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Compete reports FriendFeed traffic now is below last year's numbers. Down 21% month over month as well.
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Via http://siteanalytics.compete.com/friendf...
- Louis Gray
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- michael sean wright
I'm still here damnit!
- Glenn Slaven
Not me! I left a long time ago! (p.s., I can quit whenever I want)
- Louis Gray
The lightweights left. Good riddance.
- Spidra Webster
Figures. FF may have jumped the shark when it sold out to Facebook. But at least we diehards continue to stick around...
- Dennis Jernberg
my feed is jumping more than ever. something in those stats must be broken or skewed.
- Joe Silence is not dead
"... this is when we opened the real time beta and when the beta rolled out to the main site... oh and this is when we announced the Facebook aquisition..."
- KyleHase
Everyone's experience is different, Joe. I believe, in aggregate, that these numbers are correct. That doesn't impact my own behavior, of course.
- Louis Gray
I've been getting a rather healthy influx of new subscribers.
- Mark Davidson
Yes but I think the quality of information here is much better. The people that left were producing noise. Thank god Scoble took them with him..
- CW™
definitely less noise
- holly
oh, yes.
- Joe Silence is not dead
ff's dying:(
- Igor Poltavskiy
Compete or Complete? just wondering?
- Bill Heslin
not so Igor
- Mitch
Compete.com is Incomplete, Bill. :)
- Louis Gray
it's not dying, Igor, it's just losing the "flavour of the month" people who like to talk to the mirror.
- Joe Silence is not dead
lol...ty Louis...after I typed it I said ....Ooooh god...I'm an ass...no one needs to agree...
- Bill Heslin
I've been hit with a bunch of new followers lately. I'm still doing the same ole thing, I think. Plus, I found the librarians (or maybe they found me?).
- Derrick
@Derrick: in the end, The Librarians find us all!
- Joe Silence is not dead
well, that's not entirely true.
- Joe Silence is not dead
I've still got around my librarian at my U...it's a catholic u...I thank my spiritual friends...lmao
- Bill Heslin
Derrick - it was a mutual thing :)
- holly
Well, FF is probably the best of the last round of linear conversation and aggregation tools, largely thanks to the lack of overhead and fluff (the users contribute plenty). Whether you use it in a bare-bones, flat way -- or have mastered an elaborate orchestration of API hooks and fiddlizations -- there is plenty of value to be had in the way FF handles its business and lets the user handle theirs.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
This matches my observations as well and is a major reason why I've spent less time here. Chris: the problem is that most people tell me that Facebook has enough conversations for them. One of Zuckerberg's items a week ago had many thousands of comments.
- Robert Scoble
That still doesn't mean anything for me - it's still a very productive tool. I'm at an advantage by using it.
- Jesse Stay
I'm still here on FF too!
- imabonehead
quantity != quality
- holly
Compete is about as wrong as Alexa was in the old days. Seriously, I have numerous benchmarks where I *know* the traffic and Compete is often off by serious margins. Instead, I'd use Quantcast which shows a major drop off in September, but with the bottom falling out the numbers have started to trend back up again. http://www.quantcast.com/friendf...
- AJ Kohn
I agree only Quantcast is accurate-ish.
- Thomas Power
@Thomas: Yes, I'm not saying Quantcast is always right, but it's usually more right than the others.
- AJ Kohn
Alexa is a relative measure it's relatively right http://www.alexa.com/siteinf... the top sites look right-ish to me http://www.alexa.com/topsites when compared to Quantcast http://www.quantcast.com/top-sit...
- Thomas Power
Thomas, that looks pretty up and to the right to me, in a long-term sense. It's fun to look at the short-term, but we're seeing no sense on a long-term scale of FriendFeed losing traffic. Great point on the Alexa and Quantcast (assuming we even need traffic graphs to keep us on here)
- Jesse Stay
Thx J x
- Thomas Power
@Robert, I'll never argue that Facebook isn't more popular. All the cute that it offers (which isn't nearly as bad as it could be) seems to make it approachable enough to a much wider audience than a tool like FF. I get that you can filter out the fluff and minimize the Facebookishness of it, but then you're stuck with their interface and color scheme (unless I'm missing something). I guess I really see them as being different corners at the same party.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
whatever it is.friendfeed still has it's unique user group's. i am happy to be here
- İbrahim Ot
I see more interaction on my items now than in the pre-Facebook days, but I may be an outlier.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
from iPod
Well, I don't care what the numbers say. I get much more out of Friendfeed (in terms of discovery, engagement *and* enjoyment) than I ever have from Facebook - and I should point out that, with 2 or 3 exceptions, I've met everyone on my Facebook friends list.. Friendfeed demonstrates that it doesn't require a cast of 350 million to make a great community.
- Andrew Terry
hear hear Andrew
- Thomas Power
looks like FriendFeed was the first to be kicked by Facebook changes.. wich is not so bad since the service belongs to
- Frédérick 2 Baro
from Yoono
Somehow I feel the Compete state are not correct!
- Sampad Swain
I'm not going anywhere!
- Jason Hill
To get a good experience, friendfeed has always required you to put in a lot of time. So many active users comment on a thread and Hide it when they no longer have anything to say, if you come by a few hours later to comment you're just talking to a wall. friendfeed has never been very rewarding for casual use, in my experience, and that is doubly true now.
- DGentry
Awe man....
- Alternating Reality Books
You can't argue with Metrics, but my own feed is very active
- RAPatton
from iPhone
What RAP says. I don't think this could ever be determined, but I wonder if certain language groups have dropped off their use while other language groups have maintained?
- Rochelle
You can Hide Stories? Really? Well, damn, so you can.
- Jason Hill
*yikes* that explains the lethargic Home Feed; less users = less interaction/activity = the lethargic(boring) feed
- sofarsoShawn
I check FF as much as I ever did (though I should prolly post more)
- Iain Baker
*quoting mode on* Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein.
- Citronella
Do not like ...
- Charlie Anzman
not a good news
- Ted GUO
:-(
- Kol Tregaskes
Traffic Statistics: fascinating if you like numbers; otherwise it's just classic ePenis-waving, pointing, and gloating, and not really important if you're happy.
- Mark H
Without ads, how does friendfeed pay for itself?
- T. Brent, technopeasant
That's a shame seeing as FF is better than all the other social sites. I'll continue to use it until I can't.
- Araceli
All you frowny faces need to go read through the thread - FriendFeed's just fine - up and to the right even. I'm not sure why Louis felt the need to post this. See this thread, much more accurate: http://friendfeed.com/jessest...
- Jesse Stay
Note that November was the month Scoble announced publicly he was leaving Friendfeed (FTMP)
- Jesse Stay
T. Brent, FriendFeed doesn't need to make money (although I'm sure they will) - they're owned by Facebook, which is already profitable and cash-flow positive
- Jesse Stay
Yet, keep in mind FriendFeed is part of Google's deal for real-time content :-) I bet there was money there.
- Jesse Stay
Thx, Jesse.
- T. Brent, technopeasant
"Q: Why doesn’t Compete’s estimate of site visitors match my local analytics (e.g. Google Analytics, Omniture)? ... A: ... Compete measures only US activity." -- http://www.compete.com/resourc..., while the Alexa chart Jesse posted in his thread showing up-and-to-the-right growth reflects global activity. There's no real disconnect between the two charts. Which one you think matters more probably depends on what argument you're trying to support.
- Ken Sheppardson
What's friendfeed?
- veo
Ken, exactly
- Jesse Stay
veo: the matrix. you're in it. you just don't know it.
- Itachi
Interesting. I was just thinking that FF has started to die. The activity amongst my friends and friends of friends has decreased considerably in recent weeks.
- Jason Toney
oh that's not cool wonder what's going on!!!
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
still here
- Mike Nencetti
successful exists do not always equal successful products once acquisiiton is complete.
- susan mernit
...still here. Still like it. Still find it useful on many levels. The thing about FF is that even at its peak, its traffic and usage wasn't even in the same league as Facebook, Twitter, or even MySpace in steep decline. The raw user numbers never (or should I say, optimistically, haven't) reached any kind of critical mass. Outside of the early-adopter and sophisticated info junkie/informavore crowds, Friendfeed, just isn't that relevant.
- .LAG liked that
Quoting Jeniffer Aniston: This is so uncool. :-(
- Olivia Lovag
why I should trust only compete's data? where is guarantee they are not biased due to some unknown reason? now if you would go to e.g. quantcast for another opinion http://www.quantcast.com/friendf... and switch between 3m, 6m, 1yr and "all"... do you see difference? yes, I know quantcast doesn't have access to data, only estimate, yet... Ok, let's try alexa.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinf... - and they also show compeletly different trend... so, WHY we should trust compete's graphs?
- A.T.
A.T., be sure to also see my article here that agrees with you: http://staynalive.com/article...
- Jesse Stay
How many people here use FF for work / project dev - or do you use it for just link sharing with friends?
- zeroinfluencer
@zeroinfluencer I use it for conversations, along shared links and not necessarily bound for them. I can't discuss my work in public at all, apart from very generic details, hence question about using it for work/project _is_ irrelevant for me. But rest is just goes here - twitter is very far behind friendfeed for me. And facebook complements friendfeed pushing it even further.
- A.T.
zerioinfluencer I use it for both
- Jesse Stay
@AT @Jessy - I use FF a lot for project dev with distributed teams - the mix of chat and sharing in private groups has proved amazing. Even team members who have never used FF before have been going "wow" why the hell haven't we used this before?
- zeroinfluencer
To my point - FF has not really been presented as more than a Twitter style app - it's far more than that IMHO. It's a swiss army knife for the web.
- zeroinfluencer
I am new so this read well. I am one of those - why the hell wasn't I here before now. I used to Icq a LONG time ago. Then did nothing for a while. Joined a fan site - LonghornNation.com and met tons of people that many are still very important friends to me - I blogged, read and interacted on forums, met tons of people at real life events. Then that site was shut down and some moved to...
more...
- Paulette Garcia Morris
@zeroinfluencer I use it for both too
- .LAG liked that
I'm still in love with FF as my web swiss army knife too. What should we move to when it disappear? What about Feedoor?
- Opensource Obscure
I was going to wait a few days before sharing more of these, but I liked tonight's sketches so much, I decided to share them now. I really took my time on these. I wanted to do justice to Derrick's beautiful photographs. From one artist to another, sincerest thanks.
Laura Lou Who, CW™, Ruchira S. Datta and 39 other people liked this
Going forward, I'm going to try to rotate the best of day a little bit if the same people keep coming to the top. I'll still note the top people, but I'll try to draw things from more feeds. So far, Derrick and Johnny have just been really awesome for the past few days!
- Kamilah Gill
very nice
- Lindsey is Fierce!
Oh wow! I'm honored, Kamilah!
- Derrick
I can totally see why an advanced photography professor singled Derrick's photos out. The colors and compositions are excellent. They also really succeed at conveying emotion. I wanted to paint them, not just sketch them in pencil.
- Kamilah Gill
Glad you like them, Derrick :)
- Kamilah Gill
Kamilah, these are superb.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
These are great KamiIah.
- Mark Krynsky
from iPhone
nice! very, very nice!
- .LAG liked that
Johnny vs Koala = awesome. Great work, lady!
- Yolanda
Wonderful!
- susan mernit
Very cool. Thanks for sharing your gift with us.
- Give 'Em DBizness
The MOST embarassing accidently public post I have ever seen--http://friendfeed-media.com/4a18565... (Susan sez-can you uh, top this?)
Musa Yılmaz liked this
Her account was hacked by 4chan
- Glen Mistletoe
from iPhone
Absolutely hilarious!
- Jonathan Greene
from iPhone
glenn, how do you know?
- susan mernit
is hacking on the rise agian?
- Sardar Mohkim Khan
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tutorial on mapping
- susan mernit
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must read for CAR
- susan mernit
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- lisa padilla
I just changed my password; twitter had let me know I might be among their phished a few weeks ago, but nothing happened....clearly, I was. All changed everywhere now. thx S
- susan mernit
from email
Siddharth Parmar, Nate Pilling, Gordon Saunders and 103 other people liked this
That's nice. Just random, or in response to something. :)
- τorƍue
Does that mean you got a little sleep?
- Anne Bouey
Good news? People like Paul don't usually get in the office so early especially after a lack of sleep, on a Monday morning, if there wasn't a great reason.
- Louis Gray
this could be big.
- vijay
Aww Man, see now I am not going to get any sleep tonight! DAMN YOU PAUL and your teasing little smiley face. OK, must go and get some coffee!
- Travis Koger
O.k., I'll smile too :) (and open my ears and eyes)
- Martha
10 bucks says that they add emoticons soon. :)
- Joe Beda ()
This emoticon makes a little more sense now...
- Stephen Foskett
Guessing this was about the Facebook announcement?
- Ben Hedrington
Cheshire cat?
- Hutch Carpenter
Good for you, Paul. I can't help but feel a little let down, though.
- Matthew Gifford
well done!
- michael sean wright
Congrats! Let us (well, our chef) cook you lunch before you're no longer walking distance! :)
- Don MacAskill
I have the same feeling as Matthew Gifford... Congrats to you, Paul, but I'm not sure this bodes well for the rest of us.
- Lindsay
Congrats, Paul. :-)
- Jordan Hofker
Congratulations!
- Ethan Herdrick
Congratulations to the whole team, Paul!
- Ryan Kuder
yeah they signed away the community :(-
- Peter Dawson
Congrats Paul if they're truely in order :)
- Jason Cronkhite
from iPhone
No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- andy brudtkuhl
congrats to the team, but to be honest i'm not liking it at all
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Good news or bad news? :)
- Arda Çetin
Congrats Paul! I was really hoping this would happen. Friendfeed and Facebook need each other. Cheers!
- Akshay Dodeja
Now I get it. Congrats on the $$.
- Yolanda
Now I know...and knowing is half the battle
- Bwana ☠
:(
- TiTi
Congratulations!!!! A 'worthy' smiley ... ;-)
- Bo Stern
I think Paul's emoticon was charming and that Louis Gray is either super discerning or super informed.
- Michael Muller
Congrats to the FF team you guys are awesome (keep this place awesome)
- Ryan
WHAT'VE YOU DONE!!!! THAT'S TOTALLY SH*T!
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
congratulations, may your road ahead be smooth...
- Nathan Chase
That can imho only mean good things for the FB UI ...
- Bo Stern
Congratulations, definitely.
- DGentry
congrats!
- Peter Warnock
Congrats to you and the entire FF team. I hope you guys are in it for the long haul.
- Mike Doeff
hey congrats to the FF team! I look forward to seeing what the future holds
- (jeff)isageek
Congratulations Paul & FF team!
- Charles Ying
congrats dude
- Jason Pollock
:(
- Alex Scrivener
Congratulations.
- 321
congratulations.. but liked the whole UI & funtionality of ff than fb!! it'll b gone!!
- Gtp19
You're totally ::stpd::
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
its business after all, sell it but get back to make a better product for your old users. dont 4get the users !!
- Peter Dawson
:(
- acedanger
the results of good work
- Juan Pablo Ruiz
congratulations!
- Hareesh Nagarajan
Congrats!
- DS
GZ!
- Sarp
:) we will learn from the process
- abdellah
Paul, will you respond to this? This is *bad* for FF users. Best case: it continues on, but distracted by Facebook and with stagnated feature development. Worst case: it's gone. Middle of the road: Facebook forces its ads into the timeline and friendfeed starts acting like Facebook by ignoring its users.
- tollie williams
@tollie, I imagine Paul's ability to respond is now constrained, which is just one of the changes we'll see coming. There's new management in town, folks.
- Ken Kennedy
scared!!!
- abdellah
Good luck Paul... it's gonna be a great partnership.
- Andrew
Congrat's Paul. Great news, and I'm really happy for all of you!
- Michael Fidler
Congrats to the whole FriendFeed team!
- John McCrea
Way to go Paul - bet you sleep like a baby tonight whilst Biz and Ev scratch their heads once more!
- Jan Simmonds
Sure congrats to you!!!
- susan mernit
http://friendfeed.com/markzuk...... Hold on! markzukerberg?!?!
- Lora Lufark
Congrats!
- fbrunel
congratulations!
- Loic Le Meur
Congratulations Paul - I am very proud of you... no wonder you couldn't sleep! :) Now we know why! As you know, I am a huge fan of your FriendFeed product. I am very happy for you guys and hope you keep your fabulous culture of innovation going strong. This is really amazing.... nice exit! :)
- Susan Beebe
I have been wishing facebook could get more like Friendfeed :) awesome.
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
Nice job, Paul and team. Congrats!
- Rob Shillingsburg
many congrat. from UK. ;) @GarethWong
- Gareth
I bet you never forget your anniversary EVER ever now.
- Pete Delucchi
boo-urns
- Vezquex: God of FF
:D
- paniaguai
:-(
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Congratulations, great for you and the team.
- Rocky
i like the way the deal was done!
- Siddharth Parmar
G.Z.s
- Ugur Akdmr
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" At yesterday’s “Creating Video Narratives” workshop at Beyond Bootcamp, Washington Post video journalist Travis Fox shared his 10 guidelines for making video reports."
- susan mernit
Greg Linch (greglinch) on Twitter - http://twitter.com/greglinch
"our goal should be to use as few (ideally, no) automatic settings as possible (go manual with exposure, white balance, sound and focus) once you’re comfortable with the gear (h/t Jim). I want you to say, “This is my camera. There are many like it, but this one is mine.” You need to explore all the buttons and menus and settings. You need to be able to troubleshoot any problem that you could possibly troubleshoot. When you’re a professional, you can’t make excuses (h/t Jim Virga). No one will want to work with you. If it’s really beyond your control, then it might not be your fault, but you still don’t have what you need. (This is more a problem on deadline.)"
- susan mernit
Videojournalism brain dump: Some advice I’ve picked up over the past few years - http://www.greglinch.com/2009...
our goal should be to use as few (ideally, no) automatic settings as possible (go manual with exposure, white balance, sound and focus) once you’re comfortable with the gear (h/t Jim). I want you to say, “This is my camera. There are many like it, but this one is mine.” You need to explore all the buttons and menus and settings. You need to be able to troubleshoot any problem that you could possibly troubleshoot. When you’re a professional, you can’t make excuses (h/t Jim Virga). No one will want to work with you. If it’s really beyond your control, then it might not be your fault, but you still don’t have what you need. (This is more a problem on deadline.)
- susan mernit
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cogmotive
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New report documents "food deserts" in US cities - http://www.foodfirst.org/en...
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Beyond Bread: Food Deserts Lower Life Expectancy - http://breadforthecity.blogspot.com/2009...
report on food deserts and health
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Just cause and health issues
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Foreclosures take health along with homes, report says - Inside Bay Area - http://www.insidebayarea.com/search...
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"Zombie claws!" "Do it like the undead!" BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA [gaspwheezechoke] And I'm spent.
- Admiral Anika
from Bookmarklet
oh dancin' kim......oooooh dancin' kim
- Erin @queenofspain
LOLLOLOOL....you're scaring me--but in a good way.
- susan mernit
OMG stop, anika, just stop lol
- Alfredo
One more day with that tune in my head.
- Russellreno
I want you all to be my personal Totally Rad dancers.
- Admiral Anika
HAHAHAHAHA
- Parth Awasthi
And here's one that's pretty timely.
- Admiral Anika
Introducing our new venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz - http://blog.pmarca.com/2009...
jswi_jim, Andrei M. Marinescu, Ray Podder and 37 other people liked this
Congrats, Marc
- Bret Taylor
Lunch?
- τorƍue
lovely! hope you fun some profitable and change-making projects
- susan mernit
congrats - love your focus
- andy
Congratulations!
- Gerard F. Corbett
Well written!
- Shahin Khan
We are in the line, Sir
- Nitin Nanivadekar
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off - The Atlantic (July/August 2009) - http://www.theatlantic.com/doc...
"And yet at the end of the day—literally during a five o’clock counseling appointment, as the golden late-afternoon sunlight spilled over the wall of Balinese masks—when given the final choice by our longtime family therapist, who stands in as our shaman, mother, or priest, I realized … no. Heart-shattering as this moment was—a gravestone sunk down on two decades of history—I would not be able to replace the romantic memory of my fellow transgressor with the more suitable image of my husband, which is what it would take in modern-therapy terms to knit our family’s domestic construct back together."
- susan mernit
Reddit - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About It | 10e20 Blog - http://www.10e20.com/blog...
excellent article on using reddit
- susan mernit
I really need everybody who knows me, personally or professionally, to read this: http://chris.pirillo.com/persona... [Thank you.]
Thierry R. Andriamirado, Cibeles, MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) and 51 other people liked this
Of course there's nothing to like about this, but I wish you both the best! Love and hugs to both of you.
- Leo Laporte
:( {{hugs}}
- pea
I'm sorry, Chris.
- Admiral Anika
You have my full sympathy, and compliments for a very brave post.
- Stephen Mack
Like Leo said, wishing you both the best as you transition into this new phase -- both personally and professionally. Your contributions to the community are amazing and I hope you continue to push forward enriching the lives of geeks and non geeks alike across teh tubes and internets.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Nothing more to add to Leo's comment. All the best to both of you!
- Holger Eilhard
Sorry to hear of this, but you do what you must for the both of you to be happy.
- JA Castillo
All the best to both of you! :)
- TheHenry
change can be good sometimes, best of luck to both of u
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Sorry to hear, but hopefully a start of a new day Chris
- Jorge Escobar
+1 on JA's comment.
- Patrick Jordan
All the best to both of you and thanks for having the guts and dignity to share what must be a painful, personal experience.
- WorldofHiglet
Sorry to hear it Chris. Never an easy process.
- Nathan Chase
I'm sorry to hear this Chris. *hugs*
- Carmen
Well, I don't know you personally or professionally, but, I'm still sorry you are hurting. Hoping you two are able to get through this amicably.
- Yolanda
Ponzi and you are in my prayers.
- ChiliMac
I cannot add anything more to Yolanda's comment, so I'll simply say that I echo it.
- Miss Elle
Sorry, Chris.
- Hao Chen
Sorry dude :(
- Rodfather
Sorry to hear Chris. I hope everything is ok and wish you the best during this difficult time.
- Mark Krynsky
Sorry to hear that, Chris. :(
- Michael McKean
My condolences, Chris. As a long-time community member, I must credit you to share this information. It's never easy going through this kind of thing, but I hope all turns out well.
- David Ford
Sad to hear this; hope everything works out for you both.
- Andrew Terry
Handle your business, Chris.
- Derrick
Best of luck to you both. See you on the other side man.
- Carlos Ayala
Take care of yourself Chris. I am sorry.
- Kamath (नमः)
Good luck, dude
- Andrew
Chris, there's no formula for how to handle the public side of this, but your post seemed sufficient and decent. All the best (to everyone involved) during this difficult time.
- Micah Wittman
Whoa, so sorry ot hear that Chris. Damn.
- Josh Haley
you're still a healthy good looking if a little quirky fella - you've got plenty of relationships to look forward to :)
- Zee.
I wish you both the best, whatever happens. You've always come across as a strong guy, and your community will always be there to support you.
- deakaz
Love and support to both of you.
- Robert Scoble
wishing both of you the best always.
- Kim Landwehr
Chris, you know I'm a friend for life. I wish the best for you both.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
I'm sorry for you both. Can't be easy.
- Christian Burns
I'm so sorry for you both. It's never an easy thing; harder still to say it in public. My best wishes go with you both.
- Karoli
I dont know you nor a personal or professional , but u make me laught, learn, buy and seeing u for so many time in youtube and the stream , you are one of my best friends without knowing you Theres nothing i can say about this, but if it helps, U know we all love you too . PEACE Chris ps, sorry 4 my bad english
- elefantastico
See ya at Gnomedex Chris, any support needed and we're here for you.
- Greg Birch
:-( I'm sorry, Chris. Warm thoughts and hugs to both of you.
- Ladybug Heather
Guess it's finally time for us to get drunk and hug awkwardly.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Wow. Not much to add other than sorry to hear because I know it has to have been a rough time making that decision and then going through with it. Good luck to both of you. I hope things look up from here.
- Lindsay
Sorry to hear about that, good luck, I am sure it is very difficult to go through.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
Sorry to hear about that, Chris.
- Derek Coward
Ah man,that sucks. hope all goes well for you chris good luck.
- pcguru626
Luckily you have plenty of support ready at a moments notice.
- Pete Delucchi
I'm so sorry to hear about this Chris. All the best.
- Lloyd Hannesson
Thanks for this post...thinking warm throughts for you.
- susan mernit
Thank you for sharing your dark moments with us in addition to your bright ones. My best to you both. Marriage is not easy.
- Francine Hardaway
Majorly saddened to hear both of you. But things and people change, it's a natural part of life.
- Robbie Steele
Really sorry to hear that, Chris. I'm sure it's tough on you both. Best of luck to the two of you in your future personal endeavors.
- Josh McConnell
sorry to hear that man
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Sad to hear the news. Best wishes to you and Ponzi.
- Mike Lewis
:(
- Valley
good luck!
- Thomas Hawk
Do what's best for the both of you
- Cassidy
:(
- timepilot
Life happens. Best of luck to you, Chris.
- Laura Norvig
{{{{ HHHHUUUUUGGGG}}}}}
- Susan Beebe
Take things one day, one step, even one BREATH at a time. You will make it, Chris!
- Now Voyager
I went through this last year - it's not easy, and it's an emotional roller coaster, but you have to believe that happiness and peace lies on the other side. Best of luck.
- Iain Baker
Perhaps consoling (I hope) http://www.chimehosting.com/moonali...
- HelloHealthy
Goodluck Chris
- Steve Allen
Good luck bud
- Jeremiah Owyang
Best of luck. I hope that new opportunities open quickly for you after this door closes and that you find yourself in a better place.
- Martha
Best of luck Chris!
- Garin Kilpatrick
Chris, just saw this - it's never good news. I wish you the best and stay positive!
- Jesse Stay
Well, that sucks.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
2 photos after Collision n before Death, AIR FRANCE FLIGHT (THIS IS A HOAX, but I did not know of this until after posting it onto FriendFeed. I mean no offense towards any of you). - http://jigalbigal.blogspot.com/2009...
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This looks like it was taken from a movie O_O
- Michael Forian
from Bookmarklet
I think it's from Lost
- Kelly
I think that's from Lost, maybe?
- Joey Gibson
Oh, well that's a bit tacky, just the thought of it, no?
- Derrick
I agree, Derrick
- Kelly
I knew it had to have been from some sort of TV/Movie island flick. God damn screwy bloggers.
- Michael Forian
I saw this on Snopes the other day. It is images from the pilot episode of Lost as Joey said
- Alan Simpson
Definitely from Lost
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Tacky. Wow.
- Mona Nomura
Yeah. Totally not cool.
- Akiva Moskovitz
That headline is in really poor taste, even if it is from the TV show.
- Trish R
Just remember that I did NOT generate this. The person who's blog I linked to did. Confirmed hoax: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library...
- Michael Forian
So, it's both inaccurate and in bad taste. Still keeping it up?
- CAJ, somewhere else
Yes I am.
- Michael Forian
I think linking to it, knowing it's a hoax, is below poor taste.
- Trish R
Trish, I linked it BEFORE I knew.
- Michael Forian
I think it would be great if someone actually took photos before they died in a plane crash. Would've won a Pulitzer.
- Michael Forian
Well, I guess that's what they make the Hide button for.
- CAJ, somewhere else
Go ahead, pussy (referring to the avatar!) :)
- Michael Forian
Not dying in a horrific plane crash > Pulitzer.
- joey
I hope it is from LOST or some other production. Otherwise, it's a very sad situation that I would rather not have to look at.
- Michael Fidler
You think it would be great if someone took photos before they died in a plane crash?
- Derrick
No, not great, amazing! What a hero! He was able to maintain his cool throughout the whole ordeal and snap a few shots! Hopefully the person was an actual photographer, so at least he could die while performing his true passion!
- Michael Forian
Michael Fidler, you don't have to "hope it is from LOST or some other production". It *IS* from Lost. Case closed.
- Rochelle
I think that's the saddest thing I've heard in a really long time, and you said great, I was quoting you.
- Derrick
Rochelle, I never said that I "hope it is from LOST or some other production"... so?
- Michael Forian
Michael Forian, that's why I said "Michael Fidler" at the beginning of my comment.
- Rochelle
I did Michael.
- Michael Fidler
Oh! It only says "Michael,".
- Michael Forian
Sorry, Michael.
- Michael Forian
I saw your tweet and I wanted to see what you were sharing. Honestly, this was the last thing I expected to see, so it was a little shocking. Don't worry about it!
- Michael Fidler
Thanks ;) I'm just saying that it would have been really cool if someone were to have taken a picture or two before dying. Would have been historical! Don't get me wrong, if I had the choice between the pictures and a life, I wouldn't be a greedy bastard and take the photos. If the person knew they were inevitably going to plummet into the ocean to their death, this could have been their way of letting us know what happened.
- Michael Forian
Sigh.
- Derrick
*vomit*
- Caroline
LAME.
- Internet's Tad
How old are you?
- Trish R
Ok, so it's not just me?
- Derrick
I don't think age really matters here. My opinion may vary from yours. So be it.
- Michael Forian
btw, Derrick, yes, I knew you were quoting me. I reevaluated it's measurement. It's amazing.
- Michael Forian
I think it's disgusting.
- Derrick
Again, opinions will vary. I think that it would have been passionate (IF this did happen to be real).
- Michael Forian
I clicked over to your blog and see that you're 14. I think you should show this post to your mother.
- Trish R
Derrick - right there with you.
- Katy S
15 now, Trish, my mom already saw this, you going to target her know for bringing up so such a horrible child?
- Michael Forian
delete
- Dave "Freedom 35"
umm...this really blows goats. delete this shit, please.
- Joe Silence is not dead
I have a fascination with death, and even I think it's more than a little disgusting and macabre to like the idea of pictures taken of people dying in a tragic accident.
- Katy S
I'm not targeting your mother. I just think you're immature and trying to get attention in a very negative way.
- Trish R
And I like memento mori!
- Katy S
Trish, the more people comment on this, the more attention it will get. I have limited control over that.
- Michael Forian
Trish R - I was thinking the same thing, especially in terms of what we now know about adolescent brain development.
- Katy S
I don't think you're a horrible child, Michael, I'm sure your mother is an amazing mother; that's a job you can't train for and one I don't envy. Although speaking for myself and not for Trish, I think that human life is valuable and important. Snapping a photograph mere moments before one's death in such a tragic and powerless way just speaks of disrespect.
- Derrick
Michael,have we learned anything from this?
- Brent - Loving Life
Who are you?
- Michael Forian
I appreciate that, Derrick. She is amazing! I understand your perspective of the situation a little better! The fact is: I would never trade someone's life for a picture of their death. That's disgusting. No matter the situation.
- Michael Forian
Michael, just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
- Brent - Loving Life
That's fucked up
- Rodfather
1UP Rod.
- Derrick
Michael Forian, wrong! You have full control over this, because if you delete this thread it will be gone. I don't think the people who have commented here will mind that their comments, along with this sick farce, will disappear.
- Sharon McPherson
My mother's right beside me: she said "that I'd take a picture too... It would be the last remnants of your life".
- Michael Forian
"have we learned anything from this?" I love how you talk down to him there. Real nice.
- Terry O'Fee
Terry, I know! Isn't that demoralizing?
- Michael Forian
And If he doesn't learn from this what other lovely stuff will he post in the future?
- Brent - Loving Life
LOST scene. Bad joke btw!
- dstamand
He posted a dodgy hoax which he didnt know about until afterwards. If you don't like it, unfollow...
- Terry O'Fee
Oh, crap! TERRY! Everyone's going to unsub me now!!!! :P
- Michael Forian
This surprises you? Forian has dressed up as a "terrorist" and made videos on Seesmic lol!
- Mona Nomura
Does anyone remember someone after on 9/11 finding an intact memory card in the ruins, and it worked perfectly? the hours and days of someones life.. I think it was on LJ
- Terry O'Fee
LOLOLOLOL! MONA! *looks for video URL* !
- Michael Forian
Terrorists love The Spice Girls :P
- Terry O'Fee
Yeah, Mona, that's hilarious. Fake terrorist videos are *SO* funny.
- Trish R
I never said it was, Trish. :)
- Mona Nomura
For those who wish to see my terrorist video making skillz... http://seesmic.com/videos...
- Michael Forian
Either way, how very sad for the people and their families
- Armando & Cindee Edrosa
a durka durka
- Terry O'Fee
It is. My deepest condolences to the families of the victims of any plane related disaster. Be it the Air France situation or any other.
- Michael Forian
Not sad, it's disgusting how those who lost a loved one on this flight might be exposed to this kind of garbage. It's people who make crap like this news and those who digest it as 'news' that's deteriorating the quality of media. Makes me sick to my stomach. Btw, I keep hiding this but it keeps reappearing. Why.
- Mona Nomura
Guys, I don't think Michael knew any better. I don't think he intended to create THIS big of a deal.
- Internet's Tad
Hmm, seems like Tad and Terry are the only ones to have come to this realization.
- Michael Forian
Michael, if you'd like my unsolicited advice I'd suggest you delete this, and then post again and apologize. I know you weren't being mean or bad on purpose, but keeping this around makes a lot of people think that.
- Internet's Tad
Mike you really know how to stir up a crowd. lol it's messed up but the reactions are funny. Or I'm a sick minded individual...
- Michael Marsalisi
Michael, I don't know?!?!? Maybe you should run now while you can still get away!
- Michael Forian
Eh, I'd rather stick around and see what happens
- Michael Marsalisi
Wait, Michael KNEW this was a hoax, and still posted it any way? LAME. Why not just RickRoll us?
- Matthew DeVries
Why does he need to apologize, Tad? He's not sorry at all - like I said, this is a kid who dresses up as a 'terrorist' and posts videos on Seesmic. Don't like him, block him.
- Mona Nomura
Matthew, for the last time, I DIDN'T KNOW!
- Michael Forian
I didn't realize that Mona. :(
- Internet's Tad
Holy cow.
- Michael Forian
If Mike posted the original blog post, it would be a bit different. It's a sad state of affairs, people take things on here waay too seriously... Goddamn!
- Terry O'Fee
I will be making a Seesmic video concerning this post shortly.
- Michael Forian
that's it! I've had it...I too will one day make a seesmic post about your seesmic post or a subsequent post of something. Oh. the outrage. ; )
- Michael Marsalisi
I guess it's still the internet *sigh* Old jokes are old
- Matthew DeVries
Maybe I'm a sick person, but I wish these were real. I would have liked to have seen something from the last moments of the flight.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
What strikes me about this is it's only a matter of time.
- Denise Howell
Ugh. What a disgusting notion. Hopefully the demand won't be there to supply it. Seriously this post and thread has ruined my night.
- Mona Nomura
A DURKA DURKA!!!
- Terry O'Fee
http://www.myspace.com <==that way.
- Sharon McPherson
Good call Sharon, they can also go to /b/ or they can go to 1997 when this was a new idea.
- Matthew DeVries
LOST crash scene video http://www.youtube.com/watch... skip @ 0:50
- dstamand
this is a hoax.
- susan mernit
cool, a thread to hide and TWO new accounts to block!
- Joe Silence is not dead
I just read this whole thread. Can I have those 3 minutes of my life back now, please?
- Rochelle
If you look carefully, you can see Kate on the left handside (or her stunt double) and the injured sherrif that dies half way through season 1
- Terry O'Fee
from BuddyFeed
this is the scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- dstamand
Seesmic video concerning this post: http://friendfeed.com/forian...
- Michael Forian
oh, i think im being blocked by refd because of my comments heh.
- Terry O'Fee
Terry - it could totally be because of something else besides your comments, don't go jumping to conclusions - not cool. Think, did you kill his dog, or sleep with his wife? It could just as easily be because of that.
- Matthew DeVries
3/10
- Rodrigo Jaroszewski
Meh, 5/10 (I've had better).
- Michael Forian
Haha! I wonder which thread got a worse reaction? This or: http://friendfeed.com/forian...
- Michael Forian
I mean all I said I believe the reactions to this thread were over the top, if you have a real beef with this, send the hate mail to the idiot who made the blog post.
- Terry O'Fee
from BuddyFeed
Stupid buttons on iPhone app
- Terry O'Fee
from BuddyFeed
Terry, if you look at the original blog post, the last few comments aren't very nice... probably did get a few death threats!
- Michael Forian
Michael - I realize that you didn't know it was a hoax when you posted it. That's fine. I just disagree - as a matter of taste and as an issue related to my own sense of ethics - with the idea that pictures of people dying would be great. We differ on that. That is all. I do wonder if you will feel the same way when you are older, but we can't know that until that time.
- Katy S
Michael, may I ask a question: By 'great', do you mean noble and courageous? Do you mean in the face of certain death, you continue to shoot so you may record the last moments and maintain a record of the events so that others may know what happened?
- Johnny Worthington
I'd want to give my last moments some meaning, and I'd want to auto-post to FF so I'd get hundreds of likes. :-)
- Kevin Fox
Johnny, you said it much better than I could have. Yes, that's exactly what I meant. Am I a monster for that?
- Michael Forian
Michael - I think it came across to many people as if you thought it would be cool to do or something like that and that you would take pleasure in viewing images of people dying in a photographic snuff film, of sorts. I suspect some (myself included) read it as being more flip than you meant it to be. I'm just guessing, but that's what I suspect happened.
- Katy S
You made a very correct guess, Katy. I appreciate it.
- Michael Forian
OMG! A Bolivian News Agency did the same thing as me! Look here! LOL! http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Michael Forian
KNCMIT Twitter & links - http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub...
attendees twitter names
- susan mernit
Excited about going to the Knight Foundation meeting at MIT and meeting all the News Challenge winners. #kncmit - http://twitter.com/Roberta...
be nice to see you again!
- susan mernit
How did you like Atlanta? I'm here now in the burbs.
- Zennie Abraham
I had a great time with the ethnic media execs--but I didn't get to leave the hotel!
- susan mernit
@zzgavin I've got Century Rain by Reynolds queued up. Currently reading Accelerando (Charles Stross), which has lots of planet disassemblage
Stross is fun. I am reading the much drier After Marxism
- susan mernit
Wow. So I can't be online Saturday morning at midnight to score my Facebook username given that I observe the Jewish Sabbath (I'm never online then). I had a friend "volunteer" to get it for me. Only after 12 email exchanges does he tell me that he has an hourly rate and that I'd be charged 2 hour minimum. This is a "friend." I have no words.
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Apparently, he is unclear on the concept.
- Kevin Pedraja
Wow. That is awful.
- Michelle Martinez
...wow, now that is some friend! :(
- JA Castillo
Tamar, I'll do it for free. Seriously.
- Louis Gray
Why did he "volunteer," then? That's not what I'd call volunteering, either.
- Trish R
what a douche.
- Scott
sorry, my bad what a "douche"!
- Scott
That's nasty! I'd do it for free too but I'm not able to be online Saturday midnight either.
- Jim Hearts FF
Tamar - was he a fellow clansperson? I assume not!
- Lester Greenberg
Lester, alas, he was. And he knows all about the laws.
- Tamar Weinberg
Tamar - I will do it for you for 2 metrocards
- Allen Stern
Huh? Why even say he would?
- WorldofHiglet
Shabbos goy don't come cheap. :P
- Christopher Harley
Technically, we're not even allowed to hire goyim to do our work on Shabbat for us. But, also, you are allowed to do work if it will very negatively affect your livelihood.
- Akiva Moskovitz
but a friend (of whatever or no religion) would not normally charge someone to do what will be a straightforward task - I don't understand why he would do that.
- WorldofHiglet
Tamar don't roll on Shabbos.
- Rochelle
What Akiva said. And you're definitely not supposed to make a "profit" on Shabbat either. He was planning on having a colleague of his (not Jewish) do it, which would put me in the clear. But to charge me for that? C'mon.
- Tamar Weinberg
what the...? :| sorry, tamar.
- edythe
+1 Louis. I would do it as well for free. I know I'll be online whenever that is, since that is not work to me
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
from PeopleBrowsr
He should've done it for free or let you know upfront that he'd be glad to do it for $. :( It's to bad he wasn't upfront about it.
- James Stratford
Louis beat me to it.
- Josh Haley
Thanks all for offering -- I'm trying to figure out what to do.
- Tamar Weinberg
Does he have a dick? Kick him in it. Also, you have 200 friends here who'll do it for you. You must trust at least 1 of us.
- Matthew DeVries
"friend" is putting it mildly...I'll be online to get my username, as I'm not Jewish. If Louis isn't available, I'll do it. .
- Helen Sventitsky
With friends like this! LOL!
- Jorge Escobar
You guys rock.
- Tamar Weinberg
So is the idea that we're going to be trying to grab shit like facebook.com/MichaelJordan and facebook.com/Madonna so we can extort the real Slim Shadys?
- Matthew DeVries
Tamar, I'll write a bot for free that'll do it for you! ;) (kidding)
- Jorge Escobar
Jorge, write it for free for me. Sell it for everyone else. PROFIT!
- Tamar Weinberg
Priceless! :D
- Jorge Escobar
With friends like that.....sad.
- susan mernit
M.A. on the other hand would have done a T.C. post on how Facebook recruited his "friend" to do this, in a plot to prevent him from getting said username, or to steal T.C. pageviews.
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
Funny :)
- Charlie Anzman
Oy vey. What a jerk.
- Ben Greenberg
Shmendrik.
- Rick Cogley
What are the Yiddish and Hebrew words for asshole?
- Matthew DeVries
I'll do it for free!! what a jerk! email me - susan.beebe@gmail.com
- Susan Beebe
I'd have happily have offered to do it for free also, some friend that sounds. I am in the UK however so I guess it will be early hours of the morning when we can choose a username.
- Geoff Jackson
just bought a series of cloth sacks from ecobags.com/ to use for nuts, fruit, etc. Want to get away from plastic.
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Thanks for that link. Those are some awesome bags. My problem with a lot of the cloth bags is that they are far too small. These seem great!
- Justin Flood @justinflood
Yes, I want to use them to buy small items, like rice or nuts, at the store..I need to quit plastic as much as possible.
- susan mernit
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