You, G. Saunders , Daniel Zarick , Alistair , Giusy Mauro and 23 other people , Beau Liening , Norm McKenzie , James Fuller , Ryo , Soroush , WorldofHiglet , K.D. , Rutger Blom , Micah Wittman , cjmart , Darren Heydon , David Ward , Duncan Riley , Morton Fox , Steven Perez , Rob Michael , MarkCarras , Andy Breeding , Michael Krigsman , tsudohnimh , Jeff P. Henderson , Pete D , Rob Brammeld liked this
bollocks, and I hate to hear it coming from someone like you. Writing is real work along with manual labor, even if some of us consider ourselves lucky.
- Duncan Riley 
[4hr 20min ago]
I think I'm Robert's token blue collar friend. :D Card carrying member of the Teamsters union and everything. I think he is talking about work where your whole body hurts afterwords and leaves you walking like a 70 year old. Trust me when I say I fit that description and know what Robert is saying.
- MarkCarras [4hr 15min ago]
me neither.
- .LAG [4hr 9min ago]
I understand what he's saying. I was there. I agree, comparatively, this ain't real work.
- Eric @ CS Techcast [4hr 7min ago]
Been there. Done that. Don't want it.
- Glen Campbell [4hr ago]
I've done that, but worse - in Houston
- Jesse Stay [3hr 55min ago]
Ah yes, the myth of physical labor vs mental labor. Let's see how this age old argument pans out in the age of hashtags and brain farts. FIGHT!!
- Bwana [3hr 54min ago]
Mark, some weeks I work 18 hours a day, 7 days a week. Every bone in my body is tired. While I respect the notion, and the concept of manual labor, I resent the use of "real" next to work.
- Duncan Riley [3hr 53min ago]
What I do every day is VERY real. That some people maintain a 19th century notion of what that is, to me is offensive. We live in the information age, and those working in it do real work as well
- Duncan Riley [3hr 50min ago]
perhaps "labor" vs "work"?
- .LAG [3hr 49min ago]
Growing up in Dallas, and having a brother-in-law in the roofing business in Abilene TX, Roofing in Texas in the summer (May-Sept) is not advised.
- Mark Interrante [3hr 49min ago]
A summer roofing in Beaumont convinced me that I wanted to go to college
- Glen Campbell [3hr 47min ago]
I'll bite. Work is work. Putting your full attention and efforts into accomplishing a task. There's varying degrees of workers. For every hard working journalist, programmer, program manager, there's a lazy roofer, crab fisherman, and lumberjack. Vice versa ftw. Hard work is working hard whether it be mental concentration on analytical tasks or mental focus while performing physical exertion. Work is work. Workers vary. There's lazy, and then there's hard workers. That'll be $40 please.
- Bwana [3hr 43min ago]
I like my job.
- Josh Haley [3hr 42min ago]
Writing is one of the most stressful jobs ever - especially if you are high profile. A certain person in my life works 7 days a week, around the clock, always checking his reader, phone always by him, in case of a breaking story. The guy is stressed - a lot. Please don't underappreciate yourself or your colleagues. Though I certainly may not always agree with you or anyone else in your industry, I most definitely respect your hardwork. Especially those whose paychecks are dependent on the leaderboards.
- Mona N. [3hr 30min ago]
...and I doubt I am the only person that feels this way. :)
- Mona N. [3hr 25min ago]
Robert: It's work. Just not the kind of work your grandpa would call work. ;-)
- Rutger Blom [3hr 11min ago]
I googled "real work" ... lo and behold, "The Real Work Company" http://therealwork.com — Neither manual labourers nor intellectual property producers, but "the third way": Consulting (business efficiency style!) *shakes head*
- Micah Wittman [2hr 53min ago]
@bwana, @mona: well said. we're comparing apples to oranges. technological advances in our culture have created opportunities for more and more people to get away from physically backbreaking labor, but that doesn't mean that what they do for a wage isn't hard work. but when it's cold outside and i'm walking by a construction site and see guys with their hard hats pounding away, it's hard for me to think of my job, in a modern, climate controlled office, spending my time interacting with people, as "work."
- .LAG [2hr 48min ago]
If you love what you do, you never work a day in your life. It's all play. (playing hard is still playing) Robert seems like he truly enjoys what he does, to me.
- April Russo [2hr 46min ago]
"...poncing off to Barnsley with your coal-mining friends..." - the age-old debate was beautifully examined in this wonderful Monty Python Sketch..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPSzPGrazPo
- WorldofHiglet [2hr 41min ago]
Working is the dead of creativity.
- Ryo [2hr 26min ago]
I work hard at my job - but it is all mental work, decisions to be made, political battles to be won, proposals to write - and it tires me out, and stresses me out. But I remember "real" work too, an 8 hour dishwashing shift or waiting tables, midnight closing, 2 hours of cleaning and bone-weary bike ride home afterwards. Never again!
- Luke Robinson [1hr 47min ago]
You, Joe Dawson , David HC Soul , Morton Fox , Brad liked this
using friendfeed, you could create an imaginary friend, import all of the feeds you want into that account, and then subscribe to the imaginary friend's feed....voila
- .LAG [3hr 8min ago]
or you can create a room in FF and do the same thing :)
- WorldofHiglet [3hr 6min ago]
Try Yahoo Pipes.
- Bryce [3hr 6min ago]
@Higlet... true that! the benefit of the imaginary friend approach is that it would be private to the account that created it. a room can be shared, if setup that way.
- .LAG [2hr 59min ago]
www.feedjumbler.com
- Jandy Stone [2hr 59min ago]
@jandy: cool share!
- .LAG [2hr 58min ago]
And this is why Friendfeed is smart. Problem... multiple solutions.
- Louis Gray [2hr 55min ago]
LAG, can't remember where I found that. I've been using it on and off to create combined feeds for my site for a couple of years now. If you want to mask that it's a combined feed, run the feed URL it gives you through Feedburner.
- Jandy Stone [2hr 55min ago]
Yeah @jandy, thanks for sharing. Bookmarked :)
- Micah Monserrat [2hr 53min ago]
http://xfruits.com
- April Russo [2hr 40min ago]
Am going to explore those ff options as well because I love friendfeed. xfruits looks interesting, too!
- Micah Monserrat [2hr 34min ago]
You, Mauricio , Robert Haas , Brian Daniel Eisenberg , James Cooper and 4 other people , Morton Fox , Mona N. , Shawn Farner , Ontario Emperor liked this
Obviously a Renaissance Man!
- Ontario Emperor [3hr 37min ago]
Holy ish, I don't know
- Shawn Farner [3hr 34min ago]
wow! that's unreal!
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg [3hr 33min ago]
ahhhhhhhh! my eyes!
- Pete D [3hr 32min ago]
spam. spam. spam. eggs. bacon. spam. spam. grits. spam. spam. spam...and spam.
- .LAG [3hr 31min ago]
Spammage.
- Clay Newton [3hr 30min ago]
OMG there should be a cap on the number of feeds that can be imported. Wow.
- Mona N. [3hr 27min ago]
wow!
- Rob Michael [3hr 26min ago]
I think he may have been hacked a long long time ago. His comments make him look like he was a real account at some point that's been hijacked and used for spam.
- Mattie Kenny [3hr 26min ago]
I don't think it's spam. I think he's just using it as a feed reader, actually.
- Eric Florenzano [3hr 25min ago]
I think he has a ton of blogs with ads and thought maybe this would get him more exposure, but who would follow that?
- Laura Norvig [3hr 20min ago]
I'm still stunned by the number of feeds he imports
- Peter Hoffmann [3hr 18min ago]
I just looked him up on ffholic. 25 people actually subscribe to him http://www.ffholic.com/Us...
- Laura Norvig [3hr 15min ago]
@eric...perhaps. but if you mouseover some of the RSS badges, the sites being aggregated are things like "bruteforceSEO", "cheapHondaGenerators", "easydigitalsales"...etc. Maybe not spam, perhaps he's just aggregating a bunch of sites that tend to be spammy in nature...perhaps he's doing research. or, as @mattie surmises, maybe it's a hacked account. he's sure not life-streaming. to each his own i suppose.
- .LAG [3hr 13min ago]
Sounds like one of those guys that read a book mentioning that FF can drive traffic to your site, so he joined and added all his gazillion ad filled "niche splogs". Kind of like the people that share every post they make on twitter, GR, digg, facebook, and everywhere else and has nobody subscribed to them, thinking the more they do it the more links they have and the higher their PR will be and more traffic google will send them. Common "get rich on the internet" crap that is being sold to lots of people. Crap SEO info written by people that know nothing but how to get desperate fools to part with their cash to buy their book.
- April Russo [2hr 55min ago]
I wonder if you may be right, April. I see top results in Google all the time of sites that have been submitted to Digg with only one or two diggs. The mere linking of those sites on Digg has made them a top result. Some could hope Friendfeed turns out the same way.
- Robert Haas [2hr 43min ago]
You, Ryo , Adriana , Jonathan Hardesty , Kaia is Brand New, Bitch! and 48 other people , cjmart , Mattie Kenny , Steph Pickett , Randy , .LAG , Pete D , Darren Heydon , Tanath , (jeff)isageek , Thomas Hawk , Jason Huebel , Tsega Dinka , Victor Ryden , Phil Glockner For Hire , AJ Batac , Mark VandenBerg , Derrick , Rodfather , Mark Wilson , Richard Walker , Eric @ CS Techcast , Morton Fox , Steven Perez , Carlos Ayala , L0GiX , Leather Dooooooooonut! , Cee Bee , Patricia , Rahsheen ™ , Mo Kargas , David Price , johnpiercy , mathew, up and down , BeeLing , tehKenny , Spencer , Jamelle , Andrew , Seth Gottlieb , Josh Haley , Monique , Mark Krynsky , Glen Campbell , Mark Bean , Neal "thePuck" Jansons , matthew john ernisse , Scott from Canada , Stupid Blogger (aka Tina) liked this
This has got to be the BEST. MEME. EVAR!
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons [6 wks ago]
Yeah, I'm gonna guess that all the meme haters are gonna keep their traps shut tonight ;-)
- Stupid Blogger (aka Tina) [6 wks ago]
No honey, I'm not surfing porn sites.
- Mark Krynsky [6 wks ago]
Very ergonomic....keyboard.
- Josh Haley [6 wks ago]
oh nice.
- Monique
- via fftogo [6 wks ago]
Well, I imagine that this will be pretty popular
- Jamelle [6 wks ago]
Very nice.
- Spencer [6 wks ago]
+1000 Heather ;-)
- Scott from Canada [6 wks ago]
woah.
- Zee. [6 wks ago]
Well alrighty then.
- Daryl Burns [6 wks ago]
Needs to be more showy. ;)
- mathew, up and down [6 wks ago]
GiddyUp
- johnpiercy [6 wks ago]
TITTIES
- Kaia is Brand New, Bitch! [6 wks ago]
Odd.
- Sean Oliver [6 wks ago]
YEOW!!!
- Rahsheen ™ [6 wks ago]
cool...i love your keyboard! :)
- Trent Olson [6 wks ago]
So, about your Titter client...
- abacab [6 wks ago]
what kind of keyboard is that? i'm looking to get a new one
- Cee Bee [6 wks ago]
Why, it's the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Desktop 7000 wireless keyboard and mouse. And actually, I adore both of them. http://www.microsoft.com/...
- Ladybug Heather [6 wks ago]
ok lol @ titter client
- Monique
- via fftogo [6 wks ago]
thanks heather - they definitely look like a good pairing. the mouse and the keyboard, of course
- Cee Bee [6 wks ago]
BOOBIES!!!
- Leather Dooooooooonut! [6 wks ago]
At least my wrist won't get sore with all that padding... nice touch to the bottom of the keyboard i think.
- Johnny Worthington [6 wks ago]
Giggity
- L0GiX [6 wks ago]
HEH...Yeah buddy
- Rahsheen ™ [6 wks ago]
Dual touchpads ftw
- abacab [6 wks ago]
Well, that'll teach me to leave the computer and go shopping.
- Steven Perez [6 wks ago]
I loike boobs
- Mark Wilson [6 wks ago]
Ok I can unlike and like this only so many times.
- L0GiX [6 wks ago]
@L0GiX If you do it too much you'll go blind.
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons [6 wks ago]
Mine are better! :P http://friendfeed.com/e/6...
- mathew, up and down [6 wks ago]
@ Neal, we don't want that now.. so I'll just sit and drool
- L0GiX [6 wks ago]
Whoa. Put em on the glass!
- Derrick [6 wks ago]
OH MY!!!
- AJ Batac [6 wks ago]
wow, organic keyboard touch technology...this is new!
- Susan Beebe [6 wks ago]
*cough* bump *cough*
- Pete D [3hr 37min ago]
Can we get in trouble for this? Where's Scoble?
- Bryan R. Adams [3hr 31min ago]
he's in there somewhere, Bryan, you have to look harder
- Pete D [3hr 29min ago]
could be the best FF meme evar! continue, but please, no 'man tits'! .LOLz
- .LAG [3hr 29min ago]
oh! baby butt! =)
- Randy [3hr 26min ago]
I think it's physically impossible for me NOT to like boobs.
- Mattie Kenny [3hr 25min ago]
I want to see Mattie's boobs
- Leather Dooooooooonut! [3hr 22min ago]
+1 @Mattie.... same here!
- .LAG [3hr 21min ago]
BTW only boobies not moobies.
- Leather Dooooooooonut! [3hr 18min ago]
Wow, almost 50 people like your titties!
- Kaia is Brand New, Bitch! [3hr 14min ago]
Very nice. Boobalicious, even. :P
- Jonathan Hardesty [3hr 11min ago]
I'm sure I've seen these boobs before....are the repeat boobs?
- Threepwood [2hr 56min ago]
LOl this is great! You got everyone going!
- Adriana [2hr 45min ago]
strange point of view
- George Borges [2hr 22min ago]
O.O
- Ryo [2hr 21min ago]
for some of us, football is almost like religion. recognize!
- .LAG [3hr 32min ago]
You, Hisham , Joe Dawson , Louis Gray , Morton Fox and another person , G. Saunders liked this
@JesseStay How about a way to opt out from apps sending DMs. Like a do not autoDM me list.
- Christian Burns [4hr 47min ago]
This would enable you to let your favorite app know that they have been hacked, for instance. I could also allow users to block other apps' auto dms besides just SocialToo.
- Jesse Stay [4hr 46min ago]
Christian, that's what this would allow.
- Jesse Stay [4hr 44min ago]
@JesseStay How many apps send out automated DMs for users? Just now noticed that twitter took away the DM source. It used to say IM, txt, or web
- Christian Burns [4hr 40min ago]
There are quite a number, actually. Ours is one of the largest, but there are a few other large apps as well. Just block them using our service and you'll notice you still get auto dms. The remainder come from other services, and with this source I could turn those off as well. But most importantly my users could tell me if my app for any reason had been hacked.
- Jesse Stay [4hr 37min ago]
@jesse: what's your app?
- .LAG [4hr 26min ago]
.LAG - we're SocialToo.com
- Jesse Stay [4hr 26min ago]
Deleted my comment Jesse ... So your comment is out of context. Accidentally clicked it
- Chacha
- via IM [4hr 25min ago]
Now it's not, but your comment is :-P
- Jesse Stay [4hr 24min ago]
......
- Chacha [4hr 24min ago]
@jesse: thx...socialtoo's been getting lotta buzz, will check it out soon!
- .LAG [3hr 35min ago]
@JesseStay I am finding that autoDMs are diluting the DMs that I have and are causing DM fatigue. Every DM I get is sent to my cell phone via sms. Hate getting those at 3 am
- Christian Burns [3hr 23min ago]
Christian, that's one reason I'm fighting for this.
- Jesse Stay [3hr 2min ago]
I want source in DMs, makes sense and will hopefully prevent another blowup like this!
- Joe Dawson [2hr 9min ago]
The best thing all of you can do is ping the three Twitter accounts above, and spread the word. I've gotten no response to my request on the dev lists for this.
- Jesse Stay [35min 28sec ago]
You, Spencer , Tyson Key , Michael J. Cohen (mjc) , Hisham and another person , Morton Fox liked this
the second one
- Seltoon [11hr 55min ago]
the second one
- Niki Costantini [11hr 54min ago]
Already with Plurk :D
- Hisham [11hr 54min ago]
the second one :-P
- Amit Morson [11hr 52min ago]
Pay for what. To have my account hacked because of inadequate security measures?
- Kevin Whalen [11hr 52min ago]
Kevin, lol. Yeah not good eh. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes [11hr 11min ago]
Hisham, me too. I'd also move... to Plurk.
- Kol Tregaskes [11hr 10min ago]
So Plurk is better then Twitter, just because of security flaws. These wouldn't have been exploited if the service wasn't popular!
- Josh Chandler [11hr 9min ago]
Identi.ca, anyone? Although I don't think it'll replace Twitter for me, any time soon.
- Tyson Key [11hr 7min ago]
Ha, Tyson good one!
- Josh Chandler [11hr 1min ago]
Well, I don't have any particular complaints about it, but I'd move if Twitter went away, for what it's worth.
- Tyson Key [10hr 43min ago]
I'm a bit obsessed with this, but I think we're going to end up in a race to the bottom with the need that everything be free. I'm waiting to see what the revenue plan of Twitter and FF will be, that maybe someone will figure out a real business that works (and isn't just burning VC money) that won't be sabotaged by the expectations that have been built up. Interesting times.
- mikepk [10hr 34min ago]
Identi.ca is OK but I didn't see anything interesting with it. I love Plurk's timeline feature and the Responded tab makes it far easier to track replies and threads.
- Kol Tregaskes [10hr 31min ago]
second one, but even left plurk for something else
- The Amber [10hr 21min ago]
Which one did you go to?
- Kol Tregaskes [10hr 18min ago]
rejaw
- The Amber [4hr 40min ago]
identi.ca is almost completely equal to twitter in terms of features. and it's opensource, so if you have the technical chops you could setup you're own identi.ca server. both of them use jquery for their interface, thought twitter's implementation is just a little slicker, for now. and identi.ca can post to twitter. what identi.ca doesn't have is a huge user base, and very little brand recognition outside of a very savvy community of technophiles and hackers...but it's still the first quarter of this game.
- .LAG [4hr 18min ago]
I'd move to TwitArmy .... or Friendfeed.
- Chacha [4hr 16min ago]
@ mikepk sez: "I think we're going to end up in a race to the bottom with the need that everything be free." couldn't agree more. i am always willing to pay for services i use, even if i'd prefer them to be free. developers of these applications have to feed their families too. what incentive do they have to make things better if they give everything away for free, only to have people complain and demand even more features and tweaks...for free?
- .LAG [4hr 15min ago]
Nay.
- Eric @ CS Techcast [4hr 9min ago]
Nah. I don't think I would use it if I had to pay.
- Adriana [2hr 20min ago]
I'd move to twhatever.
- Rob Michael [2hr 17min ago]
If they paid you, would you still use Twitter? ;)
- Tyson Key [52sec ago]
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I <3 Brazil!
- .LAG [4hr 28min ago]
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"I think FF naturally appeals to information junkies, not to Silicon Valley insiders specifically. so why not build a product that addresses the needs of this primary audience first, perfect it, and then later look towards adding features will make it more attractive to folks with lower thresholds of information consumption. that way you get a solid product that many levels of users can benefit from, and not just an unfocused toolbox of features." - .LAG
[2hr 30min ago]