Interesting to notice that I have over 57% as many subscribers on FriendFeed as I do on Twitter. Especially since there are hardly any bots or spam accounts on FriendFeed. Audience engagement here is still better, too.
Since July I've gotten 14,000 new followers on Twitter and 7,000 new ones here. Not sure why you aren't getting your fair share of Twitter followers. :-) But I think you are better engaged here than on Twitter, which brings you love in return, as Louis demonstrates.
- Robert Scoble
Aww, shucks, all. @Robert - I already have plenty of subscribers*, thanks. I'd much rather the current situation -- highly engaged people to chat with, many of whom have a gazillion subscribers themselves and can filter for me in the off chance I say something interesting -- than end up on something like the SUL with millions of people who couldn't care less being bombarded with my inanity.
- DeWitt Clinton
*Call me old school, but isn't "subscribers" just such a better word than "followers"?
- DeWitt Clinton
My first thought is that "subscribers" sounds so passive, one-directional. Like the recipients of a magazine. "Followers" doesn't sound any better, to be honest. I don't know if "followers" sounds passive, or like a stalker. "Trackers" sounds very disturbing. Is there a phrase that has a bi-directional quality, doesn't sound passive, and yet isn't creepy.
- Carl Setzer
By the way, I've never been on the SUL and if added would ask them to remove me. I agree it's a bad thing. Lists are a lot more interesting, because that's how you find an audience that actually cares what you have to say http://listorious.com
- Robert Scoble
April: I just looked for an SUL on Cliqset and can't find one. Do you have a URL for it?
- Robert Scoble
I don't have a URL for it, but you are on the short SUL they show you when setting up a new account. Could make a new one just for the purpose of seeing who they suggest. ;-)
- April Russo (app103)
April: hmm, I didn't see that. So that's why I am getting added by a few people. Thanks for letting me know.
- Robert Scoble
Of course you wouldn't have seen it when you signed up, as you didn't have an account there yet and couldn't be on that list...lol. But if you were to make a new account now, you'd see that.
- April Russo (app103)
Re: subscribers vs followers... Meh. Now "minions," _that_ is a term I could endorse.
- DGentry
I have 384 subscribers on FF vs. 200 on Twitter. There's very little profound/useful stuff I can say in 140 or less, sorry
- LANjackal
it's good to see a lot of great people not great people but people with good content coming back to friendfeed again
- testbeta
LANjackal: that comment was 123 characters =D
- Mike Chelen
Hence the "very little" part of what I said, hahaha. That rarely happens. I don't consider most of what I tweet to be "profound", though it may be entertaining. It's certainly not informati- WHY IS THE CLOUD IN THE BACKGROUND MOVING ON THIS PAGE #shortattentionspan
- LANjackal
Can you recommend a good FriendFeed client? Would love something like TweetDeck for FF.
- Michael Brown
hi, i just accidentally ignored a subscription request from you. just got a little spastic with the mouse too near the the word ignore and it was gone. if you want to send another i'll try to be less of a spaz! i'm new here are could use more connections!
- Sarah
"According to Dr. Karen Weatherby, a gerontologist and author of the study, gawking at women’s breasts is a healthy practice, almost at par with an intense exercise regime, that prolongs the lifespan of a man by five years. She added, "Just 10 minutes of staring at the charms of a well-endowed female, is roughly equivalent to a 30-minute aerobics work-out.""
- winckel
from Bookmarklet
What a fascinating article... According to the current Mrs. Terry, I'll live to be at least 150 if this is true! :-)
- Andrew Terry
"Just 10 minutes of staring at the charms of a well-endowed female, is roughly equivalent to a 30-minute aerobics work-out." so thats why I'm always tired at the end of the day!
- tony bland
It's healthier than riding a bike, I can tell you after last weeks accident. Unless you do it while riding a bike. But then probably the road won't be that slippery.
- Ton Zijp
And what are women to look at that will increase our lives?
- WorldofHiglet
@WoH: I've heard that doing plenty of house chores could be healthy... ;)
- Jemm
Heh. Now, if this was a few years ago Jemm would have now been vapourised into a fine, worthless powder. But I've learned to rise above such obvious baiting :P
- WorldofHiglet
@WoH you don't like charming polishing in your house, do you?
- A.T.
I am willing to look at a suitably attractive male polishing my house for 30 mins a day for the good of my health, if that's what you meant.
- WorldofHiglet
+Anne--Right about the time I forget about this, it shows up again. Too funny.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
interesting. I've tried a few times to get animated images to work on FF without success.. I guess piping it through twitpic might be the answer!
- veo
veo, yeah Twitpic, RSS (MediaRSS), Delicious, Tumblr all seem to work. There are more than that but those come to mind.
- Josh Haley
Just one question, Josh: are you by chance spinning on 9 different Aeron chairs that were a steal after the first dot-com bubble burst? The future of the internets: you're looking at it =)
- Micah Wittman
could anybody describe how to create such a picture? thx
- Arnaud Fischer
Arnaud, see http://friendfeed.com/mokarga... for tips. And Josh correct me if I'm wrong, he uploaded to Twitpic the same animated GIF 9 times, then created a friendfeed post and attached all 9 images by URL (instead of choosing images from his hard drive). Images coming from twitpic, soup.io, etc will animate, but photos hosted by friendfeed itself won't.
- Micah Wittman
Did not sleep well with all the spinning. :p
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
It's infinitely more amusing when they don't all load at the same time. Spinning chaos!!!
- CAJ, somewhere else
Why the friendfeed limitation on animated .gifs? It seems arbitrary and odd to me. I could see wanting to limit filesize (animated .gifs can get large) but you can upload huge .jpgs without any trouble.
- veo
Mesmerizing like a lava lamp. Hey! You are a 'Lame-o Lamp'! And you might want to call the folks in the makeup department and get that forehead de-sheened. Remember, your forehead is an alternate landing site for the Space Shuttle - And you don't want to blind the crew on their final approach, do you? :-)
- Morgan Haley
Good luck trying to land anything on that while it's moving. :p I can always count on my brother.
- Josh Haley
OMG! That should be the next installment at some fluecy deucy art museum!!! AWESOME. :) It's like whack-a-mole... I keep trying to figure out which one will show your face next and for some reason I'm always wrong.
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Thanks, Lindsay! :) I think that's the first time someone described wanting to systematically hit me on the head repeatedly, yet have it come off as a compliment. I would love to take credit like I was Andy Warhol or something, but alas I was just tired and felt like doing something silly. :p
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
yep, what Lindsay said. That was one of the first bona-fide instances I've seen of using Friendfeed as a medium for net art. You could get in the Whitney & stuff. GOOD JOB
- Kamilah Gill
LOL! I actually didn't mean it the way it came out (the hitting you on the head part, the compliment part is ok ;)). But I'm in tears laughing when I read your reply. Whack-a-mole always frustrated the heck out of me... I did a lot more staring than hitting when I tried to play. It was mesmerizing.
- Fa La La La Lindsay
you wait - the scary part of this comes when one of these ffoodoo heads stops turning, starts grimmacing and talking to you ..... have you seen one of these heads actually get up off the chair and curse the world??? ... the seeming dissynchronicity, the haphazard discord with which these dollheads turn might drive you ...nuts
- Petr Buben
@thechannelc haha yes I understand how you feel. Growing up in Hong Kong, I find snow to be romantic and lovely as well - but trust me, there's nothing romantic about 6 ft of snow - but I guess what's worse is icey rain!
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
we have only one season. how boring is that? i'll take the icey rain as well as long as i'm not on the road. :)
- Carolyn Chan
I hate snow---and we in the UK have come off relatively well so far!
- Gordon Herd
@thechannelc I'd prefer a single season. Does Malaysia have a single season of spring or summer?
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
See Ming - here, it's hot year round. our seasons are rainy or dry. that's it. that's all you're getting. on the bright side, we have a simple wardrobe. i remember having to pack winter clothes away come spring.
- Carolyn Chan
@thechannelc Simple wardrobe is good. I like the winter when I'm fat, and i like the summer when I am comfortable showing skin. Right now I'm onto my 34w wardrobe so winter is good for me - hopefully I will work back towards 30w towards summer :)
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
"On a bitterly cold December night, with the start of final exams just hours away, about 75 of Stephens' 766 undergraduates grudgingly piled their cell phones into collection baskets and filed into the school's candlelit chapel, where they did little but sit, silently. For an hour, not an iPod ear bud could be seen. There were no fingers flying on tiny computer keyboards, no chats with unseen intimates. Alexis Dornseif, a senior from suburban St. Louis majoring in fashion marketing and management, said she needed time away from her busy life. "Sometimes it's really overwhelming," she said. "It's good to have time to think, to not worry about what's going on tomorrow.""
- Anne Bouey
from Bookmarklet
Wouldn't teaching time management and discipline be more effective?
- Mona Nomura
I don't think the point of the exercise related to either time management or discipline, Mona
- Soup
What then, do you think the point of the exercise is, Soup?
- Mona Nomura
I suspect it has more to do with mindfulness, contemplative states, and being able to simply Be. Similar to religious retreats during which talking is prohibited.
- Soup
How does that differ from time management and discipline? In this day and age, electronics should not be confiscated for serenity; it's the individual's responsibility to be cognizant of their needs. Hence, discipline and time management.
- Mona Nomura
+1, Mona. Someone who lacks serenity because they spend all day chained to their smartphone shouldn't blame the smartphone; they should take a look at what it is about themselves that prevents them from putting the phone down. Our gadgets these days are "smart," but they're not the ones in charge (yet?).
- Brian Chang
"After a year of engineering, modeling, and trials, the world's largest Christmas star now hovers above the A9 Autobahn near Munich's northern gateway. Affixed to the three blades of the massive wind turbine--70-meters tip to tip--are 9,000 light-emitting diodes (LEDs), all of which use less power than a hairdryer. The surreal pinwheel is a collaboration between Siemens, a world leader is wind power, and multi-media artist Michael Pendry. We've seen LEDs used in similar fashion to create patterns and imagery (go Pac-Man!), but this is, well, way big. (more pics and a video after the jump)"
- Demetrios the Traveller
from Bookmarklet
I just read about flocking.me. This is a new service that lets you “Search for tweets from just your friends”… Never really thought about it before but frankly, I’m stunned. Really? 1) Twitter didn’t have this feature in the first place? 2) It’s took a third party to come up with it? Further to this, despite Jesse Stay writing about this several days ago (Just in Time for the Holidays, FriendFeed Becomes First OAuth Wrap Provider) the news just ‘broke’ that Facebook is using FriendFeed to test it’s OAuth WRAP thingy (I don’t fully understand it yet, but it’s something about something that sounds cool… I’ll read it and come back later with an explanation). Now I tried my hardest to find some discussion on Twitter about this but all I got was retweets of the TechCrunch article. Poor Brizzly was loading more tweets like a mad person. I found discussion on the places the tweets linked to but not inside the tweets themselves. This, once again from my opinion, just proves to me why...
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- Johnny Worthington