Yes, what happened? - Hao Chen

I want it back too... :( - Chris Thomson

It will be down for a little while we fix a small bug. Should be back soon... - Ross Miller

I try really hard to read an article before commenting. I may LIKE before reading, but I try not to comment. This actually happened to me on my "FriendFeed poser" article.. a lot of people replied angrily after reading the headline or maybe the first paragraph of the article. - J. Phil

@Ben Haha. - Jennifer Leggio

I've noticed it too, and it's bad - Shey

@J. Phil - I'm the same way. I'll like something in a way to "bookmark" it at times but will only comment about the content if I've read the content. Headlines are meant to draw in readers but don't necessarily represent all content. - Jennifer Leggio

We'll notice headlines of 140 characters soon everywhere. - Christian Van Der Henst

not a good trend imo - especially with the election ramping up - lots of anger displayed over poor or no context - Marco

Another sign that our attention spans continue to dwindle to microseconds - Mike Doeff

@Mike that comment is too long for me to read. Could you summarize it? - Ben Jackson via twhirl

Ben wins - Bwana McCall

Yeah, that works pretty well. Some overlap, but that's okay. :) - Hao Chen

Just hit like, view your own feed, click on see like. Bam. There it is. - Lisa L. Seifert

Swurl has a "recent conversations" column on the right hand of the page, which I think is a good idea. Presumably FF could implement something similar since at the moment the right hand side is mostly unused. - David Young

There's a greasemonkey script (if you're using Firefox) called ReadLater which adds a link and another tab for reading later. Could use that as a sort of way to bookmark items to do what you want I think. - John

We were passing this all around the office today -- screw 'em! - Joshua Dilworth

Do you hear that noise? It's the sound of worry that tens of thousands of baby boomers who don't "get this generation" are going through. I work for a billion dollar company - surround myself by very successful people - and they don't understand how I can multi-task so effortlessly. They don't understand that I can absorb knowledge quicker, process things more efficiently, basically be omnipresent to all my surroundings - and do it effortlessly. Articles/Books like this are just that worry put on paper - the writings of someone scared that the world is changing in ways they don't understand... - George Smith

Everyone thinks that the next generation is missing out on the important things in life. It makes you wonder what the difference is between the reactionaries and people who "get" that with change comes new and exciting opportunities. - Steve Lynch via Alert Thingy

I want to commend you for writing that. It is really well done. And give thanks that you are nothing like what the author thinks of your generation. You should be proud. We need more young people like you, keep learning and discovering on your own. Realizing there's more to this world than what is in your school books is a very smart achievement. - Dread Pirate PJ

every generation is denigrated in some way. Gen X were slackers who didn't care for the finer things in life. Just ignore it, the media loves labels, Gen Z is on its way soon, and they'll just completely forget about Y - Duncan Riley

We punks of the Blank generation had the best clothes though... Stand your ground Corvida! - Mark Forman

Commented on your blog - powerful stuff, but I do have some thoughts for you to consider. - Mark Dykeman

Some of every new generation frightens some of the older generations. Who knows how things will turn out as the new generation matures? One thing's sure, though - change is constant (and threatening to some). - Tom Landini

this is the typical argument every generation makes up the following one - but Bauerlein, even though his thesis is a bit off, has some pretty interesting observations about how different generations handle information and knowledge. If he uses 'dumb' as meaning kids today focus less on knowledge and more on procedural knowledge, then his title is probably right. - Frederic

My two children are your age and are by no means dumb. I acknowledge each generation has different challenges. Having worked in technology since probably before you were born, I must say you ( and my kids) make me very proud. Keep up the good work and don't let anyone steal your joy! - Rosemarie Pena

has nothing to do with generation, everything to do with clarity of consciousness .... which is fdound everywhere, and often nowehre - gregory lent

Pat: no. But everyone else who isn't in the tech early adopter world is probably on Topix. - Robert Scoble

How big is their community and how long have they been growing it? - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Yes, pretty much what I was saying yesterday, FF doesn't have a very diverse user base. - Ross Maguire

It does seem like a nice cross between Google News and fav.or.it - Pat Hawks

Topix used to be the only source I could find for local news. But I don't like how it happily embraces partial-text feeds and don't bother to add context at all, to the point of some entries being a vague headline with no text! - J. Phil

And before you say it, I know, FriendFeed is like that too. *sigh* - J. Phil

I don't know any non-early adopters that are using any of this technology...yet - maybe we define them differently. Topix provides more of an innate value prop for their time than FF does now, but I think that will change as more people begin to understand the value of a global federated conversation. Working on some music promotion use cases now :) - Erica Toelle

http://www.topix.com/topix/abo... More than a million people, 360,000 forums - Robert Scoble

I think we should conduct a poll. Everyone here because of Scoble raise your hand (Raises hand). - Roberto Bonini

There's 5 topics in my area just ostracizing the city and its inhabitants, 12 more doing the same for religion, and the rest are classic local news stories (murders, robberies, gangs, etc.). I think I'll stick with FF, Digg, SDR News, and NPR for my news. - xero

Topix made a lot of its progress by being the default commenting host for many, many newspapers. It's majority owned by Gannett, McClatchy and Tribune Co. to begin with, but they've enlisted more competitors as partners. My company, MediaNews, joined up last year. Almost every paper in the Bay Area outside the SF Chronicle is owned by MediaNews (the fourth-largest owner in the country), and they all use Topix in some way to host their comments. Instant community (though poorly harnessed by the media). - Kevin Hessel

Great point about getting out of the tech audience by going where most startups aren't. For me - I need to get the attention of independent/small businesses to get the word out on BizUnite ('Goliath Clout' for independent businesses). Topix could be a great tool for us. - Sonciary Honnoll

I always find a lot of comment on my blog posts coming from Topix. At first I was puzzled, then I realized it was Topix's geo-specificity that made it so cool. I guess I need to pay more attention to Topix. - Tom Guarriello

First topic I saw on the forums - "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody" - Last comment by "X-RAINBOW KRISSY-X". I'll be sticking with FriendFeed, thanks though. Honestly, it's not a bad news source at all, but I feel more comfortable with the topics at FriendFeed when it comes to discussion. - Vince DeGeorge

A post I stumbled across the other day drew a distinction between hyper-local and hyper-personal style news aggregation. Topix at first seems to fit into the hyper-local mode when you restrict it to your city or zipcode. But there's also search that will bring up all the stories about your search term - no matter where they originated. Subscribe to the feeds for a bunch of search terms, and you've got yourself a hyper-personal aggregator. (Wish they'd use full text instead of partial text feeds, though.) - Tom Landini

Oh, I love this poll (not): http://www.topix.com/forum/top... -- yeah, that's news. Glad I wasted my 5 minutes looking at that item from the Topix front page. - Craig Eddy

I guess for non-tech people everything they see on FF is just noise, where to us the Zac and Cody conversations et al is just noise. Topix may end up being used as a tool by tech people, but probably not as a conversation forum. Then again, this begs the question of FF's growth beyond the tech/early adopter community. - Kevin Bondelli

I have found Topix in my blogs log several times - paul mooney

I still feel Topix is a little old fashioned, but they are generally under-rated, where as they should be what a lot of the 2.0 aggregation sites aim for. Community + they give back, no reposting full feeds, full links back etc... - Duncan Riley

Fun fact: Thousands of web sites have more traffic/users than FriendFeed, but you won't catch me on them. - Bwana McCall

Topix actually looks interesting. I doubt I'll sign up on it but it's worth Bookmarking. - Outsanity

I wanted to like Topix, but I agree with Duncan - feels old fashioned. I signed up a long time ago, but found no real use for it. Maybe I should look again. - Mack D. Male

Agree with Mack...lost interest upon initial viewing and have not returned since the 2007 revamp. - Andy Angelos

Wow... I just emailed them about my hometown being incorrect. They responded within the hour! Talk about service! - Mike Wills

Mmmm. Tastes like Usenet. - Ernie Oporto

Topix is neat. It's no Friend Feed for sure but, it is a good way to keep up with local and world news without having to go through 100 different newspaper sites. - Candace Holly

Yep, or Plaxo Pulse! :) - John McCrea

Chris Tolles is awesome. I worked with him at Spoke Software and a lot of good people are at Topix. I'm glad to see them doing so well! - Patrick Lightbody

Interesting. I just found a link to Scoble's post on topix. - Tom Landini

Topix has a nice layout, no more CNN for me. - Bob

i like Digg better...... - jeff

really brilliant...i've got to get my head out of the geek cloud more. Cheers! - Zee from WeDoCreative

Yep, nice little secret... heehehe! - Susan Beebe

Good find! - Colby Olson

Thanks, I didn't know that. But even with this workaround, comments are still restricted to a single paragraph, right? - Tom Landini

Ohhh - Thanks! - George Smith

The devices and conventions of essay-writing all have one main purpose: to help your reader understand what you are saying, and to keep him from getting lost or confused at any point along the way from your introduction to your conclusion. There is no such thing as a paragraph in speaking. Paragraphing is an artificial device used primarily to ensure the comfort of the reader, and secondarily as a structural guide for the writer. A paragraph's length, its content, and its structure should be determined by these considerations, not by a set of mechanical rules derived from a textbook. Different writing contexts may call for different paragraphing strategies. For example, articles that are read from the computer screen need to have shorter paragraphs than do articles read from a printed page. It is very difficult and uncomfortable to read long blocks of print on the computer, and it may not even be possible to keep track of where you are for more than a few lines.Consequently, - Colby Olson

That's as big as it get, I believe. - Colby Olson

Do you think there will be an app for the on the new iPhone? I'd love a bookmarklet for FF on the 3G. - David Weiner

@David I use the current FF bookmarklet on the iPhone all the time. Works great. - Steve Rubel

I stand corrected. Steve, your right. saf - Shane Robinson via twhirl

I stand corrected. Steve, your right. Safari does NOT sync History. - Shane Robinson via twhirl

I use LaterLoop. I added the LaterLoop bookmarklet to Safari. When you sync the iPhone that bookmarklet still works for your LaterLoop account. When following gReader links to source sites, I LaterLoop them for easier reading on my desktop or even offline on my MBAir via FF and Gears. - Shane Robinson via twhirl

I use opera mini on my W610i in sync with my opera account. Shame i cant use the bookmarklet, sometimes i wonder why there is so much hype about this 3G Iphone,when most other phone at least in europe are all 3G,i'll wait for some cute android phone to move somewhere else ;-) - Ben Borges via fftogo

I use opera mini on my W610i in sync with my opera account. Shame i cant use the bookmarklet, sometimes i wonder why there is so much hype about this 3G Iphone,when most other phone at least in europe are all 3G,i'll wait for some cute android phone to move somewhere else ;-) - Ben Borges via fftogo

@SteveRubel, can you share the link? I can't find one that works... - David Weiner

@David this one works on the iPhone just fine. http://friendfeed.com/share/bo... - Steve Rubel

One of the best things about using Safari. Everything syncs across multiples Macs & iPhone. - Tom Wentworth

Thanks, Steve. Try searching for it and see how much junk pops up! - David Weiner

Steve, is your iPhone jailbroken? If not, I failed the bookmarklet on the iPhone IQ test. How do I drag it to the iPhone safari browser's toolbar? And once I pass that test, how do I highlight text to share? - Robert Seidman

I can't get it to work on the iphone yet ... trying to do it manually. - David Weiner

Hopefully one day Mozilla will make this possible with Weave. - Aaron Myers

Add it to the non-iPhone Safari (my pc version) then sync. The toolbar shortcuts show up in a bookmark folder - mcwflint

@Robert @David My iPhone is not jailbroken, I bookmarked it first on my Mac then sync'ed it to my iPhone. Can't select text to include however images work fine. - Steve Rubel

Steve, do you use Google History? If you are logged into Google on both iphone safari and your desktop (or any browser), it tracks both. - Rex Hammock

That makes sense ... trying it now ... I was baffled for a second... - David Weiner

We're all bozos on this bus - Brian Sullivan

100% agree. I struggled over whether to share the pic or not and having done so regretted it! - Robert Seidman

Our local station Bozo looked much less... cannibalistic and Itish - Michael W. May via twhirl

Dang you Michael - you caused me to Google Pennywise since i couldn't quite remember what he looked like in the miniseries version of It. Bozo is much happier and doesn't have the sharp teeth. Don't click this link unless you're clown nightmare proof: http://www.razorapple.com/wp-c... - Robert Seidman

Off topic, but I have to mention it - Its impossible to reach your blog Chris, "Error establishing a database connection" - robert sørensen via twhirl

Skitch, skitch, skitch...heck Skitch has got to be the baddest desktop app of the year. - Zee from WeDoCreative

I find that Gmail works just as well, though with less organization. The upside is significantly more space, great search capes and offline client via IMAP. - Steve Rubel

most of my notes are in regards to what I am doing at the moment, so I just jot them down in quickbooks online, which I use to keep track of my billing. Other than that, I regret to say my company has a sharepoint site. - Tim Wright

I use a personal wiki called TiddlyWiki. It's a self-contained wiki in a single html file that I carry around on a USB stick (with backups to my main system frequently). I allows a lot of tagging and has decent search capability. I also use this as my todo journal for work so I can always go back in time to see what I was doing at a given point in time. - Bryan Hunter via twhirl

A Moleskine and a black Pilot G2 pen. - Cecily Walker

Agreed, I am a big fan of Evernote. Together is nice, but I like that i can sync Evernote against both my Mac and PC. - Scott Watermasysk

"A Moleskine and a black Pilot G2 pen"--you are speaking my language, those are my exact tools. - Kyle Hebert

anyone experienced with google notebooks? - Trixie Ferguson Gray

I use MS OneNote. I like the folders and notebooks and the pages are whatever size you need them to be. I like being able to put notes anywhere on the page. I use the clipping tool to catch a shot of anything that pops up on the screen that I may need later. I just started trying out Zotero, a FF add-on, for research notes. - Maggie Longshore via twhirl

OneNote w/ UMPC. I have my OneNote files synced w/ laptop and desktop with FolderShare. Works nice. - Rodfather

I use ballpoint pens and several notebooks or just plain paper with it. Since I also like to draw it is good thing to have those around everywhere. This reminds me of that I should start to take more notes of things in life. Also, I have found out that digital camera is great tool to make "notes" since you can take photo of item or store so you could remember it later when you view what you have taken. - Daniel Schildt

Currently alternating between Evernote and OneNote on a Tablet PC - Warner Crocker

I use onenote on my 2 laptops and my desktop, files stored on my Dlink Nas device. Evernote on my MB Proand windows machine. Then Foldershare to access everything from each machine. - Stephen Kennedy via twhirl

In a text editor, using Textile for markup. I also always carry a moleskine with me - Deepak

When using computer, I mostly just write notes to Gmail message and sent it to myself or save as draft. Could use Google Docs more but it's too slow compared to basic text mode of Gmail. - Daniel Schildt

Evernote is my new brain. The old one, she no work so good no more. - Marci Maleski

The irony of looking up notes in his spiral pad notebook to describe an online note taking app... - Ricardo Vidal

I use my Livescribe Pulse Smartpen (http://livescribe.com) most of the time, and Evernote if I'm near a computer. The Pulse pen is awesome, I highly recommend it to anyone that needs to take notes on a regular basis. - Donato (ricin)

the idea of writing on a computer, a tablet pc, is so appealing to me... - edythe

When I was a child of no more than 5, my dad procured us a trip on the Good Year blimp. I was such an enthusiast of flight and rockets they good not understand why my ever present anxiety was so alarmed by the prospect. When they finally asked I told them that I "was afraid they would let go of the string." - RAPatton

I'd love to vacation on a dirigible. A floating hotel. Wild. - Hutch Carpenter

I always thought dirigibles would be a god solution in Hawaii. The enviromental crowd who tried to block the Superferry would have a fun time with the EIS for a Zeppelin. - Bill Sodeman via fftogo