loren feldman
You and Michelle? Wow. Congratulations! Wishing you two all the best.
- Vincent X
Congrats!
- pcnerd37
Very nice. Best of luck to you both.
- Rob Safuto
Thanks guys. Also for always being supportive.
- loren feldman
Mazal Tov!
- Jay Cuthrell
nice looking ring
- Tyler Crowley
Wishing you two kids all the best!
- Donna Mugavero
Congratulations. Best wishes.
- Henry Busby
from twhirl
http://usa.cupboardy.org/files... congrats dude
- hellonm
Ack! Hannah Montana training bras!!! Ack!!! Ack!!!!!
DISLIKE!
- Michelle Martinez
Wondering, with her reputation, what exactly do they train you for?
- Slobokan
LogMeIn offers browser plug-in: control PC or Mac with a Nokia Internet Tablet - http://www.jkontherun.com/2008...
This just changed my life.
- Slobokan
Cat People Get It - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Slobokan liked this
Great video! hahaha.
- Slobokan
How do I embed a youtube video here
i know it shows youtube videos that you "favorite". other than that, I don't know
- Brett Kelly
I think you just post the youtube url for the video as a link and it does the rest.
- Slobokan
Slobokan - Always on point.
- loren feldman
I wish I would have consulted Slobokan because I wondered the same thing.
- Donna Mugavero
Vince- I consider you an expert, too. Thanks for your help.
- Donna Mugavero
Oh stop. I just got lucky with that one. ;)
- Slobokan
you can also just 'favorite' the video on youtube and it auto-adds here...
- Jeremy Toeman
No fruther penalties to be dealt No. 96 after Chicago - http://www.nascar.com/2008...
Adam liked this
I must not understand enough about what the 96 team did wrong because it sounded to me like it was obvious trickery.
- tarahog1980
from twhirl
I don't understand this either. How can you bodyslam some teams for pieces or parts that could be considered pushing the envelope, while giving a slap on the wrist to a team that was obviously trying to break the rules?
- Adam
Just another example of 'consistency', courtesy of NASCAR. I don't think we are meant to understand.
- Slobokan
Obama to sponsor Sprint Cup car at Pocono - Tom Bowles - SI.com - http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008...
I'm laughing so much it hurts.
- rivensky
from Bookmarklet
There's no crying in baseball. And no Democrats in NASCAR.
- Kells
Schrader better be careful. The car could flip-flop at any time.
- Slobokan
I just LOLed so hard... I nearly choked on my PopTart. Thanks Slobokan
- rivensky
That just cracks me up.
- Penni
And to think NASCAR was just last week wondering whether or not the candidates would show up at the track. I guess they don't have to worry about Obama's lack of NASCAR participation. I wonder how much this is going to cost the campaign.
- tarahog1980
I am surprised that he did not want to sponsor Montoya's car & hit another group of voters. I do hope they put protective shields around Ken's car, just in case.
- Sheryl Loch
makes you wonder if Obama's secret service detail told him it wouldn't me wise to show up in person.
- msphotogirl
I don't think all fans are republican but I do probably think that the majority are. I think most drivers are probably republican as well. JMO.
- tarahog1980
Thank God, Karah, I thought I was the only Democrat around. Probably more Independent, but definitely lean towards the left a lot more than the right. That side, not sure this will help him any.
- Adam
Please tallglassofmilk, don't kick Karah and I out of your Room. lol
- Adam
I'm writing in Jamie McMurray for president.
- rivensky
NASCAR.com reporting that Obama isn't sponsoring a car (http://snurl.com/2x3it). BAM Racing made the proposal, but Obama declined. Who knows, they could have been gauging the reaction. Let the story leak that a proposal was on the table, see what the reaction was, and then decline it once they realized that it probably wouldn't help the campaign. Would be a smart move. Of course, not sure it would take a rocket scientist to realize NASCAR fans aren't his base.
- Adam
Fast Comapny taking down all the negative reviews on Scoble and Shel's show. I have never taken down a bad review. Go look at my site for chrissakes. No balls, no conversation, no nothing, the charade is ending for Scoble and his ilk.
The Kid, Patphelan, Matt Craven and 2 other people liked this
It would be so much better for them if they'd answer their critics in the comments instead of redacting them.
- J T. Ramsay
Can we say Social Media sheep ...BAAAA
- Fred Grott
wow. naked conversations, eh? unbelievable
- Marcel Weiß
Interesting...
- Live4Emma (L4S)
And you're surprised? They've been doing this since day one, just like that poseur Huge MacLoud. Spinsters, all. Rock On!
- Tree Shapiro
They had to take down the negative comments. They weren't in the script.
- Slobokan
@Slobokan There was a script?
- J T. Ramsay
Script? Lobotomy in action more like..
- Fred Grott
Re: Script, This tweet says it all http://twitter.com/shelisr...
- Slobokan
A Scripted conversation, that does say it all
- paul mooney
I can't find their comment policy anywhere - just asked both of them where it was.
- Matt Craven
I'm discussing this issue with people in this comment cluster on FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Robert Scoble
When people censor their critics, its the same as saying their critics are right, period. As long as their supporters know that, you win.
- The Kid
@1938media we do not allow personal attacks in comments on FastCompany.tv as a matter of policy and have removed several comments like that.
Nick O'Neill, Parth Awasthi, Karim and 47 other people liked this
Where's the comment policy about this? I can't find it.
- Matt Craven
some of the comments I saw before they got deleted were maybe harsh but they weren't personal attacks. they were about the quality of the show not about attacking you or shel. you just deleted every negative comment.
- Marcel Weiß
All comments except one sycophantic one was deleted. And that one looked like it was written by PR. I am really surprised. My suggestion would be to turn off comments. FastCompany is a censor? That's not something their PR people would like as a lead item.
- Frank Roche
To all the folks crying here -- Here is an idea. Create a better show you can. And please don't whine if your comments got deleted. Don't want to get your comments deleted - here is an idea - setup your blog, write a blog post on your blog criticizing to your hearts content. Nobody will delete that.
- Vic Podcaster
Is there any way to delete @vic's comment here? It seems overly negative and sarcastic.
- Frank Roche
This cottage industry that has formed around criticizing Robert and Shel is getting tired and worn. I think the people who are complaining are being disingenuous when they say they are just looking after SAP's money. No one seems to complain about the production quality of certain poorly lit loudmouths spewing in front of an isight. The censorship issue is clearly a red herring. I think someone is jealous of a couple of guys who actually have a sponsorship.
- Oldengrey (Jay)
The comments were attacks and were not constructive criticism.
- Robert Scoble
That's simply not true. I read the comments myself. They were hardly personal attacks.
- J T. Ramsay
Robert, please define "constructive criticism" as you see it. It makes no sense that some of those comments were deleted.
- Slobokan
@Scoble - you are normally pretty open about stuff. But your reply seems like a pretty lame cop-out.
- Tom Quinn
blackmailismylife: well, we judged them as attacks. There is, like Jay noted, a group of anonymous people who are just saying negative things about Shel in a way that's personal and attackive. I'm not going to put up with it anymore, at least on FastCompany.tv. Wanna do it somewhere else, like here, fine.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, they are baiting you.
- Oldengrey (Jay)
Constructive Criticism: next time ask a question without saying "um." Attack: you're an idiot.
- Robert Scoble
Jay: that's cool. Comment policy is important. It's not that I'm getting it right. I used to be far more open to letting people post whatever they want, but I'm definitely changing my view to match what you posted.
- Robert Scoble
Cream rises ;)
- Oldengrey (Jay)
I used to run a pretty busy community driven website, and was continually surprised at the amount of time and effort people would put into fighting with each other over the most petty and seemingly innocuous things.
- Jonathan Beckett
Tony: we wrote a book together, are friends, and I like him a lot -- he's helped launch dozens of companies in Silicon Valley. Loyalty in life has served me well.
- Robert Scoble
Tony: well, there will be major changes to the show starting on Friday. I'd love to hear your feedback about how the show goes. Your feedback IS being heard.
- Robert Scoble
1938 should shut up and move on. This crap only gets press because people keep trying to create a scandal.
- Andrew Ruess
from twhirl
The expression "jackalling" is sometimes used to describe the work done by a subordinate in order to save the time of a superior. (For example, a junior lawyer may peruse large quantities of material on behalf of a barrister.) This came from the tradition that the jackal will sometimes lead a lion to its prey. In other languages, the same word is sometimes used to describe the behavior...
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- Oldengrey (Jay)
Trying to create a scandal? Naw, I don't think so. I think people are just concerned about legitimate comments being deleted from fastcompany.tv. It reeks of censorship from within, and it does not look good from the outside.
- Slobokan
Censorship is an issue here. Deleting comments after the fact is not a good thing. If you don't have a policy then at least have comments placed in moderation first so they never appear. The fact that they were public and then removed just looks bad.
- Tom Quinn
Only one of the negative comments was preserved in Google's cache, but I for one would have left it up. Yes, it included the statement "Shel...do yourself a favor and go away," but it did include a valid comment about having the subject of the video actually appear within the first two minutes of the video.
- Ontario Emperor
@Ontario Emperor: Just Googled the comment you mentioned. Reading the whole comment I can see why it was deleted. Have I read worse comments on say Digg? Yes, but let's agree it would have been fine for the person to leave their feedback that they wanted to see the guest Tim Ferris before 2:27 minutes into the show, sign their name to it, and leave it at that.
- Loren Heiny
Someone should setup a comment mirror site or a wayback machine of sorts for blog comments.
- Eddie Codel
Sometimes bad PR may be good PR and I wanted to watch the interview myself: But I have a question Is there a low(er) bandwidth feed available, preferably without Flash?
- Arnd Gronenberg
Matt: our policy is here and covers all Mansueto Digital sites: http://www.fastcompany.com/service...
- Robert Scoble
Lots of professional media sites remove comments for a number of reasons. I'm happy to review the comments again tonight, but FastCompany’s initial review (they were deleted by a team at FC) were that they were pretty classic “troll” attacks. Sites such as NewYorkTimes.com review all comments for personal attacks before posting comments and we have adopted a considerably more open policy than this. But we'll consider all suggestions as to how we should handle our comment policy.
- Robert Scoble
Mooney: that's not constructive. How would you improve them?
- Robert Scoble
You know who you remind me of? The U.S. Government, you subdue all dissenters
- Andrew Fielding
Andrew: really? I didn't delete your comment here, so that proves you are wrong. There are plenty of ways for you to make personal attacks on the Internet. It's just that we're not going to let you do that on our properties. That's what Valleywag, your blog, or FriendFeed is for.
- Robert Scoble
Mooney: I'll personally review your comments shortly, it's also possible our spam filter is catching some of them. A couple of mine are held in moderation too.
- Robert Scoble
I don't see the big deal. People need to stop hyping this up. Companies have a responsiblity to mitigate risk. Taking down hate speech, abusive language, etc. is not a bad thing. Scoble can use FF, and/or his blog to 'keep the conversation' pure if needed. It's not like FC is the ONLY place for a discussion to occur. 1938media needs to chill.
- Ryan
@Robert - this can be an important point "but FastCompany’s initial review (they were deleted by a team at FC)" - does that mean you and Shel (and I haven't watched, so I don't know) did or did not participate or direct the deletion? Maybe there should be some way to keep the comment, since part of it could be useful, and delete the personal attacks with [PA deleted by admin]
- Sean
Don't see what a lot of people are complaining about. FastCompany has every right to remove comments from their own site. If anyone is upset by this they can post their comments elsewhere. It's not like there's nowhere else to post such comments.
- Paul Grav
I think you may have coined the word 'attackive'. Nicely done!
- Seth Eagelfeld
As far as I see it, a blog author or company has the right to remove whatever comment they want if it reflects negatively on the site or the authors. Free speech is one thing, but it's another when you have someone's name and reputation on the line. I support Robert in the decision. Don't let the trolls bait you anymore.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Thanks for posting the link - but your terms of service open to a blank page (checked on several browsers) and are on fastcompany.com rather than fastcompany.tv - there's no link at all on the fastcompany.tv site - how is someone to know what the comment policy is? Can anyone actually open the terms of service link on fastcompany.com??
- Matt Craven
There's nothing censoring you from saying what you want but, when you are on someone else's "turf" ..even if it is virtual turf..it's their rules. They aren't telling you that you can't speak at all or, you can't say something on your own space. They are just making sure their own site has the look and feel they are striving for. Otherwise, everything would turn into Digg or YouTube with comments. It's not "censoring". It's saying "Go somewhere else."
- Candace
Sean: Shel was not involved in deleting the comments. My bosses told me they were doing that and I agreed with them. So, the responsibility is mine, but there is a team watching the comments and deleting ones that aren't constructive criticism.
- Robert Scoble
Seth -- I'm wondering if there's a way to be constructively attackive or if being attackive is inherently personal and destruckive.
- Omar Gallaga
I wasn't making a personal attack, I was just saying using a politically charged analogy to say that I believe deleting anything other than spam or vulgar comments is something that shouldn't be done as it blocks the ability for other readers or viewers as it may be in your case, to see what others are thinking. I do however appreciate that you are taking a stance on this and looking in to it. I was going to say more but it seems that there is a maximum limit for comments on FF.
- Andrew Fielding
Matt: http://www.fastcompany.com/service... works here on several browsers. Part 3.2 (i) is the part you are looking for.
- Robert Scoble
BTW I just saw Sean's idea and I think that is a great idea, keep everything but the vulgar or vitriolic personal attack.
- Andrew Fielding
Friendfeed is the new Slashdot!
- paul mooney
Strange, the Service Terms won't load for me. No 404, just no content at all. I value sites that remove nonsense comments and spam, but often find the legitimately critical comments the most interesting. The grey area, of course, is tough, and will obviously piss off people one way or the other. Sometimes the "x comments below your threshold" approach is worth the complexity. Let people see the nonsense if they really want to.
- David Sky
Think you could take a hard lesson from @garyvee - Leave everything up. Taking stuff down leads to harsh discussions like this. Leaving it up rallies your supporters and in the end leaves you better off.
- Mark Drapeau
Weird, I'm getting a blank page now too. I'll get the tech guys to figure that one out. Sorry. I think a server is barfing.
- Robert Scoble
Mark: good point, but this is a business site and we're looking for a different tone to the comment area than, say, you'll see on Gary Vaynerchuk's site, or here on FriendFeed.
- Robert Scoble
I guess I don't really understand why you folks think that you have some sort of "right" to have your comments--legitimate or otherwise--displayed on FastCompany's site. I'm not a big fan of the material, but I sure don't have any expectation that FC will "publish" my feedback, even if it is constructive. If you want free/open conversation, you have blogs, FF, twitter... lots of venues. Nobody's "rights" are being violated.
- Ken Sheppardson
@Scoble...if this was still your personal site with no affiliation with FastCompany, SAP or any other, would you have handled this the same way?
- ryangraves
At the end of the day, it’s the right of the owner of the blog to have whatever TOS they want. People have to expect that a more mainstream pub will have stricter policies than a personal blog five people read anyway, no? Still, that’s no guarantee because everyone runs things differently. (Just scan the crap on Huffington Post, YouTube or Breitbart and see that TOS mean jack there.) I’ve also seen personal blogs ban people for things like opposing viewpoints. Bottom line: It’s FC’s blog—it’s their rules.
- mtlb
I have to agree with Mark Drapeau. No matter what, it is just better to leave stuff up and let things run their course. If someone attacks and what not, they will slowly lose credibility, even if it doesn't seem that way. I do agree that having people post insulting things is never wanted. When you take an action though you'll always have those ready to pounce and try and discredit you, etc. Just everything in my involvement with online communities has taught me that. Delete dups and link porn lol
- Dean Clark
ryangraves: I've been deleting comments on my personal site too and blocking people here on FriendFeed. I've had enough of jerks in my life. I don't need to have them part of my life anymore.
- Robert Scoble
Ken -- I think it's because people expect guys who are covering Web 2.0 culture to approach it in a Web 2.0 way, not in a "We own this site and can do whatever we want with your (unnecessary) participation" kind of way. I think that's what's angering people. And given the potshots Scoble regularly takes at "Old media" I find it ironic.
- Omar Gallaga
@Mooney: what confuses me is why you or anyone would even want to insult Scoble. he does a very specific thing for a specific audience. he gets incredible access to great companies and people who open up to him because he is genuinely interested in them. that is a rare, valuable thing. he is not the most polished journalist in the world but i and many others are okay with that. i don't like airbrushed journalists who tick off the whos, whats, wheres and whys and move on.
- mike
Dean: I disagree with you. I used to agree. But then I look at how Digg has gone downhill and how YouTube's comments are totally worthless. Omar: Web 2.0 does not mean you have to put up with jerks or trolls. Sorry. If I ever gave you that opinion, then I was wrong.
- Robert Scoble
There's a fine line that needs to be established and enforced with any comment policy, but basically, anywhere you want to be a bully online, if it's not in your own schoolyard, expected it to get deleted. Robert, I think the problem here is that line needs to be more clearly defined.
- Paul Short
Andrew, philosophically i agree with you...but anyone who has run some kind of online forum or even blog comment section can tell you that if you let really aggressive, insulting comments become a regular thing, it can drive away the majority of users who would otherwise have a productive discussion. it's fast company's house and they can throw out whoever they want for whatever they want. that ability can be abused but in this case i think they did the right thing. especially since robert is talking here
- mike
I didn't see the comments, but I saw the video and I wish you had asked Tim more about BodyQUICK. I had to look long and hard to find the ingredients and then showed them to a Herbolist. She was very familiar with all the compounds, but laughed because the best of them would have been cheaply sourced and in minuscule quantities and the rest were fillers.
- paul mooney
Paul: I agree. I'm still trying to figure out where that line is too.
- Robert Scoble
Clearly, personal attacks ought to be axed but the line is fuzzy. I say err on the side of letting negative comments stay and address them head on. A negative comment, even one with a personal attack element, if properly addressed will usually do the trick, at least for the onlookers-- you will not sway the detractor, however. And like David Sky, I find the dissent worthy of notice, not negation.
- Joseph Ferrara.Sellsius
Joseph: I used to agree. But if you let unconstructive comments run rampant it just takes over the tone and things turn worse and worse. It's one thing to do something simple like "I sorta like what you're doing, and here's how to make me really like it..." But it's a whole nother thing to come in and just try to make people feel bad. One is a constructive conversation, the other is just "I'm here to make a political point and rip you down." Er, "I wanna be a jerk."
- Robert Scoble
Mooney: why trust a content site at all? Either you like the content you see there, or you don't. If you care about the stuff you see there, but would get a little more enjoyment out of it if it were a little different, then let's have a conversation about that.
- Robert Scoble
Might it be best to deal with this sort of situation by just following a policy of turning off all comments? I don't just mean on this post in particular, but blogs in general. Push the conversation to platforms like Twitter, FriendFeed, the commentator's own blog, etc. Everybody is free to say what they'd like to say, nobody's forced to provide a platform/audience for views they don't agree with, but yet the material/discussion is still out there for anyone who wants to see it?
- Ken Sheppardson
Should the presidential candidates each have to provide some amount of time, on their dime, at the end of their ads/speeches for the other candidate to respond?
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken -- that's a dumb analogy and I mean that in the kindest, most constructive way possible.
- Omar Gallaga
If people dont have the brains to make decent comments, or the balls to name themselves, who cares if they are removed. Robert - Shel, just keep doing what you do well guys.
- Scott Purdie
I admit it. I've deleted some blog and forum comments too as well as edited out foul language when needed--though I'm more likely to delete than edit. Editing doesn't seem right. I've also walked away from people that want to endlessly argue about one thing or another, hung up on sales reps calling me and thrown away unopened mail. Should we require everyone to attend to everything anyone wants to say to them?
- Loren Heiny
Omar: I appreciate the feedback. :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Mike, i have had leadership roles at forums and on large IRC channels and i know it is hard to police and I also know from experience that annoying and unproductive comments make serious people less enticed to contribute but I also believe that good constructive criticism that is not overtly complimentary has an important place in the discussion (comments as it may be) as well. From what i can tell, some of the comments that were deleted fit this description while others were clearly personal attacks.
- Andrew Fielding
...(continued) that obviously did deserved to be either completely deleted or have specific parts of content censored. .... on a completely different note, I thought FriendFeed had no limit to the size of entries, i keep running into the fact that comments are limited in lenght, argh.
- Andrew Fielding
I think you should censor this type of information. I think people at the moment don't understand why it should be censored but then if a personal attack occured to them, they'd want it removed so i don't know why people are complaining about these things.
- Nicholas James
@Nicholas James I've had personal attacks taken on me in various forms at various locations and I take it all in good fun, if someone is wasting their time to make a personal attack on me I figure that means i've done something well enough to garner their attention and make them feel that i warrant a personal attack, this is all about each person's individual philosophy and what we believe should be the presiding philosophy in this instance.
- Andrew Fielding
On my blog, I ask ZDNet to kill all personal and nasty comments. Those comments inhibit serious discussion among other participants.
- Michael Krigsman
I admin a large online community. You have to be very strict moderating and remove personal attacks immediately. You also have to be very consistent. Leaving attacks up for a long time and then taking them down is the probelm here, you have set the wrong precedent. I agree that personal attacks should be removed but you need to do it consistently from now on.
- Chris Paton
I don't thnk comments need to be constructive though. It's fair to say the videos are not very good without offering solutions (as long as it's said in a non-offensive way). I personally have enjoyed watching many of the videos. Scoble and Shel are not TV personality types, they are just two geeks interested in what they are discussing. If they are discussing something I find interesting too I don't mind if they are sometimes little too close to the mic.
- Chris Paton
@mooney - you said, "Robert: You do understand how horrible your fastcompany.tv videos are?" that is pretty insulting.
- mike
@Andrew Fielding - point well taken. didn't mean to imply lack of experience. just trying to make a point that you obviously already understood. :-) and yes the limit on comment size is frustrating....usually leads me to only putting one space between periods and the next sentences.
- mike
Robert: You are getting it right, especially in the charity you grant differing views. This is the Slashdot vs Digg argument rehashed. Discussion management is the factor which determines your target audience. Slashdot routes around this with their own elaborate moderation/sliding scale system which allows individuals to decide what level of cruft they wish to be exposed to. You are catching flak due to *all powerful* editors making that decision for the populous. A common gripe when editors decide.
- Matt Bidinger
Bravo, Robert!
- Oldengrey (Jay)
@scobleizer Man, this comment thread is soooooooooooooo 2003 ;-)
- Hugh MacLeod
I agree with hugh... you should delete the whole thing and see how loud that makes the moaning and wailing! ;) Only kidding. Seriously tho... you have every right to say whatever you want on your own blog, FF, Twitter, and any other platform that allows you to say it. You do NOT have the right to say it on my blog, FF, Twitter, or any platform that I have control over. It's reality people. Learn to cope.
- Lucretia Pruitt
So what is the issue here? Pretend I'm new. Is this a matter of censorship vs freedom of speech? Is this a matter of personal attacks vs constructive criticism? Either way isn't that all best seen from the eyes of the person who has control to allow or decline those comments? No where am I shown that I am commanded to let people say anything they want on my sites.
- Mike Lewis
Simple solution - someone will register slowcorporationtvsucks.com (or perhaps even use the fastcompanytv name - it may be legally allowable in this instance). Only negative comments will be allowed. Verizon can sponsor to show that they "get it." Whatever "it" is.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
Loren apparently thinks "transparency" implies some kind of obligation to provide a platform for racist fuckwits and their sock puppets.
- Karim
Wow, this is one of the most serious discussions on FriendFeed ... I definitely agree with Robert on this one ... I think everyone deletes personal attacks ... u don't need a policy ... it is a rule of thumb in blogging
- Nick O'Neill
Maggie Gyllenhaal shocked by provocative lingerie ads - http://icydk.com/2008...
Who signs up to be a "spokesmodel" as an "art project". Yeah, uh huh.
- Slobokan
@evan, you're right about blocking, that's why it's the other way that's important. I want to block people so they can't spam or attack me. - http://identi.ca/notice/30069
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or point out how you might be wrong. Something similar to sticking one's head in the sand
- Steven Hodson
I think everyone should have tools to block -- if we mistake valid opposition for attacks and block the opposition we will devolve into irrelavancy but that should be a mistake we have the tools to make.
- Brian Sullivan
Of course I might be wrong. And I just said Patrick Ruffini is one of the best political bloggers out there even though he and I disagree about almost everything, because he never makes it personal, and always has something intelligent to say. There are two sides to almost everything. But if someone wants to make it personal, then I'm not available for that. They can still say it, and if someone wants to listen, more power to them. But I don't want to, and that's what blocking is for.
- Dave Winer
Dave - like your Identi.ca avatar. Turn the default gray no-smile face into the bright smile. Nice.
- Hutch Carpenter
I will defend your right to disagree with me to the death... but if you do it in a disrespectful & insulting manner? You'll lose my respect. And if there's a block feature? You'll probably lose my willingness to hear/read/listen to you.
- Lucretia Pruitt
Lucretia: Exactly!
- Dave Winer
That's the problem today. Most people, when presented with an opposing opinion, take it personally.
- Slobokan
It takes a lot to swallow pride, to yield on points where you fear you may be wrong, to respectfully advance -- i.e., without hammering -- points where you think the other may be wrong. Sometimes it turns into a sporting event where one feels they must win at all costs, and win big.
- Kirk Kittell
Dave: you're right. There's a big difference between a good disagreement, and nastiness. One I'll welcome in my livingroom. The other will get evicted. I'm not going to put up with jerks anymore. That's what Valleywag is for, or their own blogs.
- Robert Scoble
Honestly there is nothing wrong with blocking a follower, but I personally do not advice it for Brand Management! If someone wants to get to you, they will do it if you block them or not. By not blocking a user you engage them in a dialog and resolve your deferences what ever they maybe! Do not stick your head in the sand! Another thing, when you block a user, do not make it a public thread that you have blocked that user. That is called Outing Out and Flames the situation.
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Not only you tell the Social Media network community that this person is bad but you also tell Google and other search engines that that user is bad. Would you want people to find your name as blocked by a power user on a particular SM network to show up in Google? Please respect the Netetiquettes to avoid Flame Wars!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Personally I'd rather know what people are saying, even if it's nasty. It just takes self control to not let yourself get pulled into and inflame the argument. Like Sun Tzu said, "keep your friends close and your enemies closer."
- Ken Sheppardson
Sometime's it's worth talking to the person before you block them. I recently was a little negative about someone on Twitter and when he contacted me I apologized privately and publicly because I had never meant to be hurtful. It's so easy to say something wrong online. Now having the graciousness to respond when someone does (try to) rectify a situation is also helpful.
- Chris White
Some good advice here!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Ken: I agree with you a little bit. But let's say you are over my house for dinner and we have a little disagreement. That's one thing. But if you keep coming over and all you do are negative and a jerk, that's another thing altogether. I am choosing to get rid of the negative jerks. There are just so many other great people that I should spend my time on. So, I choose to use block and hide frequently here. I guess this comes from just looking at this as my living room.
- Robert Scoble
Scoble, this is not your living room! I do not know why you keep referring to this as your living room? Do you live in Friend Feed? LOL Maybe this is your style because you have 15k followers, and you do not have time to talk to people and find out what is the problem. So you just select to leave dead corpses in your campaign on the side of the road as you advance to Shangrila!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Should we call it acceptable collateral damage?
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Robert: I hear you, but the living room analogy only goes so far. For one thing, it's really more like being in a public square than your living room. Also, when you're online nobody's physically in your face/space, you aren't forced to listen to anything, and all you have to do once you notice someone is off on a personal attack or tangent is move your line of sight half an inch or press a key.
- Ken Sheppardson
...but really... I don't fault people for blocking, particularly once it becomes apparent that there's basically no "content" whatsoever in somebody's comments. I just think of it as a last resort, and don't tend to do it myself.
- Ken Sheppardson
I like the face/space analogy! I wonder if it is relevant to the naming of Face Book? Or is it just accidental?
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Ken, then it's fair to assume you don't have any spam filters either? After all your mailbox is a public square. And nobody's physically in your face/space. You aren't forced to listen to anything. Get some VIAGERRA NOW!! EnLARG3 Y0UR P3NLS!
- Dave Winer
definitely a head in the sand outlook.
- Andrew Badera
Dave Dude, are you on Viagra overdose today? Spam is Spam! Discussion is Discussion!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Dave: I'd draw a distinction between public and private communication. I'm talking about public communication. My telephone, email, and instant messages are my living room. Public forums are... well... public. By the way, I've got an open mind here. I'm not saying my view/approach is best or the only way, and heck... I'll waffle with the best of them. Sometimes I like to argue both sides just to see which one feels more comfortable. :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Dave I think peer pressure is a natural block! What do you think? If a user is not contributing to the discussion they will not find it interesting to participate in!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
And it's still relatively common practice for people to get pissy and kill a FriendFeed thread they started because they don't like how the discussion goes. That irks me greatly. (Not accusing anyone here.)
- Anthony Citrano
07/07/2008 - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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This is the answer to those crazy PETA people!
- Robert Couture
People Enraging Tofu Advocates!
- David Silvernail
I've also seen "PETA: People for the Evisceration of Tiresome Activists." (Never on a bumper sticker, though.)
- Pat Rice
I was a huge fan of peta.org until PETA took it away. http://www.mtd.com/tasty/
- Slobokan
I like the sound of that club. Where do I sign up?
- Jeff P. Henderson
Homer: Are you saying you're never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon? Lisa: No. Homer: Ham? Lisa: No. Homer: Pork chops? Lisa: Dad, those all come from the same animal. Homer: Heh heh heh. Ooh, yeah, right, Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal.
- Andrew Smith
I like the one that says "Red Meat, Because the West Wasn't Won on salad"
- Andrew Leyden
I work for Cabela's and that's a very typical saying for our corp. headquaters
- Garrett
spotted a shirt in wisconson- "vegetarians= bad hunters" made me smile ... mmm....bacon
- michael sean wright
on the other side of the car is the mean people suck sticker, correct?
- Pete Delucchi
I soooooooooo want one of those stickers! lol awesome
- John Blanton
Brian: Humans contribute just as much, if you skin and cook them right...
- Ian Betteridge
very telling presentation of chav lifestyle
- Ralf G.
One of my all-time favorite bumper stickers!
- Craig Eddy
OMG that's too funny!
- Susan Beebe
His Name Is Loren Feldman http://video.knbc.com/player...
Is he a friend of Dave Winer?
- Noah David Simon
You can't tell me that Verizon never saw that video before they inked the deal with Loren. That's b.s.
- Slobokan
This is nuts, that's a year old!...
- Jeff McNeill
CRITICAL ANALYSIS: Queer Eye for P.C. Denial http://xrl.us/kkbma
- Noah David Simon
Twitter to buy summize? i'm hearing a bunch of rumors...
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Hope not, summize works just fine.
- Czar
NO! Then we'll REALLY be screwed!
- Hao Chen
Gotta do something with the 15 mill?
- Brian Sullivan
This would make a lot of sense
- Mike Doeff
That would pretty good actually. I hope they can integrate it into twitter experience, and make it part of their api as well
- Shivanand Velmurugan
from twhirl
well, they have to get code that works from somewhere.
- Slobokan
Interesting.
- Clay Newton
They have to do something with that money, seems like a good idea since they could leverage it for replies.
- Scott Watermasysk
I think it is a good move for the twitter gang. a service that works well with twitter...maybe it will rub off on twitter :)
- (jeff)isageek
Would make perfect sense.
- Francine Hardaway
from twhirl
I think it would be a smart move for them.
- Alan Le
I hope not... Summize is great as it is.
- Chris Thomson
Considering the email I got from Twitter's help dept. promoted Summize, I'm not surprised.
- Erin @queenofspain
"I for one welcome our Twitter-Summize overlords."
- Joe D'Andrea
Did anyone notice that Summize recently added translation links & language filters? Summize is a VERY well done webapp if you ask me.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Buy Summize? Why don't they just integrate the Summize API into Twitter - Just Kidding - Could be a good thing!
- Eric Cedo
Twitter would break Summize!
- Andrew
One company with no revenue buys another company with no revenue and whose existence depends on the first company? Why couldn't Twitter add the main Summize feature set in a few weeks if they could get their act together?
- David Fry
valuations? I'm shorting Summize if this happens...
- ryangraves
Summize would be doomed by being bought out... At least right now, they have the option of expanding to other networks such as friend feed, and brightkite, if they really wanted to!
- Joel
They have to spend their money on something and they sure as hell aren't spending it on infrastructure at the moment.
- Adam Helweh
I was thinking about that ever since I started using Summize... it makes perfect sense...
- Manos Matsakis
constantly suggesting it, great idea
- Patphelan
Through a little more weight on the sinking boat why don't you.
- David Jacobs
Make it be true.
- Andrew Ruess
from twhirl
They'd better buy Oracle technology for scalability!
- Eric Sausse
I hope they buy up a few of the best apps that have been developed over the last year. They need to innovate, and it's people outside of Twitter who are developing the coolest stuff. Hopefully those people can help them integrate functionality into the site and bring new ideas!
- Hillary Hartley
this is smart for twitter, but generally bad for summize -- although I don't think any of those guys are really high profile and a win like this would work in their favor if they were sick of swinging for the fences. Interesting to see how it plays out.
- Tyler Willis
Oh noez... *hears Summize breaking*
- Brandice
"Summize is over capacity".
- Daniel Rowley
We'll need to think up new animals/concepts to signify the eventual 'Fail' *I'm thinking of photoshopping up a chalkboard with an incorrect calculation*
- CannonGod
They should just buy friendfeed instead...
- Colin Brumelle
they'll buy a service that does what they claim to be able to do... smart..
- Absalon Isaac Prieto
this makes it interesting and open for someone else to potentially come in a build a summize-like search across the other networks like brightkite, plurk, friendfeed etc.
- Brandon Zeuner
Bush says China would be offended at Olympic boycott. Um...isn't that kinda the POINT?
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Maybe he's worried if we offend them we'll be out the billion things shipped over from there each day. Ohhh
- Summer
Yeah but not wise since China the largest holder of US T-Bills.
- Mark Forman
also regardless of China's political/social CF, the olympics are about athleticism, spirit, and fair play
- clarke thomas
Ding, Ding. Point to Mark.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Wasn't there talk of just boycotting the opening ceremonies or something...and then going about with the rest as normal. I mean...$, and good sporting aside...we've got some serious human rights issues that can't just be ignored and shoved aside so we can watch girls in leotards flip around a mat
- Erin @queenofspain
China has no interest in seeing those T Bills they are holding turn to worthless paper either :D
- Moved to Facebook
@MarkForman You said it.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
This means a lot to China, and it's more than propaganda. This is a matter of national pride. I think Beijing was a poor choice, but we should go. Insulting the Chinese will only radicalize them, and play into the hands of her hard liners.
- Chris Baskind
US needs to learn to be a world citizen and quit acting like the world is US and everyone else just slacking, Things they are a changing. I am proudest of my home country when they are big-hearted not small minded.
- Mark Forman
Boycotts are bloody meaningless! The whole point of the Olympics is to forge world friendships using sports without politics getting in the way of things. Do you really think the Chinese would give two tosses if Butthead Bush stayed away? I don't think so.
- Mark O'Neill
God, I f*cking hate him. (And other more salient points.)
- Ayşe E.
sadly I can't fault Bush for this, I think there's enough political crap that no matter the party in power, the boycott would be considered. Yes China probably wasn't ready for this, but someone in Olympic committee made that bad decision. To properly boycott the entire team & athletes would have to boycott. Look @ it another way,he is going to support the athletes. [and I agree with Mark Forman, the US has become very close minded, and I believe it's more conservative then most other countries]
- clarke thomas
How about North Korea next? Maybe Iran? Why is it, exactly, that we're ok with some countries but totally against the others? Oooh,,,,now I remember.
- Erin @queenofspain
Why is it always the job of the United States to "punish" others? Or to go in and "fix" something that we say is wrong? WHy don't we do some fixing right here in our own country? In our own state? In our own city? Let's get it right here before we start imposing ourselves on others. We have serious human rights issues right under our damn noses and we aren't doing a thing about those!
- Adrienne Van Houten
Adrienne-wise words. As a husband and father I've learned that examples always much more convincing than diatribes.
- Mark Forman
This isn't about punishing anyone. Boycotting the opening ceremonies won't change anything, but it will send a message that we, as people, do not agree with the way things are being done. Simple as that. Sure, it won't change anything in the immediate future, but if we stop speaking up just because we think things won't change, the world's going to become a very silent, and desolate place.
- Slobokan
Who gets to choose whether or not the entire country "agrees" or "disagrees"?
- Adrienne Van Houten
I would hope we, as a country, as humans would all agree that certain human rights are basic and undeniable.
- Erin @queenofspain
We as a country can't decide which human rights are basic and undeniable for our citizens, why should we decide it for others?
- Adrienne Van Houten
Sorry Erin, not sending a team idea can #suckit. Olympic movement is about competition, not politics. Have a problem? Take it up with Anita DeFranz.
- Andrew Feinberg
I never advocating not doing anything. or sending teams or sending our presidnet.
- Erin @queenofspain
or president. lol sheesh
- Erin @queenofspain
my point is...this is a world stage filled with politics whether it's supposed to be or not. Bush doesn't need to go for the whole damn thing
- Erin @queenofspain
and I disagree that there are rights only as they apply to countries. I think everyone has human rights that have nothing to do with country or politics.
- Erin @queenofspain
On that last point I wholeheartedly agree, he (Bush) doesn't need to go at all. He isn't competing in anything and really do we want him to represent us anywhere right now?
- Adrienne Van Houten
As Mark Cuban is quick to point out, the Olympics have nothing to do with the spirit of competition or friendships between nations... it's just a big frakkin' sports marketing endeavor.
- Roger Benningfield
I'm torn. If we, as a country, weren't just as high up on the Amnesty International list of countries with substantial human rights abuse, it might be something to consider. Until we address our own H.R.A. issues, it would be a bit hypocritical to pretend that boycotting the Olympics would come from a moral highground here.
- Lucretia Pruitt
+1 Lucretia
- Cyndy
Personally I'd like to point out that this all started from me pointing out Bush's 'unartful' comments on the matter. I haven't advocated for anything...yet
- Erin @queenofspain
FREE TIBET!
- Erin @queenofspain
Free Taiwan while they're at it. :-)
- Dread Pirate PJ
What's with all the Twitter vs. Friendfeed stuff? Just use these things the way you want, if you want. There's no competition. Sillyness.
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I have no idea why some people think Twitter and FriendFeed are in competition. Two totally different tools used in completely different ways by everyone.
- Slobokan
I agree - they have different purposes. To some degree FF can be used similarly to Twitter.
- Jim Turner
from twhirl
And who cares how "YOU" use it? Use it anyway you want. There are no rules.
- Jim Kukral
Is third-place finish a 'sign of things to come' for Yeley? - http://www.scenedaily.com/news...
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Are they kidding me with this headline? It's called FLUKE!
- tallglassofmilk
The whole end of the race was a fluke. It's only a sign if races are going to unexpectedly end from now on.
- Slobokan
Yeah, like Mikey's 2nd place was a sign of future success for him?
- Adam
Next thing you know it will be raining manna from heaven.
- Barbara Green
lol, I love how if I respond from FF it @'s myself. ummm oops
I thought you were taking social media to the next level by engaging yourself from time to time.
- Slobokan
What's something you hate more than Mondays?
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sunday nights
- Chris Harris
Nazis
- Brian Carter
That must be Sundays when I start thinking about Mondays...
- Håkan Dahlström
Mondays that are not holidays.
- jason burton
Vista?
- Michael Garrison
from twhirl
Waking up early :-(
- AJ Batac
republicans
- Photo Larry
from twhirl
Tuesdays (That's when my work week starts)
- Taylor
internet exploder
- andy brudtkuhl
cilantro
- J Allen
before noon; even if quiet it's slow; else it's mayhem.
- clarke thomas
Tuesdays. You brace yourself for Monday, but Tuesday is always full of evil surprises when your guard is down.
- Dwayne
Panic attacks.
- Dana Franks
from twhirl
Sunday nights. They've got the stink of Monday all over 'em.
- BISQ
Bad parents
- LPH™ and his dog P™
Mean people. Esp. if they are co-workers. Which make you hate Mondays.
- Christine Cavalier
I tend to dislike interruptions more than Mondays, except of course that Mondays are interruptions
- Mark Dykeman
I'm pretty much opposed to all mornings equally... we've got electricity for a reason... Sleep in past noon! :)
- Lucretia Pruitt
Sunday Night. And people who don't have monday morning blues. And people who make my Monday harder to toil through than it already is.
- Parth Awasthi
Friday afternoon meetings.
- Larry Kless
from twhirl
Eggplant.
- Robert Scoble
socks
- Slobokan
Leaving the house on Monday.
- Steve Lynch
from Alert Thingy
Stale peanuts
- Khürt Williams
from twhirl
Running out of beer... Any day
- Ward Miller
health insurance bullsheet
- cartoongoddess
Rutabagas, canned beets, and stupidity
- Ha3rvey (not Akiva)
I love Mondays. Seriously.
- Steve Rubel
from fftogo
+1 everyone
- Hao Chen
I got to second the running out of beer thing
- Ken Goyette
from twhirl
People who love Mondays. :-) Rubel, I always knew there was something off about you! ;-)
- Robert Scoble
Poor service in a restaurant
- Dave Martin
Mondays at the beginning of a short week.
- Andrew Greene
from twhirl
guests' hair stuck to the soap in the shower
- Kevin Doohan
Monday, Shmunday, I'm retired.
- Michael Tefft
Whining myself and the whinings of others
- Leif Hansen
Back taxes, not being able to work from home all the time, increasing gas prices.
- Andrea Baker
Traffic, thanks Atlanta!
- Roger Penguino
@Scoble - I am serious. I jump out of bed at 4:30 am Mondays rip roarin ready to go. When I spent time with the Edelman family last week in Chicago it only got me even more fired up. http://flickr.com/photos...
- Steve Rubel
reality tv, if I wanted to watch dumb people do dumb things I don't need a tv
- nick carrasco
Having to work on a weekend. And mean people...
- Jason R. Hunter
If you want me to subscribe to you please respond to this comment.
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seriously, just respond to this message and I'll follow you... looking for all my peeps on FF!
- Jason Calacanis
ok lets check how fast he takes to respond !
- Peter Dawson
Jason: That's a good idea. FF isn't really very interesting until there's a bunch of content in your stream.
- Eric Florenzano
ye
- Maury Estabrooks
It would be great. :)
- Daniel Schildt
sure, thnx
- maxim shevertalov
from twhirl
But hey, you are already following me! Just checked. :D
- Daniel Schildt
I believe you're already subscribed to me, but now you can be double-secret-subscribed...
- Rob Clark
ok
- John Deisher
Thanks
- Tom Landini
I can use some FF street cred. :)
- James
I love Mahalo! :)
- AJ Batac
ok that was quick response ..like approx 75sec :)-
- Peter Dawson
*poof*
- Scott A. Swiecki
Subscribe me up Jason. I am in LA and in post production. You guys at Mahalo looking for staff.
- Ryan Cates
Thanks....Mahalo!
- Chris Rossini
count me in
- Kieran
You da man Jason, PS love Mahalo!
- Greg Goodwin
do you follow canadians ?
- johnpiercy
Thanks, Jason....
- Hugh MacLeod
I'm not sure if you're following me on Twitter, FriendFeed, etc. but I'm ahynes1 on all of them.
- Aldon Hynes
Yes sir, whatever you say sir! @astrout
- Aaron Strout
I'm in
- Mike Doeff
Yo!
- Pascal Sijen
Jason! Still loving your Dash?
- Chris Kuhner
a oh - oh a
- Anthony Farrior
I'm wondering if the "calacanis effect" will move a critical mass of people from Twitter to FriendFeed
- Daniel Robitaille
Hi. You know me, I'm PurpleCar!
- Christine Cavalier
Present.
- Mykl Roventine
subscribe away.
- Mel Francis
Hey jason - can follow me as graubart
- Barry Graubart
Great seeing you at PDF. Look forward to hanging this summer in Cali. Cheers.
- Stephanie Agresta
Blammo, or perhaps Skidoosh!
- Dan Parsons
Hello Jason
- Rutger Blom
I'm in
- Adamo Lanna
The Twitter train is leaving the station.
- Warner Crocker
i'm in!
- wlai
And this is why I don't like FriendFeed. Have to rebuild your list? what the fuck.
- Austin Brown
ok just a few thousand more to go!
- Deva Hazarika
Yep... follow me :)
- Fabrice Epelboin
Isn't there a better way to do this?
- Toivo Lainevool
Moving on over....
- Mark Nassal
You should call up the people at friend feed and have them move your twitter list over for you. I mean, don't they know who you are?
- MrBobDobolina
I'm here too now but where is the iPhone client
- Zack
Hola! fatoracle on twitter :)
- Kamath (नमः)
I could you some more Mahalo in my life :)
- Chris Suspect
I have only been using FriendFeed for a day but im liking it already.
- pcnerd37
Fascinating.
- Ken Sheppardson
Jason follow me as 7thScreen Rod Pitman
- Rod Pitman
I'm finally trying to accept FriendFeed into my life. Does that mean I'm born again?
- Mark Wilson
yo
- Rachel Luxemburg
Yo Yo Yo
- Eric_T
mahalo
- Eric Doerr
well, when you ask so nice :-)
- Alexander Kucera
Ok, trying FF as well. Still like twitter and will be sad if I have to leave it
- Lide Winburn
Like Napoleon's army after the defeat in Moscow, straggling west, fleeing the hideous frozen hell, we are moving into the (for me, at least) unknown...
- Dave LaFontaine
Hey there Jason, hows i going?
- Daniel Spisak
from twhirl
hey man, I'm a big fan, would be honored by a follow ;-)
- Scott Breakall
So I'm Commenting...
- Jeff Rochlin
http://internetducttape.com/2008... this is the app subscribing on FF to the people you follow on twitter
- Christian Anderson
Sounds fair to me but at some point there has to be an easier way.
- Philip Ferris
put me up in there
- Vincent Guerrero
Yo
- Edward
Sure, why not.
- wrecks
Follow me pleae
- Cody Heitschmidt
following
- MK Gold
Mahalo is awesome!
- Mark Salinas
Hello from Canada!
- Robb M.
+1 Ed Nicholson
- Ed Nicholson
OK. Mahalo!
- phil baumann
Sounds like fun!
- Eddie King
Sounds good to me!
- Oracio
I'm in
- William, CPU Media
me too
- Juan Camilo Galeano Mejia
transporting from twitter
- Nina Walia
Twitter yesterday, Friendfeed for today, what's up for tomorrow?
- Angela Wickenberg
Interesting approach...
- Tim FitzGerald
hola! senor! :+}
- Aronado
interesting way to go about it - but here you go.
- Zee.
For sure. By the way, thanks for the towel!
- E.J. Alcantara
Hi Jason!
- Mike McCallister
Why not.....
- Brad Collins
from twhirl
I thought I could hang w/ Twitter being so flakey but it's really a bugger. Maybe FF is the deal after all.
- Hunter Hillegas
peeps - either a web2 startup or a reality game show
- Phil Wolff
keeping up with the web 2.0 wave
- Mike G
Lets talk.
- Grant Bell
If FriendFeed is the new Twitter, what is the new FriendFeed?
- Adam Hansen
not sure if I am ready to abandon twitter, but I will give friendfeed a shot. Count me in
- Joe Schmidt
Please...follow me.
- Owen O'Malley
If it helps you stay ahead of Dvorak. . .
- Dean Barnett
Yet another comment from a Twitter follower
- Tom
I'm in
- Mark Krynsky
meee toooo!!!!!!!!!11
- Olubi Ezra
me three!
- Handy Lukman
Hello!
- Courtney White
Make it so
- Bill Koslosky
This is destined to be one of the busiest posts for days to come!
- Joel Ordesky
Bam!
- Jim Dye
Happy Saturday.
- David Young
oh sorry...I commented on the wrong post
- Nathan Manley
Yeah :)
- Delete Me
Much obliged Sir.
- Pedro Fonseca
FF really needs an import feature
- Steven Cains
Sure, I'd love for you to follow me. Thanks!
- ComicList
yup, ok.
- Bryan Landers
thx. Guess twitter effed up one too many times, eh?
- Zach
You don't have to if you don't want to, but hi.
- Erin
Rebuilding the Jason Nation on FF. Fascinating.
- Slobokan
Would welcome it
- Dave Kurns
Game on!
- Little Guy
Thanks Jason, tweet on!
- JoLynn Braley
you follow me on twitter. so you can follow me here if ya want, too. I'm trying to do the same.
- Lise
Me too! Thanks Jason ;)
- Darren Lee
there should be an easier way to do this
- Jon Pederson
love following the J-Dawg!
- Brad Williams
Follow ME!
- Austin Hamilton
Follow please :)
- Jeff Gordon
Yo, Jason, thanks for the Mahalo Beach Towel..my boys love it! :)
- Anthony Bossuyt
Sir yes sir!
- Matt Samuels
from twhirl
Welcome to FriendFeed Jason
- Jeff Hoard
Anyone for Tea?
- FunkydoryStokie
It seems to me this is kind of a moot point. You draw those who follow you into your convesation and if someone makes a comment that continually intriques you all you have to do is simply subscribe to their ff. No need to wage a big dick contest with numbers of followers here. Its all about the conversation. Just an observation at this point.. I'm just now starting the migration from twitter to FF myself;-)
- Curtis "Billy" Cross
from twhirl
Just subscribed to you, feel free to follow back!
- KyleM
Great to meet you at PdF2008
- David Price
Yo, Jason
- Brad Barrish
This page is gonna get long if all 20K+ comment :)
- MissM
Yes, please
- Jim Milles
I think spammers have infiltrated Twitter and will not let me block them completely.
- Derek
I'm all for moving as many over to FF as I can, so yeah, follow me if you'd like.
- Lee Adkins
wow is this a complete switch from Twitter?
- Jarrad McInnes
Wow! Now you know what you'll be doing the rest of the weekend....
- Kevin Shannon
Okie, Dokie, subscribe away :)
- Michael Lehman
is Fondue on friendfeed yet?
- Benton
glad to hear it.
- berkay
Aloha and mahalo... MsInformation from twitter here.
- Donna Mugavero
howdy
- Nicholas
Hello.
- Jason
hey
- Adrian Bye
Sure, why not?
- Andrew Feinberg
I am in for it.
- Michael Tefft
Follow me
- Faust Gertz
w00p w00p :)
- Toby Weston
Okey-doke
- Peggy Gartin
Indeed twee on!
- Justin Yost
ok, me too :-)
- marc uhlig
Follow the yellow brick road!
- Linda Wishman
I'm moving my stuff to FriendFeed as well. Let's see how this is.
- Kyle Johnson
Over here! Over here!
- Ian Schafer
Raises hand! Here!
- Melissa
here I am
- Borriz
Hey Jason - follow me up.
- Gareth Jenkins
Excellent job with Veronica Belmont's replacement and all the Mahalo episodes leading up to it. Mahalo Daily. FTW! :)
- Mustafa K. Isik
Yes sir, can I have another?
- Greg Schwartz
So many comments! This would have broken twitter...
- Stephen Breen
Jason - love to get you as a subscriber.
- Hutch Carpenter
Yup.
- Karl Sackett
sure, I'm in.
- todd lucier
Just starting with ff - I'm off now to find Leo . . .
- Michael
I'd appreciate it.
- Patrick Moore
Interested to see what you think of Ramsay's food, mostly hear about the man..
- Paul
Holla from New Orleans! Moving from Twitter as well. Whatever happened to Jaiku?
- Gregory Schultz
Sign me up!
- Chris Johnson
Follow me. Mahalo Power!!!!!!!!
- Grant
Sounds good!
- Jeremy Tymes
why not?
- Ed Ryan
adding myself to the list.
- Kevin Cearns
Count me in, but I like Twitter better, even though its broken...
- Trae Ruge
OK
- Larry Heim
Sure, why knot?
- ThePicMan
Can ALWAYS use more FriendFeed folowers! Still like SocialThing and Twitter best though!
- Jeff Garlick
What's the worst that could happen? Sign me up :)
- Joel Rickenbach
I enjoy following your tweets and would love for you to follow mine as well
- ken bavier
so when you gonna be on twit again?
- Prk60091
Aren't all Mahalo members worth following? :)
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Raising hand tentatively
- Dan Sleezer
Follow me please! Have fun at dinner tonight!
- Benjamin "Zeus" Heide
Response Generated. I think i'm going to follow your lead on abstaining from Twitter/pownce so I can get into FriendFeed properly.
- Tom Cheredar
Ke aloha nô me ka mahalo kâua!
- Todd Libby
Always loved your work. Keep it up and thanks for the follow.
- Chris Rodgers
Interesting idea, count me in!
- Daniel Rowley
Follow me! Follow me! Ooo! Ooo! Ooo!
- Mitch Wagner
Hi there !
- sergiooo
Follow!
- Mr. Wiggly
Follow please!
- Micah Maziar
I'm there!
- Herb Myers
in!
- Morgan
As amazing as it is, you already follow me. But feel free to unsubscribe, it will not remove what is interesting in YOUR feeds ;-)
- Myriam
ok
- Jeff Quinton
Mahalo's "Guide Note" and "Fast Facts" are reason enough do the research here
- Rick
cool
- Cezar Harabulă
follow me
- Kevin Doohan
I'm caught up in the technology...another "me too"
- Bryan Waters
oh...okay
- Carolyn
Ummm....errr...hmmm. Follow me
- Greg
add me when you get a minute
- Daniel Ehrlich
si
- Sean Malone
hey
- Emad
sure! add the feed from a Brazilian perspective...
- José Murilo Junior
Boo ...
- Cathy Brooks
beep
- Oldengrey (Jay)
I will attempt the same but without the response I"m sure
- Stuart Froman
sounds good
- Arvind Raman
Friendfeeding from Japan...
- Brian
sure add me, love the week try your doing
- David
You should be following me anyway since I'm all up in your site manipulatin' yur dataz..
- Tim Moore
this way
- Michael Chin
Easy enough.
- Doug Smith
done
- Eric Haber
In the house - mutual followship requested. :)
- ijalob.
Here I am
- Martin Gordon
good idea
- Graham English
Well, here we go !
- Atul Karmarkar
As we say in the South, come on in y'all!
- Allen Fuller
yep
- Sagar Jethani
Thanks!
- Todd Wickersty
from twhirl
ping!
- Ricardo Vidal
What's up Jason
- Matt
Please what ever you do don't follow me...i'm way too popular to have another tech industry millionaire following me.
- Sean Montgomery
Better late than never. Now I am on FF only have to work out how it works... Thanks for the tip
- Paul Greeve
Are you going to rebuild the entire nearly 30k ish over here? That would be insane.
- Lucretia Pruitt
Im In
- Comptr
Follow please :)
- Peter Dawson
Hi Jason, thanks in advance for the follow.
- Larry Kless
Yes please - it is a challenge how to parallelize your twitter connections on FriendFeed. They really need a good import interface with automatic notifications via DM back to twitter followers.
- Jed White
Yo, follow me please! Thanks.
- Todd Jordan
Do I get a large coke with that follow?
- Elias Bizannes
why not... you might like it :)
- Allison
me too
- Ashish Tonse
ping
- Steve Trefethen
Am I too late?
- Winston Teo
interesting posts, would like to hear more of your podcasts
- Brian Staker
and me ...
- Diana
Hey Jason; I'm in! Got so fed up with Twitter not working, thought I'd follow your lead and go FF all the way.
- Martin Betts
from twhirl
ok
- ahmet bulent
hmm... i think you subscribed to me already when i first started this account months ago.,
- excalipoor
giving it a shot
- eric Norlin
I'm up for it.
- Ivan
I'm in
- Peter Ghosh
I'm in.
- Tim Kress-Spatz
check it.
- Michael Leis
Word!
- Will Boyd
pimp me, pimp you
- Andrew Spencer
click me. i'm a whore
- Nan San
Hi Jason, ok so does Foundue have a FF account yet? l like his Flickr pics!! ha, ha!! (BTW, I am @smbeebe on twitter)
- Susan Beebe
Hi Jason, it will be nice not to have the Twitter out of service page, Gotcha in San Diego
- Debra Oliver
m'kay.
- AJ Kohn
Lets all make one big happy family :)
- David W
That...is a lot of comments. But I'd like to join this ragtag crew.
- Ben Parr
Dude this is the longest chain of answers I've seen in FF. But I'm in :)
- Alex Popescu
Does this mean twitter is dead? or did that happen a while ago?
- Jed
Okie, here I am commenting... follow me, or something!
- Vermyndax
Connecting.
- William Meloney
You asked for it, Calacanis!
- Mike Lewis
Some day we'll all have biological implants for social networking. And, this will be all so 2008!
- Walter McNabb
Reciprocate :-)
- David Peacock
Add me in
- David Daniels
CalacanisNation on the move...
- Pete Arden
Good luck, converting the entire list is difficult, So add me!
- Jason Kintzler
At least this seems to work :-) ... please follow
- pool101
Please add me to the list
- Tom Carroll
just signed up for FF myself!
- Mark Fusco
Hanging out at the bottom of the list
- Dominik Hofmann
FriendFeed is about to take over
- Miguel Carrasco
Great stuff Jason, fan of your work. It would be great to have a Twitter/FriendFeed contact sync application. I'm sure you know some peeps to make that happen. =D
- Grahm Skee
Just discovered friendfeed. Pretty cool stuff.
- George Gray
Thanks, Jason.
- Joe Colacurcio
Just joined FF. I'm headed to Brentwood next week, any tips on restaurants?
- Brian Blankenship
Hey Jason
- Akshay Dodeja
Actually, you know what? I rescind. Please don't follow me.
- Phil G
hello
- isky
Sure, count me in. I quite rule!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Sure Jason... shoot me a line, I'll be your friend
- Dave Senior
Enjoying Friendfeed. Come join the party!
- Mindy Koch
Checking in...
- Chris Hileman
Count me in too! Thanks!
- Michael Gianasi
For sure Jason :)
- mark.kemperman
add me.......
- Jeff Crace
post
- russ nelson
add me in
- Don Rogers
I just created my Friend Feed account.
- Durwin
finally registered for friendfeed. it's awesome ~
- wilson
hi jason...friend me up! or friendfeed me up!
- Laura
My hat there are a lot of comments here.
- Paul Jacobson
Wow, I am late to this party but if its still going, I am in
- Andy Breeding
Hi Jason, add me in!
- Hilary Marsh
How much longer before other gaming strategies are invented to increase the value of your friendfeed persona?
- Shakeel Mahate
Who *wouldnt* want to have JC following them? :)
- Jeremy Toeman
Please do.
- Robin Barooah
hope you are still fallowing this Jason
- Gaspare
I'm on board
- Mark Alves
one of the greatest things i ever did was make people think i didnt exist
- Randy
Add me... Thanks... (Why are you doing this? I mean, really...)
- Carlos Caridad Montero
This is actually quite interesting. I wish I had thought of this.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
hm.
- Amund Tveit
Hey follow me. I rule.
- Shawn Farner
add me toooooo
- tarraguna
I would like a follow. Thanks
- Sweyn Venderbush
sounds good to me.
- Mark Chandler
Yes, please.
- Morton Fox
whatever you say boss :)
- Myke
i think the efficiency is lost in this method
- Andrew Wise
freedfeed is - how they say - the bomb
- Jeremy
I have you on mine, following me may or may not be boring :D
- Renee Hendricks
following you on twitter and now on friendfeed
- Robert Wheeler
Apple flipped Rogers Canada the proverbial middle finger. Hooray!
- Steven Elliott
Thanks Jason, Go Mahalo!!!
- Bobby Edwards
Social Network of the week? Why not?
- Jay Savage
boop!
- Sam Purtill
I'm in.
- jered reynolds
Liking FF the more I play with it.
- Todd
alrightee
- James Joyner
Yooo hoooo.. ;-) Thanks Mr. Calacanis!
- Da-Chief
Yes.
- Russ Johnson
Count me in and you might like my webcomics
- Joe Chiappetta
From Twitter to FF, here we go!
- Catherine Juon
Ok I'll bite!
- Sean Kelly
Hey Jason! Listen to me! :)
- Simon Plashkes
I'll simply cite Rob Clark, who so eloquently put it: "I believe you're already subscribed to me, but now you can be double-secret-subscribed..." ;-)
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
Hi there. ;).
- Ernesto
subscribe to me!
- Wesley Barrow
Hey Jason how the Super Car going bud....
- John Spencer
Sure! Join!
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
OK, I am responding
- Matt M Perez
Wow Matt, way to dig up an old post :)
- Simon Wicks
Ok, here is a comment!
- Alan Alpar
Well, apparently not everyone is seeing the same thing as I am. Weird.
I am seeing the same thing you are. very strange.
- Slobokan
I see nothing!
- Mike Lewis
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