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Diigo V4: Research ~ annotate, archive, organize - http://vimeo.com/6747389
Part I of Diigo V4.0 series: Diigo -- making Researching, Sharing, and Collaborating faster, easier and more effective!
- Sheree Motiska
You can write an optional review...
- Sheree Motiska
Chris Pirillo bakes Nerd Cakes on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
This is just too geekdorable for words. just have a look. You won't be sorry.
- Sheree Motiska
10 Last Tips on Making Money from the Amazon Affiliates Program - http://www.problogger.net/archive...
Great tips and ideas from someone who has been around long enough to figure out what the secrets are.
- Sheree Motiska
How much do I love Friendfeed? This much - I made my desktop match the theme!
Patrik Johansson, M F, 'Like' robot (frɐnc) and 35 other people liked this
wow. you really do love it.
- Zee.
Now don't move the browser window.
- Louis Gray
Sweet, i was thinking of doing that, but i've got some really good space bg's already...
- Chris Heath
I like the part where Scoble the Hulk pops up in the grey box in the corner about 200 times every day to say hello. Hi little green Scoble! Now, sit down, I'm trying to work here.
- Sheree Motiska
Maybe it's time for a "you know you're addicted to FriendFeed when..." meme. ;)
- Meryn Stol
Don't believe Steve. He's got other desktops with Posterous and GMail themes that he uses when he claims he's in love w/ them. ; )
- Rex Hammock
Funny, I just saved that same background image to my desktop. Just need to shrink it a bit from its 18,000x18,000 dimension :)
- Jan Ole Peek
I love FriendFeed so much that I created my very first Greasemonkey script for it just now to improve the usability: "Sidebar Tweak" fixes the sidebar in place despite scrolling, which alone is worth its weight in gold. I use the Helvetica theme, and the rest of the changes are meant for it, to tighten up things to show more items, as well as highlight the user's own comments in light-blue: http://userscripts.org/scripts... Try it and let me know what you think.
- Alex Schleber
I like that script, very useful! I changed position of the sidebar in my version to right:50px instead of left:900px so the sidebar does not cover the content area on smaller screen. Also the headers of the sidebar items was weird on the grassland theme i'm currently using. I fixed it by removing botton-margin on the .box-bar.
- Jesper Lind
Oh yeah, a nice blue box on my comment, thanks for the script!
- Jesper Lind
lovely :) #browsermeme
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
Viddler.com - A look into mind mapping with MindManager - Uploaded by scobleizer - http://www.viddler.com/explore...
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luongdat liked this
Great tool
- Sheree Motiska
A look into mind mapping with MindManager - http://www.viddler.com/explore...
Graham Sergeant, roland legrand, Ian and 34 other people liked this
Okay who here actually wants to see a map of my mind?
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
from iPod
I love MindManager. Great App!
- Uncle CW™
Glad to see mindmapping getting some "ink" again. Great stuff.
- Steve Rubel
This is something I've wanted to learn more about, so I'm glad to have this video intro.
- Mark Traphagen
Looks cool. I've used FreeMind, which is free, for a couple years now, but I like how this app is integrated with the Web. Nice stuff.
- Craig Villamor
In this video is Michael Deutch and he's on FriendFeed here: https://friendfeed.com/michael...
- Robert Scoble
I've been using NovaMind, haven't gotten in the habit of using religiously but when I do, it does really help to put thoughts down. Is definitely a good place to think before Powerpoint as Michael outlined.
- Lou Paglia
I started using Mind Manager to layout Google AdWords PPC campaigns where I work, but very quickly saw many other uses for it.
- Mark Traphagen
Curio's also neat, it has mind mapping (not as in-depth as MindManager) but a ton of other stuff too - even project tracking! Great for organizing creative projects. Mac only. http://www.zengobi.com/product...
- invariant - farewell FF
he mentioned that software lays on top of mindmanager for project management. can we get some examples of the complimentary software?
- Scott Magdalein
I've used XMind but it has some limitations.. doesn't print well, for example...I'd like to see MindJet used in realtime presentations.. Have any links??
- Patty Seybold
Craig - MindManager is integrated with the web in several ways - embedded web browser, web services, RSS feeds, and more. For instance, you can drag and drop a google doc right onto your map and then edit the content inside MindManager while viewing your map. This lets you flush out your thinking and then reference it while writing. Very powerful combination.
- Michael Deutch
Patty, we have some recorded webinars on the Mindjet website where MindManager is used instead of PowerPoint. Check out the Jamie Nast webinar for instance: http://www.mindjet.com/about...
- Michael Deutch
Scott - Mindjet integrates with our own Gantt product (http://twurl.nl/q7epy7), Microsoft Project, or a variety of others. You can see some of the other project related partner solutions here: http://twurl.nl/ypvyii
- Michael Deutch
I LOVE this and have the perfect project to map this weekend. I have a focus issue and maybe I ought to use this software that has been sitting there feeling rejected for like 2 years, I think. I've attempted to use it about 3 times and freaked out and closed it. OK, I'm going to the video for help, wish me luck. Oh, I wonder if MindMaps can be published online?
- Sheree Motiska
Sheree: they can be, through a variety of methods.
- Robert Scoble
I got super amped on MM 2 years ago, used it every day for projects, then I kind of stopped. I found I did not return to the work that often and it would drift out. This is not a criticism, I just brainstorm on 3x5 cards faster now and then move to UI apps or whatever. But MM is definitely the best app. Even though we are in a web 2.x world, this workflow works best in desktop apps then pushed to web for collaboration. Hope I can slowly return to mapping in it again.
- Mark
The Mac version is decent.
- l0ckergn0me
Nope, I didn't do a video. I want to do one soon, though.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
The Mac version of MindManager doesn't allow saving to existing files on mounted samba shares. That was a show-stopper for me.
- Fred Yankowski
I have been experimenting with MindMeister - can anyone compare this with MindManager?
- roland legrand
Web 2.0 productivity tools | Socialbrite - http://www.socialbrite.org/sharing...
A roundup of apps & resources to make your day go easier Target audience: educators, students, nonprofits, NGOs, cause organizations, journalists, general
- Sheree Motiska
Website Screenshot Thumbnail Service | ShrinkTheWeb - http://www.shrinktheweb.com
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Free website thumbnail service. Use this to show preview images on your blog or website when recommending a link.
- Sheree Motiska
Opentumblr » Downloads - http://www.opentumblr.com/downloa...
I'm going to try Tumblr for a minute and see if I can used it to capture all of the cool stuff I find as I navigate the web 2.0 landscape
- Sheree Motiska
Facebook Applications for Learning - 2009 - ASTD - http://www.astd.org/lc...
Great article of resources for Facebook. A perfect piece of content for the lifelong learner
- Sheree Motiska
RT @spoppe: Dave Winer: "I'm actually reading a book now." Steve Rubel: "You mean with real pages?" Too funny.
Sheree Motiska and ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ liked this
Funny how quickly new posits form after being around so many alternatives
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
Lol. If I carry an actual book with pages everywhere I go (pizza, beer, YMCA, etc) do people think I'm geeky? Oh, BTW, I also proudly rock my librarian glasses as I saunter about w/ my book under my arm. Then, I sit there and read it while I mutter around. I hope that ups my geek cred at least a little bit.
- Sheree Motiska
Stalker alert: I am using Google Latitude again on my iPhone so you can see where I am. scobleizer@gmail.com is my account. Details:
Ritu, MVB (Grinch of FF), Mark Edwards and 9 other people liked this
I should be on Sand Hill Road now.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Whatever... you're all the time on FriendFeed! :)
- directeur
They just shipped an iPhone version. Works better than the Nokia version (it doesn't crash).
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Still showing last update 4 days ago for me..
- Simon Wicks
Stalker alert? Ears perking up and Scoble radar fired up and ready to go.Check
- Sheree Motiska
sounds like a good program, to say the very least, the wonders of integrated GPS.
- Ray Marr aka Knatchwa
from IM
Has updated you now :)
- Simon Wicks
Thanx Scoble, just added you, here is mine: gtziralis at gmail.com
- George Tziralis
Yeah you should be able to watch me drive home now. :-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Not so happy about the web app implementation, makes it really awkward
- Ian D. Nock
I am never turning off my iPhone now :-)
- Jesse Stay
Should have been a real app, not a webapp, but according to techcrunch it's apple's fault.
- Tomy Thomson
Apple controls the maps application, not Google. So, with the launch of Palm, Safari gets web maps too.
- Joel
Should be a great tool for hitchhikers...
- Buzz Bruggeman
OT: What iPhone FriendFeed client do you use? BuddyFeed? Or anything better?
- Ralf Rottmann
john.bellone.jr@gmail.com - Crappy that it is a Safari app though.
- John Bellone
slow doooooooown ;)
- metalerik
Ralf: I use Safari on iPhone.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Metalerik: I was using my cruise control. The car in front of me decides how fast I go. It is the best new driving toy I have seen in years.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
can you add friends while driving? :)
- Christian Burns
I refuse to answer that question Christian but I am at Peets now.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
It is illegal to be on your iPhone while driving in CA. Unless it's hands free.
- Joe
Wait, but what about turns? This gives me an idea: have that keyboard where you type on the back of it integrated into your steering wheel! you might have a few stray strokes, but it would at least be funny.
- Californian
We use this on a Nokia E71 without crashes. Can't you see my feet propped up watching the Right Coast waves? http://mundy.org/whereib
- Ward Mundy
Ward it will crash when you get 200 friends!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Robert, are you talking about this? ( http://www.youtube.com/watch... ) wow, awesome.
- metalerik
Robert: No worry with 200 friends. I have trouble keeping 2 or 3. :-)
- Ward Mundy
metalerik: yes. It is indeed awesome.
- Robert Scoble
Mine arrives next week. Can't wait.
- Ward Mundy
My Twitter follower growth has been slowing down http://twittercounter.com/Scoblei... . I'm seeing geek engagement on Twitter going down. How about you?
Sheree Motiska, Nicholas James, Kevin Tunis and 18 other people liked this
Plus they've been trying to remove bots and spammers, which has something to do with it, too.
- Robert Scoble
I think my followers are disappointed that I'm more of a Friendfeed person. ;)
- Amir
But I've definitely been getting more engagement here on FriendFeed lately. But that's largely by design in my case.
- Robert Scoble
Yeah. Probably Digg "effect". Geeks moving out.
- karthick
Robert: Quite a few of my follower's are bots and spammers, too.
- Amir
Well you keep sending us here, to lovely friendfeed land
- Mark
I added 40 quality followers yesterday on twitter with 1 good blog..maybe you are just up against your max addressable market Robert, law of big numbers..
- James Watters
Twitter seems to be over-run by spambots and phony profiles
- Wayne Schulz
That's because you don't use Twitter Scoble lol...
- Colin
Colin: that's not true. I'm on Twitter all the time!
- Robert Scoble
My Twitter follower growth is the same as ever: zero.
- DGentry
I think it's simple. The whole Idea of following back to be polite is losing popularity. Therefore the churn is slowing for many.
- Dj Skunk Diesel
Lol, nah, I have to come to FriendFeed to get your attention, so I don't reply to you on Twitter, and others probably do the same.
- Colin
I'd rather ad 1 VP of biz dev, than 1k randoms
- James Watters
I don't even know what my Twitter following is, I've never looked. It's not something I'm remotely interested in.
- Gilbert Harding
I agree quality not quantity
- Dj Skunk Diesel
added 10 execs yesterday...so much more interesting...eddie izzard has 600k followers and mostly does running picture updates
- James Watters
Scoble uses Twitter. Just more in a Friendfeed capacity ;-)
- Amir
noticing the same thing. techies are definitely losing interest due to spam and celebrity overload.
- casey wright
from BuddyFeed
Josh, yes it saves them from having to have any real content!
- James Watters
Is Scoble showing his tech celebrity cards by talking raw #s :)
- James Watters
James: that's why I say it's who you are following that is so much more important than who is following you.
- Robert Scoble
I'm deleting fewer spam followers, so maybe Twitter is getting better at killing them sooner.
- Howard Rheingold
Robert **** +1k! I love twitter for what I read! When I get more followers it just makes me nervous to talk :)
- James Watters
James: nah. But my account growth has -- up to now -- closely tracked Twitter's growth itself.
- Robert Scoble
See yourself for last months. Twitter got rid of thousands of spam bots a few days ago: http://twittercounter.com/Scoblei...
- Boris
James, so the interesting thing is: is Twitter's growth slowing down? (I don't think so). So, the geek world on Twitter is mattering less and less as mainstream shows up.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: I'd agree, and I think your point is interesting. Its like blogs, when the polticos took over the momentum from the geeks :(
- James Watters
Although, look at Compete.com and you'll see Twitter's growth itself has slowed down: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/twitter...
- Robert Scoble
Yes, been going on for awhile. The spammers are a real pain, so I'm thankful they are working on that.
- courtney benson
Josh: I watch early adopter user behavior and I'm seeing less engagement on Twitter. The geeks are getting bored.
- Robert Scoble
Josh: yes, Compete.com is inaccurate, but generally it matches trends well.
- Robert Scoble
Josh: in my case about 44%. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Twitter and FF are amazing if you want to listen...
- James Watters
Maybe they are going back to blogging. Or are on vacation.
- Robert Scoble
look at the trending topics today on twitter - unfort. mainstream entertainment. what a change from a year ago. yes the conversation is now wide - but seems just a shift of medium for fluff. not watching as closely as you are but happy with my monitored subjects of interest - still discovering BIG voices everyday. ff rocks the conversation though!
- michael sean wright
I lost 8% of my followers and about the same number I was following in one day (day before today) on Twitter.. I can't believe all these were bots and I am now "cured" of bots..
- Anindya Chatterjee
Hi Josh, yes really. I get emails every day announcing new followers but I just delete them. I only follow people who are personally recommended to me and who I find interesting. I never look at my profile to see my stats. If people find my inane comments and occasional newsy bits and bobs entertaining, fine. But how many of them are there? No idea.
- Gilbert Harding
Hey did anyone hear that Yahoo is getting a new homepage? I can't wait....
- James Watters
@Josh, just the point )-:
- Anindya Chatterjee
My engagment is about the same on Twitter, seeing as that I still have friends that won't get/don't have/don't want a Friendfeed account.
- John Fox
I think it's picking up here though.
- Steve Rubel
James, the new page is up already.. right now in "trial" on Yahoo US page
- Anindya Chatterjee
OMG its so cool! yahoo is so relevant!
- James Watters
If I was better versed in the virtues of Friendfeed, I'd do an article about it. But I'm really not the person to "sell it".
- John Fox
Josh: yes that whole thing was an inside joke to an earlier FF RS has about Yahoo's new home page..I'm just being silly...see ya'll around..
- James Watters
I'm converted this time - 1st time round, I didn't get it, but some friends still only Twitter
- Nicholas Paul Gordon
from iPhone
Josh, there seem to be a lot of obsessives on here and Twitter.
- Gilbert Harding
Anyone here amazing at App engine btw?
- James Watters
i did spring cleaning in my twitter account today as well. it's about quality not quantity, robert. the true geeks are staying with you
- jeanette okwu
I had over 3000+ followers on Twitter and have recently decided to leave because of all the spam - I hope for Twitter's sake that they sort it out
- outofmyarse
I think It's to Twitter's benefit if the stop the spammers. Not a bad service but with all the spam it makes it less enjoyable.
- Amir
Am I wrong? When Twitter took away the option of following @replies, it made it a lot more difficult to find new people who extend out from your network. If you look at the traffic charts (Alexa, Scoble's, etc.), the slowdown started right about at that time. While Twitter execs say that only a fraction of people opted for that function, it really looks like a lot more than coincidence to me that follower growth declines started then.
- Ed Moltzen
Robert: Maybe. But Twitter is a type of blog, It's a micro-blog.
- Amir
I find new people by using Twubble - it basically replicates the effect of finding people by following @ replies. See http://www.crazybob.org/twubble
- Trent Hamm
I have never re-followed people out of courtesy. I look at what they're saying if they follow me, but I don't follow if it doesn't look interesting. That's why I have about 7K Twitter followers and am following less than 500, I guess.
- Trent Hamm
Definitely the engagement is dropping, I've noticed. But I think spam is a big contributor to the problem.
- Amir
Come to think of it, I've never understood the philosophy of the courtesy re-follow. It seems dishonest to me - once you reach a certain point, you can't follow the thousands and thousands of conversations around you. Following someone else feels like a promise you can't keep. Why do this at all?
- Trent Hamm
Trent: you can't DM me unless I follow you. Since I require having DMs with a wide variety of people for my business, I have to follow everyone who follows me.
- Robert Scoble
I have noticed it too. It is sometimes hard to get around "brain fart" type of tweets that are on the surge...lowering the geek factor
- Ghada
Could be FriendFeed, lol.
- Hugh Isaacs II
Trent I think of it not as reciprocity but as a gesture. If someone is willing to put up with my mix of relevant and irrelevant information, I should be willing to do the same. Even with a few hundred folks to follow you already miss a large portion of their broadcasts. You can always search for relevant conversations in real time.
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
The beauty of the concept is that we can all choose who and how we wish to follow. And we can customize our methods on different networks
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
well that explains why I'm seeing less content.
- clarke thomas
From my experience, TwitterCounter is a little slow when updating follower numbers. Just make sure it's accurate.
- Amir
yeah. TwitterCounter takes a day or two to update. Not that I check very often...
- Robert
True my twitter following slows down 2
- polou/indigo_bow
Mine also. And so many new followers are spambots, ugh!
- Molly Gordon
@Scobleizer will have 155,650 followers in 1000 days according to TwitterCounter: http://bit.ly/19FHOw
- Mark
@Scobleizer will have 661,900 followers in 10000 days according to TwitterCounter: http://twittercounter.com/Scoblei...
- Mark
@aplusk will have 8,095,169 followers in 365 days according to TwitterCounter: http://twittercounter.com/aplusk...
- Mark
Mark: that's cause aplusk is on the suggested follower list. He won't earn those followers, he's being gifted them by Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
Robert in my opinion Twitter had 2-3 weeks that followers went down and much porn as well , in the last week or so the positive count is back
- Johni Fisher
In Europe, we call these kinds of slowdowns "holidays".
- Bernie Goldbach
+1 Bernie
- Liviu Barbat
Yup
- Thomas Power
Robert maybe you can help me.....http://www.alzheimersreadingroom.com/2009...
- Bob DeMarco
Well, I'm personally happy to see geek engagement go down. That means more geek for me. Most of those nitwits don't even know what the hell is even going on and just RT guys like you to ride the wave of the Scoblenami. I always used to get scolded for @ing zaibatsu, 0boy, and the_gman when I was just a peasant w/ 300ish followers who hadn't tweeted a word in 6 months. The whole "get...
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- Sheree Motiska
Twitter just got rid of bot accounts your followers went down! Thats Twitter's epidemic problems!
- polou/indigo_bow
Mine is soaring like an Eagle with my xaviarmedia friend.http://my-hiddencash.blogspot.com
- ebenezer oyeodini
I've opened up my "secret" Twitter account: @notsecretscoble Why? Because who it is following is interesting, not who is following it.
Sheree Motiska, Nicholas James, (jeff)isageek and 46 other people liked this
you don't need to open it up for us to see that...
- Mike White
Why not do that with your normal Twitter? I don't understand the philosophy of courtesy re-follows at all.
- Trent Hamm
Trent: you can't DM me if I don't follow you.
- Robert Scoble
Can you follow me on your other account?
- Zachary TG
Zachary: no. I will only follow people I know and can tell a story about (that I've met face-to-face).
- Robert Scoble
And even then I'm not going to follow everyone. I want to keep the numbers of people I'm following with that account way down.
- Robert Scoble
@notsecretscoble's bio says "...but he's not going to be very picky...". I think thats a typo, should be "...but he's going to be very picky..."
- DGentry
DGentry: yeah, what you said! :-)
- Robert Scoble
I think that is interesting about any account and how I end up following a lot of the time.
- David Gross
I thought you disliked DMs Robert. Have you changed your position on this? Curious. ps - remember that one time at Moscone when we all mounted cameras on our heads and walked around like crazy people? Those were the days :)
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Courtesy refollows allows someone who follows you to DM you if they need to - Its just courtious
- Nicholas Paul Gordon
from iPhone
Robert: Yeah, you should keep the numbers low our else you will be getting a lot of the junky tweets. Keep it to a minimum so you can get all the good stuff.
- Amir
I'm sure Robert will follow as many as he wants or doesn't want.. I do similar, but for me it is facebook where I have the few friends I know better.
- David Gross
Why not just follow the people you want on FF? the twitter integration works very well, now, IMO
- adam garrett
now Scoble its no longer a secret lol
- polou/indigo_bow
Adam: because not everyone I want to follow is on FriendFeed.
- Robert Scoble
Hey, aren't you that guy who follows the whole internet? =)
- Jered Hofker
Glad @SecretScoble is following me, I made the "interesting" cut - Yay!
- Susan Beebe
Jered - Scoble does NOT follow trolls, jerks or assholes, just to be clear ;P
- Susan Beebe
@Susan did you meet him personally? That's what he keeps telling me as the reason that he doesn't follow me on his secret account
- Jorge Escobar
Jorge: there are a few exceptions to that rule.
- Robert Scoble
I get it.
- Jorge Escobar
Scoble: So are you saying that tools like TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop are not good enough filters?
- Mike Bracco
Mike: right. Who you follow decides your inbound. If you follow 100,000 you still can't filter it down enough. There is value to following 100,000, though. Serendipity, for instance.
- Robert Scoble
Scoble: Gotcha. I wrote a blog post a little while back calling for a group twitter framework to be developed (http://thenextweb.com/2009...) which could solve some of the filtering issues.
- Mike Bracco
Mike: groups are going to be invaluable in the future for searching.
- Robert Scoble
Groups is EVERYTHING for listening, engaging and building your network
- Susan Beebe
There are lots of startups working on mass follow/unfollow frameworks and spam blocking. Filters, indeed.
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
Yes - groups are really valuable to if easily created and then disposed of after they are needed. (IE a conference for example). Imagine if when you signed up for a conference your twitter handle was added to the conference group (which you could subscribe to and then unsubscribe after the conference was over). That would be cool.
- Mike Bracco
Your own suggested users list. Cool.
- Jason Nunnelley
Hey -- what Twitter grouping/filtering services do people find most interesting?
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
Steve: none. I'm waiting for Twitter to do it. Jason: yeah, imagine that those 500 people were at a conference together. What a conference!
- Robert Scoble
robert would you add notsecretscoble to your FF account so we don't have to create YAIF
- Steve Gillmor
Steve: sure!
- Robert Scoble
This is the real scoble graph.
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
Bah! like Groucho Marx said: "I'd never follow anyone who'd be willing to follow me". Or something like that.
- BryanSchuetz
Christian: I don't think even this is the real Scoble graph. The real Scoble graph, the people whose judgements he trusts and is willing to depend upon, has to be even smaller than @notsecretscoble. The human brain just doesn't work that way, 500 people is an entire village not a circle of close friends. @notsecretscoble is a certainly a group of people to whom he feels a closer...
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- DGentry
So are you going to follow anyone you have met and hung out with? And is if I ask to be followed by you does that mean that I am disqualified :)
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
You should probably still grab @secretscoble given that it was linked from a few blogs and sites before someone else abuses it.
- Tony Ruscoe
Christian: nope. But people I've met face-to-face definitely are in a different group than people I haven't met yet.
- Robert Scoble
But just because I've met you doesn't mean I'll follow you on this Twitter account.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: one twitter question please. Best twitter application for the Jesus Phone ?
- Mark
Mark: Safari.
- Robert Scoble
thank you my dear
- Mark
So, if I ever get to buy Robert a beer, he'll follow me? It's good to know the rules, lol. (And I will buy you one Robert, if you're ever in my neighborhood.)
- Kathy Fitch
Kathy: maybe. :-)
- Robert Scoble
You should have named your secret account 'Scobert Roble.'
- Tomy Thomson
I was Following Secretscoble, what ever happened to him?
- paul mooney
I changed Secretscoble to notscretscoble
- Robert Scoble
Oh, so it has to be something *better* than beer. Picky, picky. Still, I'd think about it. My husband is about the world's best party bartender. He knows how to put some wrist into the thing. A few of those, and I'd be in, fer shure . . .<grin> (Also, I'm a fabulously engaging and enlightening conversationalist, plus just self-effacing enough to be charming. Just ask me . . .)
- Kathy Fitch
Thank you for this, more signal to the noise
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Wow, It would be nice to meet more people from here face to face, but so far I‘ve only met a dozen in person.. It would be nice to meet you in person some time as well. I followed your new account by mistake, so don't take it the wrong way if I unfollow you now. I didn't understand what you were doing with the account initially. It's a great idea for you though and I hope you enjoy it.. I'll have to check the comments and see if there's a feed I can follow here.
- Michael Fidler
Michael: it's not important who follows you. It's important who you are following. You should only follow me if I'm providing value to you, no other reason. If you're following me because you think I'll be nice to you, or follow you back, or include you in some sort of list or group, you're following for the wrong reason.
- Robert Scoble
On the other side, I will follow people for lots of different reasons and I have lots of different ways of following people. On some accounts I follow everyone. On others I have stupid, lame, reasons for following who I am following. The best account to follow me on, though, is my Likes Feed here on FriendFeed. http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... -- it shows ONLY OTHER PEOPLE that I like.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, if I could "like" that last comment, I would. Wish folks would get that.
- Karoli
Yeah, Karoli, too many people follow for stupid reasons and try to make it into a contest. It's interesting that following fewer people is actually far better than following more. But you have to pick the right people for that to be the case.
- Robert Scoble
I agree with your last comment Robert but of course if there were folders in Twitter, I could follow people in a much more organized way like in FF.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Manielse: yeah, I agree. I just run two different Twitter accounts on two different computers.
- Robert Scoble
I was just hoping to be able to do it from here. I follow a ton of people who don't follow back; because I find their feeds valuable. Honestly, I could care less who follows me back. I didn't see a feed here, so it will stay as is.
- Michael Fidler
It's just a shame you need to do that. Live multiple lives in Twitter for a simple feature missing...
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Michael: if you hang out here for even 20 seconds you'll know I spend most of my time here, so following me here is far better than following my Twitter accounts. Anyway, I see you're following me, and I'm following you, so no worries!
- Robert Scoble
Exactly!
- Michael Fidler
I'm happy you've done this, I've long thought your main Twitter account must be impossible to read because of how many people you've followed on it.
- Colin
I find it so interesting that this now means you have a 'stance' on DMs or other SM phenomena. I see this as a human trying to navigate the insanity that technology is affording us. How can you NOT experiment. Scoble does it in front of us, but I feel as if everyone should be trying to make this stuff more useful and rewarding.
- Derek Shanahan
Good point Derek, for example I use PowerTwitter in Firefox "Top Friends" feature to do the same thing without needing multiple accounts. We all tackle the "make stuff more useful" in different ways...
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Great point. I've always found Scoble's dedication to FriendFeed a bit mysterious, although I also see him using it for more personal interaction than he could ever use the main twitter account for. A second twitter account, to me, isn't a statement of fact as to "How To Use Twitter"; it's a representation of the drive to figure out how these tools actually make all of our unique lives better. Plenty...PLENTY...of people only need one tool. Many of us are building our perfect buffets.
- Derek Shanahan
I think it's only a matter of time before Twitter has to add server side support for 'groups' as a feature.
- Alex Knight
@alex - I kind of thought the hacked twitter docs would reveal more in the way of group functionality, but it seems they have more pressing issues.
- Derek Shanahan
I'm wary of notions like "the right people." That can become quite the echo chamber. It's very fun and edifying to discover a new voice with a unique angle. Of course, it's a matter of taste. One person's "right people" list is another person's poison.
- Kathy Fitch
@kathy I agree...and I don't think Scoble finding a way to make a 'wanted list' makes it anyone's wanted list other than his own.
- Derek Shanahan
Kathy: echo chambers can be quite good. Why? There's a reason you're listening to those people: they have something to say that's interesting to you.
- Robert Scoble
Possibly, Derek. Of course, his sharing it makes it public, and gives it weight in the public domain.
- Kathy Fitch
If you're only following people you've met face to face, Scoble, then I will have to arrange a beer the next time you are in the New York/New Jersey/Philadelphia area. Bring that brother of yours along, too.
- Mike Nayyar
@kathy but that's only when you choose to decide that RS's list means more than your own! And I'll admit that I think at time RS thinks his list means more than anyone elses, but I also think he's mostly interested in making all this stuff useful. Making the best list isn't useful. Making a tool make more sense is useful.
- Derek Shanahan
Robert, I don't agree, or at least not entirely. Anyone's "wanted" list is of course valuable to them personally, but when I say "echo chamber" I mean that the ultimate effect is often like the RT phenomenon writ even larger. It's the same weakness that the old "blog roll" notion brought into play. If I'm seeing the same darned roll everywhere, after awhile it gets to be a bit inbred, and that's not useful. Nothing fresh there. See what I mean? Echo, echo, echo.
- Kathy Fitch
Derek: actually that's not true. I've discovered that some people are 100x times more able to get you tech news than others. Some are even 10,000x more able (like Mashable or GigaOm or TechCrunch). So, if you have a list of the right people who have proven expertise in a certain area that list itself will have huge value. At least to me.
- Robert Scoble
I was just checking out your likes feed, and there’s a lot of great stuff there. It’s amazing how you’ve been able to find all that great content from this: http://friendfeed.com/scoblei.... Although I’m following many of the same people, I just noticed how much I’ve been missing here. Thanks for sharing it. I realize now that it’s time for me to start separating my feed into...
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- Michael Fidler
Derek--oh, please. As far as reach and weight go, his *does* mean more than mine, and way more. I don't feel at all bad about that, but it does seem inescapably so. Just a fact of life, and one he's worked hard on making a fact. That doesn't make my little collection of favorites less valuable to me, it just makes it something quite entirely different.
- Kathy Fitch
michael, i bet robert uses lists more than anyone else - and for good reason too! i have a few lists, but spend most of my time in the home feed
- Chris Heath
Kathy: after looking through 100,000 people I've learned there's a reason that certain people get paid attention to. Most are not providing value.
- Robert Scoble
Michael, yeah, my likes feed at http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... is fun to compare to my inbound feed, which you posted. That's a good example of how few people provide what I'm looking for. I need to do the Kyte video over again because the UI has changed so much on FriendFeed.
- Robert Scoble
Can't disagree with you there, Robert. There's a whole lotta fluff going on. Then again, there's a great deal of insight that goes untapped. I will always follow some of the a-list folks that I find truly valuable, but some part of me (big slice) will forever be in "go west" mode, too--looking for the new twist, the fresh insight, the uncharted territory, the bold disagreement with the in crowd. It's the academic in me, I suppose.
- Kathy Fitch
Chris, I have varied interest, and I think I might benefit from creating a few of them. For example; I would like to have one for the people I like to check in on daily. It would be more organized then trying to remember them every day. Robert, it was a great video. I think It would help a lot of people out if you did it again.
- Michael Fidler
@kathy I don't mean to underweight the value of the insight that someone like RS can afford us. @RS, you are right in pushing the idea that certain 'likes' matter than others...I've seen your position that further evolution of these mediums will place more value on the attention of the people who actually have authority or value in a space. I don't dispute that, and I guess I've...
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- Derek Shanahan
re: friendfeed lists - I have one for reading blogs, one for locals to me (carolinas counts), one for devs, one for my ego, one for the ff-team, one for ff centric groups (spam, feedback), one for funny pics and videos type groups, one for netcasts, one for 'back home' people, one for all the groups i've sub'd to, one for all the people subd to me, one for my twitter imports, and one...
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- Chris Heath
those are all lists btw, if that's not clear (i've edited to make sure it is)
- Chris Heath
Chris you are incredibly organized! Wow!
- Kathy Fitch
Thrill the world, make it a better place, for you and for me & the entire Twitterverse...
- Majento
Kathy: that's why I still follow 100,000 too, just to make sure I'm seeing a broad range of people, not just the ones who did something cool yesterday.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Do you think the tool (Twitter) requires both tactics to be optimally useful? How does FriendFeed equate to your desire to follow the conversation in the way you want to follow it?
- Derek Shanahan
Derek: yes. FriendFeed lets you choose a variety of models due to lists built in (and you can use lists to filter your searches!!!)
- Robert Scoble
Yes, it's the constant push-me, pull-you thing. I want to reach, explore, fly high, discover new things, but not make things so dilute that they're worthless, or so vast that they're impossible to absorb in any meaningful way.
- Kathy Fitch
And I think RS feels that FriendFeed gives you the ability to segregate your stream so that a vast reach is possible and dilution isn't necessary. I won't argue with that.
- Derek Shanahan
Robert; I found, "20 things". It wasn't easy with the ambiguous title. If the update turns out as good as the original, (but hopefully it will be better), it should be posted on the sign up page for all new users to see. But, that's just my opinion:)
- Michael Fidler
When did you meet Tom Hanks? What was he like?
- Shari Weiss
Michael, I think I'm biased in favor of beginnings. In those moments, most of those we are keeping company with are still unknown quantities, drawn together only by a shared interest in beginnings. "Beta-fishers" is how I think of them, but not in the anxious, over-the-top, I-must-win-the-race twitterville way--just a genuine and shared love of exploration. I've met some of the people I love best that way, and have yet to meet most of them in person. Harder to do, now? Hmm.
- Kathy Fitch
I met you face-to-face last Christmas, did you go back to that restaurant with the Travelling Geeks?
- Joe Dawson
I thought there was an embargo on this ??
- Charlie Anzman
Scoble has a secret account, huh? You know you want to follow me. C'mon, you can't deny it, I'm geektastic too. You know you love crazy redheads who can't behave like civilized Tweeple. You're an outlier too. MMMMWAH!
- Sheree Motiska
Aaarrrggghhh I hate .me URLs. Sorry @ivey http://twitpay.me and now I will slap myself with a wet noodle 50 times.
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How much do we have to TwitPay you to see this self-flagellation via wet noodle in video form?
- Trent Hamm
Good to know you are also an adherent of Flying Spagheti Monsterism. RA
- JEP
Scoble, you make me smile when I get so annoyed with the state of humanity that I can hardly see straight. There's nothing better than a guy who slaps himself with a wet noodle over a URL. You are a true original and I think I have a geek crush on you Scoble. I said it. I know, I'm about to be read the riot act probably. Oh well, it was worth it. I feel like a rebel.
- Sheree Motiska
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One more reason not to go there - much -
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Why? Why, oh why?
- Sheree Motiska
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- Sheree Motiska
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- Sheree Motiska
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- Sheree Motiska
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@web20empire can you give me some examples of tech jargon that make you feel dumb?
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Robert, do you remember this NY Times article? http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2008...
- LPH™ and his dog P™
Hearing Cold Fusion code toads speaking in tongues in front of you. "New jars can be added in the ColdFusion Class Path field on the Java and JVM page in the Server Settings section of the Administrator"...what the...?
- Chad Harris
LPH: that's a good article to reread once in a while.
- Robert Scoble
Yep Robert - it's a good one to keep.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
The latest TLA (3 letter acronym). I was stumped by a few posts about ROI and i could not guess what that was...One article, wish i could link it, cant remember, did not even define ROI.
- Mike Nencetti
if that was not the return-on-investment ROI then yes, it is jargon that makes you feel dumb
- Kirill Bolgarov
That NYT article is overflowing with bogus. Most of those names are for things that didn't exist previously or need to be differentiated from similar concepts. A lot of the complaints are a long the lines of "Your name is Andy? But WHO is Andy?"
- Andy Bakun
You know what Robert? I've been quietly listening, visiting links, and pondering the situation as it pertains to someone who only got any real voice and a rare, part luck, part inability to stop digging,just accept the status quo, and exclude myself from something I feel is a perfect fit for my big personality. I was so lost and kept getting "trained" right into the
- Sheree Motiska
OOOps, that was my noob reflex that misfired on that unfinished piece of nostalgia. My point is this: I saw your bit about being a weirdo for being fascinated by the way that this piece history, that we are writing as a collective mind, plays out. I am a late bloomer as far as tech as a whole, but I was just where I was supposed to be when it was time to let my real social animal ways run free. I had spent 2 years of deep research and just piecing it together and trying till I got things bit by bit.
- Sheree Motiska
I don't ever claim to know everything, or anything beyond what I can show anyone or articulate. I do know that I have a lust for knowledge and I have thoughts, feelings, and I have every right to share those because of this glitch in the matrix called social media.I am hurt and disappointed to see my role models name calling at the first little blip in the format of the great "who will...
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- Sheree Motiska
Sheree: we're all dumb, don't worry about it. I look at this whole world as 99% noise and 1% interesting stuff. Discard the stuff you don't care about and engage on the 1% that you do. It'll all work out!
- Robert Scoble
Sorry, but Pogue has always struck me as a supreme and irredeemable doofus. This piece, when i fist read it, struck me as a bleating cry from him, trying to work out in public what he can't do in private --- how do i critique tech so everybody from newbies to geeks finds some value in my stuff. Mossberg figured it out. I reckon it's rare.
- Thom Kennon
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