Comments on: Blogging overtaken by life streaming

By: FriendFeed: where the conversation happens « Freelancing science

FriendFeed: where the conversation happens « Freelancing science — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:39:57 +0000

[...] around these happens on the FriendFeed. While I didn’t set up a dream system I wanted to (see my comment on previous post on the FF), I don’t have any issues with so-called “information overload“. Actually, I [...]

By: Pawel Szczesny

Pawel Szczesny — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:23:48 +0000

I came to FF after seeing Deepak, Neil and few others over there. Twitter was even later. So I guess I’m also a late adopter

I’m not really worried about amount of items on FF – with it’s current structure filtering shouldn’t be an issue (I can imagine, that it shouldn’t be that hard to filter all but items at least two of your friends liked). I’m with Bill on that – I would love to have an issue of too many interesting people on FF.

My goal with FF-Twitter-GR combo is to set up a system that interesting items would be distributed between this blog (as food for thoughts), Science X2 site (as signals) and my ONS wiki (as contributions to my projects).

By: Deepak

Deepak — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:48:07 +0000

It’s always a fine balance. If you’re like Scoble, you pretty much break human capacity to consume information. I tend to be relatively selective on whom I follow and what sources are of relevance, but it’s always a battle

By: bill

bill — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:32:32 +0000

Maybe down the road dilution will be a problem but it is still manageable now.

I’ve been wondering about that. I ended up trimming my blog reading back to about 150 sources, managed through bloglines; presumably I’ll eventually work out how many FF subscriptions I can handle as well.

Eventually, the community will be large enough that one will have to be selective, and won’t be able to keep up with everyone who’s doing/interested in Open Science. But that’s a problem I would love to have!

By: Jean-Claude Bradley

Jean-Claude Bradley — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:37:04 +0000

Cameron – I certainly hope that doesn’t happen! It is really useful right now. Maybe down the road dilution will be a problem but it is still manageable now.

By: Cameron Neylon

Cameron Neylon — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:33:01 +0000

How long before people abandon friendfeed and retreat to their blogs for a reminder of ‘how calm life was in the old days…’

By: bill

bill — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:14:41 +0000

As a very late adopter of FF (and still a holdout on Twitter), I agree. I’m getting as much in terms of useful links and feedback from interesting people out of my FF subs as I do out of my blogroll/blog reading. I’ve been saying “blogs are conversations” as long as I’ve been reading them, and FF just makes the conversation faster.

By: Jean-Claude Bradley

Jean-Claude Bradley — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:01:38 +0000

Speed rules FriendFeed

By: Marshall Kirkpatrick

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:27:59 +0000

Agreed, and I blog for a living oh well!

By: Deepak

Deepak — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:01:41 +0000

As a very early adopter of Twitter and Friendfeed, I wholeheartedly agree. I still blog regularly, but very early on, the role of the blog changed. It wasn’t about just links anymore, but more about what one could say that you can’t in a few sentences.

What’s changed is the presence of more interesting people on Twitter/Friendfeed. The recent influx of science types there has definitely made things more fun