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

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

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

Tad: join our sect. I'll be your guru there! :) http://friendfeed.com/rooms/da... - directeur via NoiseRiver

Go go social graph. - Eric Florenzano

Again directeur - I support the movement, I'm just bored by it. Just make it work. ;) The internets is for dumping awesome into the truck of utility. - Tad Donaghe

Tad, I myself already using some of its techs in my products :) If you're a dev do so too, if not pass the message :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

One thing I was wondering along this same vein, are there ajax widgets or something that you could put on your blog/site and allow people to subscribe/follow/digg/stumble/whatever you in one click? Must I visit the actual site every time? - Rahsheen Porter

I'd LOVE That Rahsheen! That'd be an excellent intermediate step. I think too many sites are still too worried about attention focusing. They WANT you to visit their site to stroke their ego, ads, etc - Tad Donaghe

I don't see why something like this doesn't exist for all social sites. You are adding the person so that you can interact with them at a later time on that service, so they shouldn't care if you hit the site to add them as a "friend." The "+friend" buttons on Digg work exactly how I want, I would just rather them be on MY site and work for every social network. - Rahsheen Porter

I was just twitter-moaning the same thing when I saw this in FF, some of you want leaps and bounds, I'd be happy if I could just join a new network and have all my accounts/contacts automagically connected - Scott Bannon via twhirl

actually, it seemed like swurl did that automatically... - edythe

Ya, we do, check us out http://www.swurl.com/ We try to do as much magic as we can for you, computers are suppose to be smart aren't they? - Ryan Sit

i was just about to say, I dig that swurl and feedly just kind of did that. I haven't gotten on board with feedly yet but I like the concept. Find me. Don't make me find myself. - Jason Toney

it is my hope to built it... and then "they" will come :) - Larry via twhirl

I want a FireFox plugin that auto logs me in to all the websites I use. I think that would do a lot of good. It seems like this would be possible but no one has written one! - Stefan Hayden

I still think this is like asking GM to make your key fit in a Toyota, cause you only want to carry one key. Most of these services are competitors. No (successful) business makes it easier for you to move to a competitor. - Brian Norwood

Brian, one of the reasons I don't use more web services is exactly because I'm sick of signing up for them and manually re-adding all my friends. If sites want us to use them they can either better make it brain dead simple or offer a service so compelling that we're willing to do the hard stuff. For many competitors who don't offer something that much different, an auto-subscription thing that I'm talking about would allow them to attract many more users. - Tad Donaghe

Tad, I don't dispute the truth of your statement, or deny I suffer from sign-up fatigued as well. I'm just saying it doesn't fit any business model I've ever seen to help you easily move to a competitor. What we need is a third party service who keeps track of our info and our friends, then custom shoe horns that stuff into each new service that pops up. THAT would be handy. Open ID is too passive. What we need is a sign up SERVICE. - Brian Norwood

would love to be able to import all my flickr contacts, have them match up with FF accounts where possible and create imaginary friends for the rest which would be replaced by their actual accounts as they joined over time. - Thomas Hawk

Right Thomas - and you ought to be able to do that just by clicking a single button that says "Import my contacts." Or at the very least have a single button and a drop down - Import -> Flickr - Tad Donaghe

I really like swurl, haven't messed with feedly yet, but even with swurl I had to manually input all of my account names/URL's/etc. to bring everything together. It wasn't hard, but it wasn't automagic either. Brian mentioned OpenID as too passive, I disagree with that and think user data could be expanded to contain the social network connections you have, then when you join a new service with your OpenID that service could automagically grab everything for you in the background. I'm not pushing for OpenID as the answer, just saying that's one possibility that wouldn't be overwhelming to achieve. - Scott Bannon via twhirl

I was really impressed with how well swurl worked. - Jason Wehmhoener

concur on swurl doing that automatically via each service - doubt i'll live in it like tend to in ff but it is a cool environment - mike "glemak" dunn

I'm probably the only one who uses rather different sets of “friends” on each network. - Amit Patel

Isn't this what gnip is supposed to do? Also, about swurl -- I would say it's been working a LOT of magic, it added a TON of friends of mine on different services. Ryan - Could you consider some bulk-editing tools for the friends tab? Like "mute all people not on swurl", for example? - J. Phil

Agreed that swurl is fantastic behind the scenes once you enter in your account names/url's for each service... what I'd like to see though is a hubbed identity source so that when you join a new service you don't have to enter your FF username, your Twitter username, your FB feed url and etc. Just let me click "join" and find me--and my connections--everywhere. - Scott Bannon via twhirl

Also, if it gets too magical, you get a service like spokeo. It's kinda scary. - J. Phil

But the point of new social networks is to shed all your stupid non-friends! - ⓞnor

I still want people to be able to add me without leaving my website. Isn't that what AJAX is for, after all? - Rahsheen Porter

I refresh often too - Judy Jones

F5 = crack - Hutch Carpenter

Welcome to da club? - Yuvi

"F5" LOL - Paul L. McCord Jr.

I find FF more interesting as well. - Globecode

I resent the implication that ever-refreshing FriendFeed is not constructive! - Marco

lol@Hutch Indeed - Shey

It's gotten so bad that I have to regulate myself. I use a plug-in for FireFox called Leechblock that you can use to limit your time during the work day.: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... - Dan Kaplan

huh? F5 just blips my Mac's little sound level at me. - Thomas Hawk

@Thomas F5 = Command + R on a PC. Refresh. - Parth Awasthi

Yes, FF is the new internet addiction. F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5... - Tad Donaghe

The only way to solve this problem is for you people to post quicker ;) - Earl E Morningwood

Use LeechBlock, limit yourself to 5 minutes an hour, you won't be sorry. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... - Jason Wehmhoener

@Jason you essentially just told Amy Winehouse she should check herself into rehab - how likely do you think we are to match your show of discipline? lol ; ) - Marco

At some point we just need FF to auto-refresh every second and include a pause button so we can stop the action to read stuff that catches our eyes. That would be pretty freaky, huh? - Tad Donaghe

it has been eating into my reading and sleeping time - RAPatton

What? Reading Friendfeed isn't constructive or creative? - Tom Landini

like right now, for example - Sarah Perez

Sometimes I interrupt what I'm doing (re-reading the manual for Twilight Struggle) just to check for new FriendFeed action. Totally addicted. - Akiva Moskovitz

I do that too. But now we're going to see the Incredible Hulk. - Robert Scoble

F5=Crack. Crack is Whack. Flickr = Crack. FF is the new Flickr. - Russellreno

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O... It helps if you don't notice the walls of the maze aren't very high and there are these people looking down on you. - Karim

RusselReno, I had to double-check to make sure that you weren't Steve Gillmor - Todd McKinney

@Todd rofl - Michael W. May via twhirl

+1 rofl for Todd. And good one Russell. - Hutch Carpenter

and sometimes you just can't help a 'likey' even thought you didn't click ... right? :) - Charlie Anzman

a bigger screen real estate could mitigate this problem - Ramesh Ramloll via twhirl

Yeah it's addictive :) - JegerPhil - Phil via NoiseRiver

Wait that's not normal??? - Mona N

FrF cries for TTS ;) - silpol

time consumption is simply the manual behavior. Get an auto refresher and save a micro second. ;) then again, if you want to remain aware, you have to read everything! - thecolor

use twhirl and updates come automatically to your desktop... no need of refresh, layout is awesome (discussions, etc) - Gustavo Munoz via twhirl

If we could get paid for using FriendFeed, wouldn't we all have our own private islands? - possible248

More like one palm tree, a couple of rocks, and a sewage outflow. - Akiva Moskovitz

The client is certainly adding some of the value and, yes, I'd LOVE to see XMPP in FriendFeed so I could do the same thing here. - Robert Scoble

cheers to that! Need a client for FF, Ping.FM, etc. - just ONE client please. :D - Rom Feria

I am talking XMPP to identi.ca via pidgin/gtalk - Bob Ngu via twhirl

Agreed. At the end of the day, I don't care about the network or the protocol used. I just want a real-time conversation aggregator. - Kevin C. Tofel

"FriendFeed...Twitter...they go to-ge-ther". Damn you Robert I can't get that jingle out of my head now. - Mark Krynsky

thank you... easier just to point people to this qik :) - Lucretia Pruitt

Funny that I was listening to Gillmor Gang when I started this video. - Robert Scoble

no, Twitter is leaving you, that's the problem. Even if you want to stay, they don't let us play :-) - Duncan Riley

Now I have Scoble singing in my head. - Bec

I agree Twitter is leaving Scoble - Fred Grott

Hmmm... interesting timing for this. But, I agree! - Barbara K. Baker

Here's my response to you Scoble - http://qik.com/video/120649 - Corvida

if I haven't learned something worthwhile in a given day, I consider it a wasted day. - Kevin C. Tofel

yes, and it's a hard habit to break! - Kimberly J

Unfortunately YES :( - Farzad

Is that what they call this addiction? Yeah, kinda. - Mark Dykeman

absolutely yes - Shey

Pathetic. Judge doesn't get it. - Bill Bittner

Viacom why does it need to know IP addresses and log ons? dumb judge -.- - Gavin