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ff vs. twitter

I made the decision about a year ago to export myself to friendfeed and close up shop in twitter. I find myself lingering on the edges there (in twitter) though, and it makes me feel bad. I don't want it to be a contest, but it is. I don't have that much attention, and it can't keep getting split up like this. I know that friendfeed and twitter are not the same thing, and could live together, but I don't think they should (really). Friendfeed allows users to post anything, and other users can comment on those posts (like @ replies). So where is twitter providing something that friendfeed does not?

This reminds me of the TMBG song XTC vs. Adam Ant

There is no clear decision to be made, cause I love them both. Twitter to me is like all of the fiction I read as a child that enabled me to read better fiction as an adult. I still love the books I read as a child, but I understand why what i am reading now is better.



I think a 'friend' circle VENN diagram would be more illustrative, but that gets complex very quickly. I have 109 'friends' in friendfeed and 126 'friends' on twitter. There is a large degree of overlap there, but that doesn't tell the whole story. Some of those ffeeps only have a nominal presence in friendfeed and still do all of their social network microblogging in Twitter.

As I can attest the reverse can be true as well. I have been using friendfeed for about 98% of my posts in the last year. I typically only surface in twitterland if I'm feeling out of sorts on friendfeed, or if I get a new subscription request. My posts consist of 'OHAI!, I still live here', rather than much substance.

There is a very small subset that manages to maintain a presence in both places, I think I might take some time to watch what they post where for awhile to gain some understanding about why you would want to do this. Preliminary research shows a casual posting on twitter, with more substantive conversation construction on friendfeed.

I am contemplating sending a post to anyone who subscribes to me on twitter, suggesting they just start using friendfeed instead, but I wouldn't want to discourage anyone from using Twitter, just in case that is what works for them. I think that regardless of whether you are on twitter or on friendfeed you will quickly wonder what the point of it all is if you have no friends. establishing that base quickly could mean the difference between a shrug of disinterest and never coming back or fully embracing the technology.

I was dismissive with twitter several years ago, and luckily gave it another try and found what it had to offer me at the time. I have moved on, but I owe twitter a debt of gratitude for getting me here.

Ambiance

I found the Ipod application (Touch/Phone) 'Ambiance' in our effort to find music to put our son to sleep with.

iTunes App Store Link: Ambiance

I found it in the Application store and saw that they were offering it for free as a trial offer. It sounded intriguing, and was getting good reviews so I made the purchase (free)

Turns out that this is the most wonderful thing ever for anyone who needs some sort of noise to fall asleep. The developers seem to have thought of every variety of white noise possible.

There is even a snoring option. I can't believe this happens, but if your significant other is away and you can't sleep without their 'natural' rhythms then this should help.

For our experiment I used the 'airplane' setting and it worked great. low level hum of the airplan in flight. The plan is to get our son to associate airplan travel with sleepiness for an upcoming trip. I don't believe this will work but it can't hurt to try.

My wife was amazed to find several 'Fan' noise options that will save us from carrying around a small oscillating fans on any of our future trips.

cold inside my head

Trying to think about everything on my plate.
Fighting off a cold.
Wishing coffee was more of a curative than it is.

+Kitchen Sink repair = 85% done
>left to do:
-ordered replacement filter faucet
-reseat and cement cold water side drain

+Went to Retired Horse Farm in Alachua
>Old Horses apparently can never get enough carrots
>My 2 year old has no fear of Horse teeth

NEED some style

SO this is my fall to blog where I hardly post and post about nothing. But... I need to at least make it look a little appealing. I have noticed that over time it looks as dry and boring as the title.

embed test (The Cure: A Forest)

This is a test to see if Grooveshark's embed widget is working

vlog post 01/21/2009

Massive Attack

Mix CD for Siler

Detroit Rock City Kiss
Have you ever seen the rain Creedence Clearwater
All My Life Echo & The Bunnymen
Radio Ga Ga Queen
Aqualung Jethro Tull
Ring Of Fire Johnny Cash
The Logical Song Supertramp
Ziggy Stardust David Bowie
pigs in zen Janes Addiction
Crazy Babies Ozzy Osbourne
La La Love You Pixies
Part of Me Tool
Lithium Nirvana
Bela Lugosi's Dead Bauhaus
Ride The Lightning Metallica

last.fm playlist

Survey Research and Data Acquisition Resource (SRDAR)

Welcome!
The Survey Research and Data Acquisition Resource (SRDAR) is a core resource in the Department of Health Behavior, in the Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. SRDAR has a strong portfolio of both population-based and clinical-based research, with expertise conceptualizing and developing protocols and survey instruments, administering cognitive interviews, structured interviews, and telephone interviews and clinical follow-up.

BloggerBeta

Finally!

i was able to switch over to the new Blogger. Too forever for them to figure out how to deal with complicated cases like my own.

I won several blogs on my own, but I also have a group blog which i started and I belong to a group blog someone else started. I guess that was just too much trouble for them. But here I am and I am waiting for something to break.. ;0 ++

j/k

sunfish

sunfish
Originally uploaded by jasonfleming73.

check out this sunfish from monterey CA

White Shark

hanging out

I am in the ARC lab trying to get a program to run in LISREL for ALissa. I think I have been sitting here for 40 minutes.

The screen continues to say:

Running the LISREL program ,please wait ...

mmm...

Reading Cinnamon Kiss by Walter Mosley
http://worldcat.org/oclc/58055400

Listening to "The Bride of Monster Mash-up"
http://www.bride-of-monster-mash.com/

Super Hero Test

Your results:
You are Iron Man

Iron Man 70% Spider-Man 65% Green Lantern 65% The Flash 55% Catwoman 55% Robin 47% Superman 45% Hulk 45% Batman 45% Supergirl 35% Wonder Woman 30%

Inventor. Businessman. Genius.

Click here to take the "Which Superhero are you?" quiz...

Get the Code To Run on Your Own Server

Something to try...

Get the Code To Run on Your Own Server: "Get the Code To Run on Your Own Server

This information is for web site owners that would like to incorporate our Feed2JS technology on their own site- perhaps to customize it, or just to speed up the access if they feel like a local copy is better. Below you can download the necessary script files.

We provide this script as open-source under a GNU General Public License.

To run these scripts, you need a web server capable of running PHP which is rather widely available (and free). You will need to FTP files to your server, perhaps change permissions, and make some basic edits to configure it for your system. I give you the code, getting it to work is on your shoulders. I will try to help, but cannot always promise answers.

We give you this code we developed for free. If you make some use of it, please pay back by sharing a URL that uses this code."

UFDC Item Viewer

Checking out the new DLC site because my picture is on the banner. I did a quick search of puppet(s0 and this is the picture that came up..

http://128.227.54.53//gsdl/collect/uapc03202006/index/assoc/UF/01/06/08/39/00001/UF00031869.jpg

Hack Attack: Build your own DVR - Lifehacker

Great article on how to Record TV shows.

Hack Attack: Build your own DVR - Lifehacker: "This week, I’m going to show you how simple it is to turn your computer into a DVR. After that, I’ll show you a few ways that I use my DVR to take it beyond TiVo."

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.