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Jeremiah Owyang posted a message

“Poll: How many of you are actually working out doing moderate physical activity for 30 minutes, at leat three times a week”

June 27 at 6:11 am - Link

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I wonder how geek culture impacts our bodies. I try to hit gym three times a week - Jeremiah Owyang

I dont drive , so I walk to the transit stop, which is a little over 1KM. so everyday I do a min of 2KM walk avg. OVerall, most of the time its like 3Km /day of walking , every day for the last 4yrs :)- Keepin in shape da easy way ! - Peter Dawson

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More than moderate, more than three times a week. - Julian Baldwin

I do - but only because my shoulder is so messed up from being in an accident and typing all day. - Gina

i try to lift or do cardio at least 3 days a week. more in the winter - Eric Schurr

Aside from walking, like Peter, nothing else and I should be doing something else. @Jeremiah three times a week is a very good number, it's keeps you fit and active without wearing you down. That's what I used to do. - Andrés David Aparicio via twhirl

Weight-training 4x/week... cardio 1-2x - Todd Mundt

I walk 3 miles 4-5 times a week - Steve Hall via twhirl

Not me. Is bad. Am just 17 and just a tad overweight. Sigh. - Yuvi

1.5 miles to the station, 1.5 miles back plus as sundry mile here or there. That'll do me (not fat or wheezing anyway) - Elliot Tucker

cardio for 30 mins 3x per week - 2 hours of snorkeling 1x week. - Brooklyn Art Project

Joga,swimming,soccer - Igor Poltavskiy

I don't want to talk about it. I used to be in pretty decent shape, but getting back into IT has really done it to me. I lost about 30 pounds in two years when I was cooking, but I've gained about 10 of it back in the last two. - Harvey Simmons

gym 3x/wk, soccer when I can plus frequent walks which involve carrying a toddler on my back. - Nathan Eckenrode

Been working up to it. In fact, today I'll do my 3rd moderate 30min workout. Training for the January 2009 Walt Disney World Marathon. - Mike Reynolds

Stationary bike, row, weights. At 50, it's definitely a battle, but one that needs fighting. - Bob Walsh

Does small-child-wrangling count? If so, then yes..:-) - Rjennings

Yeah, I do -- would lose my mind without a bit of movement - Kirk Kittell

Gym 3-5 times a week, plus run 12 flights of stairs 3 times a day every work day. It is not enough though. Just added pushup in my office to my work day routine this week. - RAPatton

A 5-8 km run 3 times a week. I have to do sport, for school - David Adam

I usually try for 5x per week. A combination of cardio and weights, going for overall fitness. Not trying to run a marathon or lift a car off the ground. - steve albers

I do! Have a balance between moderate and intense but work out 6 days a week and have active rest on the 7th. - Karen Swim via Alert Thingy

You walk a lot in NYC. I once clocked that I walk approx. 4 miles to and from subway stations, home and work. If you keep a good pace, it's not a bad base. - Michael Chin

maybe once per week for me... - John

I try to walk 3 - 4 miles every night. Late nights and rain occasionally stop me, so let's say I get it done 4 nights a week. Could definitely walk more when I'm in NYC, but instead of walking from 40th and 3rd to Penn Station I usually opt to get the LIRR in Long Island City. No walk and 2 stops on the 7 train. - Kevin Shannon

As long as wii fit counts, I do that 30 min a day at least 2-3x/week! - acetone

does blogging count? - John Furrier

Me. Running most mornings. I combine Nike+ and GPS tracking to make it bloggable. - Sol Young

I am doing an Ironman August 2nd. So, unfortunately for me, I do very little other than physical activity. - Sacca

I'm a binge work-outer....I don't do it much, then work out like crazy for 4 days, then go back to my sedentary ways. - Justin Whitaker

I've slowed down this summer but most of the time I'm in the gym 3 - 4 days a week for an 1 hour each. Mixture of elliptical / treadmill / weights. It's hard not to when your significant other is in medical school; I hear horror stories about what could happen if I don't. - Benjamin Golub

I forgot to mention that I'm doing the 100 pushup challenge. Today is day 3 of week 1. - Harvey Simmons

Just started again with push ups. In the past I walked, before 30 flights of stairs per day. - Russellreno

Err.. yeah. I'm lazy. I do go on walks with my dog 3-4x a week.. - J. Phil

Almost exactly 3 times a week, although I'm looking to go to 5 here pretty soon. - Justin Gardner via twhirl

argh - stop reminding me!!! xD - Dieter Schwarz

I go to the rock gym for 2 or 2.5 hours twice a week. I used to ride about 2 miles to the gym, but have lazed out. Similarly I was going to yoga for an hour and a half once a week, but that seems to have fallen by the wayside... :( - felix

@Sol Young - huh! where do you blog that? I'd love to see how that combo looks on the tubes. :) - felix

I do nothing at the moment but I am going to start soon as I feel unfit! - Joe Dawson

i think it's hilarious that you asked this. - Josue Salazar via twhirl

Been a runner since I was in HS, but recently injured my knee and now sidelined. Morale: run but stay off the streets (too hard on your knees). - mark ivey

I workout 6 days a week; an hour to hour and a half. But I only resumed last week after a gap of nearly two months. Travel screws up my workout schedule :( - Parth Awasthi

I work out three times a week for an hour each day. I'm a newly admitted Gym Rat. - Stagekid

I do one sit-up every morning, and always make sure I think about exercise once per week. Having said that, I lost 20 kilos last year by dropping gluten out of my diet... no exercise. Lose wheat, lose weight. - Paul R. Grant

I run on Mon, Wed, Fri morning with my PitBull. Tues,Thurs morning is biking or rollerblading with her. - David Cook

Does chasing 4 youngsters while Thomas Hawk is doing his usual 100 laps in the pool count? - Mrsth

2 mile walk about 2-3x a week, have to bike into work more - Chris Christensen

I'm only doing one 30 min activity a week and feeling guilty for not doing more. - Larry Kless via twhirl

4-12 hrs/day walking & dancing when traveling. Here in Ohio, 2-4 hr walk every day with my sis (She's on vacation before starting a full-time job in a month, and studying for her medical boards). If possible, I'd like to do 12-16 dance classes/week, but travel nixed that - lucky if I get 6-10 hrs dance/week. Ideally, I'd have 3-5 gymnastics workouts/week. - Mitchell Tsai

Yes, for quite a while now ... and I wouldn't want to do without it. - Tom Landini

I take LOTS of walks, but nothing "moderate physical"... oops... i'm too tired all the time. - Susan Beebe

I'm not sure it translates to 3 times a week at thirty minutes a pop, but I bicycle quite a bit. Currently about 250 miles/15+ hours a month. - AJ Kohn

I swim a mile and a half 3 to 4 times a week. - Thomas Hawk

I'm older than most of you and I don't exercise at all. I hope the younger generation will do better than we did. - Judy Jones

Running, cycling and using our Endless Pool keeps this 120 pound frame... Uh... 120 pounds. - Kevin C. Tofel

I run 3 to 5 times a week, and I walk to walk a couple times a week. - Bill Sodeman via fftogo

I have been walking at least 2 miles a day, every day, since March - Douglas E. Welch

I run 6 days a week. My shortest run is 5 miles, longest during training is 16 miles. - Jeremy Kunz

I do way more weekly, 30 min 3 x week is minimum recommended only - mike "glemak" dunn

One of my friends had a funny comment in grad school. "I have two sets of friends. One group works out 4-8 hrs/day and the other group sits on couches and drinks beer all day. It's so hard to keep up with both groups." I grew up a skinny geek. Then ended up with people who worked out 4-12 hrs/day (gymnasts, athletes) and considered a 3-4 hr workout relaxing. It's sometimes a weird dichotomy. - Mitchell Tsai

Trying to at least take walks and hike up a hill 3-5 times a week. I also want to get back into swimming and yoga. I dance sometimes, too. - Cathryn Hrudicka

Last time I heard the physical fitness studies - Ten minutes twice a day (instead of 30 min/day), 3X/week gave 60-80% of the benefits of exercising 1-2 hrs 7 days/week. The aerobic benefits of exercising follow a parabolic curve. This info is about 10-15 yrs old. Ten minutes 2/day was as good as 30 min 1/day in the studies. - Mitchell Tsai

Cathryn: If you like, I've got a lot of yoga teacher recommendations for the Bay Area. - Mitchell Tsai

OK here's my theory. Don't live like me. 30 minutes 3x a week is 90 minutes a week. That's 4680 minutes or 78 hrs or 3.25 days a year. So 3.25 days a year times 40 years that's 130 days or a third of a year spent exercising. If you can guarantee that exercising lets me live longer than that for the time, I am in! - Steve Rubel

STeve, u spend 130d across 40yrs, therefore 195d :60yrs, but that investment of 195D actually will increase the aging process to like 70-75Y.. its well worth the investment !! - Peter Dawson

I usually run three times a weeks, 6 mile loops each time. I also ride a bike to work 2.5 miles one way and just got started on the 100 pushups program. So yeah, the myth has been debunked. Tech folks are pretty active it seems. - Tsega Dinka

Steve: I don't know how true it is, but at a staff walk at Stanford, there was a sign that every minute walks extends your life 2 minutes (so you don't lose any time)... :-) - Mitchell Tsai

Shawn Collins published a photo on Flickr

Missy Ward, Queen Latifah, and Shawn Collins

June 12 at 8:58 am - Link

Sweet! - Steve Hall via twhirl

Robert Scoble posted a message

“A-list blogger told me off about FriendFeed last night. Said that FF isn't a good business strategy for bloggers who want to get paid for their work. I told him that attitude is exactly why I am spending so much time there. ”

June 12 at 9:31 am - Link

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gets to why bloggers are whining about commenting behaviors moving off of their blogs and onto FF. - Robert Scoble

"Adapt or become irrelevant" should be the mantra of everyone in technology-based fields. Progress waits for no man. - Mark Trapp

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Pinned to Jack Kerouac's wall to inspire his writing: "Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life."-Nietzsche - Thomas Hawk

Who cares where comments are made as long as they are made. - Steve Hall via twhirl

What was the A-lister's favorite community site? Twitter or Facebook? - J. Phil

I'm being a little spammy here, but I posted some thoughts about that before: Ten FriendFeed Visitors Beats 1,000 StumbleUpons Any Day http://tinyurl.com/455lol - Hutch Carpenter

One of two things can happen. They'll get more traffic or they'll turn off their RSS feed. Seems like an easy choice to me. - Delete Me

I find myself as A FF user visting more links and seeing more blog pages than I ever did before. What about it isn't a "good business strategy" according to this nameless A-lister? Sounds like he/she isn't all that perceptive. - Brian Sullivan

Steve: if you are being paid for page views it matters a lot. - Robert Scoble

Do we get to play guess the A-lister? - Cyndy

Sorry but I have to disagree. If I posted some content on my blog, I'd like the discussion about it to be focused on that website. FF commentary feels like a hidden backchannel sometimes - Daniel Spisak via twhirl

I realized this on day 0. Removing conversation from my blog = Less adsense. We went through the same thing when RSS hit.. .now we have ads in RSS. - Bwana McCall

You know what might help is if FriendFeed did a traceback (or trackback) to the blog and it referenced all the comments. - Delete Me

@Brian - I agree on reading more blogs via FriendFeed than I would have normally. - Hutch Carpenter

Scott, Wordpress has a plugin that does that, and there is development of a similar plugin/module for Drupal and Blogger. - Mark Trapp

Fantastic Robert! - Parth Awasthi via twhirl

One of these days we'll have a viable micro-payment system and when we comment or click "Like" anywhere on the tubez we'll also be paying $0.002 to the originator. - Tad - just Tad via fftogo

Pageviews shouldn't be a concern if you're producing good content -- especially if you're an A-list blogger. If you're NOT producing good content as an A-list then you're just trying to live off your "fame". It's like crappy music artists who keep putting out crappy music and people still love it. - Shey

hmmm... ads on FF next? - Ron Emrick via Alert Thingy

Scott brings up a good point. If they have RSS, they already lost "pageviews" but subscriber counts are supposedly important. Why is it that the conversation on FriendFeed would not add to the quality of their blog? They would never turn off their RSS feed, so I think this seems a little hypocritical. - Rob Diana

Didn't Dave Winer say that he thought "professional blogger" was an oxymoron (or words to that effect). Maybe that reality is just coming home to roost? - Brian Sullivan

I have always found it interesting when people rail against progress because it hurts their business model, why not simply adapt your model? - Karen Swim via Alert Thingy

Mark, yes but if FriendFeed did tracebacks then it wouldn't be necessary to wait for plugins. Plus it would push more traffic to FriendFeed when people follow them from blogs. Most blogging platforms have traceback functionality. - Delete Me

@scoble: Its tottaly bugging me that my comments are on friendfeed! Its my ego at play for sure. Actually did blog post today about it: http://britneymason.com/?p=139 But that being said, im getting more feedback then ever..so its a give and take I guess - Britney Mason

Couldn't care less - not making money off my blog, and I'm sure I have more people reading my blog DUE to FF than in spite of it... - Jeremy Toeman

Tad, check out tipjoy.com - Delete Me

FriendFeed is surely much better for bloggers that feed readers are. It makes users more likely to click links (partially because full feed content isn't included) and discover new blogs. And seeing an interesting discussion on FF makes me even more likely to click through to the article. How is that bad? - Tony Ruscoe via fftogo

So many A-list bloggers are long overdue for an adjustment - the hubris is astonishing. Ballmer-esque, really. - Noah Carter

"Hubris Ballmer-esque" -- great phrase -- can I use it? - Brian Sullivan

When I read a blog, I don't waste any brain cells worrying how the author is getting compensated for the article posted. He (or she) should've figured that strategy out before I got there. If the content isn't compelling me to view the page, then there's another topic for the author to contemplate. - William Beem

Scott, that's cool, but I'm not interested until it's ubiquitous and much less than $0.10. I want it to be so inexpensive I can "tip" folks all day long and not hurt my finances. If millions of us do that all day some folks will be making serious cash. - Tad - just Tad via fftogo

I would say it is exactly the reverse of his statement. Shall we extract him (her) from the A-list ? :) - Charlie Anzman

It will always be about the conversation. Have an informed opinion; be different; work hard; contribute. If I find someone out there I like, I will seek to grab as much information about him/her as possible. Blogging will never die because (if done well) it is the most introspective and personal medium: two areas that will become increasingly important as we get deeper into Web 2.0, 3.0 and beyond. - Stagekid

That said, check out my blog :) http://www.stagekid.com (a joke, people... well not really) - Stagekid

While bloggers get less pageviews due to comments moving away to aggregators, they gain much wider exposure which leads to more pageviews. Bottom line, the total number of pageviews stays the same or even increases with the added value of having more unique views, which has more value. - Amit Morson

@Brian please do. - Noah Carter

Just speaking for little old me, since I've gone almost exclusively FF, I have had an increase in traffic and no effect on adsense. I don't know what the fear is. - Jason Kaneshiro

I was wondering, does anyone know if there's a way to make the comments from FriendFeed automatically also show up in the relevant blog? Similar to how we can check a box to duplicate a post on Twitter? Would that maybe solve the problem? If it's possible to do, that is. - Kamilah Gill

My opinions here have been well documented. Over time, this will get easier and, eventually, solved. - Louis Gray

Kamilah, I expect to see that happening eventually with Disqus. I know they are working on it - implement disqus on your blog and it will come. - Jesse Stay via twhirl

being pragmatic, but page views is a dying business model within blogging. The blog is about personal branding and then you sell yourself as a service thereafter. Words and thoughts are commodities. - morten saxnaes

getting paid for page views is such narrow, and old, thinking ... same old paradigm in new cheap clothes - gregory lent

there's revenue associated with blogging??? :) - anna

Tad, I'm really active on Tipjoy, and it doesn't cost too much. You can tune it to $0.05, which is really cheap. You can tip 100 times daily for less than a big Starbucks coffee. For just $1 per day, you too can support this starving internet :D - Ivan Kirigin

FF is more for combining the work of others into a feed for yourself -- and combining all of your work into a single feed for others to consume. Has nothing to do with blogging imo. - xero

FriendFeed is about conversation - there are plenty of other mechanisms available for longer, deeper exposition. Blogs, wikis, etc - Bruce Williams

@Ivan - You better be active on TipJoy! @Tad I tuned TipJoy to $0.05 and use it when I come across someone with the buttons that writes something I like. I probably should use the bookmarklet to help spread the word, but I'm getting too many of those things. Hopefully now that TipJoy is on friendfeed we'll see a increase in usage - David Knight

@David the problem with TipJoy is you are limited to sending the money to charity or getting Amazon gift cards - sorry but that doesn't work for folks that just might want to use it as an alternative monitization method or donations - Steven Hodson

@Steven the cashing out issue is one that would be faced by any startup in our position - thanks to the regulatory framework around money transfer agents. It will be solved really soon, and we're trying to be very open about it. Also, we do let non-profits & platforms cash out. - Ivan Kirigin

If I had to document all the ways Friendfeed has be AWESOME for me, I'd have to write a book ... and it's barely out of the gate. Spoke with 3 people on the phone today that said they couldn't get enough - Charlie Anzman

Since I started using FF I actually see more comments on my blog and absolutely no impact on my (meager) advertising take. - Frederic

Amen, keep hittin' em hard out there. - Aaron Myers

I like FF, too. It's a great way to meet people, and it is driving traffic back to my blog. - Bill Sodeman

Many readers like FF. Blogger vs. Reader = Readers win. Always. (If not, they go somewhere else) - Pat Hawks

@Jesse Thanks, I'll have to look into Disqus. I've seen the name around but I know nothing about it. - Kamilah Gill

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Kingsley Joseph posted a message on Twitter

“new twitter drinking game: take a shot every time @scobleizer mentions #friendfeed”

March 20 at 6:40 pm - Link

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can I play? :-) - Robert Scoble

hic hup"""too late - Anthony Farrior

aw jeeze.. is there enough booze in the house? - mark

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“@adelemcalear Wait, there's more. Post-SXSW, the Bloghaus was demolished.”

March 18 at 7:45 pm - Link

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