Mike: Newborns are so incredible... Loving the pictures from the Buchheits & the Grays. - Mitchell Tsai
mitchell - you are the most amazing photo finder/editor on ff :) - mike "glemak" dunn
Thanks Mike. But the thanks should really go to the rest of the FriendFeed community. About 1/2 of my 324 subscriptions are to people who post/find cool pictures (unfortunately about 30-40% are in private rooms http://friendfeed.com/e/98e765... which don't appear in public - we need transparent rooms!). It's so much easier to find good pics from all the sites they've helped me find. I'm saving some on my PC for desktops/slideshows, and post about 15-20% of those on FF. - Mitchell Tsai
but that is what a good editor does mitchell - you find and share :) - mike "glemak" dunn
My favorite sites for high-quality pictures are (1) Pixdaus http://pixdaus.com/index.php?s... (2) Boston's Big Picture http://boston.com/bigpicture Pixdaus's +/- like/don't-like rating system really allows good pictures to bubble up quickly. And their "random" feature (which pulls random high-ranking pictures) is something I wish FriendFeed would add - "random top stories from the past year/month/week/day" - Mitchell Tsai
I love this as well, my children are growing so fast now I would love to have a little baby again! - Joe Dawson
The Governator just proposed cutting all State of California employees' wages to $6.50 an hour, no matter what their position (except for the very top mgmt., of course) to save money. He's also forcing many people into early retirement. I could go on...I wish he'd flex his brain instead of his muscles. (Obviously, I didn't vote for him.) - Cathryn Hrudicka
Arnold's doing a great job with the environment! - Mitchell Tsai
(1) Thomas Hawk 16,058
(2) Leo Laporte 14,126
(3) Veronica (Veronica Belmont) 12,956
(4) Kevin Rose 11,960
(5) Scott Beale 9,976
(6) Dave Winer 9,109
(7) Chris Pirillo 7,999
(8) mashable (Pete Cashmore) 7,285
(9) Steve Rubel 7,054
(10) Muhammad Saleem 6,829 - Mitchell Tsai via Bookmarklet
Quoting Mitchell - Note #1: This is list in incomplete and was generated by hand.
Note #2: Loic Le Muir's page crashed the Celebrity Meter (which happened sometimes on other people too). - Russellreno
Mitchell - I was playing with this early today. My score is 5788 with FF and 575 without FF.. Since I am 23rd on your list (thank you) I agree with your last observation IE (A) From Thomas Hawk's rating, it appears pages linking to photos are very important. - Russellreno
BTW - Doing this manually is very time consuming. Great work. - Russellreno
Russell: It only took 1 hour, shorter than if I had written code (which also would have had to handle the Wired site borking on some entries, but usually working if I tried again...) About Scoble's score, I might guess that Wired's algorithms use general links between web pages, and some people have internet presence outside of technology blogs and social media, thus Robert Scoble is #14. Be cool to see what algorithms they use to process the Social Graph. - Mitchell Tsai
[Update Sat 2:21 am EDT] Wired's tool might be used to measure daily activity. --- J. Phil commented that his score went up (252 pts when I just checked), but I re-checked a few other people, and their scores went up 2-252 pts --- seeming to depend on how active they were today. - Mitchell Tsai
is seems that people really care about this shit-- in the old days it was called as ego gratification - today they call it Celebrity Meter. Same shit, different toilet !! - Peter Dawson
Peter: Perhaps some use it for ego as validation of power/influence/change. Since I'm new to the blogosphere, it's one of the ways I'm trying to find my way through a million blogs... Not enough time to read all of them, and Technorati is just overwhelming, so I need recommendations and suggestions. - Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell, I hear you on this., Its difficult to wade thru the masses and collect quality stuff. I Still remember a hugh card that read something like about blogging and constantly checking the number of hits one gets to a post. In fact that was /is very true. However, radical fresh thoughts don't always originate with blogs that have a high PR/readerership/ whatever rank. Secondly, blogging has become a monetization vehicle. The cutting edge info still comes from platforms like twitter, FF and forums ! - Peter Dawson
Peter: Yes. Lots of radical fresh thoughts occur in the "long tail" and the "middle ground" from people who are not the most popular. Why Robert Scoble pushes to hear from outside the "echo chamber"... Unfortunately the "echo chamber" is alive & well in US scientific research funding. Even Linus Pauling, Nobel prize winner, took 7 tries to get funding for Vitamin C because the "scientist group-think" in the 1980s-90s was that "Food is not medicine". - Mitchell Tsai
Nice work Mitchell, going through the list I was subscribed to almost everybody anyway ha! - Joe Dawson
So cute... Wish I had kids. :-( At 28, I suddenly had laser-eyes for kids anytime one came in the room. It took about 3 years to get used to this new "kid-fascination". Alas, still looking for a soul-mate... - Mitchell Tsai
This is how I feel inside all the time - Bwana McCall
i just can't help giggling when i see this kid ...you'd think the photographer was holding am ice-cream before his eyes - Selma
Selma: Some kids are real "hams". It's a shame our US school system drills the creativity out of so many kids. Sitting in chairs for 8 hrs a day, listening to teachers even when they are boring. Good practice for boring-9-to-5-employees. Awful practice for entrepreneurs starting their own businesses, organizations, and projects. - Mitchell Tsai
yeah ...true ...it's the same here in Iran too(probably even worse since the creativity is closely controlled and limited here even after the school years are finished) - Selma
How many of us on FriendFeed do you think would be labelled ADD if we were 5-8 yrs old? - Mitchell Tsai
What Mitchell said. Worser in other parts of the World (like the school I just finished. College doesn't promise to be much better) - Yuvi
Well said, Mitchell. The system we live in needs an upgrade. - Vincent X
I agree with Mitchell. we need renovate the school educational system. - Mahdi Ebrahimi
Vincent: I think one of the major upgrades is shifting from the "doctor, lawyer, teacher, policeman" careers to the make-your-own-dream career - which can be scary, financially risky (note - most blogger lifestyles), but amazingly rich. How can we mix (1) delivering what others want (2) with what we want to give. Traditional US schools are for baby-sitting farmer's kids and creating "yes" people. What are the next steps? (e.g. in semi-VC words, not just how do you monetize, but how do you survive?) - Mitchell Tsai
I wanna nominate this kid for president. - imabonehead
What does it take nowadays to make you that happy? - Tad Donaghe
Tad: One reporter/writer who went to China bought a local girl (who was translating Chinese for him) her first stuffed animal, and she was SOOO happy, he wondered the same thing... - Mitchell Tsai
Manny Cothran, 11, of Nowata, Okla., is enveloped in a shield of cool water at the Splash Pad Waterpark in Owasso, Okla., Tuesday, July 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Tulsa World, Stephen Holman) - Mitchell Tsai
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