I always write like 2,000 words and then quit. This is a tradition going back about five years now. I'd like to think I can keep the tradition going. - Jeremy Botter
i am fascinated with big city newspapers that come out the day after a historic political or sporting event. i have a collection of election papers going back to the first senior bush win and i have every election resuly paper after that except for the 2000 bush win because it wasnt finished the next day. i also have the pearl harbor honolulu paper from memaw and cool sports one.
i wanted an obama houston chronicle and it took me 2 hours of driving around last night to find one. i finally found it at a tiny gas station off fry road.
there is a site called newseum that has images of every major paper in the world for every single day. its fun to go through it and look at signifcant dates from the past.
but then again, i'm a newspaper nerd and perhaps i am weird. - Jeremy Botter
Yes, there is a very good chance that anything I've designed over the past year or so has come either from a tutorial or inspiration from Smashing Magazine. That website is amazing. - Jeremy Botter
Tilt-shift technology in photography allows you to take a picture of a real-life item and make it look like a scale model. This is a picture of the real Fenway park using that technique, so it looks like a perfect little model. I need to learn how to do this so we can take pictures that look like scale models of the Favorites" - Jeremy Botter
I'm trying to use Mint.com, but it's not going so well. Manually cleaning up the bank gibberish, trying to assign categories without the receipt handy (to see what actually was purchased), the lack of forecasting tools. I was interested in Green Sherpa, but it seems their private beta is never-ending & I'm not invited into the clubhouse. Just heard about Rudder this morning...very interesting.... - Pat Rice
I've tried using it and it although it has some nice features, it does not compare to MS Money. - Thomas Lopez Jr
One of our .Net developers just left us to work for Rudder, so I've heard nothing but nice things about it. I really do prefer Mint. - Jeremy Botter
Too scared to trust so much financial info to a Web 2.0 company. Especially now. - Sprague D
I use it as a dashboard, while the wifey manages the funds. - Mark Rodriguez
I signed up but it's too much work to get everything set. - Patricia
i use Mint and Wesabe... i find they keep me more interested in managing the family finances than when i used to use Quicken... lately though, Mint is annoying me cause it keeps losing the secure connections to some of my accounts - Philip J Beyer
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I use Mint and love it. It's been way more convenient than other financial software for me and my husband. It's easy to use, easy for both of us to access and has really helped us manage our finances better than we were. - Squirrel Girl
I'm trying both Mint and Rudder out, but can't seem to find the time to set it all up. This isn't their fault, but it still kinda blows. - robwest
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I'm with Sprague. We use quicken and it's on the desktop, where my copy will last for a very long time. Not gonna trust something as important as personal finances to a new web company. - Jason Kaneshiro
I use Mint to monitor my student loan payments, it's a much cleaner interface and I release much less personal information that going to the Federal Loan pages. I've been using it for about 4 months and I'm quite impressed with their site. - James Fuller
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I'm trying to use Mint, but there are quite a few kinks that need to be worked out (refreshing accounts is slow, etc). But it really does illuminate your habits. Mark Cuban recently blogged about smarter spending being the best ROI ordinary can get on their money. - Carter Rabasa
I want to but they typically block Canadians outright from using their websites. Personally, I don't want to tie my bank account to a third party service, I'd rather regulate the data I provide. But they effectively block you from using their tools if you haven't tied a bank account to it. - trextor
works well for me - can't get access to my wife's account on quicken without her paying a fee per month but can get to it via mint - Jeff Quinton
I use them all the time. Mint.com has allowed me to eliminate the use of Quicken. BoA has all of the transaction features I need and Mint handles integration, reporting, and visualization. - Randy Holloway
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the nice thing about friendfeed is that you can bring twitter with you and the comment threading rocks. Many conversations start in twitter but they now finish in friendfeed. - jered reynolds
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Agreed. You would have thought the lack of a business model would be their biggest problem. - Scott Watermasysk
i'm done with twitter myself, i have my own social network to worry about that and all that friendfeed goodness - Jay Martinez
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Funny thing about the tide.. It goes out just as fast as it came in.. - mark
I really like ff. So much more interesting here with pics vids links - loren feldman
And to add to everything: ff just works. - Holger Eilhard
Isn't the Honeymoon over yet for FriendFeed? It's getting really old. Twitter is NOT dying and they will eventually fix their issues. Also, I don't see how everyone is doing a competition between the two products. They are completely two different products that serve different purposes. I will continue to use both Twitter and FriendFeed they go hand in hand together. - Chris Rodgers
Music too Loren. I'm loving the new music I listen to as a result of people sharing Last.fm, Pandora, etc. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
I have to disagree. I don't think Twitter is dying. I think Friend Feed is helping Twitter in a lot of ways. I still use Twitter and, update from my phone and other apps. My updates come right onto FF and, people comment. That's the same a lot of us do. Yes, we're all getting tired of Twitter's constant issues. Isn't that the real problem though? Twitter's constant issues it's what is the most frustrating. - Candace Holly
You guys are drinking WAY too much of the Kool-Aid. I love FF but Twitter isn't going anywhere. - Mike Doeff
Certainly FF is more stable, but I still enjoy the quick update nature of Twitter. I think that both can exist alongside one another and actually enhance each other. - Mark
How about Twitter and Pownce coming together, maybe they can make it that way. I think friendfeed is cool, but will it replace Twitter. I'm hoping for Twitter to change!!! Listen to the users!! Twitter!!! - Jorge
I gotta agree with Chris R. Twitter and FF don't seems to serve the same purpose. I use Twitter for conversation and FF for following the stream of what my friends are doing. - Robert Chute
saying Twitter is dieing because of FriendFeed is sort of like saying Yahoo IM is dieing because of Adium or Trillian. Two different products. One is a mobloging site, the other is a social media aggregator with the ability to interact with other social media/moblogging services. If Twitter did die out and close it's doors, FriendFeed would lose it's ability to communicate with it. - The Geek Media
Twitter is still king of micro blogging although with identi.ca's open source platform, we'll see what happens. So far I don't like Plurk and Pownce can't stay up long enough to use it. - David Ward
Truthfully, I grew tired of Twitter two months ago. It served its purpose during conferences I've attended over the past year, but I just couldn't get enough of my friends to adopt it to make it worth my time. FriendFeed, however, is much more informative, and it seems like I'm finding something new and cool every few minutes. - Jeremy Botter
twitter's only assets are a user base and a variety of data entry points. That is not an unsurpassable moat. If friendfeed added SMS and IM updates they could steal a significant amount of twitter's traffic. - Occasional Headbanger
Prediction - Twitter hits 5 million users by Feb 09 - Sean Kelly
Friendfeed will outnumber Twitter sooner rather than later because it already controls a significant part of conversation streams. Plus, it aggregate every other webservice produced content that's a main part. Add those features @Andrew Burd is talking about and you will definitely talk about Twitter as something from the past. - yvons
Yes but people (except JC) still using twitter beside, I would like to use more FF, but people keeps answering me on Tweeter ! - Jean-François Amadei
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This is a dollar bill taped to the floor of FriendFeed's headquarters. It's a bit of social engineering. They figured out it kept people from tripping on the cord cover because people noticed the money on the floor. - Robert Scoble
The dollar bill trick doesn’t work with strippers though ;) - Earl E Morningwood
@Earl: Consider it a stripper-filter, then. You know someone's a stripper if they trip over it. - April Buchheit
for some reason i expect a "stripper filter" to be something coded using regular expressions. sad, i know. - Karim
The message here is that Web 2.0 companies are so ignorant of money and revenue that they even step over a dollar on the floor - Jason Carreira
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Interesting. The photo has been viewed more than 500 times, but has only earned 62 likes and 19 comments. So, for every 1 thing we can see here there's another 9 people hanging out lurking in the shadows. - Robert Scoble
@Scoble the old 90-9-1 rule :) (well almost) - Naor
You could always just superglue some road kill to those things. Nothing gets people's attention more than a dead opossum. - Andrew Leyden
This is a very smart move. This is the kind of venue where Obama shines. Plus, you can get a Bronco Dog with onions and peppers! I hope the beer guy will be there. - Eric @ CS Techcast
I want to go. I saw him Jan 2007 in South Central speak to 150 people. I was a volunteer. Such a journey! - Felicia
Fantastic idea.. Will be interesting to see how the GOP counters this, if they can. Have a hard time seeing McCain getting 50,000 to show up to the Metrodome for his speech. Maybe if it includes a monster truck pull at the end. - Chris Reed
@Karen: It will be a free event, according to an email sent out by his campaign - Nathan Reale
I'd just like to see him in a Debate with McCain, sure Obama sounds great reading from a teleprompter or reciting a prepared speech, but lets see him go head to head with his opponent.. - keith
Wish I could be there. I saw him in Houston at the Toyota Center and in San Marcos, and both times were amazing. - Jeremy Botter
Great commuicator but little substance. Bill Clinton reincarated - Brent
@Brent: And what is McCain's substance beyond "I served in the Navy, so make me president so I can keep us in Iraq 100 years." - Chris Reed
Obama and Clinton both think of themselves as another JFK - hmmm, can you say Lloyd Bentsen - JackRyanBauer
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I agree as well, Brent. People are easily fooled by a smoothly delivered speech. "It's all about the tax rates, stupid" - John Denver
I totally want to do this. I wish I lived closer to Denver - Phillip Jeffrey
@John: On the tax rates, you mean you're making more than $500,000 a year? Congrats! The rest of us will get a tax CUT in an Obama administration. - Chris Reed
Chris, I would love to see your sources on that. Everything I have read has Obama's definition of "wealthy" at about $120K of household income... hardly Calacanis-esque here in SoCal. - John Denver
This will continue I'm sure. Obama does poorly speaking "off the cuff". Look for more prepared speeches and less debates. - Robert Hafer
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less pandering and flip flopping please - Bjorn Tipling
More importantly I want to know more about Digg's spot in the Big Tent.... - Erin Kotecki Vest
“The number one way I find people to add on FF? Nope, not FFs recommendations, finding little white bubbles next to people making interseting comments in conversations. These are the people that I want more of. Folks that participate intelligently are far more valuable than A listers who don't.”
I'm only just now starting to use FF, even though I signed up months ago...and I agree, this tool is far more useful than even twitter. - Jeremy Botter
I agree 100% Tom. That is how I have been finding a lot of people. I am relatively new to FF so that and friend of a friend posts are the only ways I am finding people. - Matt Donders
Personally - that's why FriendFeed is differentiating itself from a lot of other sites. It caters to those active people that want to discuss, learn, inform - which makes it a resource that I come back to over and over again... - George Smith
I'm in absolute agreement but have to admit that I've added some of the A listers just to see who's talking to them intelligently. Granted, the ROI's a little low, but sometimes watching the fawning is reward in and of itself. <insert sarcasticon here> - Linda Mills
Good point, this is one of the reasons why I'm spending more time on FF now - great way to discover and interact with new people that have relevant information/comments to share - Gabriel Biguria
So very true. My page of "recommended" friends is nothing but a bunch of A-listers that would fill my FF pages with mostly junk, and not a lot of substance. - Brandon Wood
When I am looking for people that share my interests, I search for a headline I really liked on the everyone tab and check out others who shared it and see what they are all about. It is kind of time consuming but fun. - Geoff Schultz
I'd also add that you don't have to add a whole lot of people to get quality content thrown into your FF stream. I'm slowly adding people and the value of FF went up 10 fold. - Otto R. Radke
The goal of adding friends here is to have intersting stuff in your Friendfeed. And you do that by carefully watching the dicussion not just in terms of comments and likes ( as mentioned above multiple times), but what items are posted by people. Thats whats I look for. - Roberto Bonini
I've been getting annoyed at the amount of junk, repetition, and endless Twitter vs. FriendFeed talk from the so-called "A-listers". It's high time to start unsubscribing and find some new "friends". - Matt
the ancient toad style of social networking - Anthony
Actually if you do that you soon realize that there's more content by interesting people here than time you have to read that. Then, the question stops being how to find interesting people (that you'll keep finding and following) but how to reduce the noise... - ☂Marcos Marado
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So Marcos the task at hand is to become Jedi of the Hide button and learn how to fine tune everything. - Mark Forman
Hide is awsome, but I'm feeling it is not enough. I hope noiseriver ends up being the solution, but... it still hasn't the hide feature implemented :-) - ☂Marcos Marado
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Hah! I just added everyone in this post who I wasn't already subscribed to. - Thomas Hawk
Ha! Prepare to be inundated with my brand of minutia! - Geoff Schultz
If the same friend of X comes up often, and I find them interesting, I will subscribe to them. - Hao Chen
I, too, am just getting more involved in this social networking thing ... - Robert Couture
This taps into what for me is the stand-out experience FF. 'Common Interest' is _one_ facet, but there's more going on in deciding to Subscribe or not. It's like a first impression in person - the brain takes a bunch of behavioral cues builds a profile in seconds upon which decisions (sometimes lasting) are made. To balance the split decision weakness of not enough information, just cruise through the person's feed for 'background check'. All common sense I suppose. - Micah Wittman
Yeah but I frikin HATE the moment I add 1 person from a thread i like, I get bumped out of the thread & have to go back & search for it again to see if I want to add anyone else. - Mrsth
@mrsth, I agree 110% w/ that. It's easier to open a new tab then scroll down and locate the topic again... - Czar
Nah...I add completely based on superficiality and looks. :-P - Live4SoccerVacations
@Czar- ah I didn't realize you could do that. I'll give it a whirl. Thx!!! - Mrsth
@Carlos Perez- Ahh. that explains alot. You can only see my legs:-) - Mrsth
i guess just a 'me too' here would be totally wrong. - MLx
I think the only way to find those interesting people you don't know is to subscribe to the popular people. I've been finding some interesting folks that way. Otherwise, no one posts comments to your own stuff. Oh, to be unpopular. Sigh. - Eric @ CS Techcast
That's exactly correct. I don't auto-follow. I add people who comment and like and share things I'm interested in. - Louis Gray
wow, that's a super-excellent observation. i'm taking the hint with a few 'white-bubble' folks here too. altho i wonder if the FF folks shouldn't cue that behavior up with mouse-over info on the bubble icons... i had no clue why the color was showing up at first. (then again, i'm often an idiot) - dave mcclure
awesome. this reaffirms why i like ff better than twitter. the failwhale is kind of endearing, though. - Marissa
Couldn't agree more! The Fancy Pants people are too fancy, I just want interesting conversation(s)! - Cheryl
Totally agree!! Wish I could get some of those people as my friends too!! - ChaCha Fance
I can't stand FF posts with more than 10 comments. I want to filter them out but there is no option for that. - Sam Pullara
What client are you using? twirhl makes comments on FF OK, but just OK. It's a shame that we're all this way and still don't have clients that support threaded conversations as good as tin or slrn on usenet... - David Molnar
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david let's agree on 'as good as on usenet' - i never could stand neither tin nor slrn *g* but yes. it is now 10 years ago that most decent usenet clients had a feature set still not rediscovered for everything feedish ... - Nicole Simon
Agreed as well I look out for the white speech bubbles as well to see what value they add to the FriendFeed community! - Joe Dawson (beta)
Occasionally I'll wander over to everyone and 'browse'. it's really eye opening as FF grows - Charlie Anzman
Charlie, I like doing that too, but we need a language filter badly! - Hao Chen
The number one trick A-listers use and I never liked? " hey I'm here now on friendfeed, comment on this if you want me to follow you". I don't want them to follow me because they are important. I want them to follow me because they feel I'm important to them! - Alexander van Elsas
Agreed- when I see opinions I like from someone several times, I check to see if I've subscribed to them yet. - Brian Carter
My first time on FF and I like the interaction I'm seeing. The "white bubbles" are a great way to find new and interesting people. - Tom Newman
That's a great way to find friends with whom you can actually talk and count as friends. And the comments are a great feature of FF. I'm just getting to know how to make FF useful for me... - Dan V
I haven't found FF list of recommendations terribly useful either. Although this is a bad example, because it brought me to this entry. - TDavid
The criteria of "participate intelligently" is a relative word. What is "intelligent" to you may sound "stupid" to others? I guess the more appropriate term would be "value-adding to the conversation".. But I agree 100% on how "comments" can really uncover hidden gems! - Winston Teo
I do this too. I consider the comments a kind of signaling (a concept I learned from economics). Too bad there are so little interesting people in FF (to me at least, my interests are a little "off" from the median). - Meryn Stol
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