Sean, if only I knew. This was delivered directly to me fresh and hot.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Wow, whatever you do, don't google "Asian guys at beach licking" if you want to find the Flickr account for this. No, seriously. Just...don't. o.O
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
changed my life forever...I will always go to the beach with a a few chubby buddies after porking myself up for those bosoms ~ and this image is most definitely going in the ol' spank bank
- sofarsoShawn
Remember ! I bring quality product to Friend Feed !:)
- Akiva Moskovitz
you know what would be funny: ok bear with me, if we blindfolded leather donut (you know the booby man) and...yeah fill in the blanks...something like this http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- sofarsoShawn
Sir, randomly linking to your FriendFeed from one of my posts is oh wait you'll never see this because you're blocked for spamming. Thanks anyway, kaghazrangy.
- Akiva Moskovitz
damn this picture just won't go away - you have forced me to hide it
- William Harryman
Akiva, wasn't that pic taken at your last BBQ?
- Paul
Every time I see this picture I smile. Their joy is infectious, like herpes.
- Sparky
Paul, I surely do wish I had a beach in my back yard!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Sparky, I'm going to have this blown up to poster-size and attaching it to the ceiling above our bed. That'll cause some infections!
- Akiva Moskovitz
makes me want to grow a rack and diddle with my own, know what I'm saying?
- sofarsoShawn
this. . . .this. . . ugh . . . so fucking wrong.
- Peter Ghosh
Akiva - you can put anything you want above our bed.
- Sparky
i've been trying to formulate a comment for this for days, but i just...can't.
- joey
I still want to know the motivation here. is this a gay marriage argument? or are we already pushing group social contracts on friendfeed?
- Noah David Simon
oh man this one keeps popping up on ma friendfeed,....must spread virus nao
- Chris Hofmann
I'm surprised no one's noticed old boy's red-framed glasses.
- Akiva Moskovitz
oh right... the glasses are so important when three asian men are licking his nipples and all the comments are by people who think gay marriage has something to do with equality... when it has everything to do with taking protections away from children. the red glass glasses.... um yeah. chicken and Oklahoma with milk
- Noah David Simon
Mark, you have uncovered the dark underbelly of humanity except in this case it isn't dark but is rather a pasty hue somewhere in the vicinity of undercooked flan.
- Akiva Moskovitz
This should be in the default noobie FF stream. Like the first thing anyone who signs up sees. If they stick around they're part of the family.
- Chrimmus Tad
Perhaps this can replace the kitty pic on the start page for non-members!
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
I'm certain prop8 had nothing to do with Swine Flu
- Noah David Simon
I'm thinking that eventually, it will have been hidden by every user on FriendFeed. It'll be the most hidden post in FriendFeed history.
- Akiva Moskovitz
WHY WHY KEEP BRINGING BACK THE EYES THEY HURT ME
- Neal Jansons
from IM
Herpes (and this): the gifts that keep on giving.
- Sparky
I wonder if the FriendFeed guys see this and say to themselves, 'Well, this isn't exactly what we had in mind when we started started FriendFeed.'
- Akiva Moskovitz
I look at it and think, "Not again."
- Steven Perez
from IM
Just about the time you FF is getting some class .. Oh well we is what we is.
- Brent - Loving Life
I can't believe after all this time some diligent FF'er hasn't dug up the identities (I said "titties") of this bunch and invited them to join the service that made them famous. Mitchell Tsai, get to work!
- Sprague D
i think if you unlike and delete all your comments anna it'll go away, but hide in general would be nice too (this photo makes me smile every time it pops up so don't mind it)...
- mike "glemak" dunn
*sigh* This is never going away, is it? It's gonna end up like James Bond movies and Swedish meatballs - always existing in the same form. never diminshing, never forgotten. :( :( :(
- Steven Perez
from IM
It will go away, to be replaced with photoshops of the original. It's all part of the meme lifecycle.
- Sparky
I am too new on friendfeed to know anything about record comments.. I love gmail tho, puts all the comments in one threaded email and I can delete them all later in one shot or not if I choose..
- David Gross
from email
well we should aim to beat the record.. i mean jeez there are tons of things that could be said about this.. like.. does it taste like chicken?
- ed fry
I'm gonna have nightmares now. thanks ed. ;)
- Alejandro
ok, in Japanese: "an, an, soko dame!"
- Rick Cogley
You can't close this thread. A lot of people say that this place is a Scoble-fest but, truly, it is this thread that is at the very heart of FriendFeed.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I'm officially going to proclaim that this is the FF equivalent of Goatse or FFoatse if you will. Lets all refer to it as that from this point forward.
- Mark Krynsky
Sparky has left 57 comments. The rest of you are slacking. Hop to it!
- Christopher Harley
Chrisitan just walked by and said "It's too early in the morning for Japanese titty licking." It's NEVER too early for Japanese titty licking.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
THIS is the first thing I see here this morning?
- l0ckergn0me
Chris, you just woke up? C'mon, man! It's 10:30!
- Akiva Moskovitz
I knew he would break eventually - it's fitting that it's on this thread *now to find out how to hide a thread once you've commented....*
- WorldofHiglet
As much as I am loathe to bump this post, I have to do it to say, You, sir, are a master. Well played, sir. Well played. This is why I take every opportunity to say, in my next life, I want to be Akiva. I've already called it! Don't anybody go getting any more ideas.
- ♥patricia♥
I, for one, refuse to "bump" posts...it's very unseemly...
- Live4Emma (L4S)
I wish FF-search allowed to do GROUP BY -aggregations so I could COUNT(*) who are the biggest *bump*ers. :)
- Jemm
Makes me laugh everytime I see it. Such a happy yet silly scene by the sea.
- Toby Graham
There is nothing silly about it. This is serious business.
- Sparky
The more I see this, the more I like it. Not for the ironic nipple-licking, but because these kids are genuinely enjoying themselves. :) Carry on.
- felicious
This photo looks so much better in iPhone 3.0!#!~
- Akiva Moskovitz
Seriously dude. What do I have to do to get rid of this disgusting picture!? Doh! Now I've just pushed it back to the top... yuck, I'm so sickened.
- Jason Nunnelley
I love this image, because I have no clue why it's happening. Randomness FTW!!
- Jimminy Fuller
from twhirl
I'm just thinking of all the new folks coming to friend feed and see this and wonder just what the hell did I get into anyway? And why in Gods name can't I spell Friend correctly the first time - GRRRRRR
- Brent - Loving Life
Can't believe I never hit 'like' on this! Consider the situation rectumfied.
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Oops! I hope I didn't just bump this up again... ;-)
- Sprague D
It's just so refreshing to see genuine juvenile humour at work. These kids are no different from any other, I think it's a great happy image, given all the other shite happening in this world on a daily basis. For those that are too pompous and prudish, 'up yours with brass knobs'
- ImJustCreative
Wow. 666. Nice! Actually, the reason Asashoryu is getting a divorce ( http://ff.im/4T0UA ), is because he wants to spend time with this lot.
- Rick Cogley
To this day, the pic still comes back. Just like Herpes. :D
- Danny Minick
Although unlike herpes this photo is fun to share with friends.
- Sparky
I would rather go to http://woot.com and buy the Acer Aspire One for $259.99, I do not care that it is a refurb.. but what would I do with two laptops? Maybe #hive knows? hmm..
- David Gross
from email
What's this? A real question in this thread? Two extra laptops? Make them fancy digital photo frames.
- Jordan Hofker
Reason #696 why the Internet can grant you immortality. ;-)
- darnell
from BuddyFeed
I can't believe this thing is still floating around Friendfeed. These poor guys... ha ha ha
- Bradley Farless
@SeanMcGee sorry about the spam, this thread is sorta spammy.. I get the messages in email perfect for replying with any message because it then gets posted on twitter and facebook.. I do not do it all the time, look at my other posts in this stream..
- David Gross
from email
Lactating, males last resort to save ourselves, now that they can create sperm in labs.
- Jimminy Fuller
This is the thread that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started feeding it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue feeding it forever just because...This is the thread that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started feeding it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue feeding it forever just because...This is the thread that...
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- David Gross
from email
I have 89 :( emails since july 10th.. that includes the ones I sent.
- David Gross
from email
gmail comes in handy, it keeps all the email in conversations, 100 messages at a time but because the subject " :( " it will not filter out so they dont go to inbox.
- David Gross
from email
*THOUGHT FOR THE DAY...* Women are like phones: They like to be held, talked to, and touched often. But push the wrong button and your ass is disconnected.
- David Gross
from email
all this oral stuff is just begging the question of when do they start with the money shots?
- Noah David Simon
I just use this image as a way to announce crap. no one really pays attention to my feed... except my enemies. so when I have something important to say I tell the Asian Titty lickers. it is my strong belief that this thread needs it's very own domain name. something like http://xrl.us/TittyLickers
- Noah David Simon
You know, every time this pops up, since FF hides the middle of the comments of which there are 804 or so, I see Akiva say "I'm sorry." at the top. It makes me wonder about how some things are just not possible to apologize for!
- Rick Cogley
wow, I can't believe tomorrow is Friday :o) no, wait, somewhere in the world it's ALREADY Friday :o)
- David Gross
from email
Thanks Rick, thats what I thought.. does that mean I can start with the #followfriday on twitter or do I have to wait till it is Friday here in NJ? would be funny to post it from this post LOL all my friendfeed goes to twitter..
- David Gross
from email
David - yeah, you can get an early start.
- Rick Cogley
Rick, I am not good at lists or #followfriday but there are lotsa good people in this thread.
- David Gross
from email
the thing that strikes me about this (aside from the obvious) is after seeing this thing pop up like 35-40 times since March its just occurred to me that I don't have any (guy) friends that a) would lick my nipples b) would lick my nipples for a photograph. Maybe I should get out more...
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
I'm a little scared that I've this has gotten more than 800 comments and almost 200 likes over nearly five months and I still haven't clicked "Hide."
- Scott of Two Countries
It's just a bit of fun. I mean watching how many comment, not the picture content (although I suspect that is all that was too!)
- Ian May
Allright, you guys ready to shoot "mirth and girth"?
- Rick Cogley
For the life of me, I'll never understand the emotion people have around this picture for or against. There's no nudity at all, not even implied nudity. Less dude nudity than a beer commercial or cigarette ad, yet there are people who really really really hate this picture.
- Matthew DeVries
I found a way to get a Tit Theme, and it involves this picture.
- Jimminy Fuller
Hahahaha! It's like a telethon. And after Joey Bishop goes off stage, they flash this picture on the screen. "Won't you think of the CHILDREN?"
- Spidra Webster
It's been a while, hope the magnetism still prevails...
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
I just had to bump this once more... gives me a whole new excuse to go look at Phoebe again!
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Hmmm, where do you think they're from? My guess is Japan...
- sofarsoShawn
The bumping algorithm includes things like novel people posting to it, in addition to thread age, and rapidity of comments. If the same 3 people are talking in a thread, it quits bumping because it's obviously a closed tea party.
- Matthew DeVries
I forgot, also you're a very handsome guy(saw the wedding images), I don't understand why you don't like to share your face. Rochelle is a lucky lady.
- Jimminy Fuller
Jimminy, it's an irrational phobia. No different than people who are afraid of heights, spiders, clowns, or Canada.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva, now I'm LMAO at the fear of Canada. People are actually afraid of Canada, or just the fact they don't know if they're British or French?
- Jimminy Fuller
I don't think even Canadians know that difference.
- Akiva Moskovitz
If Friendfeed had sound .. this thread would be all licks and slurps
- Mattb4rd
Sorry Akiva, I think it was the display picture.. I have known male and female Akivas.. Oh and by the way guys I am not afraid of Canada LOL will be there this weekend.. Dave Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes...> - "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."
- David Gross
from email
I popped the 666 cherry and I will get 1000 also.
- Jimminy Fuller
If it gets to 1000 will Akiva lock it so it can sink from our feeds forever? Please?!?
- WorldofHiglet
I think locking this post would be un-FriendFeedian.
- Jason Huebel
This is the immortal post everyone who uses the service must see it so WoH it just wouldn't be good to lock it.
- Jimminy Fuller
Not everyone see's it, only the people with true class do.
- Sparky
It keeps on going and going and going....
- David Gross
from email
In the Hall of Great Posts at the FriendFeed museum, this shall be hung high on the wall with pride.
- Johnny Worthington
I'M THE ROCK AND ROLL CLOWN.. AND I LIKE COCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINE
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
*Wispering to Murderface* "Seriously man, I do... A LOT of cocaine."
- Matt Stoddard
It is now September 1st, and this has not reached 1000 comments. I am sorely disappointed. Yet, for some reason, I am uplifted by the smile of this young man, who was fortunate enough to have such great friends that fateful day on the beach.
- Josh Haley
Quick let's add some comments... Gee that guy on the far left is not really getting into the swing of things is he?
- Travis Koger
Travis... bear in mind that we don't know what "main chubby guy's" right hand is doing, or where it's doing whatever it's doing...
- Mark "DerBingle" J
BUT WE CAN INFER WHAT "MAIN CHUBBY GUY'S" HANDS ARE DOING. BOTH OF THEM.
- Sparky
@Mark, of interest (well not really) is the location of Front Left guy's left hand.
- Travis Koger
The photo of Akiva in the jacuzzi with the Texas A&M cheerleaders would be so much more popular. Now if only someone would post it.
- Christopher Harley
Noooooooooooooooooooooo! Posted March 1st and we are still enduring the wrath! "Akiva's posts, now with more staying power than ever before!"
- Nicholas Kreidberg
YAY! OVER 1000 COMMENTS BLAAAARGBLBLLB
- Josh Haley
It feels like Groundhog Day whenever I see this.
- Andru Edwards
Except that unlike Groundhog Day this is AWESOME!
- Sparky
This thread was how I discovered Akiva. ROFL... Y.M.C.A.! BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP! GAZE AT IT! DON'T LOOK AWAY! >:O I SED DON'T LOOK AWAY!!! ... ^_^
- Danny Minick
You have nothing to fear - I never look away.
- Sparky
On Fark, there was this one thread, that just kept growing and growing. On Fark, it was a single page per thread. And you could post images and gif inline. Well the thread wouldn't die, people just kept posting. I forget which one it was. Anyway, it got so monsterous, that few people going to read/post to it per day (which was only a handfull) accounted for 1/3 of the server load of the site. They eventually had to cull that thread.
- Matthew DeVries
I think everyone who has participated in this thread has 'culled' themselves privately.
- Akiva Moskovitz
What with all the copycat images this has inspired I hope our muse continues to stick around and not get lost in the shuffle of so many knockoffs.
- Sparky
SHUT UP SPARKY!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111!!!!
- Andru Edwards
I refuse to shut up about the glory that is this thread. REFUSE.
- Sparky
Yes, Vezquex, I'm jealous of those guys, it is warm there, nothing like a warm beatch..
- David Gross
from email
Yes, Sparky, they do not know how good they have it there frolicking on the beach while we freeze up here.. Hard to believe it is only 49 degrees, feels like 29.. I bet it's at least 85 degrees on that beach.
- David Gross
from email
Anyone who doesn't appreciate this thread is clearly not developing a FriendFeed iPhone client because this is a great stress test case. (It crashes BuddyFeed, by the way.)
- Akiva Moskovitz
from iPhone
Also it exercises the crap out of your thumb trying to scroll down to the bottom of it.
- Akiva Moskovitz
from iPhone
Do you need to appreciate the pic in order to appreciate the thread?
- Travis Koger
If I un-collapse this thread, will it break my computer?
- Eivind
Every time this thread gets a bumped, god kills a kitten
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew, you may have given some people more reason to keep bumping this thread.
- Victor Ganata
How does it give you thumb exercise? Whatever you're doing, why don't you either use the keyboard or switch to Linux so you can middle-click the scrollbar to jump to where you want? :P
- Tanath
actually this thread does not bother me because I get it in email and gmail groups them and starts new thread after every 100 comments. I have it autoarchived so I do not have to see on phone lol and just see when I look at my ffeed label in gmail.
- David Gross
from email
disgusting? HOW DARE YOU, SIR! That is j-love! and it's beautiful (in it's own way.. a way that shouldn't be seen in public)
- Kyle Johnson
this is probably the most popular feed of 2009 in FF. lol.
- Bora Mesut PALAS
I think the one where Robert Scoble gave away money easily beats this one, but this post has staying power. ;-)
- Jason Huebel
I think that Chinese at FF post was a marriage proposal thing. They were all trying to bump the guy's photo so that it would be the first thing his girlfriend would see when she logged onto FF.
- Kamilah Gill
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, 1 salty beach, 2 pairs of glasses, 3 lords a licking, 4 chubby men, 5 santa hats(O_o), 6 rolls of fat, 7 ????, and 8 moobs to view.
- Jimminy Fuller
Hey, I'd be willing to let random guys suck on my nipples if it meant I'd lose all my extra weight. *waits for wiseass random guys to suggest it DOES mean that*
- Spidra Webster
נתתי לו למצוץ את הפטמות שלי, אם לתת להם לשחק על החוף. לפחות לא כל כך קר על החוף.
- David Gross
from email
But no one makes love like Neil Patrick Harris is dancing? FAIL!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
My brother in law in the Philippines can't be dissuaded from naming his son Elmo. I hope that unborn boy is ready to be tormented for the rest of his life. Why do parents do that to their kids?
- Bradley Farless
You know, in my heart I hope that people like NPH who seem just so damn awesome on the screen are just as cool in real life. Anyone met the fellow in person?
- Adam Lasnik
I'm sure he's a decent guy. Never met him, though.
- Josh Haley
But he sure can dance, just look at him go!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Love him when he's unicorn watching.
- Gabrielle V
Okay, I swear I am not just pimpin' good swing music, but I was looking at this GIF and listening to this song - http://lala.com/zPe9 ("Billie's Bounce" performed live by Buddy Rich) - and it matches! :o
- Adam Lasnik
Gross. I just unliked to be contrary. Yet another reason why I pulled back from FriendFeed. And why getting swallowed up by Facebook, the great leveler, couldn't make more sense.
- Rick Powell
That's right, all you horrible time-wasters you! Get back to talking about kernels and APIs! Have you no Protestant work-ethic? /sarcasm
- Neal Jansons
That's what I got for paying $299 to buy their entire history _ever_ from Apple. Put iTunes on shuffle, and there's a good chance it will hit DM.
- Louis Gray
Louis Gray has good taste in music :)
- Adam Singer
WOW great music, Louis. It's like you went through some of my iTunes library and stole it. :P
- Molly, "sorry"
Louis, how do I get that entire history collection?
- Jesse Stay
I can dig some house, but when it comes to electronic I always slant towards the more experimental/IDM-type stuff... Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, etc - hence my: http://friendfeed.com/got-mem...
- Nathan Chase
Justice and Daft Punk are about as "house" as I get... but the name-givers seem to dub them as "electro"...
- Nathan Chase
You're the electronic kind of guy, I see... Let me suggest a little change: Prefab Sprout "Let's change the world with music". It also has that 80's feeling that you seem to like but it's a little bit more poppy.
- Jordi Soler
I just saw a guy pretending to speak to a ghost on some TV show. The guy living in the house thought there was a ghost there because the spatula was suddenly missing :D And what Mark said of course.
- Eivind
I've seen some things that may have been ghosts, but I don't know that they were. As with most things, I am skeptical but open to evidence.
- Neal Jansons
In the Principia Discordia, the founding document of the Discordian religion, the following conversation transpires between two saints:... Read More GP: "Is Eris true?" M2: "Everything is true." GP: "Even false things?" M2: "Even false things are true." GP: "How can that be?" M2: "I don't know man, I didn't do it." Wise words.
- Neal Jansons
Also, Mattie, in all honesty, I don't have a webcam. I hear Akiva just got a new MacBook Pro that has one built into it though...isn't that right, Akiva?
- Pete Delucchi
Akiva could also use the webcam on his wife's new computer, that I hear also has a built-in webcam. Ya know, just in case his stopped working for whatever reason. Me, I'm still stuck with nada for video recording. Wish I could help...la di da...
- Pete Delucchi
Mattie, like I said, no webcam, so you'll have to cope with an mp3, and it's super late right now, so I had to whisper too ( http://friendfeed.com/e... ) now, if the giraffe dies, it's on Akiva. :-P
- Pete Delucchi
Do it! DO IT! You don't have the balls!!!
- Mo Kargas
Pete has saved the beloved giraffe. He was reintroduced to the wild just moments ago!
- Mattie Kenny
Hooray for the giraffe! Does Akiva even have a picture on his drivers license? :D
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
One reason I love FF more than any other service. The people actually seem genuinely concerned about each others well being. Thank everyone for there well wishing and hopefully the service or it's legacy project shine on in this regard. I love you guys.
you are right! that is what i like about this feed and it is GENUINE, but is so new that is not so fun yet, but the more we post things that wake us up to what we knew with intuition already that friend feed will be THE tool, but until then i will support it too
- Ian Hilley
likewise facefeed and beyond...hopefully
- sofarsoShawn
Shawn, I just realized the I actually didn't share any info about my accident on FB. Odd as that sounds, but I really don't like FB.
- Jimminy Fuller
Oh I was referring to FriendFeed selling out to Facebook, FB's now the owner, so by proxy...my comment was meant as...yes, we soldier on! Come what may!
- sofarsoShawn
Shawn, I understood what you meant, it just was an epiphanie that I had from seeing facefeed.
- Jimminy Fuller
Bumping this because, this is the real shit, I love you guys and all the support.
- Jimminy Fuller
When will Facebook take down/get rid of FriendFeed? I really can't stomach Facebook.
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Jannifer, hopefully never, hopefully they decided to do a pure talent grab and allow the service to remain independent, under the FB umbrella but funded by Paul and fellow FriendFeeders, since we don't know the terms this seems unlikely.
- Jimminy Fuller
I must get boring then. :p I code things I can't give details about or write...and all I say is "plotting" or "writing" or "storyboarding".
- Neal Jansons
He just might be able to catch up. Look at those paws!
- April Buchheit
I've never understood what would possess someone to want to hold something like that. And I have tried.
- nakachi
You better buy insurance from that mofo
- Rodfather
It's the arrogance of humans...it's the same thing that makes people die from "This isn't possible" disease in horror movies. That guy probably says things like "Oh, he's perfectly harmless!" and is very reasonable about it all...completely ignoring that it's a MONSTER and MONSTERS EAT PEOPLE! That's why I am never gonna really grow up...grown-ups forget about the monsters and how to...
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- Neal Jansons
from IM
Agree on the whole. I always find these categories a little artificial: Really "Forrester-speak". :) I think the recommendations are the most interesting. I'd make a separate post out of that.
- Meryn Stol
You say it yourself: "What’s interesting isn’t this vision for the future, but what it holds in store for brands, " . I'd like these recommendations to be fleshed out with concrete first steps to take. Doesn't have to be more than links to relevant resources.
- Meryn Stol
Meryn The recommendations are fleshed out in the actual reports. Our clients (brands) have access to see them.
- Jeremiah Owyang
Hmm ok... Then I'll need to get the details elsewhere I guess. :)
- Meryn Stol
Interesting categorization of the development into eras. Any consideration to the impact of scale on the 5th era? Just as a recent example with Facebook, their format evolution was not well received by what is not an insignificant number of members, and yet the reality is - that change - negative impact not withstanding is not rolling back.
- Patrick Boegel
There will be a give and take between communities and brands. The thing is, Facebook doesn't have a competitive alternative that users could go to. In my report, we suggest that active communities could define specs for products, and bid MULTIPLE companies to build it.
- Jeremiah Owyang
I completely understand that Jeremiah, just wondering if the nature of scale impacted or perhaps better said impacts the thought process for very complex long term brand relationships, ie Health Insurance, Financial Services, a college/university choice, where consversation and user invovlement can be complicated. Very interested in the full report either way. Thx.
- Patrick Boegel
good stuff Jeremiah, enjoyed and some good thought provokers there for the future
- Richard Binhammer
Nice paper but really expensive for young people. $750 means $41 for page.
- Alp
Great information, understanding the future's potential is more important than ever on the social web.
- Maria Reyes-McDavis
Interesting, but very general and hard to apply. I see companies more as å provide of tools/stage for conversation, aka the gold rush mining vs selling tools
- Anders Dahlberg
Alp, Many of Forrester's clients are large brands who have a subscription. We're still sharing a great deal on this blog, and have given the report to bloggers to cover, so there's value to be had there.
- Jeremiah Owyang
Jeremiah (and the team), a great piece of work and, I imagine, a labour of both love and loathing at times! I have been very interested in this area as I have looked at the shift in skills to deliver social media activity changes from one of basic coding knowledge to much more human, interactive skills.
- Paul Fabretti
Fantastic article! I found it SO intriguing that I've even printed it out!
- J. D. Ebberly
"How Brands Should Prepare" is a great bit of information. Jeremiah, it would be nice (i'd be reading) if you expanded in future blog posts about the "How Brands Should Prepare".
- frank barry
That's likely to be a research report I'm thinking about writing Frank
- Jeremiah Owyang
Probably correct in assuming that most online social networks will neither spawn nor solidify to the point of being considered ‘affinity groups’ with the level of cohesion, unified budgetary authority or organized implementation capability of NGOs, churches, or employee aggregations. Even in the era of social commerce. I hope I’m wrong.
- A Mitchell
Great post, understanding the future's potential is more important than ever on the social web.
- Vlad Hrouda
I went to IMDB hoping there were some unreleased movies with him in them. No such luck. I think I liked him best in Dirty Dancing, but his Ghost, SNL, and Point Break roles were unforgettable as well. And who knew he had been a guest star in M*A*S*H as a young kid?
- Stephen Mack
from Bookmarklet
I've only seen Red Dawn, To Wong Foo and Point Break. I looks like he did a lot of movies though.
- Admiral Anika
I think I'll rent Red Dawn, I've always meant to see it.
- Stephen Mack
Red Dawn was "good" for it's time. Definitely dated, but still fun to watch.
- Admiral Anika
It's a little ridiculous...Cuba and Russia invade Colorado? I mean, this was tail-end Cold War so I get the angle and all, but still...Colorado?
- Neal Jansons
I used to tell people it's because the Rockies are so high, it was the first place they could land.
- Admiral Anika
I've slept fitfully for the past two nights. I'm congested and anxious and can't fall asleep until after 3am, and then I spend all night with nightmares or generally agitating dreams where I'm constantly running all night.
I had trouble sleeping last week; last night was the first long hard sleep, and I woke up today more fatigued than I did last week
- RAPatton
This has been my life since I was a child (I have almost all sleep disorders...insomnia, night terrors, chronic nightmares, somnambulism). I am so sorry. If it's any consolation, it is probably acute and will go away. Ongoing sleep disorders are rare, which is why I can almost always make a few bucks in sleep studies.
- Neal Jansons
Thanks, Neal. I'm sorry you experience all of those! So much to handle. My fiance has a chronic sleep disorder and I think it has been catching up with me with particular vigor in recent months. I hope this particular bout is just the combination of that and my cold, but it has been harder and harder for me to disconnect, quiet my mind, and get to sleep in the past few months.
- joey
I've actually started taking up meditation and it works wonders for quieting my mind and improves my day. It was kind of weird being a hard agnostic (read mostly atheist :p ) taking a spiritual workshop.
- Danny F Santos
I haven't sleepwalked for years, thankfully; it gets scary when you wake up and you don't know what you did or sometimes where you are. Same here with the "partner making it worse sometimes". My wife has seriously restless legs and it messes with me a lot, too. I will be finally drifting off and she will start running her little marathon; 1 burst of adrenaline later and I am up and...
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- Neal Jansons
I had a really fitful night's sleep last night myself. I don't know what to recommend, here, except diet and exercise.
- Lucas Parker
That is scary, Neal. I'm glad you've had a reprieve. My insomnia could very well be stress-induced. I've been under a lot more of it lately and have been having more anxiety issues as well. I definitely need to drink more water. I'm vegetarian, so that's something, but I'll try increased fiber and water and see if that helps at all. Love your last sentence...I laughed out loud ;)
- joey
Joey, you've got a lot of unresolved issues going on right now... that has to be at least part of what's affecting your sleep... once you make firm decisions one way or the other I think you'll feel better... being in limbo has you wanting to run away, and since you can't in real life you're doing it in your dreams, I think!!
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Unresolved emotional and life issues that cause repetitive thoughts that produce anxiety and tension do increase cortisol levels. Essentially, cortisol is how we feel the anxiety and tension itself, so when we have anything inducing those kinds of emotions we are increasing our overall cortisol level. These responses in us evolved to respond to individual incidents, not an ongoing life...
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- Neal Jansons
I misread Danny F Santos' comment as "taking up medication." Of course I wanted to know what it was . . . meditation is probably better.
- Amy℠
"From what I can tell, nobody has articulated a compelling scientific case for human beings to go beyond low-Earth orbit. Or even leave Earth, for that matter. From a scientific perspective, the International Space Station has been an unbelievably colossal waste of money. As the Economist tells us, “the useful science that has been done on board could be written up on the back of a postage stamp.” (Sam Ting’s AMS would be an exception. But this is unlikely to have been the most cost-effective way to go about this experiment.) The space shuttle program, on the other hand, has been instrumental in producing amazing science, epitomized by the launching and servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope. Given the immense cost of the shuttle program, however, the science return on investment remains fairly slim. How many space telescopes could have been built and launched by conventional rockets, for the cost of all that shuttle development?"
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
from Bookmarklet
*blinks* I don't really need a scientific reason other than loose exploration and investigation; my reason is a social reason: when a town is screwed you can move, when a country is screwed you expatriate or become a refugee, etc, and I just want the next step of that to be possible...more cultures, more choices for individuals to live as they wish, etc. I once read a novel called...
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- Neal Jansons
I think the point is more "if it takes money away from science, are we sure we want it?" question. A serious push into space would certainly create a lot of technological R&D if not pure research. Depending on the kind of R&D it might still be a win (and I am a scientist) but we better be sure
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
True, and I can understand the perspective, but I don't think the objective of the space program should be purely scientific. There is a social and cultural side similar to the development of sea travel, and the potential for colonies, discoveries of unimagined resources, and maybe even other sentient species to connect to (and probably attempt to subjugate and kill, followed by an...
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- Neal Jansons
I would also point out that this argument is very similar to that offered by the eliminative materialists in philosophy of mind. They claim that any attempt to devise or study a psychology is simply taking money from the "real" science of neurology, and that talk of minds, attitudes, thoughts, and feelings are nothing more than "folk psychology" that do not submit to scientific study...
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- Neal Jansons
I don't disagree - but I think the article is pointing out a shift - NASA used to be in part about science, and that is mostly gone (or a token gesture). Now it is about operations and engineering, and that is neither bad nor good, it's just the way it is. From a "selfish dream" I want more humans in space, because I wish that it become mainstream before I am too old for it.... but on a...
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- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
"Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, "Because it is there." Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked." - John F Kenedy, Rice Stadium, Sept 12 1962
- Roberto Bonini
Joelle: I agree, that shift has definitely occurred. I wonder if the reason for it is that space turned out to be pretty un-sexy to the non-geeky...mostly empty space and dust with nary a bug-eyed alien or Klingon to be found. Back in the 50s-60s, anything was possible, while now space exploration just doesn't pump the imagination too much...at least the imaginations of informed adults who know about the whole "mostly empty space and dust" issue.
- Neal Jansons
"mostly empty space" is very sexy to the geeky I guess :D The illusion of the space idea is that there will be space for doing things your way
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Must be :p Maybe it's just that the geeky don't lose their wonder as easily when preconceived notions don't pan out. I mean, theists are always ranting at me about how the positions of empiricism and naturalism "take away" meaning and beauty and I just don't understand. To me, it seems like the wonder was in knowing how things worked and why, not one explanation vs. another. As the...
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- Neal Jansons
Think of the nobility of libraries and librarianship, the great scar that the Burning of Alexandria gouged in human history. Think of the archivists who barricaded themselves in the Hermitage d ...
- Tris Hussey
Has this ever happened to you? You go to your computer with a purpose in mind, and of course the first thing you see is Friendfeed (because that was the last thing you were doing on your computer before going offline to do something else), you become distracted with some stuff your friends shared and before you know it...
It happened to me yesterday. I was innocently checking some facts, working hard when I noticed the FFundercats were on and this Paul dude came on the line and then....it was two hours later!
- WorldofHiglet
Also known as: "WWILF" and a pretty good reason to do your more important things in the morning before opening your e-mail, Friend Feed, Twitter etc :-)
- James Kuypers
The trick is to incorporate FF into you computer time!
- professor daddyo
I actually love and hate hibernating my pc because of that =)
- Gökhan Çeliker
from iPhone
almost. every. freakin'. morning. I just wanna check the weather to see if I can ride my 2-wheeler to work, and there FF is, sucking me in, trying to make me late.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Just happened a few minutes ago. I forgot what I was looking for and find myself browsing FF instead. Then I opened another tab to look for this post and write about it here, but was distracted by something else and found myself meandering on FF again.
- Brome
Even worse, using the employer's network to visit and post to FF during breaks and lunch is now verboten, so it's even more tempting to just check a few threads before I scurry into the dead zone. I know I can tether to a phone for emergencies, but I chose to have a half-hour lunch, so I generally don't bother. I've switched off the iPhone's wireless a couple of times and hit one of my FF apps (got amigo after MotherFeed stopped working).
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Digital distractions, they are aplenty - I keep opening new tabs all the time in my browser and find a hard time trying to close them down to keep num of tabs at manageable level.
- TrafficBug
If you want to debate your opposition to the National Broadband Network in parliment, that's fine, but when you lead off with 'Building the information superhighway'... I kinda tuned out #its2009
too much like pot? so is there an acceptable amount of pot one can smell like?
- pea
If there is this person is considerably past it. It is worse than awful BO at this point.
- Joe Pierce
Prolly actually has their sack on them, then...smoke smell dissipates. Who takes weed to the library?
- Neal Jansons
heh. have I mentioned how much your talk of the library tickles me?
- holly
Neal, you got me. But apparently someone does and it annoys me. Holly, I seem to be bringing it up a lot, Maybe I'm spending too much time here!
- Joe Pierce
too much time in a place that has lots and lots of books? no such thing. bite your tongue.
- pea
Right now I'm a little scared of the library to tell the truth. I'm in a chair by the magazines and there is a Cosmo with Megan Fox on it just staring at me with that blank vapid empty look she always has...
- Joe Pierce
Paranoia, Joe? Ooohh....maybe they're out to get you!
- WorldofHiglet
I am no more paranoid now than I am any other time ever.
- Joe Pierce
don't be skeered of the library. the library is good!
- holly
but how can something so good contain something so evil?
- Joe Pierce
"I have received THREE letters today from big-time Hollywood insiders, and they ALL feel that this change at DC actually increases the odds of a WW film being made tenfold. These people know what they're talking about. It's speculation, but it's INFORMED speculation. So it could be really GOOD news for WW fans. I'm just passing this along."
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
I think they will do it because it is important for the company as a whole
- RAPatton
from iPhone
wonder woman is my favorite! Ever since the TV show with Linda Carter. I would be excited if there was a movie..though I wonder who would play Wonder Woman..Megan Fox?!? EWWW NOOOOO!!!!
- Anna Lynn M.
WW in the comics is one of the most awesome characters DC ever made. I have a poster of her up in my living room.
- Neal Jansons
from IM
I think a WW movie would be great. I'm just, as a person who's particular about minute details, living in fear that they will make a WW movie (or the Justice League movie they keep talking about) and do to her outfit what they did to Catwoman's outfit in the Catwoman movie.
- Wirehead
Sigh...I always fear the worst when they make a comic movie. I have been pleasantly surprised lately (mostly), and dread the WW, JLA/JLU, GL, or Flash movies turning out like Catwoman or Daredevil.
- Neal Jansons
from IM
I wish there was only one programming language in the world and that it sucked mercilessly. That way we could all moan together while getting real things done.
Instead we have the situation where pretty much every language can be argued to suck mercilessly under some conditions, yet we waste so much of our time arguing about which of them sucks less. Interestingly, we did largely have the single-sucky-language scenario back when everyone just sucked it up and wrote everything in C (at least everything that was going to be deployed to any sort of micro), and it wasn't all that bad.
- Joel Webber
“Obama's actual [back-to-school] speech proved about as controversial as a Nancy Reagan appeal to eighth-graders to ‘Just say no!’ to drugs. Yet, the episode reveals the poisoned character of our politics... We seem not only to disagree with each other more than ever, but to have come almost to detest one another. Politically, culturally, racially, we seem ever ready to go for each others' throats.”
- Anthony Citrano
from Bookmarklet
Actually, there are some deep thoughts in this essay: arguably America is indeed coming apart at the seams, culturally, politically and economically. The rise of the neo-Confederates is perhaps the most significant trendline in this development. (The main question for Buchanan: do you side with or against the neo-Confederates? Do you welcome the disintegration of the United States?)
- Sean McBride
PatB's fingerprints are on some of this "poisoned character of our politics" he can be pretty insightful at times. IMO, he too often decides that scoring debating points is much more rewarding than being insightful.
- MikeAmundsen
Ignoring the issues raised in this essay because of the source could be short-sighted. What could be more obvious than that America is in fact coming apart at the seams culturally and politically? Current conditions are beginning to resemble those before the US Civil War.
- Sean McBride
@Sean: yep. messenger is not the issue here. while both PatB and WND rank low in my list of "things i like," it doesn't mean his points are invalid.
- MikeAmundsen
Mike -- I often discover the most useful insights and facts from my most ardent adversaries. I also tend to cut Buchanan a break now and then because he is a vigorous thinker and writer, and because he mounted articulate opposition to the Iraq War and to the neoconservative agenda in general. But the neo-Confederate side of his personality keeps peeking out in disturbing ways -- I understand the anger against him among progressives.
- Sean McBride
I too was skeptical due to the source (Buchanan & WND), but the article does have merit. Insightful read.
- JA Castillo
@Denise & Scott - respectfully I would suggest that it's exactly those kinds of knee-jerk reactions that are causing all the trouble in the first place. I can't offer much beyond what Sean McBride has eloquently stated above, I guess I'll just say I've always respected Buchanan's intellect and consistency.
- Anthony Citrano
Hmm I think I'm missing some of the insight: "Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading authorization packet', system error: 0"
- mikepk
I don't find him vile because of what's in the article or his intelligence. I appreciate the sentiment of reading opposing sources (and I fully agree). My contentions with Buchanan are purely his politics, with which I staunchly disagree. His religious bent disturbs me tremendously ("Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men...
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- ProsePetals (aka Denise)
Yeah, how much 'insight' is there in a piece that actively misleads the reader by leaving out that PAT BUCHANAN HAS BEEN A BIG PART OF THE PROBLEM FOR YEARS NOW ?
- Andrew C
That said, it is awesome that the piece apparently criticizes Rep Wilson for the "You Lie" moment, but WND has inserted a text ad to their store where you can pick up a "You Lie" bumper sticker. Kinda shows just how serious WND isn't.
- Andrew C
Hilarious. Does Buchanan realize what site he's writing for? WND is part if the problem and he's adding legitimacy to it by writing for them. I love how he points to Joe Wilson's outburst as "poisoned character of our politics" and WND throws one of their million poorly -labeled ads selling "You Lie" stickers right after that statement.
- Rob Haas
By itself, it's not insightful to say America is divided. That's inane and a puerile observation because it's so obvious. What's odious about Pat Buchanan here is that his real point isn't that America should be united, but that /it should be united along the lines he prefers/, which is racist and only coded enough to maintain plausible deniability. Read the last few paragraphs. Hell,...
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- Andrew C
"The European-Christian core of the country that once defined us is shrinking, as Christianity fades, the birth rate falls and Third World immigration surges. Globalism dissolves the economic bonds, while the cacophony of multiculturalism displaces the old American culture." - seriously, fuck him.
- Andrew C
Agreed. American exceptionalism and archaic political philosophies determined to keep us in the past are not going to help...but they sure are attractive to scared and (purposely) poorly educated people, aren't they?
- Neal Jansons
from IM
Exactly. I see no deep thoughts, just obvious observations. All Buchanan serves to do in this case is sell more survival kits and books to WND readers. And crap, when did Sprint start advertising on WND? It's time to write some e-mails.
- Rob Haas
It's people like him that prove that the US needs to really start separating state and church: religion has NO role in politics.
- Rene Wirtz
Throughout the piece, the fear of difference is so pronounced. It has always seemed to me so ironic that for people who worship at the altar of free markets, they are so opposed to a free marketplace of ideas with plenty of competition.
- Neal Jansons
from IM
2 - Especially love robots. My father is a mechanical engineer and roboticist and my enthusiasm is partly due to trips to the CSIRO as a kid
- Mo Kargas
3 - I'm Australian, but was born in Wales in Great Britain, hence a British Citizen as well
- Mo Kargas
4 - I never ever give up, doesn't matter what it is
- Mo Kargas
5 - I'm a hopeless romantic. Hopeless being a keyword :)
- Mo Kargas
6 - I have physics and computer science bachelors, not because I needed them for what I wanted to do, but because I just love science
- Mo Kargas
7 - I love learning about other cultures, especially first hand.
- Mo Kargas
8 - I'm a retro gaming fanatic. I collect every console and system I can get my hands on and have most games
- Mo Kargas
9 - I'm a great believer in a supreme power, moreover I think religion in general can help more than hinder
- Mo Kargas
10 - I love art in all its forms, I'm especially a fan of gothic, Renaissance and Islamic art
- Mo Kargas
11 - I'm a web developer, but hope to move into 3D games and animation one day
- Mo Kargas
12 - I am a control freak with mental state so I don't drink or smoke
- Mo Kargas
13 - I've recently become a fitness fanatic :)
- Mo Kargas
14 - I strongly believe in dialog between all peoples and faiths, regardless of history and grievance or enemity
- Mo Kargas
15 - I almost drowned when I was 5, and was saved by my Dad (I followed him off the deep-end's spring board LOL)
- Mo Kargas
16 - I'm a car fanatic, doesn't matter what vehicle it is. I own two car sites and I'm creating a third
- Mo Kargas
17 - I've never actually fallen in love with anyone, weird as that sounds
- Mo Kargas
18 - I'm a great fan of social media, but not for the business aspect, but for it's capability to help people reach out to eachother and experience lives elsewhere they may never ever have seen otherwise
- Mo Kargas
19 - I'm fascinated by ancient peoples and civilisations, especially ruins
- Mo Kargas
20 - I'm fiercely protective of my family, and this has landed me in trouble numerous times
- Mo Kargas
21 - I have no extended family where I live, and have never spoken to my grandparents, who have sadly all passed away.
- Mo Kargas
22 - A few oddities: My family history is Berber and semitic, but I'm not Jewish. Additionally my surname is Greek, but there's no greek connection anywhere in our family
- Mo Kargas
23 - I sometimes over-analyze the most basic of decisions :)
- Mo Kargas
25 - I love making things grow, and have a bit of a "green thumb"
- Mo Kargas
for #8 - Ahhhh but do you have E.T. for the Atari 2600??? ;)
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Lindsay, yeah I have E.T for the 2600 (got it with the Woody edition). Do I play it? HELL NO
- Mo Kargas
Mo, this is awesome. Some of the stuff I picked up on (robots, and fitness), but didn't know about your family history. I'd love to hang out with you in person. :)
- Derrick
RE: #22 then we're two here Mo! Although some say that we have roman origins, I am a berber too :)
- directeur
Sweet! I still don't have a copy. And I would play it... at least one more time. :)
- Fa La La La Lindsay
@directeur Roman origins, perhaps that's where the surname has come from
- Mo Kargas
Australian AND Welsh, how unlucky can you get? j/k ;) All these 25 lists are weird because I keeping finding about 10 of them are the same as me. Perhaps my FF circle projects my lifestyle more than I thought.
- Steven Cains
Dude, i'm SO WITH YOU on #23! Oh BTW, i was glad you didn't mention Fallout 3 in your list because if you did, i was going to hide your post, unsub from you and THEN block you....but lucky for you, crisis averted! HAHA! just playin, great list man!
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Great List, Mo! :-) Oh yeah, #17, not so weird...I'm in the club too.
- Anna Haro
@Anna, I'm not pessemistic when it comes to it, it simply hasn't occurred yet, and I'm content to wait till it happens or doesn't whatever the case.
- Mo Kargas