Urban Thought Collective

That is so messed up. - Kenya

Right-o, Simon. - Urban Thought Collective

If you call the Help Desk at all, I will not pick up (unless my manager forces me to cross-train again, and I still won't do it for long). I'm a field tech, because I do not want to answer phones, thank you. - MiɳiMagɘ (AlwaysMiniMage) via NoiseRiver

MiniMage, I was a field tech until my manager "reorganized" the team. I told my team lead, "You know I'm leaving, right? I've led a tech support team larger than this entire IS department, and you want me to take calls from people who don't know how to make text bold in MS Word?" I'm feeling a lot of resentment about this gig. Good news is, I turned in my resignation on Wednesday. - ha3rvey

Wow Harvey.. .. thats pretty crazy. Whoever did the reorg is an idiot. BiG idiot. TSG (Tech support group ) fieldops, can NOT be told to sit and take calls in an office. Talent management is an art !! Hope that all works out for you.. - Peter Dawson

Sounds like you're making some positive changes for yourself Harvey. Some things just don't work out. Good luck with whatever is coming next! :-) - Jill, Superhero Librarian

@Harvey Simmons (ha3rvey): Wow, and I got mad about their adding time clocks to the list of devices we support. I'd prefer to leave my bed to reboot a time clock in the middle of the night rather than answer phones any time of the day. - MiɳiMagɘ (AlwaysMiniMage) via NoiseRiver

Please let me know where you got those burritos, cause I'm never going there! - Justin Korn

What kind of burritos are we talking about? - ha3rvey

Next time don't get "Sweat" flavor - Tad, TV's Patrick Duffy

=\ - Mona N.

Now I'll be smelling my fingers after I eat burritos. - Jill, Superhero Librarian

Hrmmmm... Maybe you're eating something that isn't a burrito? - l0ckergn0me

Eww chris. - Tad, TV's Patrick Duffy

Gross! LOL - Jill, Superhero Librarian

Awwwwww man. Burritos will never be the same again - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

I'm just sayin' - then again, I've never smelled my fingers after eating a burrito, or I wash my hands or eat with a wrapper. I'm going to pay attention next time -maybe do my own Taco Bellish experimentation. - l0ckergn0me

are you trying to say i don't wash my hands, FUCKFACE? - Mona N.

Yeah, I think he is Mona. YOU GONNA TAKE THAT??!?!?!??? - Tad, TV's Patrick Duffy

shut your cakehole! (just felt like bringing the two threads together) - Justin Korn

Im gonna jump kick his gnome ass to Plutoid since Kashyyyk is too damn good for him hmph - Mona N.

YOU SHUT YOUR HATCH KORNBREAD - Mona N.

Boot to the head. http://listen.grooveshark.com/... - l0ckergn0me

.....obscure references =\ - Mona N.

Oh gee thanks Chris - now I'm singing the Boot to the Head song. - Tad, TV's Patrick Duffy

whatever BO fingers! - Justin Korn

ugh you win - Mona N.

Obscure references - as opposed to Kashyyyk? http://listen.grooveshark.com/... - you're such a Wookiee. Are you calling me a Nerferder or something? - l0ckergn0me

JABBA!! chEWbaCA... but this joint gives me a headache FAIL - Mona N.

Boot to the head just made this posting infinitely more awesome. - Tsega Dinka

THAT GREAT U USE IDENTI.CA - DSaad69

Sometimes, when Mona gets nervous, she puts her fingers in her armpits and then smells them. And then blames it on a burrito. - Roger Benningfield

Poor ole Mona - I bet she'll never eat another burrito. - Tad, TV's Patrick Duffy

um i do something called WASH MY HANDS folks! don't worry i'm BO free today. it smells like Elmer's at the moment - Mona N.

You like? - l0ckergn0me

Yah man. Going to do a video on it. Definitely a nice departure from the cheap quality of cafepress - Bwana

Ah...gonna have to check this out. - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

If only they shipped at a decent rate to India... - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)

Holy Crap... Don't lie to me on this... I just placed first order from our cafepress store and the stuff was shit... is Zazzle really better??? - Cody Heitschmidt

I just made a Zazzle order yesterday, too - so this is very good news. I even went with an uber-super soft t-shirt. - l0ckergn0me

I've only used them to buy photo stamps and calendars (which have been great), but have sold other items including t-shirts and cards which have received good comments on the quality. - cmiper

I have gotten a few custom shirts and hoodies from them and they have been of a consistently good quality and they also deliver when they say they will... FF meets eBay. - Scott Lockhart

it's all up to florida! - Mona N.

If it's up to Florida, we're doomed. - David Worrell

Good gravy, that's a lot of bodies. - Urban Thought Collective

Jason++ - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

The news tonight had a bit on McCain spending this afternoon talking to a crowd in a German-themed bar. McCain fills a German bar, Obama fills Berlin. - David Worrell

Heh actually according to pollster.com 300 electoral votes, 30+ over the 270 to win are firmly on Obama's side, not including Flordia. We don't need no stinking Florida. I used to like McCain...but not anymore. - Bjorn Tipling

I really, REALLY wish McCain had been elected back in 2000. We'd be wishing him a fond farewell. He's a different man 8 years later. - Tad, TV's Patrick Duffy

Yeah McCain of 2000 was better than McCain of 2008. - Bjorn Tipling

Whee! - Nicholas Kreidberg

My first dog really looked like this when he jumped over fences. Great memories!;-) - Cathryn Hrudicka

all I could say to that pic is wow - johnpiercy

My dog did that a few years ago....ain't seen him since... - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

This is why I want to live my next life as a dog. :-) - Jill, Superhero Librarian

baa baaaaaaaaaa - Mona N.

I think they saw a LOLcat on the other side :p - zoblue (Zulema)

thanks @cs - pretty much same here - once I saw the level of interaction and conversation here I was hooked but I have always like the fact that Twitter is much more mobile friendly (especially for those of us in BB world) - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

@Marco, friendfeed has a decent mobile interface, even for a crackberry. I prefer fftogo.com however and it looks decent on my Curve. - Rob Diana

FF on Windows Mobile with Opera is very usable. Just signed up for Identi.ca, going to give it a try. - Eric @ CS Techcast

@rob i've tried fftgo but for whatever reason wasn't thrilled with it - i need to give it another look. There is just so much more information on FF it makes it tough to take in and process on BB - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

Probably the best headline of the day. Anyone else plan to beat it? - Louis Gray

I've got nothing...Marco you win - Anthony Farrior

I love articles that strategically use bold text to emphasize key points. Easy read. Good post Marco - Bwana

lol @anthony does that come with a prize? if so can I request the return of the people I was following on twitter? @louis i may just have to print and frame your comment ; ) a guy's gotta do something to compensate for the content! - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

Good points here Marco. It's always been about your existing network with Twitter. That's what's carried it through the tough times. I expect Twitter will survive this issue though. People are losing followers, but I see numbers like "had 2,500, now have 2,100". The big numbers are still there. - Hutch Carpenter

Okay guys this is just stupid. Can a few of you go over to the blog and comment? Is that too much to ask? I just went there and read the article because 25+ people liked it and a dozen commented but no one took the time to say a word on his site.. This is wrong in my opinion, make an effort to grow a guys on-site community. - Roger Kondrat

@michael ty - @hutch ty and I hope you are right - but I do worry that this has now opened a door that can't be closed. If they communicate their plans to help people reconnect with lost subscriptions (if thats possible) and what measures will be put in place to prevent this from happening again I think they can pull it out. I think people were willing to deal with the intermittent outages so long as they could still communicate with their group later but if users can't rely on that... - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

its a definite black eye on anyone who just adopted twitter in the past 6 months or so, its basically taking money out of your pocket, taking expectations out of your hand. The service going down, I can take that, taking away what I earned, that sucks royaly. Like going into an WoW and seeing all your characters gone, well right then at that moment its well, I guess I can leave this place now, too much work to redo. But twitter has the wild card of addicted adoption, WoW players can start again, so can twitters, not fun, but we can do it. - Dan Rockwell via twhirl

Roger - your comments sometimes verge into troll territory. - Hutch Carpenter

@CS I totally agree. Its always that way i find. - Roger Kondrat

I agree with you. This is a strategic blunder. Curious to see if this clips Twitter's wings or if it's got Phoenix on it's side. - phil baumann

@roger you thoughtfulness is very much appreciated - I still wrestle with posting a comment on a blog or adding to the comment stream on FF. Not a big deal in my case - I am eager to learn, share and interact and love having the blog to log thoughts that take up more room than a FF comment box but my fascinations are far too broad to develop a focussed topic theme necessary to really build a core of readers so I don't worry about it too much. @michael none taken at all - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

the followers migrate to the same people here. if you cultivated fans you won't lose them - Ⓝ〄ⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂ〄Ⓝ

Marco thanks for the post. As a user who has not "invested" much in twitter and actually only signed on due to Friendfeed, I'm very interested in how this plays out. Problems aside, the overall concept of twitter as a web/mobile/aim service is a great one that doesn't have a true (even ident.ca) competitor as far as I can tell. - Jon-Paul Bussoli

@Hutch yeah I have been a bit Trolly the last couple days. Don't know why. On this though I just get a bit 'protect the little guy' and of course it was unfounded but a knee jerk reaction anyway. Sorry to those who felt my poor nature over the last 24hrs and thanks @Hutch for pointing it out. - Roger Kondrat

great headline ... shorter article? nice style... - Gregory Lent

@Marco I love your post really can’t comment much beyond that because it was like you took the words out of my mouth. But I will say this when blogs first came about they were said due to trackback, and pingback to allow for the first time a fluid single conversation to occur across multiple voices. Twitter did this really well in its own way too. - Roger Kondrat

Roger - cool man. And there actually is a good rationale for bloggers wanting comments on FriendFeed. Read on if you like: http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2008... - Hutch Carpenter

What is interesting is during the drama at Twitter everyone has focused on their pitfalls and has in my own opinion possibly missed another important factor in Twitters existence and that is the market has changed or rather is in the midst of a major transition. Conversations are now being initiated on Twitter and Blogs but they are being aggregated elsewhere. Initially this happened with the support of bloggers through the use of Disqus, Intense Debate, but not it seems to be skipping over them and heading directly to a new kind of service altogether. - Roger Kondrat

Friendfeed and their kind (socialthing,etc) are where the micro-conversations are occurring. These sites are extending what Twitter started out doing so well but in the end it is and always will be a slow and inflexible service when compared to the new breed (FF SocialThing, etc). - Roger Kondrat

excellent post Marco...I like your approach and analysis. The last 24 hours for twitter have been devastating. I can't even begin to imagine how the staff at twitter must feel right now. But as a customer, i know how I feel - NOT happy! First they screwed up the follower/follows counts and then sent tweets with my name on them (I did NOT write those) - so the twitter database is hosed! not a good moment for twitter to say the least. - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

(1) twitter deserves what it got. forget the tech issues. they went fascist and decided to punish people for using the interface as best they could. they used a few uptight people in a mob to create a witch hunt against people who were importing feeds and had a lot of followers. They are getting exactly what I warned them about (2) they hoarded the technology and did not license it out. if they had licensed twitters technology out it would of been a very profitable standard. (more...) - Ⓝ〄ⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂ〄Ⓝ

(3) back to the fascist issue. they promised free thought in a public forum and they never delivered. the block concept is a stupid idea. obviously I proved that with panopticons and they went to shoot the messenger. twitter's architecture is a public forum open to any viewer. In being such it betrayed itself and created its own *CANCER* by implementing a block. This will be friendfeeds downfall in the end as well because if I want to look up Robert Scoble and see what he is up to I can. I can go and wait for Robert Scoble to post off his own comments and flame him. The best concept is if I can see it then I should be able to talk. - Ⓝ〄ⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂ〄Ⓝ

I agree about the importance of the subscriber functinality - Mark Dykeman

again... I believe in security. I'm not a purest, but I believe the elegance of a system should not be compromised. there are plenty of walled gardens on the internet. twitter was not supposed to be walled. ...and friendfeed isn't a good place for walls either. there are plenty of opportunities for elitism in life. despite some nut jobs, it is beneficial for there to be some free expression. people should be able to turn a thread off when they want to. We all deal with aggravations. - Ⓝ〄ⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂ〄Ⓝ

back to (1) and the license issue. if it had been licensed then it would of never become over populated and different flavors of a good thing would of happened. ... maybe even a version of twitter with and without block. it just seems they are guilty of trying to contain the wind. they could of owned the wind's license for a while, but they were too greedy. - Ⓝ〄ⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂ〄Ⓝ

@noah completely understand that there are plenty of things that need fixing - problem is that over a decent length of time a number of very unique communities have sprung up around the service - if the service dies those communities go with it - that is part of the reason for this http://tinyurl.com/5sxmzy - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

No! Not the puppets again! please! :) (I swear I'm kidding) - directeur via NoiseRiver

OH G-D not again - now im going to be freaking singing this all night and i need to go to sleep now!!! DAMN YOU WINER! and here i just interviewed your company yesterday! yet i cant stop watching - Allen Stern

This is a song we sing with the kids all the time. I do the mamomena part and the kids to the "do do do do" part Oops. they say the thumbnail on the screen and want to see it right now :) - Christian Burns

This is a song often sung in our house - kids love it! - Bora Zivkovic

http://www.geocities.com/piero... - Edward Vielmetti

There's a town in New Jersey that always makes me sing this: Manalapan do doo do doo do Manalapan Doo do do doo.... - George Smith

CAKE did a cover of this song on their "B-Sides and Rarities" album, give it a listen here: http://www.last.fm/music/Cake/... - Haggis (Sean)

:D - edythe

Haggis I am now dizzy from watching that cover video :) - Allen Stern

Dave is evil... this will be stuck in my head for days now... Thanks Dave!! - Les Zaldor

I had this stuck in my head all day today as well... No good! - Justin Korn

ok - now im about to lose it - ive been whistling this song for 50 minutes - how will i get to bed now - dave you are getting a noogie when we meet! - Allen Stern

OK, let's see: Menomenah! - Björn Brembs

ABSOLUTELY LOOOOOOOOOOVVVVE IT! - Jes Tu

One of my son's favorites these days. In addition, have a look at the Muppets' Hugga Wugga: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Ansgar Wollnik

ok - so the train took forever to come, it's humid and the only thing that kept me smiling was singing this song - people probably thought i was a bit nutty from all the smiling :) - Allen Stern

Love it - Natallini