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If I can herd cats into smaller groups, it'll help - Louis Gray

:) Back page ------> - Shawn Farner

Shawn, almost everybody is there right now. Now, I go over the ground like a magnet getting black sand and pull you up. :-) - Louis Gray

About half way through the new FF curve (Decided the do the revisit Facebook thing today instead) but definitely a dramatic improvement now that there's lots more people here. Wait, does that say Techie?? - Charlie Anzman

"Popular, brand-name users"? What are those? I thought this was FRIENDFeed, not FanClubFeed. - Avdi Grimm

I suppose this is inevitable and an almost must-do for folks with too many follows. Even though I only subscribe to about 90+ folks here, I can feel the noise creeping in at times too, and have wondered if I should use the lists more proactively. But like cleaning up an inbox, it would take time to do it.. Well, at least I have one list right now - a list of all my colleagues. And, I think you have a good process there in sorting your follows. - Winston Teo

Avdi, the idea is as it says, to take the high traffic out and better reveal those who need more attention. Anybody here will say I treat A-List and Z-List the same... - Louis Gray

I'm updating my lists as a I go along. I'm basically on the main feed, and my lists Awesome Pix and Enterprise 2.0 a lot. Will continue to refine these over time. - Hutch Carpenter

بسيار مفيد براي تمام كاربران فرندفيد - mhmazidi

My problem is that everyone posts on many topics, so I can't sort by the genre of the users posts. All of my subscriptions are people I know ONLY on friendfeed, so I can't sort them by source of contact. They're all on at random times of the day or night, so I can't sort them by apparent location. All I have is my home feed, a list for the ones my stats say I find interesting, and a list for the ones my stats say are interested in me. Any tips? - Slippy Lane

Slippy, you need to recruit your real-world friends into FriendFeed. - Ernie Oporto

lol, -1 for assuming I have real-world friends - Slippy Lane

i love the lists, give me access to much more info quicker - MG Siegler

Louis, excellent post as I happily find each time I read your blog! :) This list concept is really a great feature of FF and I am glad you're liking it. I need to fine tune mine some more... but it really does help deliver the best content to me and I am incredibly grateful for the filtering this provides...very neat! Thanks! - Susan Beebe

"At work and at home, I file all my e-mail. For example, I have top level folders for "Personal", "Family", "Commerce", and "Blog", and thinking of people on FriendFeed the same way isn't that much of a stretch." I never thought about it quite that way before. Nice post. Thanks - Roberto Bonini

Organizing my lists now - Caleb Elston

I am thrilled that FF offered the list functionality, but as a result, I've found myself looking at my "favorites" list 95% of the time and the other lists 5% of the time, so it's almost the equivalent to unsubscribing from most of my list. Then again, maybe that's not a bad thing. It avoids hurt feelings, it gives me an out, and I feel less drowned. - Adam Lasnik

Must read piece for first time FFers - Charlie Anzman

I'm sure it's a necessity for ppl with a huge # of subs; I'd rather not think about it cuz I know I'm "back page" material. Ah well. ;\ - Kimberly J

Kim, the "Back Page" is just a good way to sort. If I put you next to Scoble, maybe I miss it. - Louis Gray

For some it comes naturally and no effort is necessary. :) - Mattb4rd

because they need to feel noticed and important at any expense ... and are generally horrible human beings. - Morgan

http://xkcd.com/386/ Not precisely relevant. But still funny! - David Young

Because they have assholes beating on them in Real Life and they don't have a healthy outlet. - Lindsey Smith

David, I love that one :) XKCD always makes me laugh. - Veronica

@David That's definitely a fav - Lindsey Smith

+1 david - that is a classic! - Morgan

Because they don't have the balls to be assholes in person so they become typist a-holes online - Jeremy Campbell via twhirl

Half the time they don't even have the cojones to put their email address or contact info. I guess that's good, because it prevents me from replying ;) - Veronica

Relativity. - ·[▪_▪]·

As Mattb4rd said, it's natural and takes no special effort. That's what makes the problem so bad for the rest of us. Secondly, those jerks don't have anything better to do. - Morton Fox

Sad little people, don't feed them and they go away. - Mike Mackley

Just imagine if they took as much energy into doing something nice. *shakes head* - AJ Kohn

Because they are too cowardly to say crap to your face. - Josh Haley

I think it's Michael Wesch who talked about the fame of being abusive in his video on the anthropology of Youtube - Badger Gravling

I think it's because there is a level of anonymity that allows people to believe that they can be someone else online, take on another persona, and act in this way. - Shafiq Jetha via twhirl

I personally think Mattb4rd got it right - it comes naturally to some people. Just ignore em - jerks are jerks. - Royce Mathew

Speaking as a recovering asshole, I'll say that people do it for many different reasons. Sometimes its because a given personality with whom you interact has become a communicative pebble in the online shoe of your life, and you just want to blast 'em. Sometimes it's because you've discovered that you're actually very good at being an asshole, and receive lots of praise for it. And sometimes it's because you're the kind of person that just loves to inflict pain. - Roger Benningfield

Ahh yess. The age old question, this about sums it up: http://tinyurl.com/6mocnn - Percival Carti3r

I prefer jerks on the internet, in real life they REALLY suck. Percival - priceless! - JodyUnwired

it's just too easy. jerks. - John LeMasney

Wouldn't you be a jerk too if you never, ever got laid? - Chantal

the internet is full of trolls. come on veronica don't you know this by now? - Joel Smith

If I click like does that mean I like jerks or agree with Veronica? :-) - gfurry

@gfurry It means that you think Veronica is a cutie. - Mattb4rd

Using the Block feature is your friend - Jeremiah Owyang

for the lulz? - Nick Mutton

I find it surprising that ANYONE is actually a jerk to you. 51% of the internet really respects you, another 48% apparently has a mad geek crush on you, and you found a one percenter moron? Wow. - Brian Norwood

Ahhh Matt has a good point. Little boys often harass girls they have crushes on. - Brian Norwood

The internet tries to make the world idiot free, but the world makes a better idiot. Simple as that.. aka Pete's theory on internet "a#$hole /jerk" evolution :)- - Peter Dawson

yea! fuck jerks. - Greg Bond via twhirl

Veronica, just ignore the jerks. Problem with the Internet is that jerks can hide behind their web browsers whereas in peron they can't. Use the power of the "ignore", "block" or whatever means to ignore them. - imabonehead

Tried it last night and it was hit or miss. Not sure I understand how to word search phrases though as long ones seemed to choke. I'll have to try it out a little more. The UI is rather uninspiring though. - Jeff P. Henderson

I searched for my name and multiple results for James Dean came up. Go figure! - Randy Meeker via twhirl

aaaaand.... it's already broke: http://www.cuil.com/info/unava... - Andy Sternberg

We’ll be back soon... Due to overwhelming interest, our Cuil servers are running a bit hot right now. The search engine is momentarily unavailable as we add more capacity. Thanks for your patience. - Sadly I dont think it is positive interest at this point from what I have read. - Socom

Google has more to fear from Gigablast than it does from Cuil. - K Welch

Its place on the FAIL Blog is assured. - Jonathon

they are running it on a drobo - fijidaddy

50 bloggers X 10000 twitter following requests.. twitter will be down soon :):) - Naor

Somebody make sure Playboy doesn't see that list. - Eric Schlissel via twhirl

Boo...No Sarah Perez or Corvida. But congrats to the ones I do follow: Veronica Belmont, Gina Trapani, Emily Chang, Leah Culver, & Justine Ezarik. - Mark Krynsky

There's always a few missing on these lists (especially niche bloggers including the above ... Ann Smarty, and Shana Albert) but this is an incredibly good list (with descriptions). Well worth exploring! - Charlie Anzman

Ditto Mark, plus congrats to our Tamar, and Amber MacArthur as well (fan of her stuff as well) - finally a list of females in tech and blogging that doesn't involve "sexiest" or "nakedest." - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

no Perez Hilton? - Jamie

LOL - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

I added my mom in the comments: http://mymomsblog.blogspot.com... - Steve Garfield via twhirl

congrats veronica.... #33, 32.... top 10 soon? already topping twitter's right? - Pajama Domain

good list - sent to my blogger wife :) - mike "glemak" dunn

Could Perez Hilton handle all 140 characters? like, that's a lot! - Herb Myers

This was a great list. Added a few new blogs to Google Reader. - Sean Brady

What... no Cordiva? :-) - Andrew Dobrow

No Natali Del Conte either. Seems more like a "Female Bloggers Influential To Other Females" list. Not so much a list of bloggers that have appeal to men and women, except for some like Gina, Veronica, Cali, etc. - Jim Bergman

Well Female bloggers usually gets 'popularity' faster...but nice list. - Saad Kamal

I'm shallow… I only clicked on the hot ones. - Vincent van Wylick

hey where's SarahinTampa, Cordiva, Cyndy or Svetlana? - update list please! ;-) - Susan Beebe

I love your picture for this article. It looks fun. - tarraguna via twhirl

I'm just happy its up for discussion. - Erin Kotecki Vest

I barely knew anyone on that list. Gonna have to start reading more blogs... - Andy DeSoto

Only heard of 3-4 of them, Veronica included :D but if they are there, it means they deserve it - Dan V via twhirl

I knew about 3/4s of the list and they absolutely deserve it. These are all great bloggers, well worth checking out. - Robert Scoble

Only knew about 1/2 of the list but the ones i saw on that list are there because of merit. Great List...worth checking out. - Nicholas James

congrats Veronica! - Kevin Rose

This reminds me that had I not given up on the first blog I started back in 98, maybe I'd be on this list. But I don't have the drive and passion these very worthy women have! Congrats to you, Veronica and all on the list! More importantly, keep doing what you do, because it is important and valuable. - Shawna Benson

What an impressive list! Quite a few I follow already, but nice to have some more to check out. - Sally Church

ok which one s/we get Playboy to cover ? Remember TC's post of late ? - Peter Dawson

Why does there have to be a separate list for most influential male/female bloggers? Why not just a list for the 50 or 100 most influential bloggers? Why the gender distinction? - Michael Tefft

After posting about the bikinibloggers of Urlesque & the wish for naked bloggers of Playboy at http://www.aboutblank.nl it was worthwile to pay some attention to influential female bloggers. Really influential, I'm talking about. But why do all these American sites pay so much atttention female bloggers, I wonder. So sudden, I mean. - Ton Zijp

whole story is suspect due to claim that blogging pair coined term "fugly" - WTF! :-) - Deva Hazarika

What does it have to do with America, Ton Zijp? - Andy DeSoto

Andy, just that the attention is there so suddenly, in such a way that they all make a list (20 bloggers Urlesque wants to see in bikini, 9 Playboy wants to see naked, 50 really influential according to N x E). I follow news about weblogs worldwide, I publish about it daily, so for me it's really surprising that in just a few days all these sites are concentrating at female bloggers. I don't take conclusions on that, but it really surprises me. July = bikinimonth? Like Urlesque said? - Ton Zijp

I know a few, and have a few others in my rss reader. But this blog post is screaming for an OPML. - Laura Scott via Alert Thingy

The term fugly is as old as beauty (or lack there of) it's self. - Brian Norwood

nice resource, re: formatteddad's comment- as long as there is no bias or exclussion. anything that brings more voices to the conversation- the better! sometimes we need to identify the voices that might not be getting the BIG exposure. - Nice Fish Films

where's corvida? where's corvida? - Sarah Perez

perl helped me to dump a quick opml of the blogs. i won't host it myself. instead this link gives you a netvibes startpage where you can read the blogs and export them to opml: http://is.gd/QH7 - now i'm busy reading. - igor

Congratulations for making the list! - Jeff P. Henderson

@Sarah - I was looking for Corvida too! - Yolanda

Im not a big ijustine fan, but Im glad to see Gina T near the top. - Colby Olson

What about Paige and Gretchen from MommyCast? They deserve to be on the list. - Barry Reicherter via twhirl

If this doesn't say something about the service I don't know what does. - Greg Tarnoff via twhirl

That was great. :D - Nathaniel Payne

down when I left work @ 3pm EST, 40m drive home, 1h at the pool with my son and ... still down woot! - acedanger via twhirl

How long until someone creates istwitterup.com? - Kevin Bondelli via bTT

I'm so happy that now I can see your comments with the friendfeed app for iphone - YAY!! - Orli Yakuel

Super!) - Кто здесь? via twhirl