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Sue Radd › Comments
Robert Scoble is fearless. And brings our total to, what, 5?
tinypants - Hagitha of FF, Francois Lamotte, Jesse Stay and 48 other people liked this
What the heck is this?!
- Adam Helweh
They're just one beach and one appletini away from http://friendfeed.com/akiva...
- Akiva Moskovitz
Whoa.
- Derrick
What Shel doesn't count?
- Brian Sullivan
I think this was part of the promotion (maybe unscripted) for their book "Naked Conversations"
- Brian Sullivan
YAY!
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
So even Robert Scoble is part of the topless meme. Excellent!
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Am I the only only laughing my bits off that he now works for Rackspace? HAahahahahhahahaha!!!!!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
OMG that's so perfect! HAHAHAHAHA WIN!
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Hehe Tina - until they see this pic ;)
- jcunwired
topless meme!!!
- anna sauce
HAHAHA
- mjc
a little bromance is great for the soul......
- Lokei Atikus™®
LMAO! digging Tina's comment. :D
- vijay
...HIDING in 3-2.....
- .LAG liked that
There is a lot of history to this picture. It was taken in Mike Arrington's back yard at the last Techcrunch party to be held in his house. This was a launch party too for our book Naked Conversations. It sounded like a good idea at the time. JD Lasica shot the photo and my wife and dad were within a few feet.
- Robert Scoble
This pic totally reminds me of when SF incumbent mayoral candidate Frank Jordan posed in the shower with two morning shock jocks. Ran on the front page of all the papers. Jordan lost, btw.
- Sue Radd
Sue: I guess I never will run for mayor then! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Nice...just the picture to see before I walked the dog and made my coffee. ;-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
we do not deserve this
- Giovanni de Paola
ahahah
- Giovanni de Paola
OMG :)
- Gökmen Karasu
DAMN IS IT REALLY SCOBLE?
- Alp
There really should be a caption competition for this pic
- Ewan MacLeod
Bump for good times.
- Mark Krynsky
Be scared, be very very scared.
- Paula W
O_O
- Danny Minick
Old School Geek Shirt Meme
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Instructions: Find the oldest and geekiest shirt you own and take a picture with it on.
- Mark Krynsky
I'm totally going to do this. Hold on.
- Admiral Anika
OMG! +50bn !
- Mo Kargas
Anika...we're waiting anxiously.
- Mark Krynsky
boo. it's packed away. I still have the bright orange tee shirt that was part of my freshman year gym uniform. but it's in storage with the rest of my stuff.
- ♥patricia♥
Storage?!? Well take a little trip out there this weekend...we'll still be here.
- Mark Krynsky
Here it is: http://friendfeed.com/fabooma...
- Admiral Anika
Mark, what you been drinking?
- Derrick
Nothing yet Derrick...thanks for reminding me it's time to get my drunk on.
- Mark Krynsky
I may have one more shirt.
- Admiral Anika
Here's mine: http://ff.im/2WmEh
- Parth Awasthi
Here's another: http://friendfeed.com/fabooma...
- Admiral Anika
Crap. Ditched most of my geeky shirts for cycling event shirts. I do have a 2004 DARPA shirt, though...
- Sue Radd
DARPA = GEEK
- Mark Krynsky
Fuck, most of my geeky T-shirts became victims of entropy.
- Adrian
Please Adrian. You got a buttload of stuff in that closet. LOOK FOR IT!
- Admiral Anika
*breaks out the lazy FF list again for a possible new member*
- Mark Krynsky
Anika, is this Adrian YOUR Adrian? *friending*
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Ow... my TOE! Anika can you look in the closet for me.... pleeeease?? *wink*wink
- Adrian
Yes, Jandy. That's my husband. Adrian, I'm not about to stumble up these stairs.
- Admiral Anika
My bad for not getting his last name at the meetup. :)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
That was because Anika didn't let him talk *ducks*
- Mark Krynsky
Mark, LOL. Hey, when are we gonna do another meetup? WE NEED TO PLAN THIS SHIT.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
*dead* at Jandy swearing. lolz.
- Derrick
Pshaw. "Shit" doesn't count as swearing. Not when I'm drinking. At lunch today I was driving and told my coworkers if we didn't get to the restaurant they picked soon, we were going to "fucking Panda Express." I kid you not.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I'm SO up for another meet up.
- Derrick
This post just got upgraded to PG-13
- Mark Krynsky
*kicks Mark in the shin* He wouldn't have said anything anyway.
- Admiral Anika
I want to do a meetup at my house if you guys are up for it. Just need to figure out a good date. Saturday May 30th might be good for me.
- Mark Krynsky
I can do that, but I'm not going to be on my best behavior.
- Derrick
I think we can swing that day.
- Admiral Anika
Good, because I wouldn't tolerate that Derrick.
- Mark Krynsky
Well, hell, I'll leave my pants at home.
- Derrick
Good cause the pool will be warm and if it isn't there's always the Jacuzzi.
- Mark Krynsky
Go Swearing Jandy. Panda Express? I don't wish that on my worst enemy.
- Derrick
I think I can do May 30th. Is that Memorial Day weekend? Or is that the weekend before? I should ifnd out before I go into work and there's no work.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
It's the week after. May 25th is Memorial Day.
- Mark Krynsky
Derrick, but the Panda Express was RIGHT THERE. And I didn't know where the hell they were trying to get me to go. The other choice that I knew where was was McDonalds. We did finally find it, though - and had awesome BBQ chicken sandwiches, as you saw in my feed at lunch. Way better than Panda Express.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Jandy, I looked that place up and bookmarked it. Chick's in Calabasas? I'm coming for you.
- Derrick
Dude, if you ever come out, let me know. I'll meet you there.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Would just like to add: The Jaguar was NOT 64 BIT. Lying Atari. However, Aliens vs. Predator? The awesome. </geek>
- Pete Delucchi
Ha Pete...Tru Dat.
- Mark Krynsky
Here's mine http://friendfeed.com/alieb... :D
- alieb
I went with what I was already wearing, but I can definitely find older and geekier.
- Rob Haas
Robert...then tomorrow a part deux is in order.
- Mark Krynsky
JaGYOOwire
- Josh Haley
Finally found one! http://friendfeed.com/laurabo...
- Laura B.
*bump* it's not too late. I'm sure folks would love to see your submissions to close out the weekend.
- Mark Krynsky
Jaguar?! Wow, that is going back.
- Diego Barros
Bump for the good times.
- Mark Krynsky
Once again did the BTB listening of "MacArthur Park"by Donna Summer and "Popcorn" by Hot Butter. Either I'm in a great mood for 70s redonkulouslness or I'm heckah hungry.
i can't imagine that a rain-soaked cake would taste very good.
- Joe Silence
But it took so long to bake it... and we'll never have that recipe agaaaaain... oh nooooo.... oo-oooh nooo-ooooooooh! (I still favor the Richard Harris version for total redonkulousness, however.)
- Mark "DerBingle" J
this song is so damned weird. :P
- Joe Silence
Do you have a TV in your bedroom?
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No.
- Alex Scoble
Yep. Although, I share a house with a roommate. If I lived by myself, I would choose not to. As it is, I spend 90% of my time in my bedroom, so that's why.
- Derrick
Yes. I live in my bedroom...in my parents house. :|
- Mathew™ one of a kind
No.
- Parth Awasthi
No.
- Yolanda
Yes
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Yep but we use it for Xbox and video on demand or DVD's
- Renee Hendricks
No.
- Micah Wittman
What's that?
- Mona Nomura
my bedroom and my living room are one in the same, so yes.
- Brandon Ball
Yes
- jcunwired
My bungalow is a studio, so yes, I suppose. Everything is in my bedroom/front room/library/computer room.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Yes.
- Admiral Anika
My Mac Mini is my TV but I rarely watch it anymore. I fall asleep to podcasts or music.
- Zach Flauaus
Yes, but it's very rarely ever turned on.
- Rochelle
Yes
- Rodfather
Yes. And a big pastrami sandwich.
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
Nope. I'd get rid of the one in the living room if my family wouldn't surely have me whacked for doing so.
- Brett Kelly
Yeah
- Nicholas James
No. Never have.
- Rob McNair-Huff
yes... unfortunately
- Jeffrey Canton
nope.
- Marcel Janus
from fftogo
yep
- Justin Korn
yes
- Uncle CW™
what's a tv?
- j1m
yes
- esther ♥ ♫
yes but usage probably once in a month
- Kiran Patchigolla
No.
- Laura Norvig
Yes.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Yes
- Håkan Dahlström
No, but my computers are...
- Grant Bierman
No way!
- CJ Guest
No but my wife has a notebook that she watches plenty of TV on from the web.
- Mark Krynsky
Yes, but it is a relic that no longer is used for anything. Not even plugged in any more. Reminds me I should get rid of it.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
No. I like TV -- a lot -- but refuse to have one in the bedroom.
- Sue Radd
I can barely fit the bed in the room, so no, no TV. I wouldn't want a TV there though.
- Kol Tregaskes
Yes.
- Mark H
Yup, i do indeed.
- Simon Wicks
unfortunately, no...
- Terence
fortunately, no
- Jim Addz No Value
nope
- Amir
We have one in ours, I didn't want it in there but the wife wanted it, so she wins :)
- Tsali, The Native of FF
No but i would have if i had a spare one. It's so nice being able to go to bed and watch tv on a cold winters night. Use the laptop quite a bit for watching downloaded TV but it's not the best viewing experience.
- Jamie Vidamour
I need a TV in my bedroom to help me go to sleep.
- Jonathan.Rivera
Nope. Used to, but then I moved to University and had to pay for a tv license for my dorm room so I decided not to have one. Don't miss it really :)
- Charlotte M
of course. that's how I watch Chelsea Lately every night before bed.
- sean808080
yep.
- Thomas Hawk
yep
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Yes...for my Xbox 360 needs. ;-)
- Carlton Hackett
yup (with tivo)
- Kevin Johnson
nope - but we do have a mac w/ slingbox on it ;)
- mike "glemak" dunn
No.
- AJ Kohn
Nope
- ronin
No.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
No
- Mike Reynolds
Nope and no plans to change that.
- CAJ, somewhere else
Yes. Mostly, to get news and weather in the mornings.
- Julie Barrett
from twhirl
yes - used to watch King of Queens reruns right before bedtime and when I don't want to watch those silly crime drama shows the wife likes
- Mark Bockenstedt
Yea I keep mine on all night.
- orionstarr
No, but I do have two in the living room.
- Slappy Line
Yes!
- Anthony K. Valley ©
yes, but rarely used
- Rajiv Doshi
no
- John Wang
No. I don't have any TV in my apartment.
- Brome
yes. in my computer. I have to do something about making it digital for the transition, though.
- Chieze Okoye
Yes.
- LuluGirl896
from Viigo
no
- Rachel Lea Fox
Nope. Don't own one at all. Happy to watch other's though... :-)
- Lisa L. Seifert
Nope.
- Michelle Marie Miller
yes, but it is rarely on. In fact I turned it on this week and noticed the cable wasn't working and I had to wonder how long it has been that way
- RAPatton
Nope.
- adf
Yes
- Bren -- feeling merry
No. Left it out of the bedroom when we moved 2 years ago, and don't miss it at all.
- mark
Yes, but not by choice. Hubby seems to think we need a TV in every room of the house.
- Sharon McPherson
No, I rarely watch TV anyway
- M F
Nope
- Nurse Katie
no
- sofarsoShawn
No. Just a radio.
- Nick B.
I did but not anymore
- Emma
nope.
- .LAG liked that
Wife won't allow it
- Bryan R. Adams
yup
- Nia
A video camera?
- sofarsoShawn
No. And soon, I won't have a TV at all.
- Morton Fox
Nope.
- joey
yes
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Yes
- Tom Landini
No.
- DGentry
yeap
- Dean "Karnatos" Michaud
No.
- Rick Cogley
yes
- MicahBear78
yes
- Hooeyspewer
No.
- Ferhad Fidan
from fftogo
yes
- Tyler Gillies
yes
- Ali Kaya
Yes
- Sarah Peterman
no
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
Yes, but I wish we didn't.
- Laura B.
No
- Deepak Singh
No
- Nolan Alston
Always
- Charlie Anzman
Do you have an iPhone in yours ? :)
- Charlie Anzman
no, but then I don't have a tv at all.
- Katy S
in my bedroom, in my house, no.
- browneyes
No.
- Mitra_s
Yes, but the only person who uses it is my youngest when he does not want to watch something we are watching downstairs :)
- Lyndon Washington
No
- Kreg Steppe
really?why u sleep in kitchen?
- Mitra_s
yes - a http://Free.TV
- Ric Johnson
Yes. Our old 13 inch (our very first TV).
- Alix Whitmire
Yes.
- TVTechGrl
Two.
- Steven Perez
Cable and a laptop for Hulu/Joost
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
no
- Alfredo
Yes
- Joe Dawson
No, I refuse it !
- DAL
No.
- Micah Wittman
No
- Charlie Anzman
no, and I don't have any TV of mine anywhere else (there is one in the living room that was left by the previous tennant and I just CBA to throw it out)
- mjc
(Of 125): Yes:48 | No:57 | (?):20 ... (per friendfeedPoll http://friendfeed.com/friendf... )
- Micah Wittman
no
- AJ Kohn
Interesting!
- Darren Heydon
Nope.
- Mycaptain
I have a TV in my room to use for mah SNES.
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
from Android
Yes, but our computers are here too so it's like a college dorm room. :)
- Heather
Yes, only because I have more TVs than rooms in my apartment.
- Rob Haas
no.
- Yolanda
Yes.
- James (!?)
yes
- Holly is Happy
Yes!
- orionstarr
from iPhone
yes
- Bren -- feeling merry
No
- Mike Reynolds
yes
- سید نیما
I can't help but think of "Andy Richter Controls the Universe" here. If memory serves, Andy's character just came into a small windfall, and his plans included getting a *second* TV for the bedroom, which he would mount sideways beside his bed so he could watch TV while lying on his side.
- Andrew C
No, but only because we don't have enough power points in the bedroom, and no aerial point at all.
- Mellissa Claus
Jenny R., tinypants - Hagitha of FF, Nia and 4 other people liked this
*thinks about bursting into a high pitched rendition of "I'm Your Lady And You Are My Man" but decides it wouldn't help*
- Johnny Worthington
Goddang! "Hay Paw! You need yer walker?" FML...Seriously.
- Sue Radd
Hey, be fair, this is very difficult territory for a guy. "Do I introduce her as friend? Lover? Intended? Casual screw? Occasional aquaintance? Person I secretly hate? Dinner?"
- Slappy Line
Safe to say Friend. Then it leaves it open. Granted it could piss her off considering she may think its more. But if you want a title change then put in the proper forms.. ;)
- Uncle CW™
:O
- Moved to Facebook
I used to work with a guy who referred to his girlfriend as his "lady friend". I mean, on a regular basis. It became a running joke with the rest of our department. Because it just sounded so damn seedy...
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Dear humanity: quit allowing people to make Lifetime movies.
Cardeen Martinez, Haggis (Sean Loyless), Yolanda and 7 other people liked this
if only because it will end the commercials that get sold to play within said films.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
I think that's the one I call the 'cancer channel'. Not that I'm demeaning this terrible disease, but the programming seems to be full of movies in which the kids get killed, the dog dies, the husband leaves, and there some incurable disease (usually cancer) thrown in too. So many disasters in one 90 min movie it ceases to be sad, but more like pathetically funny, as the script is so over the top.
- Ian May
And your husband leaves you for a stripper, a transgendered person, your grandmother or his secretary. I love Lifetime.
- B. Hatin
Hold on, is that the same as the Hallmark Channel™ on Euro cable? Sentimental tripe for hausfraus. Or maybe it's just the other, kindly side of that coin represented by Jerry Springer and his ilk of "trudrama" confessional TV? (Oprah, here's looking at you, don't you go thinking you're much better than that).
- ianf ⌘
It's just cruel how they hold a gun to your head and make you watch them.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
My wife gave up trying to get me to watch TV (of any kind) some years ago. I watch some downloaded documentaries sometimes, and also music video, but almost never network TV.
- Ian May
God bless Lifetime movies and The Hallmark Channel. We make bank on that stuff, as well as Animal Planet. ("You want Basic? Fine. But you won't get "Whale Wars" or "Groomer Has It." You want digital, On Demand? Right then, lemme just take some information...)
- Sue Radd
If it was down to me, I'd have cable internet only, and no TV at all.
- Ian May
Mr.T’s anti-drug album - http://juliasegal.tumblr.com/post...
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What in hayuhl is between the potted plant and the musical note? is that Boris Badenov?
- Sue Radd
good stuff
- (jeff)isageek
The first of many...
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Here I am, bald!!!
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
from email
Gorgeous!
- Beau Liening
Beautiful!
- Shannon
Bec, you look awesome!
- Janet
Lovely, Bec. We salute you. :)
- Derrick
:))))
- Michelle Martinez
/bows down...
- Adrian
Hot.
- Derek Coward
Aw Bec, you look beautiful. This brought tears to my eyes because of what you're doing for your mother. :-)
- Trish R
AWESOME - you rock!
- BEX
That's actually quite a striking look for you. Beautiful! :-)
- Jason Huebel
from iPhone
I've got that haircut... very functional. Looks good on you!
- Vince DeGeorge
Nothing compares...nothing compares....too you....
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Oh Rah, I was waiting for that :) I <3 Sinead.
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Bec, you're beautiful and it's wonderful that you did that to support your Mom. *wipes tears from eyes*
- Molly, "sorry"
You look amazing! Way to go. :)
- Laura B.
Back in my day, kids might say that this is "punk rawk". Indeed it is.
- Mike Nayyar
Wow! It's so great that you're doing this for your mom! And you look great!
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
O M G. girl, you are gorgeous. It brings out your facial features. <3 <3 what'd your mum say?
- B. Hatin
Very cool that you're doing this. And you look wonderful bald!
- Tamara
You go girl! And go mom!
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Dang, you carry bald well! Looks great!
- Sue Radd
You make me think of that hot chick from the first Star Trek movie. And I mean that as a compliment. :)
- CAJ, somewhere else
Bec you are radiant.
- Mona Nomura
*smile*
- Michael W. May
Made home-made Key Lime Pie. Oh-so heckah nom! Forgive the amateur-ish garnish. Please know that I attempted to fashion an "ff" out of lime slices.
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Liking for the Crocs-clad feet. :D
- Derrick
Derrick, LOL! Dude I'm sooo busted! Was washing the car earlier with a gentleman I'm hanging out with. (See IAD.)
- Sue Radd
I so love Key Lime Pie can no longer type any letter other than m: mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
- Stephen Mack
WANT!!
- Shawn Whitmire
It was way easier than I expected. Two cans sweetened condensed milk, one cup key lime juice, five egg yolks. Mix it all together, pour it into a graham-crakcker pie crust, bake between 15 and 20 (It's like a custard; you know the drill.) Drop on some cool whip and lime zest on and yer good ta go.
- Sue Radd
The Most Terrifying Mountain Bike Trail On Earth - http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/feature...
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Er, I think the Bay Trail is a bit more my speed...
- Sue Radd
from Bookmarklet
That's an amazing site. I'd be scared, that's certain
- Richard A.
better have some good brakes!
- Cee Bee
I can't say "NONONONONONONONO!" enough for this
- WorldofHiglet
Where do I sign up?
- Justin Korn
All I can say is - wow.
- Allan Besselink
Ho wow... just, wow.
- Dean "Karnatos" Michaud
No! I could never go on that bike trail - I would completely freak and die of a heart attack!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
NO.
- Kamilah Gill
Wow. None for me, thanks.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I would perhaps slowly walk on that trail, but no biking.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
I've got Moxie! And Harold had Boylan's
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These are the pops that we bought today at Locally Grown Gardens market. Moxie is a really old brand (since 1884) and the flavor is hard to describe... you'll have to try it.
- Kamilah Gill
I thought Moxie was a regional soda? Michigan?
- Sue Radd
Moxie is awesome!
- Michael McKean
They had the cool stuff in this market. So small and unassuming alongside the Monon. The internet helped me realize I was missing out on something. They play reggae in there. Such a nice little corner. I felt the same way when I found out about it, Dave. I was like, so *that's* what that little place is?
- Kamilah Gill
Harold's got the link here: http://friendfeed.com/avandos...
- Kamilah Gill
Sue, I think they may have imported the Moxie to Indiana from Michigan. We get Vernor's ginger soda here, too, and I've heard that that one is also from Michigan. Though the Moxie bottle says it was bottled in Atlanta by Monarch.
- Kamilah Gill
Moxie is very popular in New England. I used to have a friend that would bring it back from trips to New Hampshire.
- Michael McKean
I take that back, then. Maybe it's not from Michigan.
- Kamilah Gill
Yeah, that's gonna taste good...
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Hehe, Mark...the steaks are larger than your bbq. Those things are huge.
- Alex Scoble
Who will have all that meat?
- Mike Nayyar
TWSS
- pea
I hope you are implementing an indirect grilling technique :)
- Drew Lucas
Meat on meat sandwich guuuuuud.
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
Nom. Boss man cooked steaks for my colleague and me last nite.
- Sue Radd
They're real. And they're spectacular! And gone.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
I'm completely full and stuffed, but I swear I could take a couple bites from those. What cuts are they, MVB?
- Derrick
12 oz New Yorks, 2 inch cut. With kosher salt, cracked pepper, rubbed sage, minced garlic and olive oil.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
I think the apropos phrase here is HOLY SHINOLY! I'll bet they were tasty. They look bigger than 12 oz! Guess a small grill is like a small plate... everything looks bigger! (Which is why I always serve my sausage on a plate... ba rump bump!)
- Mark "DerBingle" J
In my grill
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Happy holiday weekend, everyone!
- Stephen Mack
from email
the tomatoes look great!
- BEX
yum!
- Carl Haynes
Looks really good!
- Sue Radd
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen (Hard Rock) - http://www.rhapsody.com/goto...
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http://twitpic.com/9am8z - Vintage Sears adding machine with woodgrain trim = raw computing power
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i have one of those sitting in a closet. still works and is VERY LOUD.
- Joe Silence
Where's the button that says, "Adjust for Inflation"?
- Sue Radd
Had an interesting -- albeit long and disjointed -- conversation with a guy who explained how flying saucers refuel SR-71s.
Todd Hoff, Admiral Anika, Roberto Bonini and 3 other people liked this
Is it done via physical probe? by osmosis? Perhaps you could summarize main points of the procedure, one never knows when that could come in handy…
- ianf ⌘
i never knew a KC-135 qualified as a flying saucer. maybe he was trying to hit on you?
- Joe Silence
No, no, no, KC-135 is just the outer shape these saucers adopt to keep NORAD in the dark.
- ianf ⌘
he's a keeper!
- Moved to Facebook
Hehe. Lol. :)
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
ianf, I'll try to find the tape because according to my new best friend, WE WERE BEING RECORDED.
- Sue Radd
Yay! Verbatim rules. Go, grrrl.
- ianf ⌘
i really want to hear this! 320kbps CBR mp3? broadcast WAV? :D
- Joe Silence
Spam subject of the day is "Summer is Cougar Seaszon"
MEE-OW
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Funny enough it was for allergy meds. Both relevant, and AWESOME.
- Sparky
wait a sec....was it really spelled "Seaszon"? if so, extra cool points for that!
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Yes, I C&P'ed it to Friendfeed. It's just that awesome.
- Sparky
NICE....
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Autumn is for Manthers
- Christopher Harley
Looking forward to Autumn already!
- Sparky
UPDATE: that subject line has been ousted from it's role of subject of the day by "Make her your rod's slave reserved dishonorable"
- Sparky
I'd buy that for a dollar...
- Live4Emma (L4S)
I like things which are dishonorable, but in a reserved fashion. I'll bid $2.
- Sparky
I got "TRY AND BECOME MACHO" from bearzonline@. I know it's spam because all the bears I know use proper grammar.
- Sue Radd
I think i should lower the guard on my Spam Filter so i too can experience the wonderful world of penis enlargement and hot stock tips! :-)
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Is @Spymaster over? Is http://140mafia.com/account... #140mafia taking its place? Do you love Twitter-based role playing games or hate them?
Random fact: my Sports Basement visit on Sunday resulted in no standing tire pump. Why? They sold 30 of them in 1 day. I attribute this to record heat in SF and a warning that the next week would be "safe the air" days, meaning, everyone bikes to work. Still, seems odd.
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Love Sports Basement.
- Sue Radd
Yeah Sue, I have a t-shirt and it gets a lot of thumbs up from people when I wear it! Funny.
- anna sauce
Poll: How Did You Find Out that Michael Jackson Died? http://socialtoo.com/survey...
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twitter
- Luca Filigheddu
FF
- pea
Friendfeed, duh.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
FF
- Shandiz
I found out about Michael Jackson dying through VentureBeat while reading Google Reader feeds.
- Louis Gray
twitter...only because I wasn't at my computer and had my twitter app open on my cell phone.
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
FriendFeed
- Valeria Maltoni
friendfeed
- Alex Scoble
From my sons, who may have heard of it on a WoW channel.
- Fred Yankowski
Twitter
- Roberto Bonini
email alert from a local news station on my phone.
- Steve Lowe
FF
- DAL
I was on a conference call yesterday with the team about to flip the switch and release the project that I've been working on for the last few months to an internal beta and someone blurts out "Michael Jackson is Dead!". I'm not sure how they found out...
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Twitter
- Graham Bunting
FF
- imabonehead
FF
- Panayotis Vryonis
Twitter. More specifically, this tweet -> http://twitter.com/kaitfol...
- Hiro Asari
Call me old fashioned: I heard it on the radio!
- Pablo Melchor
twitter, @breakingnews
- George Tziralis
Twitter
- Rich
twitter, friend posted it, not sure where he learned it from. I confirmed with Google News search, LA Times
- xero
Mona's post, which I saw on fftogo as I was leaving work.
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
radio! :) yes it still exists
- Mario
Don't remember if it was Twitter or FF first, but it was probably a tweet either way.
- Grey Drane
Good 'ol FriendFeed :)
- Janice
The nice thing about breaking news on FF is that the number of posts required for everyone to get their OMGz out are decreased by an order of magnitude. On Twitter there's 5 tweets per person about MJ, on Friendfeed there's one post for every few people and then those pile up the comments.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
from IM
FriendFeed!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
twitter
- andy brudtkuhl
Twitter
- Brett Kelly
Taken to hospital news on Twitter when only TMZ was reporting then followed newswires until death
- Karen Swim
Radio on the drive home (who read it off TMZ)
- Stuart Miniman
I hate to be a spoilsport but I've read Michael Jackson's death in my TwitterGadget. lols
- jan geronimo
Coworker saw it on TMZ.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Saw the first unverified rumors on Tumblr. Switched to twitter for more info and found a raging torrent of unsubstantiated tweets, most w/out links, announcing his death + a few linking to sources reporting the cardiac arrest and hospitalization. Glanced at FriendFeed and saw less rumor and more links to reports of what was so far known. Turned to Google News and found LA Times live blogging verified news. Kept hitting refresh until they updated with confirmation that Michael Jackson was dead.
- Ben Greenberg
WHAT??? MJ's DEAD??? Just kidding, yeah Twitter.
- Tac Anderson
Twitter
- Kenton
twitter.
- Evan Travers
NBC evening news - my next stop was FF
- Scott of Two Countries
Twitter
- Susan Beebe
from BuddyFeed
Friendfeed
- Martha
my mother send me an sms this morning.
- Patrik Johansson
Twitter but via FF
- Mike Bracco
@Mike - I think that counts as FF then, unless the tweet you saw had 0 likes and 0 comments. Don't discount the value of community filters!
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Friendfeed but then I spent a couple of hours trying to establish whether it was true or not.
- WorldofHiglet
Friendfeed. Specifically, subscription to http://friendfeed.com/breakin...
- Micah Wittman
A rare occurrence, my boss was on Twitter and noticed the tweets and mentioned it. So much for me being on top of real time media. I was working! :p
- Josh Haley
FF
- M F
FF
- Jim Addz No Value
CNN, seriously.
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
Please do respond on the SocialToo Survey as well if you can get the chance.
- Louis Gray
FF
- Ian May
Twitter
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
My kid. A friend told her, maybe txt.
- Jason Nunnelley
Breaking News Online on Friend Feed
- RAPatton
my brother told me and I read it on friendfeed at just about the same moment
- chrisofspades
Friendfeed
- Alex Scrivener
My gf read it on the news and told me.
- Will Higgins™
FF
- Bogdan Costea
FF
- W_B_K
Twitter
- Mohamed J
Twitter
- Ian D
Smoke signal
- Steve
Twitter
- Jeremy Brooks
Twitter - but waited for it to be confirmed elsewhere
- Keith - @tsudo
FriendFeed
- Seek Ground
from email
Friendfeed told me he was rushed to the hospital. I then was out and about monitoring m.nytimes.com on my G1, where I got the final news.
- Matthew DeVries
co worker said it.
- Chieze Okoye
FF
- Tech Introvert
FF
- martha
Would have been ff, but traveling and in location with limited connectivity, so CNN.
- Steve
I overheard someone who was on the phone and got told that Michael Jackson had died
- Jorge Barba
friendfeed
- zsafwan
Survey as no option for Facebook. I learned it from someone's status update.
- David Spencer
Friendfeed. :-)
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
checking in on friendfeed before going to bed last night - i'm on vacation and haven't seen a tv - also haven't been online too much either
- Chris Heath
twitter
- Mary DeSive
twitter
- Bill Sanders
twitter...it wasn't even a search, just everyone i followed was talking about it
- Anthony Farrior
Friendfeed
- Alejandro
friendfeed(tweets included)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
friendfeed
- Ethan
Twitter.
- cecily
Twitter piped through friendfeed.
- mikepk
FriendFeed.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
twitter
- Kiran Patchigolla
My wife got a text from an SMS service provided by People Magazine. When I asked who sent it to her, she was almost too embarrassed to tell me.
- Chip Ramsey
Good one Chip :D
- Daniel J. Pritchett
from IM
Yahoo News when I was checking my email.
- Dawn
Friendfeed
- Brome
While in a meeting, I received a frantic call from co-worker who saw it on TMZ.com
- felicious
I saw on igoogle that he had a heart attack, but it wasn't until later talking to my Mother I learned he had died.
- Grant Bierman
Rumor on FF, confirmed by the DJ at a roller rink.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
twitter
- Corbett Barr
FriendFeed
- Dean "Karnatos" Michaud
Tina: That's fantastic. Were you by chance playing paddle tag or shooting the duck at the time?
- Chip Ramsey
Nope: I was trying to not fall on my arse at a roller derby practice. The last time I skated MJ was in his heyday, so it was weirdly symmetrical.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
A quick hack to script http://wittman.org/project... and so far the stats here are: (Of 101): Friendfeed:39 | Twitter:27 | (?):35
- Micah Wittman
A tweet from Breaking News Online.
- Derrick
Here are the ambiguous per the script: (?): I found out about Michael Jackson dying through VentureBeat while reading Google Reader feeds. - Louis Gray (?): From my sons, who may have heard of it on a WoW channel. - Fred Yankowski (?): CNN from my dad's Behold - Mohomed Abdullahi (?): email alert from a local news station on my phone. - Steve Lowe (?): I was on a conference call...
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- Micah Wittman
New York Times online
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Friendfeed.
- Joey Gibson
Twitter
- Kevin Pedraja
FriendFeed.
- Christopher Harley
Mainstream Media Online
- Carlo Nasuti
FF
- Davis Freeberg
Offline. I KNOW!!! Crazy.
- Kandeezie
FriendFeed.
- Parth Awasthi
DrudgeReport. Heard about him being rushed to the hospital via MSNBC news alert popup. Was working and wasn't checking twitter/ff at the time.
- Chrimmus Tad
from fftogo
Wife txt me about the sad news
- Brady
A spam comment on my blog
- Richard Reeve
Twitter. But I saw the tweets running through my FriendFeed Home stream.
- Chris Baskind
Is it bad that I don't remember? Let me get back to you...Facebook, perhaps? I think it was before I was gonna go do some missions and quests and try to get Pyros. My brother sent me an SMS before that, but I didn't see it until after I knew.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
FF
- YoYo_P
Mother told me.
- Burcu Dogan
twitter
- Ekin Arabacioglu
Twitter - on June 25th - Twitter's trending topics told me that 3 celebrities died. They were 2 out of 3. I think Jeff Goldblum is still living....
- Mike Nencetti
FF! duh.
- Frankie Warren
Hah... I saw it on Twitter... sure didn't hear it from CNN. :)
- Sean
Radio, in the car.
- Patricia
My wife told me after hearing about it in TV.
- Glenn Trtanj
Twitter
- Hutch Carpenter
twitter & friendfeed.
- Oğuz Serdar
Wait... He's dead?
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
PBS
- Lisa zahara Hopkins
Twitter
- Tyson Key
pillar of fire on the horizon.
- Joe Silence
Twitter
- Charlotte M
FriendFeed...probably via Twitter
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Twitter
- Bora Zivkovic
FriendFeed, through @Mona
- Mark Aitken
friendfeed
- Alfredo
Friends at CNN.
- Mona Nomura
Friendfeed
- Victor Ganata
Michael Jackson is Dead?!! First I've heard of this! ;-)
- Jeff P. Henderson
I got the initial notice that he was rushed to the hospital via Cnnbrk that I have sent to my phone, so I guess Twitter (though official word came for me via CNN itself)
- BCK
Facebook, from Mona
- Mike Nayyar
twitter, but immediately went to latimes.com to check
- kelly
facebook
- Alessandro
Veronica on FF
- Stephen Mack
FF, plus checking all possible possibles sources.
- diego morelli
I felt a disturbance in the force
- Geoff Schultz
My friend Missy predicted 10 hours earlier, I found out while making frenchtoast and watching the News, they said Coma, I said bs
- Tsali, The Native of FF
I woke up from a nap to it being on the news. In my groggy state, I saw his picture, and was trying to make sense of it. Finally it clicked, and then it was sort of like, "Huh?! He was only 40 something. That doesn't make any sense. " (He was actually 50) .
- Nimabeckie
My oldest son called me and let me know..
- aerobroken
Twitter.
- Bonnie Foster
Twitter
- Aaron
Twitter...
- Mark Harai
TV News - in Australia regular broadcasting stopped on two channels as they covered the event in LA for most of the day - another station played MJ all night til dawn. Of course once I was online, I could see that even twitter was mourning.
- Chris Loft
A friend IMed me.
- Lu Liu
Facebook, then Twitter a few seconds later.
- Chris Luckhardt
FF.
- Alix Whitmire
XM radio, on the way to my new place.
- David Cook
from fftogo
Friend listening to car radio. He was pulling his car into the garage. Got out of the car and said MJ and Farrah just died.
- David Damore
Fox news
- Russ Jackson
Was delivering coffee to an espresso stand, the barista told me that she heard about 30 min before, she had 4 friends txt it to her.
- Christian Burns
Alix texted it to me.
- Shawn Whitmire
Local news report on TV
- Molly, "sorry"
Sky News. Since I was away from the PC at the time.
- Nicholas James
Ya'll.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Seesmic Desktop --> Facebook --> from Mona :) I later left to run an errand and listened to "Beat It" playing on the car radio during a tribute. I felt it was very fitting I found out the news from a combination of social media but actually sort of accepted it as true by hearing it on the radio - as opposed to something like YouTube. It just goes to show how long he's been around and how much has changed since The Jackson 5 days. The word revolutionary comes to mind.
- TheMacMommy
(Of 169): friendfeed:56 | twitter:45 | (?):69
- Micah Wittman
Twitter, just cuz that was the tab I had visible. Wait...when did I find out he was in the hospital, or when did I find out he was actually dead? Two diff questions.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Associated Press's iPhone app pushed breaking news to my phone. So "other".
- Rob Haas
FriendFeed (there were 57 votes for FriendFeed when I voted)
- Miss Elle
Text. (I was outside and away from a computer. Subsequently informed everyone at the call center with which I do business, since I'm pretty sure they don't have Internet access there.)
- Sue Radd
Google News
- Nikhil Dandekar
Duh..Twitter
- Saad Kamal
on friendfeed...
- K.D.
Email from a friend in the US so I saw it morning my time in Europe
- Krishna De
Friendfeed, but had to go to LA Times and CNN to believe it.
- TobiasVerhoog.com
Do you mean "how did you find out that he'd died?" or "how did you find out that some people were saying he'd died?". The answer to the first is "on the BBC". The second is "FriendFeed" - although what I saw on FF was a feed through of Twitter.
- Ian Betteridge
Heard that MJ fell ill on Japanese TV. Saw that he died on FriendFeed. Checked CNN et al, and eventually they confirmed it.
- Rick Cogley
Email from a friend
- Diego Barros
Twitter, when MJ's death was a rumour or unconfirmed
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
CELEB text alert from 4info
- Tim Connors
office chatter
- Thom Kennon
The people behind me at the Red Sox game were talking about it.
- Leslie Carbone
Twitter retweet of TMZ article
- Manuel Mas
What is this TMZ that you speak of. ;-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Via Facebook. I was surprised I learned about it there...
- Samuel Driessen
The News. I walked into my Boss's office and he had it on TV. I'd been in meetings all day at that point and hadn't had access to any of my connected devices.
- Jason Toney
When my wife told me. Same way I found out he had gone to hospital. I continued to not care.
- Eoghann Irving
Facebook. Tim Cuprisin posted the TMZ scoop: http://bit.ly/MppYm
- Mark Czerniec
friendfeed....
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
Plurk. Funny thing was that on FF I saw a slew of MJ posts paying tribute, but didn't understand why everyone on FF was so MJ crazy. A friend on Plurk directly commented that he and Farrah had died.
- Criz
I found out Michael Jackson had been hospitalized on Twitter. then rumors started that me may be / might not be dead, so I tried searching the web for confirmation and found nothing. Soon, there were links on Twitter to the CBS UStream broadcast which confirmed his death for me.
- jbrotherlove
I told about it in this post: http://friendfeed.com/kmeelah...
- Kamilah Gill
Twitter.
- Curt Mercadante
Local news of his cardia arrest. Twitter of his death. And all within minutes of it hitting the air.
- Graham English
f2f
- j1m
my son verbally told me about mj's death after he found out on twitter
- mike "glemak" dunn
Twitter
- Svartling
gmail status message of a coworker
- ta√i
facebook
- howard shippin
FF first. Confirmed through multiple traditional sources.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
facebook...i saw "RIP Jacko"
- constance taft
can i change my vote?...
- Thom Kennon
Jason Calacanis on Twitter.
- timedalkat
I'm currently in the hospital and i suddenly woke up in the middle of the night at 3:30 AM and couldn't fall a sleep again, so i turned on my cell phone and in the magic of that quite hospital night i found out from Facebook's statuses of my friends that he's dead. It was a very sad and strange feeling.
- Tibor Holoda
Got a txt msg just after 2p (MJ Cardiac Arrest 911) - Turned to my friend and said what the msg said and "He is goinna die" due to Ed McMahon dying earlier this week and that whole 'dying in 3s" thing. I didn't know about Farrah Fawcett until around 5pm. I was away from my computer al day and don't have a 'smartphone.'
- RAD Moose
Saw it in a Swedish tabloid (?) in a Coöp Nara (grocery) in Stockholm. It was in Swedish, but Michael Jackson 1958-2009 was clear enough.
- Ruchira S. Datta
twitter
- Jeffrey Marsh
From a sports radio show
- Yiorgos Adamopoulos
overheard at Whole Foods. Mistrusted, unable to hear on radio (at 6:30 EST); confirmed at 7:10 via the New York Times who had just reported it.
- Stephanie_Thankful
MJ died?
- Keith - @tsudo
haha - haven't you heard!
- Mark Harai
from email
Twitter/FriendFeed. Way before the media.
- Amit Morson
Facebook
- Bob Blunk
friendfeed
- John Black
twitter
- Chad
Facebook
- Scott Gould
Facebook
- Sai
A tweet from Mona on FriendFeed.
- Kol Tregaskes
my friendfeed friends told me
- Mike Chelen
Michael who?
- Nick B.
From a friend....trur word-of-mouth. I was in the Sierras at the Northern California Dance Collective with no internet or TV access.
- Mitchell Tsai
friendfeed
- Bren -- feeling merry
Rise of the 'gastrosexual' as men take up cooking in a bid to seduce women - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail...
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"They say that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach but it seems the dining tables have turned as increasing numbers of men are taking up cooking in a bid to seduce women. Dubbed 'Gastrosexuals' this new generation of men consider cooking more a hobby than a household chore and use their kitchen prowess to impress friends and prospective partners. Men having the ability to cook is also now a key factor in attracting women along with salary, status, personality and appearance, according to new research. The report 'Emergence of the Gastrosexual' cites the popularity of superstar chefs Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver as a factor in making cooking a macho pursuit. According to the study by food company PurAsia 48 per cent of people say being able to cook makes a person more attractive to them and 23 per cent of 18-34 year old men say they cook to potentially seduce a partner. The report also shows 60 per cent of British men now regularly cook for friends and family, favouring...
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- Cee Bee
from Bookmarklet
take the "gastrosexual" test right here: http://www.gastrosexual.com/
- Cee Bee
Men who cook = sexy. Men who talk ad nauseum about their cooking = unsexy. Just feed me. I don't care how organic, free-range, farm-fresh or expensive your stuff is. That's like bragging about what's under the hood of your car. Just drive.
- Admiral Anika
Just another excuse for someone to give themselves credit for coining a term.
- Amber, Random Time Lord
oh yes, there's a few here on FF.....:)
- WorldofHiglet
I cook everything in a microwave oven. Does that mean I'm microsexual? :)
- Morton Fox
++++Amber. Why the hell does "sexual" have to tagged to everything? What's the point of the label? I never thought anything could be worse than "foodie". I was wrong.
- Admiral Anika
i guess the sexual part is using cooking as a vehicle for getting laid
- Cee Bee
*chuckle* Aye, it's not about foodies getting some, it's about becoming a psuedo-foodie to get some.
- Michael W. May
Glad I am born and bread a foodie. ;-P
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Yeah, no...I got that. I'm talking in the larger scale of things. I mean, many people have the goal of of getting laid, but we don't call gearheads "autosexuals", okay, well that term wouldn't work, but you get my point? Why the need to do this to everything nowadays?
- Admiral Anika
actually, I thought the "sexual" part referred to getting the woman on the left a sammich so that she can reverse the amenorrhea.
- Sue Radd
Ah, I gotcha. I don't know why. I don't understand many things about our culture.
- Michael W. May
Especially now with the recession on, this is one trend I not only agree with, I'd fall victim to. I am completely "domestically disabled" so having a guy taking the time to cook a meal for me , and have an intimate conversation at home for two... Huge turn on.
- Nimabeckie
Did I mention I cook? *inno*
- Michael W. May
"Over half of the men surveyed prepare meals using separate ingredients everyday." Does the other half only use one ingredient then or do they not cook at all? For the record, I cook because I like to eat nice food, not because I want to seduce women...
- Tony Ruscoe
Hehe, Tony - maybe the other half eat 'Bachelor Chow' as seen on Futurama: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LY-9PT...
- WorldofHiglet
I'm a gstrobitionist. I like to take food porn of my cooking so that I may make others jealous.
- Wirehead
I finally decided my husband was going to be the head cook and he is excelling with different recipes. Sometimes I help and most times I ask what he is making me for dinner. I am now spoiled. Really it is a matter of him grilling or making me a protein base, he is too much a carb head otherwise.
- Janet
Shoot. My secret's out.
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
from fftogo
Harvey, you are a gastrosexual!
- Shevonne
Can we all agree on a new name for this ASAP?
- Tech Introvert
So, Janet's huband is a 'carbosexual'. See, it's easy to trendify eveything!
- Admiral Anika
Ohhh, Carbosexual! I like it, sparky is one of those types too. I know when the husband is not happy with me as the meal is all carbs and then I must do the FFY dinner (fend for yourself)
- Janet
A recipe for Disaster....................
- Kevin J Hatton
SPARKY.
- Jordan Hofker
Carbosexual. I like it :)
- Sparky
My husband has been doing this for 18 years!
- Head Ov Metal
you're married? nnoooooooooo! i was gonna make you some panini and UPS them overnight
- Cee Bee
Truth be told, I just want to be a sexusexual.
- Michael W. May
gastrosexual...I like it!
- Josh Haley
LOL @MWM
- Admiral Anika
P.S. From Urban Dictionary : foodie- A person that spends a keen amount of attention and energy on knowing the ingredients of food, the proper preparation of food, and finds great enjoyment in top-notch ingredients and exemplary preparation. A foodie is not necessarily a food snob, only enjoying delicacies and/or food items difficult to obtain and/or expensive foods; though, that is a variety of foodie.
- Nimabeckie
35% of students admit to using cell phones to cheat on exams http://www.techshout.com/mobile-...
Damn kids.
- Sue Radd
Seriously questioning where people got their world news before Twitter.
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RSS feeds?
- Andrew C
I just made mine up.
- Chris Baskind
It came in on the Telex machine that is kept so clean...
- Morton Fox
Pony Express
- Ken Sheppardson
The check-out line at Whole Foods.
- Mona Nomura
From watching American Idol
- Darrell Bell
from twhirl
Yahoo! News
- Shevonne
The voices in my head.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Listening to sea shells.
- Mona Nomura
Outside ?
- Thomas Bøhm
4ch?
- Mona Nomura
did you draw that yourself mona?
- Yolanda
There was a technology called the "newspaper." It was sortof like the web except the advertisements were not animated, content could only be pushed to the live site once per day, and searching was a completely manual process.
- DGentry
I'm checking Snopes. That sounds like BS, DGentry.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
The Australian news media seems to be at least 24 hours behind the news I read on twitter - everything has happened already
- Chris Loft
Carrier pidgins
- Rodfather
Flyers mimeographed, and posted on the community bulletin board.
- The Letter M
The Town Crier
- Kim Landwehr
The milk man?
- Mona Nomura
My Yahoo. Actually I still do get it from My Yahoo.
- ronin
Yolanda - ya I drew my icon in MS Paint!
- Mona Nomura
Semaphore flags. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Rodfather
*fistbump*
- Yolanda
Ah, sheesh, Mona, looks like you drew that thing in MS Pa... oh. ;-)
- Christopher A Carr
Well, that needs to go right up on the refridgerator then... : )
- Christopher A Carr
I actually never kept track of the news at all until I started being more active in social media. I still believe that what's going on in THE world is irrelevant if you don't have control of YOUR world.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
++ Rah.
- Mona Nomura
Google News!
- TheHenry
NY Times/RSS
- PR3F1X
The bathroom wall. That was also what we used before Snopes came along. We were ig-no-rant.
- John E. Bredehoft
The muffin man!!
- Mona Nomura
LOL - DGentry
- SAM
neighbours
- karthick
great question! dah network newz boyz (forced feed programming ala propoganda!)
- Susan Beebe
Radio?
- Alejandro
Blogs. Alternative news sources on the net. Before that, newspapers, before they started to suck.
- Steven Perez
Google News
- Gil Francisco III
Barber shop
- Rodfather
The corner liquor store!
- Mona Nomura
TV, Radio, Newspapers, Weekly News Magazines, RSS feeds.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Yahoo News.
- imabonehead
Norm at the bar
- Rodfather
The Bloomberg terminal on the 62nd floor.
- Sue Radd
A day late!
- Brett Kelly
CNN
- .LAG liked that
Blogs. Before that websites. Before that cable news networks. Before that newspapers and magazines.
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
BBC Global News podcast
- Christian Burns
Before Twitter, Feedly; before Feedly, Google Reader; before Google Reader, Bloglines; before Bloglines, Google and Yahoo Alerts; before Google and Yahoo Alerts, email subscriptions to news services; before email subscriptions to news services, lists of bookmarks to news websites; before lists of bookmarks to news websites, newspapers and magazines. I've left out quite a few steps on the way, of course.
- Sean McBride
CNN Headline News was the first real-time news service.
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
What movie are you embarrassed that you like, but can't help but liking anyway?
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Clash of the Titans.
- Cyrus Lendvay
gah, can't be embarrassed about clash of the titans... that's a classic!
- Rachel Lea Fox
One of our is "Bring It On!" seriously.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Saturday Night Fever
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Hudson Hawk and Last Action Hero
- Alex Scoble
my wife is embarrassed that I like KingPin :)
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Hey, Saturday Night Fever is actually a good movie. If you can't get past the disco, you're not a serious movie watcher!
- Cyrus Lendvay
I am somewhat ashamed to say that I haven't seen Saturday Night Fever Jannifer, I figure I should at some point right? Haven't seen Hudson Hawk or Last action Hero so I can't comment there. metageoff, it's been a long time, but I think I didn't mind Kingpin.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Growing up, I was pretty embarassed about loving "Revenge of the Nerds" and "Revenge of the Nerds 2" but I've met a lot of people who love the movies, so it's okay now
- April Buchheit
10 Things I Hate About You
- Kevin Fox
Kingpin was pretty freaking hilarious!
- April Buchheit
Kevin, I'm not ashamed that not only do I love 10 Things I Hate About You, but that I also exposed you to it and got you to love it too! I actually think it's a halfway decent, easy on the brain movie with a kick-ass sound track.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Oh, I loves me some Kat Stratford!
- Gabe
Moonwalker, with Michael Jackson. What? It has the most badass dance sequence in a movie or video EVER!!!
- Carlton Hackett
Awesome Gabe!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Carlton... I've never even heard of Moonwalker, but I can see that. MJ did like to dance!
- Rachel Lea Fox
All James Bond movies. Including Moonraker.
- Tudor Bosman
Superbad
- Cristo
Sixteen Candles | Weird Science
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
I loved Real Genius and Joe vs the Volcano but I am ashamed of neither of these loves.
- Kevin Fox
Tudor, nope, no shame. Cristo, no comment, I'm all about the love! Brian, OMG love those both. If you are an 80's child at all then I think it is mandatory to like those as well as Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller! If fact I would say it should be a shame to NOT like those!
- Rachel Lea Fox
I like Casablanca. I also like Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.
- Mistletoe Glen
Glenn, who could be embarrassed to like Casablanca?
- Gabe
My hidden shame.
- Mistletoe Glen
I'm with Gabe. I have to say it was good even though I didn't love it, but I totally see why it is a classic and would never call shame for someone who loved it.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Oh and never even heard of Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Drop Dead Gorgeous
- Rodfather
Rocky V - seriously.
- Brad Williamson
Wow, so many movies I haven't seen. I should get to work.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Walk to Remember LOL
- Mona Nomura
Spice World
- Neal Krummell
I'm not embarrassed by what I like, but people look at me weird when I say I like Who's That Girl?
- Admiral Anika
Weekend at Bernie's
- mike fabio
I think Kevin should be embarrassed for liking Lady Hawk, but he doesn't seem to be. I am embarrassed that I like A Knights Tale, but it doesn't stop me!
- Rachel Lea Fox
A Knight's Tale is awesome, funny and a great story.
- Admiral Anika
I really Enjoyed James and the Giant Peach.
- Brent - Loving Life
Weekend @ Bernie's
- Reyna Carlos
what was that movie about the kid with the paintball gun who ran around chasing that hot euro-chic pretending he was a sekret agent paintball sniper? that movie was awesome.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Rachel, you don't like McLovin'?
- Cristo
Sleepless in Seattle. Haha that was on tv the other night. I was tripping out they were using snail mail.
- Rodfather
nope, I can't say that I do. but I support your McLovin'!
- Rachel Lea Fox
There doesn't seem to be much shame on this thread, except for me. :(
- Cristo
Before Sunrise
- Kevin Fox
Shaolin Soccer.
- imabonehead
Blue Crush.
- Kate Schmidt
Oh and Fools Rush In
- Rachel Lea Fox
Happy Gilmore, The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Debbie Does Dallas.
- Steve C
The Golden Child
- Kevin Fox
Steve C, I think Debbie Does Dallas falls in the classic category. And it is much more tasteful porn than a lot of options out there. I say no shame!
- Rachel Lea Fox
My Sassy Girl.
- imabonehead
There is nothing wrong with The Golden Child! "I, I, I, I, I want the knife."
- AJ Kohn
Not ashamed of anything, but I get funny looks over Demolition Man
- Amber, Random Time Lord
I'm not really embarrassed by any of them, but I get some funny looks when I say 'She's Having a Baby' is a favorite movie.
- AJ Kohn
Bring It On - I'll always defend it though!
- Christopher Harley
Christopher, I love it too... but I am a bit ashamed of that. The opening cheer is absolutely awesome though!
- Rachel Lea Fox
I just really think it's put together well and it treats the subject with the requisite depth it deserves.
- Christopher Harley
AJ: Yes! She's Having a Baby is great! I used to own the soundtrack. That was the film that got me into Kate Bush. Oh wait, I'm just digging the hole deeper now, aren't I?
- Kevin Fox
I'm not ashamed of liking 10 Things I Hate about you. I'm not ashamed of liking Hudson Hawk. But "Can't Hardly Wait"... I don't usually tell people I like that one. ;)
- Alejandro
@Kevin: A lot of good lines in She's Having a Baby. "How do you feel about alcoholics?" "I ... like alcoholics?" And yes, great soundtrack on that one. I'm an unabashed Bacon fan so that helps too. Hence, I am in no way ashamed of loving Tremors.
- AJ Kohn
Nice Alejandro... we'll keep your secret! ;)
- Rachel Lea Fox
Tremors is great.
- Alejandro
The Notebook :$
- Drea
Dirty Dancing
- Gabe
Hackers. Although I might be more embarrassed that I'm uh, not more embarrassed.
- joey
True Lies
- Sue Radd
Can I change my answer? King Ralph.
- Sue Radd
Warriors of Virtue
- Morton Fox
Sue, you can have more than one. I do think your second one is a better answer though. :)
- Rachel Lea Fox
Morton, I think I'm afraid to ask what that is!?
- Rachel Lea Fox
Rachel: Kung fu and kangaroos.
- Morton Fox
Hackers. It's so wrong but can't not like it.
- Arlan Koizumi
from BuddyFeed
The Golden Child is one of my favorites
- Rodfather
Morton, I might have guessed the Kung Fu, would not have guessed the kangaroos. Might have to watch it now just to see that.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Xanadu. There. I said it. Now leave me alone!
- James (!?)
'The Secret of my Success'. Also, I just went to put Hackers into my Netflix queue, only to find it was already there. :-D
- Kevin Fox
James, I know you feel better now that you have said it. :)
- Rachel Lea Fox
@Rachel - Saturday Night Fever surely is a must see! - if nothing else to see John Travolta's full head of hair and youthful & smokin good looks! lol
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Jannifer, I will put it on my list!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
The cutting edge
- Moved to Facebook
Earl, I hear you. I sort of like that movie in an odd way as well.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Flash Gordon (the 1980 film with Max Von Sydow), although i must say that my wife is definitely more embarassed then me that I love that movie!
- Alex Hellstrom
Smokey and the Bandit for me
- Glenn Trtanj
Old kung-fu movies
- Bogdan Costea
Old Kung Fu movies with every battle fought on ice skates. :(
- Moved to Facebook
from IM
Old 50's and 60's Sci Fi Movies and really bad 70's sci fi television.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Evolution
- Alejandro
The first Poseidon Adventure.
- suzanne
The Devil Wears Prada... yeah, I know.
- Michael Forian
Michael, The Devil Wears Prada is a fun easy movie to watch. I like it too!
- Rachel Lea Fox
I can't be shocked at most of these, I either don't know them or like them myself too! I love FF for threads like this... it's so much fun!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Bio-Dome is grossly underrated.
- Andrew Smith
"Bring It On" I can justify it because Eliza Dushku is in it and she's hot.
- Joey Gibson
Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death
- Shevonne
I love that it was actually "Bring It On" that spurred this post as Kevin and I were watching it AGAIN last night, and that several people have brought it up for themselves as well.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Hello Again (Shelly Long), Stealing Home (Jodie Foster), Secret of My Success/Dr Hollywood (Michael J Fox), Cocktail (Tom Cruise), Last Dragon (Bruce Leeroy)
- Pokai
Flashdance... ehm
- diego morelli
Cool Hand Lucille The female version of Cool Hand Luke
- Moved to Facebook
from fftogo
Cable Guy
- Davis Freeberg
"The Secret of My Success" with Michael J. Fox.
- Mike Reynolds
Describe how much you hate your job, GO:
Srikanth AD, Nurse Katie, Joe Silence and 3 other people liked this
I hate my job a whole lot less, than not having a job.
- Ian May
I second Ian's statement. And actually, today, I quite like mine (don't hate me, please! 8 O )
- Helen Sventitsky
I want to keep my disgusting job, too. But it's just that fucking stupid. FUUUUUUUCK.
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
I hate that I like my job. But I cant find a better way to get paid doing something I kinda like
- Moved to Facebook
I actually like my job.
- Derrick
I hate it with a white-hot burning passion.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Thank you m9m.
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
worst job i ever had was in the publishing world as a software analyst. that was worse than the cosmetics factory job i had 20 years ago where i was burned all over by a chemical spill caused by a new-hire and they threw me into an alley to hose me down and just left me there. when i called in the following day i discovered i'd been sacked. i contacted OSHA and then discovered my former...
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- Joe Silence
I don't hate my job as much as everyone else hates me *doing* my job sometimes.
- Sue Radd
I love my job. I hate the micromanagement that comes with it though. It seems like my cc chain keeps getting longer and longer. I have only been programming for 15 fucking years and 95% of your product was written by me, I would have to say I am responsible so let me write some code and you go do your little meetings. Oh and fill out your own TPS reports!
- mindless_cubicle_drone
sorry, I haven't a job but I need one :)
- Ale♫nastrorosa
I hate my job so much that everyday when my alarm goes off in the morning I consider suicide rather than going into work. Mind you I think that's more to do with my hatred of the morning than the job. That said here in the UK at the moment I'm told there are 80 applicants for each job at flipping MacDonalds (if you'll pardon the pun)!
- Toby Graham
Oh I share your sentiments for morning Toby. I've always been a night owl. Can't get to sleep early at night; always feel like dog doo in the morning.
- Ian May
53% of my 96,000 followers don't follow directions. They are useless. The others will discuss this on FriendFeed here:
Tyson Key, Mike, J. Abdul-Qahhar and 132 other people liked this
you mean like so? :)
- Iwan
huh?
- Rasmus Lauridsen
:-) seriously, everyone wants followers but what good are they if they won't do anything you tell them to do? Useless!
- Robert Scoble
hahah that is soo funny
- Susan Beebe
yet sooo true. wondering just how long until people figure it out
- Susan Beebe
huh?
- Gabriel
is this a timed challenge?
- Iwan
Hmmm...
- Adam
Literally LOLing at this, Robert.
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
Yes master...
- Chris Forbes
You're not the boss of me! :)
- jcunwired
i'm not sure what you mean ;)
- Suzannah Archibald
I want to know how many of them consider themselves social media experts?
- Colin Anawaty
bit of a pompous mood today? when have you ever expected anyone to follow directions on the net?
- Doubledown_inSL
I was lost when Robert was at the 140 conference - he wasn't active here so I didn't know what to read...haha
- Mike Bracco
*looks around for FF koolaid*
- Susan Beebe
Fine, so I am useless.
- Julie Anderson
Getting people to follow directions on the internet is akin to herding cats. Best of luck. :)
- Keith Bourgoin
Any reccomendations for friend feed convos on the iPhone?
- Stuart Tracte
lol
- Miguel Rodriguez
FF sux nardz
- Doubledown_inSL
How could I defy the techno-hulk?
- Amanda Magee
ahah, like most of the followers on twitter =)
- Pierre TAMISIER
You are fired up today...you might want to switch to decaf. GOOD GODS, WHAT AM I SAYING.
- M.L. Stone
but 47% of people go on FF? that is quite good
- Billy Fung
So, 47% or your followers are expected to discuss here? The comment counter is going to explode.
- Brome
http://friendfeed.com/iphone works well. At least, it works well on my Android
- Keith Bourgoin
3% of Scobes followers are still trapped on Myspace
- Doubledown_inSL
twitter wasn't an interactive medium was it? :P
- jaspio
What?
- fanch_guy
Kevin: only about 42,000 of my 96,000 followers are here. Useless! I think they are all spammers or bots.
- Robert Scoble
I'm amazed how fast this thread is growing.
- Nick Prince
You mean 95,999 followers.
- Robert Peterson
Very clever.
- Nicole
that mass growing of the thread would be the 47% who can follow instructions ;o)
- Carl Grint
I keep having to block spammy, icky followers on twitter, mostly porn and get-rich schemers..augh!
- Susan Beebe
I refuse to respond to such a claim!
- Al Fuller
seriously, how much is FriendFeed paying you?
- Greg Hollingsworth
"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep." John 10:11
- don manu
What am I not supposed to do? Where is the line?
- Brian Goss
Spammers and bots eh? Great minds think alike?
- ralphsaunders
What prize are you going to give your 100,000 follower?
- Mike Bracco
Greg: I got a free t-shirt.
- Robert Scoble
*reading and where is my popcorn? ;) ;)*
- Ronald
LOL
- Schneider Mike
Flame bater
- Ron Hudson
I won't comment this thread ;)
- DAL
promised to cure cancer at 100k
- Doubledown_inSL
following on twitter AND NOT subscribing on FF = useless?
- Alexei Zheglov
Does it count if I follow you on FF, but not twitter?
- Keith Bourgoin
Spammers are everywhere though including here.
- Brian Sullivan
@Doubledown_inSL Now that's funny.
- Mike Dowden
Power is a double-edged sword, Robert...lol... can be tough to galvanize one's
- Carol Lynn Martens
wow... think we could crash friendfeed with this thread?
- Chip McComb
ROBERT! I sent you like 500 @ replies on twitter, wth aren't you replying? j/k
- Justin Hopkins
I don't get it
- Amelia Rangel
Do you want followers or slack-jawed lackys?
- Mark Petzold
how many comments per minute will appear in average :D
- Flavio
LOL @ Justin
- Doubledown_inSL
Huh, what? Should I comment here?
- Kandeezie
No one has to do anything anyone says/
- Paul Kinlan
let's see how 'stableizer' FF really runs *bumping up this thread *g* *
- Ronald
No. I refuse to. But that doesn't make me useless. :-P
- Ladybug Heather
show me a bridge - I'll jump after you!
- BEX
FF is great, it just requires a higher level of interaction that many people don't have time for or interest in.
- Stuart Tracte
new game: instead of "simon says" it is now "scoble says"
- Chris Rogers
That's truth but I am one of the direcitons follower
- Gent Thaqi
Just following instructions.
- Larry Roth
Glad I caught this in my Twitter feed - I'd hate to be a bad directions-follower.
- Shawn Farner
whatever you say
- George Deane
^^ yeppers, i robot :D
- Ronald
If you're happy and you follow (Scoble), clap your hands!
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
I may of missed something, my bad..
- Sebastiaan van den Akker
Doh! Sorry, I clicked that link by accident - I'm in the 53%. As you were...
- Andrew Jordan
Must do what Scoble says... Slow down comment box... forgot what this tread was about.
- Drew S
/claps hands
- George Deane
do what?
- Mick
I agree that FF is better for tracking conversations, and hopefully @Twitter will get that. I still spend more time on Twitter
- Matthew Scott Horbund
I follow directions but am often useless. Where do I fit?
- Aaron Ball
53% your numbers are inaccurate.
- Carlos Ayala
This should be interesting...
- Robert Lee
YES O LORD AND MASTER, WHAT IS THY BIDDING :)
- ftg888
wow, I'm not the only one who has no clue what's going on..
- Sebastiaan van den Akker
Grr... shouldn't have commented... Now I'll be getting IM updates forever!!!!
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
I think this is just a psychology experiment...
- Chip McComb
lol
- Sebastiaan van den Akker
Commenting so as not to appear useless
- Herb Hernandez
hahaha
- Ronald
Carlos: lol
- Larry Roth
what is actually ment by "directions"?
- Clemsen
yes how is the number 53% found.
- Daniel Graversen
as usual im in the minority (43%), Im never in the majority :(
- George Deane
I hope you're wrong, Chip. Otherwise, you didn't see me here.
- Shawn Farner
reporting for duty...
- Todd Goldstein
baaaaah
- mikepk
Scoble does have a lot of followers...
- Sebastiaan van den Akker
I thought men were basically incapable of asking for directions, so why would they follow them? ;-)
- Julie Bovee Hill
Robert, you are looking angry today. Take it easy, man!
- Walter Lounsbery
d'oh! I meant 47%
- George Deane
I am in building 44. Can you give me directions to 43?
- David Connell
??? is this a test of the national broadcasting system?
- Robert Wilkins
damn it scoble! get a real job! =)
- Jonathan Crossland
Wow--never thought I'd wish for a "Don't Like" button or link, Robert!
- Kathy Fitch
Robert's comments are very important particularly for political & development work.
- Justin Long
Also important for business marketing.
- Justin Long
U made me upset in first look then I realized what u mean and I found Im not not one of those. Hope you are not angry sir and wont fire me..
- Abhijeet Singh
I need a job like Scoble's... but in Miami.
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
to comment or not to comment.... that is the question...
- Kim
Are trending topics on friendfeed called "friending topics"?
- Larry Roth
Slaves, obey your earthly masters with deep respect and fear. Serve them sincerely as you would serve Christ. (Ephesians 6:5 NLT) What was the question again?
- don manu
hehehe... nice trick
- Gustavo Munoz
from twhirl
Robert, I'm up to the CHALLENGE of not being "useless." Actually, my business communication students at SFSU just heard my initial remarks which included THREE RULES FOR SUCCESS in BUSINESS [and everything else!] The rules: LISTEN CAREFULLY, READ CAREFULLY and FOLLOW ALL DIRECTIONS!
- Shari Weiss
i think this thread goes 'epic' on FF ;)
- Ronald
Apathy is the big killer of networks.
- Justin Long
I'm here. That makes me not useless, I guess?
- Celia
Robert Wilkins: it is my test to see how many spammers, bots, or jerks are following me.
- Robert Scoble
I get alot of spam about sites who gives you followers, whats the point of the followers have no interresting to give to you? And whats most crap is that they have enabled auto-follow back.. grrr :P don't sign up on those sites people.!
- Qbat
I like the constantly refreshed list but it doesn't half distract me from my own comment!
- Joshua Davidson
hahahahaha, ok.. now I get it
- Sebastiaan van den Akker
I Welcome our FF Overlords!
- Al Fuller
Does this mean that you expect there to be 45,120 comments here?
- Andrew Pass
I like Viagra.
- Paul Puri
:-P
- Lorenzo Strambi
a spammer...
- Sebastiaan van den Akker
this is the only ff link of yours i followed.
- moogs
You are usefull for us Robert =)
- Qbat
I am getting a few new people to follow here, which is good!
- Robert Scoble
Qbat aka Larsen: Agreed!
- Larry Roth
I am not a bot! I am a free man!
- Jeff Newfeld
Talking directions?
- Sardar Mohkim Khan
i guess i've been lucky - i don't think i've seen any bots yet on FF (going now to check my short followers list)
- Chris Rogers
Why do you think that people take the time to comment here?
- Andrew Pass
This thread is like watching the real time web on steroids.I can't type fast enough to keep the comment box in view....yikes!
- Dana Fosburgh
Robert - me too, thanks! :)
- Susan Beebe
All you have to do is insult people and then they come :-)
- George Deane
Notice how many of us follow when we are told we are not following.
- Sandy McMerty
So, you're saying that people who don't use FF are spammers, bots or jerks ?
- Djordje Lukic
So when you figure out how many there are, How are you going to auto filter them out?
- Robert Wilkins
I read, I clicked, I arrived. I guess that means I'm not useless.
- Mike
This comment intentionally left useless.
- phil baumann
Seriously though let's not take the term 'followers' too literally. Just because I read a column doesn't mean I share the authors views. Just because you say lets discuss this on friendfeed doesn't mean I log onto FF and.......ah. OK....What is thy bidding?!
- Joshua Davidson
You suck, man. I refuse to be a minion. Oh, wait... shit...
- Joey Gibson
<Insert clever comment here.>
- CAJ, somewhere else
Am I in the 53% or the 47%?
- Tony Connor
What type of followers do you need Robert? Tell us and maybe we will try to be better.
- Qbat
DeVries: oh, I understand. We need better notified control.
- Robert Scoble
150th
- Harscoat
Well, those who don't do what you tell them are actually more useful. No for you directly, but for the society. They mix your directions with their own to create new ones.
- Kirill Petrovsky
Is this a roll call :)
- Boon Kwee
i'm just commenting to hang with the cool kids
- ukgrad98
^^ Nope 'happy hour' at Scoble's ;) ;)
- Ronald
"Follower" is a weird term. "Watcher" may be better. Follower implies action and engagement, and anybody who's used social media for more than 20 minutes knows that just isn't true.
- Jared Smith
Have I responded quick enough not to deemed useless. I feel a little baaaaa now.
- Crispin Heath
Jared: bing!
- Robert Scoble
So if you ever figure out how to deal with the bots and all the "I will teach you to make millions with Twitter" junk let us all know!
- Marshall Huwe
you are talking about twitter, they would be useless but they are numbers and number always count.
- Madhav Tripathi
If we need to use friendfeed to be useful, are there any clients or is it only the webinterface.
- Daniel Graversen
Marshall: this is how. Bots and spammers don't get FriendFeed.
- Robert Scoble
Daniel: what is wrong with the web?
- Robert Scoble
inscribo ergo sum (I write therefore I am)
- Jeff Newfeld
Nothing, just seem deficult to follow more threads. But that is probably not needed because the whole conversation is in once place. No need to multitask.
- Daniel Graversen
is it just me or is the most used "plugin" on FriendFeed twitter?
- Qbat
Actually, I find FriendFeed useless. I was reading an article about Twitter being useless, but the news get faster there. We'll have to say thanks to TwitScoop for that.
- Dragos Pirvu
I never use FriendFeed. it just agregates all my other feeds into one feed. thats all :D
- Zafarali
Dragos: wait until you compare search here to Twitter before calling it useless. Among other features.
- Robert Scoble
No bot me, no. Count me out for that one.
- Ton Zijp
dragos: all the news on Twitter is on FF, plus FF has better conversation - what do you think is missing?
- Chris Rogers
FriendFeed enables comments on your tweets.!
- Qbat
Robert Scoble: I think the proliferation of tools for Twitter let you slice and dice the data the way you want it and that is helpful to many. I do like the Web interface for FriendFeed, but imagine the possibilities that some cool tools could bring. No?
- Larry Roth
So then we need someone in your vast network to write us a little app that will map the Twitter users who comment on FF and then block all the rest! Or at least create a "Real" Group in TweetDeck for me.
- Marshall Huwe
You don't want followers, Robert—you want minions. I've got a few myself, and they're great.
- Mistletoe Glen
ha!
- Ned Baugh
there are SO MANY COMMENTS HERE
- Zafarali
the best part is u can track em
- Zafarali
Is this the way to San Jose? err ... I mean Friend Feed?
- Tom Horn
Twitter should have a option that people who want's to follow you must write a small text for WHY you should let them follow you or the other way around
- Qbat
Did you know that more than 90% of all statistics are made up? ;)
- Tim Young
I'm getting tired of having to block the spam followers everyday.
- Ron Hudson
Working on both FF and twitter - but FF is easier to follow comment threads
- kathysd
What is interesting is I am already following most of the people who commented here which proves my point.
- Robert Scoble
I was carefully looking at this list the other day http://spinn3r.com/rank... - turns out many people on it barely/if at all - use friendfeed.
- Nir Ben Yona
Can you guys slow down - I can't keep up :(
- Al Fuller
I think Twitter and FF provide different things and there is space on the internet for both :)
- Tom Griffin
I've had friendfeed for quite a while, but I've not used it much, how do I expand this chat?
- Ron Hudson
How does this post check for bots?
- Amit Morson
Followers can not be useless. At least you can be proud of the sheer scale. And I believe, you don't want to have a conversation with thousands people at once. That would be truly useless.
- Grigori Milov
I am here with you - I think it is that only half want to have a say.
- Robert Freeze
On Twitter I talk strangers V on Friendfeed I am among friends
- Asgeir
I'd like twitter to have a "report spam" button, this would avoid quite a lot of hassle...
- don manu
Ron: just click on comments link under the topic
- Qbat
ya like that! thanks. How do I do that?
- Ron Hudson
Why is it important that followers comment & discuss U2, @Scobleizer? BC U R green?
- Petter Griph
Amit: bots don't follow directions from people who are not their owners. No bots here.
- Robert Scoble
FriendFeed should get a comment button under all the comments
- Qbat
So, 47% will choose to do their own thing and not comment on here. Wait - what? Doh! And 65% won't read the comments that have already been made because there are already 'too many' :-D
- Andy Bold
Qbat: click on the time under the post and open it in a new window
- Robert Freeze
Andy: I'm in the 35% that read the comments. Didn't want my lame joke to be a REPEATED lame joke. :D
- Tim Young
Robert Freeze: aaah.! Thank you =)
- Qbat
Robert: unless perhaps the bot has directions to comment on every Scoble post?
- Brian Sullivan
This reminds me of that "following directions" test from grade school. 1. Read all instructions before beginning. (2 -> N-1). Lots of crazy instructions which we all did. N. Don't do any of the previous instructions. Turn the page over, write your name, and wait.
- Don Faulkner
Robert Freeze, that never worked for me
- Amit Morson
Go watch Perez Hilton's video about being beaten up last night and going on techcrunch
- Mark
time for a pint :-p
- tony bland
Robert Freeze that worked. that should be labeled a bit better
- Ron Hudson
Andy: I didn't tell you to read all the comments! :-)
- Robert Scoble
If I reply here that I think it's less than 53% I may actually prove myself wrong. So be it.
- Arnd Jan Gulmans
Should be a rewind and play button so you can play back all the comments.. like google wave
- Qbat
Lots of users are already on the service but, under utilize it. Really still don't understand how powerful the service is or how to use the filtering system.
- Eric Logan
And how many minutes/comments-in does the Scobalizer stop reading the comments? Opps, I just see that we are not supposed to "read" to comments...only discuss them.
- Stephen Price
Thats cause they were busy seeing what I am doing!! LOL, your not the only person bossing people around.
- T.S. Elliott
How big is the percentage of your followers that doesn't follow you?
- Arnd Jan Gulmans
I love Friend Feed!
- Robert Freeze
Click here for 101 ways to get rich ... Woooops, sorry wrong percentage group.
- Chris Spencer
The reason I don't use friendfeed very much is because there is no SocialScope support on my blackberry. As soon as I can get a sweet blackberry app I'll be here more.
- Ron Hudson
Now if I can just get my mom on here. http://www.building43.com/blogs...
- Robert Freeze
I don't want to be in the wrong group. :P
- Sheryl
Ron: http://fftogo.com
- Tom Griffin
Tim: I'm a 65%er :) Though I am now in the 13.9% that skim comments to see what's going on. And also in the 29.4% of people managing to find replies to their comments in the Scobleflow. Definitely in the 100% of people wanting a Comment link at the end of each conversation since I moved back to Safari. Oh, and also in the 100% of people who take conversations off topic while making up statistics.
- Andy Bold
Done, in.
- Thom Kennon
Tom Griffin, I saw that, and it's "usable" but it's nowhere near the elegance and simplicity of say UberTwitter,SocialScope, or TweetGenious. I use SocialScope. It is an absolute Killer app.
- Ron Hudson
Do I get partial credit for skimming the comments? No? Sorry, master.
- malackey
Cool, so, I'm in the 47%, 35%, 29.4%, 100% and 100% ranges! I'm all over the place. Thanks Scoble and Andy for helping me learn something new about myself.
- Tim Young
I see the "224 more comments" bit on FF and know I don't need to add another comment. Erm...
- Ian Betteridge
FFtogo doesn't auto-refresh
- Ron Hudson
To follow or not to follow, or to passive follow versus have an active conversation?
- Peter Simoons
More stats: 41% will miss Robert's reply to them in the reply flood, 26% will see it and not answer, 22% will have ADD (the tech curse) and already be doing something else, and 1% will see the reply and see it as an excuse to make up some more statistics. (And reply that I definitely have not read all the comments ;-) )
- Andy Bold
It's all about the user experience though - it's easier to comment to someone's question on Twitter by quickly clicking @ than click a link through to FF, faff about sizing the screen on the screen to wait for the comments to load, read them and then post, so yeah, I can see why many respond on Twitter than FF. I'm doing that more myself as currently very busy with work projects. This...
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- Sally Church
And, somewhere in the horde, somebody will belatedly realise that he somehow manages to fall into Robert Scoble's "useful" list. Darn it - will need to post more signal and less noise now! ;)
- Andy Bold
I refuse to fall prey to this ruse, Robert. Oh...wait... ;)
- Robert J Taylor
I added you to my Live acct weeks ago. No reply.
- Bret
I'm too sleepy to read all this right now.
- Daniel Zarick
clever early morning link-bait
- Jake Ludington
nice one :) you should do an NHST on that hahaha
- The Pageman
They should change that from "followers" to something like "watchers" or "subscribers". As in "I have a subscription to the Scoble lifestream."
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
discuss (Would hate to be useless)
- Charlie Anzman
So is this a casual social experiment to determine rough percentages of active/rabid users who like to engage/participate with those they follow?
- Eden Hensley
I completely agree! Unfortunately I might be considered part of that 53%! The only reason I am responding is because someone else I follow re-tweeted it. I personally have over 5000 followers but only regularly interact with 50 or so. Isn't Social Media about conversation and being engaging? Hmmm......
- Robert Dominguez
Robert: Very interesting experiment, one should use there own judgment over there (twitter) regarding bots and spammers.
- Eran Even-Kesef
@Scoble: I'm listening. What are you going to say, or what did I miss?
- Jason Cronkhite
from Alert Thingy
It is a direction. Anybody must walk all alone ... so, what is the point?
- bishoph
same here, most people don't read
- Michael Reese
Smile and wave boys, smile and wave:)
- Rick Bucich
I too am tired of blocking spam followers on twitter...
- W_B_K
great man！！no protect update.... and i just follow ..i 'd like be the unless fllower..lol~~
- HealingBrush
Not being a bot, I am compelled to follow directions.
- Randall Fink
I am useless :-(
- Andrew
Re blackberry access, try http://friendfeed.com/iPhone - it's supposed to look good on BB too
- Andy Bold
from email
Andy Bold, I played with iPhone page too, but it's just a pain to have to open the browser. The blackberry environment is all about easy simple communication. If I have to jump through hoops it breaks down. Not to mention a friend feed experience without push is not a friendfeed experience.\
- Ron Hudson
99% of your followers will not read the 250 comments proceeding this one, and I am one of those 99%
- Steve C
That'll teach me for ignoring Twitter for a few minutes a couple of hours ago! Late as usual.
- Graham Stewart
Hey, much better here! Twitter sux.... after getting locked out of @freddavis for months with NO reply from Twitter, even after you tweeted @ev and @biz (thanks!)... so I my new Twitter name is @fucktwtr ... but much better to use FriendFeed!
- Fred Davis
I almost thought that you have a big ego. :)
- Shuuro
followers are for cults. twitter should change to readers/reading, because at the end of the day this is all about reading
- Jim Posner
Adding my opinion to the rollcall, though I've just realized that i actually have no opinion on this.
- Chris Foley
Clever. :-)
- Patrick Ward
To much noise, the good data is lost.
- Adam Mesenbrink
Yes to much noice. Maybe a way to mark comments as good could be a way to filter the comments.
- Daniel Graversen
Adam, I think that's a limitation with the threaded discussion model of FriendFeed - it becomes very, very difficult to follow a conversation once it goes beyond a hundred or so comments. Of course, Scoble will come up with a search filter which makes it easy in about three comments from now, just to prove I'm wrong... :)
- Ian Betteridge
I didn't realize followers were supposed to do what their followees said. Does that mean I have to open those links to help me make money on twitter? I was just using it for communication. Silly me.
- RobinDotNet
Robin: communication takes someone on the other side listening and talking back.
- Robert Scoble
Useless to YOU, perhaps. I'll bet they are getting value from the info you rpovide. Social media doesn't have to be about communication, it can be about "transmitting information" or some other morer restrcitive definition of what goes on. Some people just like to listen!
- Jim Tierney
Useful post :)
- Krishnamoorthy
Agreed! There are those like me who sit in shadows, read and do not comment... oh wait, crap!
- Danny F Santos
Talking back is definitely good, but I'm still not clicking on those links telling me I can make money on twitter. I do talk back to people (as evidenced here). :-) So you have a lot of followers who don't. Do they even tweet? Can anyone explain why people join twitter and don't tweet?
- RobinDotNet
Jim: I'm not a broadcast, though. Are people who just consume really useful?
- Robert Scoble
And BTW, if you don't realize the value your personal brand gets from having those 48,000 followers whether they reply back or not, you're missing something!
- Jim Tierney
Robin: people are used to consuming info and not talking back. I understand that. Jim: there is some value in having lots of consumers, yes. I just aspire to more.
- Robert Scoble
lucky you that non all of them have an active role in your FF... how can you think of have an interaction wth so many people?
- Paolo Galli
from IM
I think you math is waaaaaaaay off. Looks like somewhere around 0.3125%(300/96,000 - rounding up) of your followers are useful, meaning you should edit your comment to say 99.7% of your followers. Really makes me wonder the true value of twitter if one of the top uses gets this percentage of useful following. The other possibility is that as followers increase, the percentage of attentive/usefull/whatever-you-want-to-call-it decreases.
- Robert D. Fraser
Paolo: I've had interactions with tens of thousands of people here on friendfeed, just not all at the same time. Robert: you're right. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Do you think those non-tweeting-twitterers sit at their desk and read all the tweets coming across? Or are they looking for something specific.
- RobinDotNet
Scoble: You are asking questions and experimenting with stuff that I find interesting. Just reading through this thread provides some interesting insights into users' perspectives on Twitter.
- Matthew Schrock
Is that southeastweb thing from a bot or some kind?
- RobinDotNet
Robin: I think it's a spammer. But at least it's a spammer that follows directions. That said I think I'm going to block it.
- Robert Scoble
Blocked.
- Robert Scoble
Scoble you really can do it? I'm very impressed :) I'm jocking... I think many users on the web just read information but doesn't partecipate... it's to difficult ;)
- Paolo Galli
from IM
97.2% of all statistics are made up.
- Jason A. Nunnelley
Tekany: and the statistics that aren't made up can mislead. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Seeing a spammer blocked just makes me feel warm all over. It's so awesome.
- RobinDotNet
I am exceptionally useless.
- Geoff Schultz
Geoff: that's why I follow you! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Following instructions is way overrated
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
That's what I'll have on my next business card: Scoble found me useful, what about you ?
- Antoine Bertier
RTFM or GTFO said the BOFH.
- Jon Winters
Although at this point I would welcome someone giving me instructions as to the next steps in life - far too many options. Maybe I should crowdsource it, but I am certain not to like the results
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Robert: To be honest, I think sometimes folks are intimidated by the breadth of knowledge that you and others on FF seem to have and your ability to engage in discussions. They may feel that they need to say something 'brilliant' or not say anything. I will admit that that I fell into that category up until recently. To your (and others') credit, once I took the plunge I found that this wasn't the case. You guys still know WAY more than I do, but that's one of the reasons I'm here - to learn!
- Alex Hellstrom
@scobleizer you crack me up sometimes! There, see this post went to you in both places... But I don't really feel like discussing it... ;-P
- Walt Ruppar
Walt: heh.
- Robert Scoble
LOL! Great job of being satirical! You have a lot of great followers. :)
- James Stratford
Just sayin I could follow directions and discuss here if I wanted, but not interested in this discussion. However it did make me laugh that you called 53% of your followers out on not being able to follow directions.
- Walt Ruppar
Alex, uhm like totally and stuff ... and uhm. Ya know. Cool.
- Jason Nunnelley
BTW: where'd you see my reply come in from first? FF or as a mention over on twiiter?
- Walt Ruppar
Walt: here on friendfeed.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, you dropped your twitter response button. Makes sense, but was it purely to reduce redundancy?
- Jason Nunnelley
viewing people as "useful" is problematic..useful to who?..tools are "useful'...people not so much...helpful may be a more precise word.
- Jim Posner
Jim, wordsmith!
- Jason Nunnelley
Hi
- Tyler (Chacha)
.LOLz...great thread!
- .LAG liked that
Twitter to me seems a big mess of information, I can't keep up with it! FF sorts the mess out nicely and without the spam. I much prefer FF.
- Matthew Davis
Jim: you're right of course. I was just trying to be an egotistical bbbaaaahhhhssssttttaaaarrrrrdddd to get a conversation going. Jason: what did I drop? I didn't do it on purpose.
- Robert Scoble
Damn it Robert, you got me to make an account here three days ago, what more can I do for you? ;-P
- Shane Trammell
Robert, you are smart
- Arvind
This is an easy way to get rid of bots. They don't have anything intelligent to share (like me)!
- Carlton Prest
WTG sheeple for getting conned into commenting here... wait. um.
- Scott Breakall
Robert, what if people want to reply and be engaging but don't feel like they have anything of value to say / to add to the discussion?
- Wang Yip
Scott: Perhaps, but at least I un-liked it...
- Walt Ruppar
Robert - what is the point of this? I took carrot...
- Liza
Robert, I just put the lime in the coconut. Now what?
- Sue Radd
Robert-Great discussion at 140, BTW. On another topic just watched the Perez Hilton video and trying to get my head around that rant..if you haven't seen it you should watch both sides of the feud with will.i.am. Interesting use of twitter and video to address insult/outrage.
- Jim Posner
Sue, like it.
- Liza
Yahoo Inbox: 178 messages. 132 are notifications of new comments here. Good job. :)
- Tim Young
Ok now I "get" this FriendFeed experience.
- Ron Hudson
lots of people commenting here--I wonder if it has to do with the time of day more than the topic
- Brent R Jones
I have a fear of being useless.
- Ron Wening
I hope I'm not within the 53%
- Michela Cimnaghi /cimny
Twitter rocks, but I'm starting to see more value in FriendFeed
- Adam
I just drove from Pierre SD to Fort Totten ND, so I'm a little bit groggy. What exactly was I supposed to do to pass Robert Scoble's version of a Turing Test? Also, is it really important that people think I'm not a bot? I bet there is still money in AI.
- Matthew McCowan
Is that percentage of useless followers greater or less on Twitter. (I think I can predict your answer!)
- Curt Mercadante
"I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member."
- jacek
This thread is taking me a long time to read when I haven't had coffee yet today.
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
So, my understanding is.. one who doesn't give 'directions' to his followers is useless too. Mmhhh! yeah
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Robert - there's nothing egotistical about it! I'd also be remiss if I didn't add that I get plenty of thought-provoking value from you even when in "read-only" mode. Understandably my usefulness to you is nil in those cases. However (and I'm echoing at least one other commenter here: IRONY ALERT) I've found that by the time I comment in this type of thread, my exact thoughts have...
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- Jim Tierney
I just hope Scobleizer never directs me to do something self-destructive. I hate it when that happens.
- DGentry
I don't think lurker are useless :), I don't think number of followers have a great significance, Friendfeed is a Virtual Life Streaming, and in virtual life (as in real life) some people don't have a direction, they live (however i prefer LIVE with all capital letters, and have a direction!!!).
- CantorJF
90% of community members lurk.
- l0ckergn0me
Twitter has become useless for any sort of participation
- Jorge Escobar
here.
- metalerik
Yay for the other 47%.
- Colette
Does this post count as "discussing?"
- Mark "DerBingle" J
So if we post here, are we teacher's pets? :)
- Daynah
Members of the "TV Generation" are just not used to follow directions... (they sit and consume with chips&beer and maybe do some shopping via telephone - these are a well trained habits and hard to change)...
- Arne Krueger
I thought I'd contribute further to this discussion... you're welcome.
- Mark "DerBingle" J
I'm jumping up for another cup of tea, be right back...
- Deborah E. Bifulco
There clearly comes a point of scale where FriendFeed fails to delivery clarity...nothing useful on the first screenful or last... does that mean that 47% of your followers are unable to provide significant value?
- David Race
Will there be and end of this direction? Do we want to close directions? I think somewhen even directions become useless
- Vedran Rudelj
delivering significant value to ff and/or the subscribers depends on the roi they get... some people are just not using it - as it is intendet to be used. so what!?
- Arne Krueger
If technology fails you, next time you are in Memphis lets get together for lunch. Great value remains in human contact.
- Jeff Milton
That is priceless
- Keith - @tsudo
I am not a bot, I am huma ... wait, oh yeah, I am a bot .... never mind, back to being useless.
- John
Bots are human too.
- Thom Kennon
Liza: shhhh. Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
I found this thread useful.
- Mike Nencetti
Love these types of threads - quite enjoyable!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Oh, yeah?
- Baard @ Pixum
O Captain! My Captain!
- Nicola Mattina
Commenting so I'm not included in the useless category... Also, I'd love to chat about this the next time you're around the FF office.
- Ross Miller
There are 3 kinds of people in the world: 1. Those that follow Robert Scoble because he doesn't act like he's too good to talk to us. 2. Those that follow Robert Scoble because he is known to follow everyone back, and therefore he is good for "inflating" their follower count. 3. Those who have no idea why they are following Robert Scoble.
- April Russo (app103)
4th type of person follows for great feeds that generate discussion on FF.
- Mike Nencetti
April, you forgot the fourth category: 4. Those who don't subscribe to Robert Scoble but find far too many of his posts liked and commented by their friends.
- Scott of Two Countries
But the only reason why Robert generates great discussions is because he is part of that discussion. He doesn't just drop & run, or only talk to people he thinks are "somebody", completely ignoring the rest of us. While he may have a big ego, it isn't so big that he thinks he's too good to have a real conversation with us.
- April Russo (app103)
53%? That seems a generous estimate.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Rob: I have almost 42,000 followers here and 96,000 followers on Twitter, which comes out to 43%. Glad someone caught me on my math! :-)
- Robert Scoble
My casual research indicates about 1% will respond.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
I can't put my finger on it, but I feel somehow manipulated...?
- Mark "DerBingle" J
even if they don't respond there is something to be said about passive observing- no?
- michael sean wright
You call this a discussion?
- Phil Boiarski
Phil: this is not a discussion. It's a lot of people following directions. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Hi Robert, nice experiment!
- Luis Enrique León
Aye aye Cap'n Scoble. Sorry I'm late but I just got done eating a plate of waffles in some diner in midtown NYC...
- Aaron Strout
53% of your followers aren't followers in the sheep sense. That's a good thing. Lose the other 47%
- C. K. Sample III
C. K. why must you self loathe on my thread?
- Robert Scoble
I feel kind of funny.
- Mike Nayyar
It's not easy being part of the 47%
- Aidan Mann
I am not a sheep! Oh wait, maybe I am.
- adam garrett
RS - The puppet master : )
- Mark Harai
I feel compelled to comment here... odd
- Jan Ole Peek
Mark: who is the puppet master and who is the puppet? I'm answering you now.
- Robert Scoble
Just following directions. Too many Mark's here though, I wish FF signed thing with our usernames.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
You can change your display name any time by clicking on your name in the top right corner.
- Mark
Robert: communication still occurs when unidirectional, surely the works of Socrates convey concepts to readers even today?
- Mike Chelen
Wow! It wasn't till I finished reading through almost all the comments that I got what Robert was trying to say :) FF good, Twitter bad. But I can't complain since it was Leo Laportes constant references to FF that got me to join and Roberts comments that got me to try and really understand what FF is all about. Initially FF was a little overwhelming and the only reason I've stuck it through so far is because of the higher quality of content for a (mostly) passive FFer.
- Anant Gairola
Writing that last comment took me 10 minutes! Really really wish there was a good FF iPhone application!!!
- Anant Gairola
Anant: the content here keeps getting better as more and more people join (which is quite a few every week lately, my numbers are going up much faster here than on Twitter, the tides are starting to move).
- Robert Scoble
baa baa
- Kim Landwehr
I'm sorry... did you say something?
- Sean
You have no Idea how tempting it is to reshare this - and discuss it over there >>>>>>>>>>
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
No rain, no rainbows..
- BryanSchuetz
FF is the only place I can dip into your content 'at will', Twitter is to noisy and makes me dig a lot further to see the flow of conversation and any associated references.
- Threepwood
I like to lurk most of the time. I usually don't have much to add by the time I am able to read the whole thread.
- Dan Douglass
from Nambu
Better late than never!
- John Rubier
tag
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Testing the maximum for FF comments? :P
- Barbara
Are you happy with how friendfeed is developing? What would you change, if you were in control? I love the daily digests, I prefer something filtering the best content from those I follow
- Ryan Singer
first post... wait.
- Aaron Baer
following........
- sirishkumar
amazing post.
- Guy Vander Heyden
Suivez moi?
- Gordon Joly
Oui, monsieur Gordon ! Où allons nous ?
- Brome
<----- not a bot so what percent does that make me?
- Howell Selburn
from BuddyFeed
bleet bleet
- Sriks7
Master is our friend!
- Rick Cogley
Adding myself to the list :)
- TiTi
Why a follower must follow direction? :)
- Christine Yang
from BuddyFeed
Lead, follow or whatever...Info on Neda http://tinyurl.com/nm9xdn
- JoWazzoo
:)
- Tony
This is a wicked and interesting post on FriendFeed =)
- Qbat
by the way some of my twitter followers complain that, like you, I redirect them to friendfeed on every post there. Some say I have to choose between the two and they will follow me there, but not on both services.
- Kostantinos Koukopoulos
Kostantinos: it's an open question how best to interconnect FF and Twitter. remember that there are a wide range of options, including sending comments or posts, and sending posts automatically or manually. the feedback from readers is helpful if it can be used to find the right balance
- Mike Chelen
53% of your followers will leave you and then what? insult the other 47%. You can't just say it that way. You need to treat your followers with respect. Especially when you are your biggest fan. People will leave you in a heartbeat.
- Jack Scalfani
Be a nice little follower, and drink the damn kool-aid!
- James
Guess What I Am.
Barış, Muhammet K. (oceangray), John (a.k.a. dendroica) and 24 other people liked this
some kind of climbing tool
- BEX
Ice block mover
- Josh Haley
Nay to both.
- Christopher Harley
hmm.
- Micah Wittman
carpet stretcher?
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
no.
- Christopher Harley
some kind of scraper
- BEX
no.
- Christopher Harley
I think it's some kind of fastener remover. Maybe like a wire remover from power lines.
- Admiral Anika
hint?
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
You're a Presbyterian? And what's that a picture of?
- Mistletoe Glen
The front looks like it could be but not the spikes, Anika. Keep guessing.
- Christopher Harley
To help climb poles, then?
- Admiral Anika
A sheering impliment?
- Micah Wittman
Hint, Geoff? Mouse over.
- Christopher Harley
nice one jeremy.
- Admiral Anika
BEX guessed climbing tool earlier. Nope.
- Christopher Harley
Is this something we use to get people to tell us where the WMDs are?
- Morton Fox
Not for belts.
- Christopher Harley
tool for repairing tap shoes?
- Jeremy Muncy
Tap shoes, even! no.
- Christopher Harley
A cleat for walking on ice?
- Admiral Anika
no.
- Christopher Harley
Related to a loom?
- Micah Wittman
not for a loom
- Christopher Harley
It's a juicer!
- Admiral Anika
the worst fork ever...
- Jeremy Muncy
For blocks of ice?
- Sue Radd
nice - I even get the Tony Danza bit - but still no clue
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
HINT: The handle will press the spikes.
- Christopher Harley
Lawn aerator?
- Micah Wittman
Nail driver?
- Admiral Anika
But a fork all the same, huh Jeremy?
- Christopher Harley
Does it have something to do with horse shoes?
- Mitch
Oh, nice one Micah. The claw end could be a weed puller.
- Admiral Anika
not for shoeing
- Christopher Harley
not a nail driver
- Christopher Harley
Concrete work?
- Micah Wittman
nope.
- Christopher Harley
Sailing?
- Micah Wittman
not for sailing
- Christopher Harley
and not for the lawn
- Christopher Harley
forestry?
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
nail puller
- BEX
not for forestry or for nails.
- Christopher Harley
saddles?
- BEX
HINT: When using it, it would be perpendicular to your body and not parallel. And in no way above your head.
- Christopher Harley
ice scraper?
- Admiral Anika
no scraping is done.
- Christopher Harley
Carpets?
- Micah Wittman
GRRRRRRRRRRR
- BEX
oooh yeah carpets!
- BEX
Drywall hanger.
- Admiral Anika
not for carpets
- Christopher Harley
Belt maker
- Mitch
not for belts
- Christopher Harley
not for drywall
- Christopher Harley
perpendicular... spikes up or down?
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
HINT: You don't want this to get dirty.
- Christopher Harley
A friendfeeder frustratorer
- Mitch
^ LOL
- Admiral Anika
lol @Mitch
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
for meat?
- BEX
A bread kneader.
- Admiral Anika
Spikes down, Geoff.
- Christopher Harley
Would this possibly be used by Glenn Close in a movie?
- Micah Wittman
not for kneading
- Christopher Harley
damn going to bed
- BEX
lol @ Micah
- Jeremy Muncy
Glenn Close? Maybe.
- Christopher Harley
*brain hurts*
- Micah Wittman
A tool used to move giant frozen tuna in the fish market
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Meat packing plant?
- Micah Wittman
or tuna tenderizer
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Does it involve riding a giant worm?
- Todd Hoff
No, Geoff but at least you're out of the barnyard, work shed, forrest,
- Christopher Harley
ROFL, Todd!
- Alex Scoble
Not for the SPICE.
- Christopher Harley
candle wick whacker
- Admiral Anika
++Todd...like a compact maker hook! LOL
- Josh Haley
I think you've all had enough. Is it time to give it up?
- Christopher Harley
Wait!
- Micah Wittman
That's one wait.
- Christopher Harley
Is it used to make the bed?
- Micah Wittman
Does it have anything to do with working with cloth?
- Alex Scoble
it is not. Remember, it is not in the barnyard, work shed, forrest
- Christopher Harley
Does it have to do with upholstery?
- Colette
end this!
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
You wouldn't work with cloth in a barnyard, work shed or forest.
- Alex Scoble
And not a tool to get dirty
- Christopher Harley
piano tuner. EDIT by this, I mean some of thing that spaces the strings or blocks.
- Admiral Anika
Can a social media expert seriously hurt themselves if left alone with this?
- Micah Wittman
HINT: Who wants seconds?
- Christopher Harley
Pot holder?
- Micah Wittman
For stone soup of course ;)
- Micah Wittman
not a pot holder. What did Jeremy mention?
- Christopher Harley
Tap shoes.
- Alex Scoble
^already been said.
- Admiral Anika
Fork he said, right
- Micah Wittman
He did, but that was wrong. Keep thinking, Alex
- Christopher Harley
It's a pasta cutter.
- Admiral Anika
Ribcage spreader
- Josh Haley
it's the comb I keep next to my steel-wire retina brush
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
We're getting warmer.
- Christopher Harley
ballet shoes?
- Jeremy Muncy
But not pasta
- Christopher Harley
For lifting a Tommy Lasorda sized helping of pasta?
- Micah Wittman
:(
- Micah Wittman
Pie crust thingy?
- Admiral Anika
Is it the worst fork ever, Jeremy?
- Christopher Harley
Calf birthing assisting device
- Josh Haley
used in industrial cheese factory?
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
You're a cruel rancher, Josh
- Christopher Harley
hard to say since I don't know what it is ;)
- Jeremy Muncy
not for cheese
- Christopher Harley
Mmmm. Tillamook.
- Micah Wittman
nice thread, btw
- Josh Haley
So it is for cooking something?
- Alex Scoble
For scooping seaweed?
- Micah Wittman
You can perferorate holes with it, I'm guessing. The claw lets you cut something. I've already said bread, pasta and pie crust. Short of potatoes and empanadas, I'm lost.
- Admiral Anika
Not for cooking, Alex but at least you've moved inside.
- Christopher Harley
So not food related at all?
- Alex Scoble
I never said that Alex
- Christopher Harley
Yeah, I'm asking :)
- Alex Scoble
pizza slicer.
- Admiral Anika
a tool for laying carpet? oops didn't see that one LOL
- martha
You've mentioned everything but, Anika
- Christopher Harley
Is it for opening coconuts?
- Alex Scoble
horseshoe applicator.
- Cristo
meat tenderiser with gristle attachment
- WorldofHiglet
dang!
- Admiral Anika
HINT: Kitchen people.
- Christopher Harley
Would you use two of them at once?
- Alex Scoble
meatball grabber. LOL
- Admiral Anika
Easy there, Anika.
- Micah Wittman
No, Alex. You would not. What's in your other hand?
- Christopher Harley
Ouch.
- Michael McKean
was that a guess or an insult, Anika?
- WorldofHiglet
fish descaler?
- WorldofHiglet
Soap!!!
- Micah Wittman
I would use this pick up meatballs, but that would get it dirty. :(
- Admiral Anika
a thatch roofing tool
- Bluesun 2600
Clag-B-Gone!
- Joe Silence
...with eye attachment
- WorldofHiglet
I missed the coconuts, but no, it is not.
- Christopher Harley
Zester for giant mutant lemons
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Dead Silence: was it in Viz? :)
- WorldofHiglet
I like Geoff's lemon idea.
- Admiral Anika
Sorry, WoH, No to all.
- Christopher Harley
Not for lemons
- Christopher Harley
not for soap.
- Christopher Harley
Is it for meat at all?
- Alex Scoble
a pie-pricker with pastry trimming attachment?
- WorldofHiglet
But you have to keep it clean and I'm close...this is rough.
- Admiral Anika
Yes.
- Christopher Harley
Alex, yes.
- Christopher Harley
WoH, I already said that.
- Admiral Anika
chicken picker-upper
- Jeremy Muncy
Something to help you deskin beef?
- Alex Scoble
No, Jeremy.
- Christopher Harley
turkey grabber
- Cristo
stove cleaner?
- Mitch
it's a carcass handle for grabbing a carcass
- Brian Hendrickson
grabber?
- Christopher Harley
typically used in a home or commercial kitchen?
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
it pokes holes in the meat so you can stuff garlic in it.
- Admiral Anika
it's not typically used in my kitchen that's for sure!
- WorldofHiglet
Oh sure, that's a Brain extractor. My grandmother has 2 of those.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
We're getting too close! I'm gonna get hung on a technicality!!!!
- Christopher Harley
A handle to take a roast out of the oven?
- Rodfather
The pie guess is close?
- Micah Wittman
I have to give this up! WHO IS READY?
- Christopher Harley
pig handle
- Brian Hendrickson
not for pie!
- Christopher Harley
*pitchforks ready*
- Micah Wittman
ready
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
It's an old knife. you can cut a piece and grab it with the spikes.
- Admiral Anika
corn on the cob de-corner?
- WorldofHiglet
I'm ready.
- Alex Scoble
i don't want to see pumpkin anything, man.
- Admiral Anika
You're soooo getting there, Anika! Picture a craving station.
- Christopher Harley
I crave the answer
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
I crave a prime rib buffet.
- Admiral Anika
What is the chef doing with the hand that doesn't hold the knife?
- Christopher Harley
Holding something to be cut.
- Alex Scoble
holding his pig handle
- Brian Hendrickson
MEAT HOLDER: http://www.google.com/patents...
- Christopher Harley
it's tong of sorts?
- Admiral Anika
I HATE YOU!
- Admiral Anika
DONE AND DONE.
- Christopher Harley
oh. cool.
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
"carcass handle"
- Brian Hendrickson
Why hate me?
- Christopher Harley
banana stacker
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Okay, not really, but everyone was soooooooooooooo close. GRRRRRR
- Admiral Anika
You're the best, Anika!
- Christopher Harley
Nobody was every going to get that.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
that was fun
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
leaves your gusset lemon fresh?
- Joe Silence
"The invention in its most pertinent use is a holder to be gripped and handled 'by one hand of the carver and quickly and easily placed in any position on the roast, fowl, fish, cheese, cabbage, or other food to be carved, and to firmly hold the food at several points during carving and then to be used to pick up the food and serve it."
- Micah Wittman
That depends, Rah. Was it harder than any of these: http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Christopher Harley
I wonder why Grandma called it a brain extractor?
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Of course a good street fightin' man can find other uses.
- Christopher Harley
so my turkey grabber was invalid?
- Cristo
"of the holder wherein there are several points or teeth for engagement, however, this form of holder does not include tines" —ie. IT'S NOT A FORK!
- Micah Wittman
[folds arms and pouts] I don't want to play with you any more.
- Admiral Anika
and my carcass handle
- Brian Hendrickson
Of course it's a fork, simply by the nature of its design, Micah.
- Christopher Harley
My point of the pull quote is the patent submitter was trying to emphasis novelty, hence not tines.
- Micah Wittman
Cristo - grabber? That was your hint and that's when I had to start squirming.
- Christopher Harley
Tough crowd
- Christopher Harley
If we're going to debate the diff. between HOLD and GRAB and Anthony gets wind of this ... well, oh boy then ;)
- Micah Wittman
^hahahahaha
- Admiral Anika
Christopher, didn't hear the news, this is MobFeed.
- Micah Wittman
;)
- Micah Wittman
I might have to unsubscribe to someone (but I won't have to say why) :)
- Cristo
So, was "hold me closer tony danza" a clue? It's late I could be missing something.
- Jeremy Muncy
Like I said, I squirmed. It's tough to keep up with the nearly theres.
- Christopher Harley
Yeah, Jeremy!
- Christopher Harley
Apparently hold was the word Christopher was looking for. I did think of the cabbage/lettuce one too, but I think I might have used the word grab again.
- Cristo
You're such a shit!
- Christopher Harley
Now, now. A link to the next one makes amends.
- Micah Wittman
Good image... provoked a lot of thinking.
- Jeremy Muncy
There isn't a next one. I have to go to work! Carry on with one you choose, Micah. Or any of y'alls. Have fun!
- Christopher Harley
Cool. We'll see you on the flip side. *searching dubious patent claims....*
- Micah Wittman
Ok, the real one: http://friendfeed.com/micahwi...
- Micah Wittman
Is that an extreme Iron?
- Kevin J Hatton
To hold meat when cutting.
- Randy Allen Bishop
kick ass brass knuckles?
- Steve C
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This profile right here is the problem with social media. http://twitter.com/sophiezine
Jon, the Chilled Beartato, Daniel J. Pritchett, diego morelli and 3 other people liked this
Why are people following her?
- Shevonne
Because she has big plans for her future?
- Sue Radd
she's a pretty face on the internet.
- Joshua Schnell
I'm lost, what's the issue? Use more words than you think I'll need to comprehend this.
- Matthew DeVries
She followed me, then unfollowed me within 24 hours. She has a sultry avatar. She has yet to contribute anything at all, and somehow she has 600 followers.
- Joshua Schnell
I am with Matthew -- she looks sexy and sex sells -- how is that specifically a problem with social media ?
- Brian Sullivan
I should have probably said social networks originally.
- Joshua Schnell
Brian, because people don't "friend" others based on their ideologies or opinions which they share in common. Social networks are about communicating, and not the number of "followers" you have. If you're not going to communicate, what is the point?
- Joshua Schnell
Being 20 years into the internet now, I just can't follow my dick like a divining rod any more. Seriously, the internet has totally burned sex without context out of me as a marketing and manipulation tool. She could be snail trailing her snapper on a glass coffee table over the webcam and I wouldn't even blink now.
- Matthew DeVries
Abandon thread! Abandon thread!
- Daniel J. Pritchett
from IM
/me throws Daniel a life preserver. ;)
- Joshua Schnell
+1000 to Matthew - "snail trailing her snapper" indeed!
- CAJ, somewhere else
I'm with Curtis. +1000 from me too. Hahahahahaha
- Brad McCrorey
Joshua - A not inconsequential part of socializing in the real world is about sex -- searching for, advertising about, flirting around, selling. Why would online be any different?
- Brian Sullivan
I'm not saying it shouldn't exist online. I'm saying it's pathetic that 600 people added her because of her avatar, or because she simply followed them first. The following/followers system is clearly broken. If those numbers were not publicly displayed, these services would be a lot different.
- Joshua Schnell
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OMG RUN!
- Sparky
from Bookmarklet
No
- Mona Nomura
ewewewew
- holly
"THEM!" (kinda...)
- Sue Radd
lawl *sprays Raid*
- Derrick
wait til you see the salmon, leaks at Hanford Reach
- bob phillips
DO NOT WANT.
- veo
OH HERRO! *waves
- Giraffes Up In The AIr
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