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El Abuelo Restaurant (5/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...
"Do yourself a favor, get out of your little L.A. neighborhood comfort zone, and come up to San Fernando for a great Mexican meal. The thing is - it's not really far at all. With light traffic - like…"
- Lee Stranahan
El Coyote Mexican Cafe (2/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...
"This is a non-politically motivated review. In fact, the thing that motivated to go try El Coyote is that I'd read a bunch of stuff online and in the paper about the boycotts and I felt that they were…"
- Lee Stranahan
Fuddruckers Inc (4/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...
"Fudd's does what it does very well. These are some of my favorite burgers and it's the buns, I tell ya. There isn't a fresher hamburger bun anywhere and it's a good combo of softness with a little…"
- Lee Stranahan
Now, if anyone wants any info on mind control, please DM me... I do panels, birthdays, bar mitzvahs... will have a book out soon too. :)
natadd and Jon, the Beartato of FF liked this
Would you sign my book, plz? :)
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
Hmmm - why do I feel...strangely...compelled...to DM? Almost. Against. My. Will!
- Lee Stranahan
I currently read "Empath(y)" by Adam Fawer ("Gnosis" in Germany) which deals with the possibilities of mind control. I'm not sure if its out in the US already, but if so, it's a strong recommendation to read to improve your newly discovered mental power :-))
- natadd
I'm uploading a 24-minute video about friendfeed. Demonstrates it does too much. :-)
zeroinfluencer, TobiasVerhoog.com, Robin Good and 91 other people liked this
white board?
- sean percival
looking forward to it, may help :-)
- Patphelan
sean: no, just 20 things demoed about it. I don't know that it'll help. Probably just bore everyone. UPDATE: the video is here: http://www.kyte.tv/scoblei...
- Robert Scoble
Stop motion?
- Andrew Trinh
I cant wait to see how you keep up with so much while keeping your sanity
- Bobbi Newman
Um... sorry - new at friendfeed. Where do I find the video?
- Suzi Dafnis
Stay tuned, Suzi - I'm confident Robert will post the link.
- teleken
I just got into using ff so it'll be cool to see what I am missing out on using.
- Thomas Swift
Totally. Until this real time thing launched I had no clue what to do with Friend feed. This video will be very helpful.
- MarkCarras
That's funny, because I was just going to tweet to see if anyone had good advice on FreindFeed...
- Lee Stranahan
It is up at http://www.kyte.tv/scobleizer
- Robert Scoble
Bummer that Kyte doesn't seem to work in FF on Linux :(
- James D Kirk
great video, very helpful, never knew about the double tap for hide, thanks Robert
- Patphelan
I got video, no audio, Kubuntu 810, Firefox.
- kevin
Listening to it now. Thanks for the renewal of my amazement of Friendfeed.
- Tyler (Chacha)
watching now - this is something i need - a video tutorial (won't say the 'dummies' word LOL)
- planetMitch
Seems to work in Ubuntu with Firefox.
- Steven Perez
Steven, I use several Ubuntu's (8.10, 32 and 64 bits), perhaps too low bandwidth to Spain?
- Ricardo Galli
It will only play the first 5 minutes, but they were a good 5 minutes... Edit: seems to work now.
- xero
I'm watching it now, Ubuntu 8.10 Opera 9.62
- Alejandro
very good- watching now
- anna sauce
I have to say, the only time I can really express the value of FF is when people get annoyed with Twitter, and I say, it'd be nice to have an aggregator, right? And then, they get it. Or a big bubble diagram showing RSS feeds and overlaps
- anna sauce
Thanks Robert. Great overview of FF. Where do I send a check? :)
- Joe Lima
Great, I'm going back and forth from the video as I set up a friendfeed account. Thanks!
- David Creelman
Good work. Thank you. I want to know more about the email to FF tip you mentioned. What will part 2 have in it? ;-)
- Amani
Amani: that info is here: http://friendfeed.com/share...
- Robert Scoble
thanks for making this! Its got me looking at FF again - aggregation is good.
- Casey
Very informative and useful video. Thanks for putting this together!
- Laura Zickus
Robert, I will invest some time in FF thanks to you!
- Alex Doman
Great intro - been thinking about signing up for a while but didn't know where to start!
- Mark Warren
Thanks for this! Great information about hiding & searching.
- Thomas Swift
Great video, Robert. Thank you! :)
- Heidi Jeffers Thibodeau
Good video, now we need an advanced FF user video. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Great video. Thanks for posting, Robert. :)
- Kali
Chevys Fresh Mex Restaurant (3/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...
"Chevy's is the very definition of a 3 out of 5 star restaurant. Some stuff is good or very good. Some is meh to pretty darn meh. It's nice enough. The service is on the good side of fine. Attentive.…"
- Lee Stranahan
Kam Hong Garden (4/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...
"Thanksgiving day. No interest in turkey this year so we head out for Chinese. I love America. I love Yelp! The noodles are 5 stars - everything else is 3 - 4. But the noodles are the thing. We got…"
- Lee Stranahan
Brenda's French Soul Food (4/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...
"I landed at SFO to attend YouTube Live at about 8:00am and I had hours to kill. I hopped on Bart and fired up Yelp! on phone.Cajun for breakfast? Sold! I got off at Civic Center and walked a few…"
- Lee Stranahan
I thought this was a good introduction to using external audio. What sorts of external mics do you have? - http://filmmakeriq.com/product...
I just bought an Audio Technica shotgun that I OVE
- Lee Stranahan
Cuil is number one on Google Trends http://www.google.com/trends...
but will it last? the sentiment on twitter is not too positive
- Adri Munier
Their engine really suck hard, by now. What's the matter?
- Claudio Cicali ♋
So much for that, "michael pardue"'s #1 now. I tried cuil: slow results page & confused by splogs.
- Wade Dorrell
I aint giving up Google for it, no way.
- Steve Rubel
meh. not getting relevant results. i don't care if they have a lot of pages, i want relevant pages.
- Rob Williams
Cuil sucks. The first search I tried, I couldn't find what I wanted and it's listed on the first page on Google. So, if Cuil wants to explain to me, feel free. (amyers@gmail.com)
- Aaron Myers
Steve - Take a look at the screenshot I posted an hour ago. It's in a lot of positions :) http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Charlie Anzman
I searched for my name - nothing. Honestly, that's just wrong.
- Lee Stranahan
from Alert Thingy
Why Progressives Need To Get Out Of John Edward Affair Rumor - http://digg.com/politic...
"I didn't put the title on Digg - my extremely long title on HufPo is clearer and says 'get out in front of' the story."
- Lee Stranahan
I think the people who liked the NYer cartoon are the ones who felt Obama let them down with teh FISA vote and are still going to vote for him. Here's why...
Scott Lockhart and Sean McBride liked this
He didn't stand up for us, so we're not going to stand up for him. I'm still going to vote for him cause it's in my self-interest to do so. But on a personal level? Don't support him anymore. Used to. Now he's on his own.
- Dave Winer
Dave it is all about Trust!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Between FISA support, supreme court decisions, his sudden support for faith-based initiatives, and Iraq war, I have to agree. He's not the same candidate he was in the Democratic primaries. Just another politician.
- jcunwired
Is anyone actually surprised at this? Everyone should've seen this coming once the general got underway.
- Akiva Moskovitz
The only rationale I can think of is because he is going for a full 50-state strategy and in that process, is trying to appeal to a broader, centrist base - which most presidential candidates never do (they just try to energize their base). He can't just win this on democratic votes. His vote on the FISA bill especially for me was a big slap in the face. But at the end of the day, he is far superior to McCain, and I can only HOPE (ha) that he'll overturn the FISA bill once he's in office.
- Ashish Tonse
The old Obama is in view again, today, on the Iraq War on the op-ed page of the New York Times: http://tinyurl.com/6lv77a
- Sean McBride
Lesser of two evils. *shrugs*
- Justin Whitaker
I must be one of the few who aren't that upset by the FISA bill. At least there is a court overseeing the whole process now, where there wasn't before. Like Andrew Sullivan, i feel there are a lot of other things to get properly worked up about, one of them being, ahem, torture, an issue he is unequivocally on the right side of. (It's depressingly off FriendFeed's radar, for some reason.) He's also come out against CA's Proposition 8, something I doubt any other Democrat would have the courage to do.
- Rick Powell
It's not a matter of liking the NYr cover. I just don't like the crazy, overblown reaction
- Lee Stranahan
from Alert Thingy
I don't see retroactive telco immunity as court's evidence of oversight.
- jcunwired
Oh, and as Sean's share points out assertively, Obama is the only one who can get us out of Iraq. The only one. That's not a small thing in my view.
- Rick Powell
I agree with Jody. The only thing companies fear is loss of clients and lawsuits. And you take that fear of litigation away from them, there is simply nothing stopping the telecoms from fully complying with the government. Nothing short of people cancelling their phone service. And we all know how that goes. It doesn't.
- Ashish Tonse
Looks guy, Obama is not what he pretends to be! I would love to see a Black man as USA president! Someone as Clarence Thomas! Obama is not Black, he is not White! He is trying to please everybody and pleasing nobody! Who is Obama? What is his identity? What are his roots, his morals? He does not want anyone to know what he stands for! He is just a blank card that will be used by alternative agenda people! I rather know what my President is going to stand for, if I am the one electing him!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Scoops (4)/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...
"The guy behind the counter was super nice. The ice cream was very good. The parking situation sucks. High skinny hipster quotient for the other customers - could be a negative or a positive for you."
- Lee Stranahan
I hate skinny ate an ice cream shoppe
- Adrienne Van Houten
Sushi Don (5)/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...
"Another great Yelp! find. I've seen this place a hundred times - it's near my brother's house in the same corner strip mall as a Starbucks I often go to and the same mall as Chenar Deli, which I love.…"
- Lee Stranahan
Chenar Deli (4)/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...
"This is a nice clean little shop with Russian groceries, sweets and some really good prepared food. Real cabbage rolls. Bread pork culets. Some kind of breaded chicken / veal goodness. A bunch of…"
- Lee Stranahan
Joining the luck parade - http://digg.com/people...
"I'm happy to report the luck parade is still running in Hollywood. I've gotten inivited a few times this year. "Hollywood" just has a new address at YouTube.com"
- Lee Stranahan
Spirits Dancing Blog & Blog Archive & The hero that is Fail Whale - http://spiritsdancing.com/sdblog...
For all the Twitter users...
- Lee Stranahan
Spirits Dancing Blog & Blog Archive & The hero that is Fail Whale - http://www.stumbleupon.com/demo...
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For all the Twitter users...
- Lee Stranahan
New blog post: To Obama -- I'm not an ATM. http://www.scripting.com/stories...
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The honeymoon is over. Obama is now running for President, with all that implies: need for vast sums of money, move to center, compromise with non-liberal voters. And now the backlash begins. "But he's OUR candidate! How dare he."
- Leo Laporte
I take it as read that politics is all about compromise, and money. Take the latest vote on giving Telecoms immunity. Nancy Pelosi says she voted for the bill because there might be another bill that's worse than this one. I just don't see how a politician can be elected without selling themselves out in some way. I like Al Gore far better since he left politics (sort of) than when he was an elected official. For me the longer I'm around the more cynical I get. Lost my virginity with McGovern.
- Henry Burger
I don't agree with Obama on immunity - but I'm a supporter and he was NEVER the most progressive candidate. Obama is being pretty consistent here with what I expected in the primary and the more I think about it, the more I agree with Keith Olbermann's take on this - Obama might be being smart here.
- Lee Stranahan
from Alert Thingy
I got the same email only they asked me for $25 bucks. Maybe it's proportional to what you've donated in the past?
- Kyle
Kyle - it's much more effective to ask for a small amount - those who can do more will, and those who cannot won't be offended.
- Anthony Citrano
@Henry Burger - You like Al Gore more - that's understandable. Firstly, because he does his cool slide show. Secondly, because he doesn't have to make possibly uncomfortable choices any more. Telling the world what's wrong is easier than fixing the world. If he actually had to fix the environment, he would have to make choices that a lot of people wouldn't like.
- sebmos
Kyle, all my donations have been $100.
- Dave Winer
I had a donation of $30 dollars during the primaries. Sounds like they are just asking you to re-donate the same amount you have in the past.
- Kyle
Of course you're an ATM-what do you think he wants to show up at your house and shoot baskets with you while he finds out about what issues really matter? If you want that you better put a lot more zeroes behind the amount you give.
- Mark Forman
@Mark Forman - You obviously don't understand the US election donation law.
- sebmos
@sebmos - you obviously don't understand humour :)
- Jordan Brock
Obama's a politician...shock!
- Hrag
Yesterday I was sitting with one of Obama's Tech Advisers. We were having breakfast. He told me to look around. He said that everyone around us was Clinton's biggest money supporters. Turned out he was right, they spoke to these people later that day. They are very pissed, he said. Why? Because they raise money millions at a time. Obama has gotten them out of the loop because they were no longer able to buy their way to power. So, I'm now far more willing to be seen as an ATM by Obama.
- Robert Scoble
Here's an article on this meeting: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politic...
- Robert Scoble
There is always power and luxury to those that cater to those outside of the borders they represent. Obama and Corn will turn America into a modern day plantation for fuel. No energy diversity here. All about the money
- Noah David Simon
So Obama is a bum because we all don't get to have a personal sit-down meeting with him?
- Mike Doeff
I believe it is called a "Cash Crop Economy". America really will be a 3rd world nation, because we won't be able to eat our own food! Energy for the rest of the world. No more corn bread.
- Noah David Simon
@Kyle and Dave: Typical fund raising is to ask for the amount you gave previously or a slight bit higher. It's all dynamic. You gave $30 last time, you might be asked to give $35, doesn't sound like a lot, but that's a 17% increase in giving, do that across a vast donation base and it adds up - quick. Politics and money are intertwined (like it or not), and I'm happy Obama and Democrats have finally figured out and harnessed direct marketing.
- AJ Kohn
I think it's pretty amazing to see the extent to which Obama's supporters will rationalize his pointless conservativism.
- J T. Ramsay
All this talk about money and special interests is why the US should adopt the California policy of two term limits. It keeps anyone from getting to entrenched and beholden to special interests. Or we could go to the Mexican policy of only one term and the holder of an office can not campaign for a new position unless they resign from their existing position. This eliminates the advantage of the incumbent and keeps the person focused on governing not raising campaign funds. The current system if broken.
- Jon Erickson
Leo, then let him get the money from non-liberal voters.
- Dave Winer
Obama is just like every other politician. He flip-flops and begs for money. I love how he said he would use public funding and then as soon as he found out he could get a whole lot more from people, he's doing that.
- Jason Mitchell
from Alert Thingy
Finding it sad that once again Democrats are finding ways to divide themselves and look for ways to lose an election.
- AJ Kohn
I just wrote up my thinking on the changing money train in Politics here: http://scobleizer.com/2008...
- Robert Scoble
I feel honored that I'm being asked for my support... the alternative (the rich and special interest groups) form of funding has put us where we are now. Why isn't McCain asking for your $100? Because he doesn't need it and you definitely don't get to tell him how you feel.
- Nathan Manley
from Alert Thingy
I don't feeling like an ATM either. Ease up - money is important. Agree: focus on community building more.
- Brian Rendel
from twhirl
better you being the ATM than Big Pharma, Oil, etc.
- Aaron Brethorst
If I recall the book,didn't Freakonomics authors find that money really didn't affect the vote by more than 1%? Will Obama spend $300 Billion this fall for 1% of the vote?
- Daltonsbriefs
Vote for Liberty! Vote for Freedom! Vote for Human Rights! http://tinyurl.com/4zn5oz
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
MSNBC reports that Obama's tie is coordinated to match HRC's pant suit. I think I'm going to barf.
Christopher Perry, edythe, Brandon Wood and 2 other people liked this
Insightful commentary.
- Oldengrey (Jay)
I'm not sure why that's "news". The clothing someone wears at a political event is irrelevant to my political beliefs.
- Dave
It's what passes for news in this crazy world we live in.
- Dave Winer
Imagery and design matter - ask Apple and Starbucks. More importantly, the colors were the blue from OBAMA'S pallette...it was nice, actually.
- Lee Stranahan
from Alert Thingy
Could be it was planning for a flyer photo. That shade of blue goes with his logo. Little other evidence of the campaign having a production designer though. If you _really_ want to get down in the staging weeds, note that his flags are synthetic and often wrinkled, note that the type in unity sign today was not looked at by a designer -- serifs on the "I" were as wide as the crossbar on the "T". It's a curse to notice these things.
- Amyloo
You don't like his tie THAT much? :)
- l0ckergn0me
Change clothes. Yes we can!
- Oldengrey (Jay)
Can we all just move to FriendFeed and put an end to this Twitter BS? Thank you
neovids, Grant Bierman, Alan Le and 35 other people liked this
I won't move to FF alone unless they get rid of the unreadable grey text on white... hard on my eyes! :(
- Lucretia Pruitt
Im in
- loren feldman
Given that Twitter is down more than it's up, I think we're already moving to FF.
- Dossy Shiobara
Amen to that!
- Karen Swim
from Alert Thingy
I'm shrieking and throwing good china at twitter right now. the bastard.
- Erin @queenofspain
The mobile component of Twitter is still the winner for me. This is better for conversation, but still not really intended for true status.
- Jared Smith
@technosailor - Now that I've started work on Blackbird, I could clone it for FriendFeed's API - got a suggestion for a good name? :-)
- Dossy Shiobara
@Aaron - check out FFto
- Dennis Howlett
from twhirl
@Aaron - check out FFtgo
- Dennis Howlett
from twhirl
@dossy I would advise against 'blackfriend' but I'm overemotional about those things ;P
- Erin @queenofspain
I've already moved over
- Stefan Hayden
@queenofspain - yeah, "BlackFriend" isn't the first name I'd use, LOL. FriendBerry isn't exactly great, either. BlackFeed? Uhh...
- Dossy Shiobara
I'm trying, but I need a Twhirl type program that works for FF.
- Summer
FFtoGo works well, better than FF on the iPhone. Still needs "hide" though.
- Thomas Hawk
You can change the colors pretty easily with the Stylish Firefox extension. The appropriate style is at http://ungroundedoutlet.com/misc... (I can't add it to userstyles.org right now as that site is not working)
- James (@willia4)
"BerryBuddy" ...but it sounds like one of my daughter's Strawberry Shortcake dolls
- Erin @queenofspain
@Aaron: works a treat on iTouch (shrug)
- Dennis Howlett
from fftogo
Now that I have SMS gateway via Post2FF, the only thing I'm missing is WAP browser support (aka mobile) and the rest of my friends from Twitter.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Hey, QofS is commenting here! Maybe I DON'T need Twitter!
- Lee Stranahan
from Alert Thingy
@technosailor how about freebird or feedbird?
- Susan Scrupski
from twhirl
@itsinsider - Cool names, but FriendFeed's "mascot" isn't a bird (like Twitter's), is it?
- Dossy Shiobara
Hey James, thanks. I knew about Stylish but the code for friendfeed works well.
- Michael Tefft
@Dossy his other app is Blackbird, hense the bird thing.
- Susan Scrupski
from twhirl
I do use Twitter via the SMS interface and would want to have that functionality still.
- Joe Magennis
@Aaron - also works fine on S60 mobile with standard web client. Just checked with Nokia N95. Quite a few people have those along with 10+ million iPhone peeps + however many iTouch peeps.
- Dennis Howlett
from fftogo
I am all for it if I can get people to move over - twitter is driving me absolutely nuts - at the same time it helped me make some awesome new connections just this week. Love/Hate defined.
- Tony
from Alert Thingy
I'm one of Twitter's biggest fans, and it's driving me up the wall today. I need to make sure FF could replace the "feed hub" functions and more importantly the mobile access I have to Twitter tho
- Doug Haslam
from twhirl
I've added a link to FF on my blog bio
- Andy Roberts
What about SMS and DMs?
- Rubin Sfadj
Until FF or Pownce, Jaiku, and Plurk have SMS capability, Twitter is the way to go
- Glenn Batuyong
from twhirl
How about naming it "Grackle"? A fine shiny resourceful bird found in the south that apparently have no fear of lawnmowers as they used the agitated state of the lawn to find things to eat...
- Aron Michalski
from fftogo
I find it very interesting that this article appears in the Financial Times. Definitely more interest in this new platform is coming from the Business community; until recently FriendFeed was only visible for the more IT oriented people IMO.
- Jeroen De Miranda
Just installed Stylish and suddenly Friendfeed is a much nicer place to be.
- Roger Benningfield
Radiohead On YouTube&|&STRANAHAN dot com - http://stranahan.com/2008...
Compilation of great Radiohead clips on YouTube.
- Lee Stranahan
Radiohead On YouTube&|&STRANAHAN dot com - http://www.stumbleupon.com/demo...
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Compilation of great Radiohead clips on YouTube.
- Lee Stranahan
Starbucks to Further Decaffeinate Their Music Presence - http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdai...
Because they did NOTHING innovative...the in-store CDs were priced extra high. We know we're getting raped on the coffee pricing. Give us a break on music.
- Lee Stranahan
You can't use Qik in the Oval Office but you can Twitter. How do I know that? Because today Congressman John Culberson met with the President and he said the Secret Service wouldn't let him do live video but he did Twitter from there.
David Almacy, Chris Garrett, Jay and 92 other people liked this
What's Congressman Culberson's Twitter name?
- Chris Rodgers
Oddly enough, xSk8rB0i899x
- Mark Trapp
thats a security breach - but trust me the NSA is tracking that twit !! :)-
- Peter Dawson
Now if they'll just stop planning our foreign policy in 140 character tweets, all will be well.
- Chris Baskind
Heh, the Senator told me that limiting politicians to 140 characters is a good thing.
- Robert Scoble
@johnculberson - http://twitter.com/johncul...
- Kirk Kittell
Chris, his twitter name is @johnculberson
- Jason Shultz
@Mark quality response!!
- Joe Dawson
Why do I find it hard to believe that the president who touts using "the Google" and the "Internets" uses Twitter? Lord knows, McCain has yet to master Windows solitaire.
- Chris Reed
Thanks for the Twitter link. It will be really interesting to follow a politician on Twitter.
- Chris Rodgers
I wonder if Obama will tweet from the Oval Office
- Mike Hussein Cohen
Robert: I recant. 140 characters might be just the thing. ;-)
- Chris Baskind
unfortunately you can't take pictures inside the West Wing either - WH press room is ok, Rose Garden is ok but not in
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Following. - Holy moly, he just followed me back (probably auto...).
- Vince DeGeorge
Picture the monkey in office Twittering launch codes... "Twitter is over capacity. Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try to invade Iran again".
- Andrew Smith
I follow him also - Twitter name - #johnculberson
- Craig Thomler
Commenting here so I remember to add him as an imaginary friend later (since I can't do that on FFToGo)
- Internet's Tad
from fftogo
Culberson was by far the best conversation of the day. He clearly loves his job and wants new technology to do it better, even if he has to learn. Amazing, amazing guy. Can't wait for his Town Hall tomorrow!
- Andrew Feinberg
wow, you guys had FUN!! so jealous... twitter in the white house holy cow! McCain is soo screwed!
- Susan Beebe
So Scoble is the Maxwell Smart of tech?
- Mark Forman
surprised they didn't just put a jammer on the the area
- clarke thomas
I'm sure we'll be able to sum up all the positive things the Bush administration accomplished in less than 140 characters.
- Kevin Shannon
About to find the John Culberson Twitter account now. Wonder what he's saying about the Scoble effect. :)
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
very cool -- like what i see... following Culberson now.
- Andy Sternberg
+1 Kevin Shannon.
- Mohamed J
very interesting to see that Culberson also follows you back- almost immediately unlike some of the other politicos mentioned in yesterday's blog post.
- Nathan Eckenrode
John Culbertson followed me back immediately and then we even tweeted. I am still unsure about the other two mentioned. I can't seem to find the rep from OH and the rep from AZ (I think) his tweets have the feel of a staffer. Bears another look today though. By far the best thread yesterday!
- Mathew A. Koeneker
I had a back and forth with Congressman Culberson last night on gas prices on Twitter; pretty amazing, really.
- Lee Stranahan
from Alert Thingy
I got an immediate followback as well-- Lee, great to hear he is genuinely on the service.
- Doug Haslam
from twhirl
Rep. Culberson and I don't agree politically, but it was civil and it was a real conversation - a couple of people DMd me and said 'wow! this is cool!'. Tim Ryan is a Congressman, also on Twitter - but he follows nobody.
- Lee Stranahan
from Alert Thingy
I disagree with just about all of his politics, but I love his twitter gumption. :) Go Culbertson!
- Jarrod Morgenstern
Scoblizing The White House?:)
- Igor Poltavskiy
Flickr Photo Download: Olivias 9th Birthday - http://flickr.com/photos...
Kids today with their loud music and giant mice
- Lee Stranahan
Flickr Photo Download: Olivias 9th Birthday - http://www.stumbleupon.com/demo...
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Kids today with their loud music and giant mice
- Lee Stranahan
Bill O'Reilly Freaks Out Off Camera - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Joel Franusic, Ray Grieselhuber, Franz Kratochvil and 33 other people liked this
Ahahahahahah...*inhale*...hahahahahaha.... :-)
- cmiper
Muhahaha :D
- Marius Quadflieg
Where did *THAT* come from? (and: what is it?)
- Alex von Halem
Removed due to copyright. Oh well.
- Bwana ☠
Removed due to insanity, more like. Glad I was on FF and got to see it b4 it was removed. Actually: I'm not sure I should be so glad. Some things are better kept under the rug.
- Alex von Halem
That was great
- Lee Stranahan
from Alert Thingy
Another copy here... http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- cmiper
They are taking them down as soon as a new copy goes up. Try here, maybe NSFW ads. http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1...
- cmiper
love it!
- sixbit
Ok, that was pretty funny. Pure frustration.
- Bwana ☠
Gawker has re-posted the video http://gawker.com/5008668...
- Scott Beale
That was great. (thanks for the link Scott)
- Alejandro
Also see: http://www.npr.org/yourtur...
- Atul Arora
Is this hosted somewhere else?
- Steve Lynch
It's on the College Humor site still... http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1...
- cmiper
Goes to show: you can't remove something from the internet. If you act like a douche in front of a camera, you're going to have to live with it. Thanks for the laughs, Bill.
- ben bloch
Really. What a douche.
- Alex von Halem
here is an active link http://view.break.com/501946
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Does Friendfeed make Google Reader less relevant or more?
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for me all those social lifestream sites, killed the RSS reader long time ago...
- Orli Yakuel
It's made it less relevant for me. By the time I get to a story in Greader, it's already been shared several times over in Friendfeed. I mainly use Greader to bookmark stories for later now.
- Mark Trapp
I'm neutral on this one, Steve. My Google Reader habits haven't changed since I started using FriendFeed.
- Bryan Person
I haven't found enough people yet for it to replace Google Reader. Lots of tech stuff here, but not the spectrum that I subscribe to in Google Reader
- Bwana ☠
They are both MicroMeme trackers http://www.web-strategist.com/blog...
- Jeremiah Owyang
Full text feeds, archiving, flagging and tagging keep me in my reader. But now I see stuff here first.
- Steve Rubel
More for me because it gives a wider audience for micro-blogging via Shared items.
- Lee Stranahan
from Alert Thingy
I think it adds more meaning to the shared items.
- Mike Wills
Less for some, more for others.
- Mike Reynolds
It has the same relevance, because it is finely tuned to my likes and dislikes. A social network... even of peers... can never replicate that. So while FF works nicely for breaking news, it won't replace the depth of knowledge I acquire from Reader
- Jamie
less. except your statement presumes that Google Reader was relevant. not.
- dave mcclure
Less for some items discussed by subscirbers and more for topics I am passionate about.
- Gerry Garcia
I might say just a bit, when twitter came along, that's where the news were breaking, the same is with friendfeed maybe even more, but good old reading of feeds is different and still part of the game
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
@Jaime - well said...thank you.
- JA Castillo
The same. Google Reader is an essential element of FriendFeed.
- Louis Gray
@Lee I agree re. shared items.@Dave Google Reader is second to Bloglines.
- Steve Rubel
I think it really adds to GReader. I share stuff all the time now with notes and its great to see it get out there and spark some conversation. It's not quite there yet to replace GReader from a usability perspective but if it did get there I would probably switch to it.
- Devlin Dunsmore
from twhirl
FF makes GReader more relevant for me. I see stories here first. I use my reader as a way to catch up on news that I may have missed.
- Alex Williams
I tried to go all FriendFeed, but found I was missing too many stories...so I'm back to using both.
- Chris Rossini
They serve different purposes for me.
- Jeff "RESPRES" Turner
from Alert Thingy
The uses are different. My primary use of Google Reader is to gather together the content I need to read. That doesn't necessarily equate to a need to solicit the reactions of others to that content. FriendFeed is handy if I do feel a need to gather reactions. But I cannot see myself giving up one for the other.
- Jill O'Neill
More relevant and useful. Reader serves as a content delivery system will FF serves as an excellent aggregator and recommendation system.
- Keith - @tsudo
from twhirl
Less, but not obsolete
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Depends. For me, neither has a significant impact on the other. At least not yet.
- Mike Keliher
I think they are complementary in the sense that some things just don't do well in FriendFeed. I want to be able to read all of my tech news, but the friendfeed river is time-based which makes it more difficult to keep track of.
- Rob Diana
I don't think it makes it less, necessarily. After all, *someone's* got to find a story initially, right?
- Sean Goller
FriendFeed and Twitter have nearly replaced GReader for me. The trusted human filter beats scanning through 100s of posts daily to get to a gem. Hopefully not all will stop using them or the great posts will eventually dry up. Based on other comments here I might cull my subscriptions and then share more. P2P-like over me just taking and taking.
- Jay Gilmore
Less; until Reader becomes as social.
- Stowe Boyd
For my personal workflow, Google Reader feeds my blogs as well as FriendFeed. So I vote for "more." It seems easier to track shared items on Google Reader than liked items on FriendFeed.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
FriendFeed is very useful, but in a very different way than Google Reader. I need both.
- ron k jeffries
More, for depth (and because FF adds meaning to share). But FF has it for discovery of new stuff.
- Eric Johnson
@Thomas Ho - haha...so true!
- JA Castillo
I almost completly stopped using RSS reader. I use FriendFeed and one custom news page on NetVibes....via feedalizr
- Shahar Nechmad
I don't feel it's made it less relevant, I come across blogs here that I wasn't aware of and add them to my subscriptions there!
- Joe Dawson
I want to be able to mark FF treads and ditch the ones I have viewed. Until then, I have to use my reader.
- morten saxnaes
using both but finding that I'm starting to use Google Reader differently. More like a discovery device by following search-based feeds and then using FriendFeed to follow specific humans.
- Marnie Webb
Google reader is simply another source of data for Friendfeed to aggregate. The environments can exist independent of each other. The wonderful thing about Friendfeed is that you can continue to use all your applications/data sources and have them automatically collected and displayed. Applications such as Flickr, Google Reader, and Youtube have become popular because they are good at doing specific tasks. An aggregator does not make those applications irrelevant.
- Mark Nassal
Less relevant.
- Svartling
I still use GR occasionally, but most of my information comes from FF. Digg usage way down too......via feedalizr
- David Sim
I use gReader to follow blogs I can't find in FF. Also as a discovery tool, because sometimes I share stuff from there here. Sometimes directly with gRader and sometimes using the bookmarklet. I'm using it less because of FF, though (I deleted a lot of Tech blogs subscriptions the other day).
- Alejandro
I prefer GReader to FF. It's less cluttered than FF. With FF I check in to see the things I missed in my feeds.
- Snay Trivedi
I primarily use GReader - it's easier to locate information. I just come over to FF to see what "friends" are doing.
- Kim
I agree with Snay and Kim. Comparing the 2 is like apples and oranges unless you simplify the scenario to include only breaking tech news. My scope spans far beyond that and I can't get the health, auto, environment, local, mountain bike and personal blog articles in FF that I subscribe to in GReader. I don't consider it a replacement but another way of getting information.
- Jon West
But what about using imaginary friends to pipe rss feeds in? Doesn't that allow for archiving, searching, and commenting....?
- Daniel Berman
Daniel: Yes, that's what I do in 2 of my friendfeed groups: http://friendfeed.com/newspage and http://friendfeed.com/clipote...
- Svartling
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