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Re: FriendFeed and the Web Itself as a Blogging Platform

Andrew Currie — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:00:09 -0000

Thank-you SOOO much for this... I've moved my blog to WP.com and didn't know what to do with my domain (which I need for email) until now.

The only thing I did differently was substitute MyBlogLog for FriendFeed -- here's the result:

www.andrewcurrie.ca

Brilliant!

Re: FriendFeed and the Web Itself as a Blogging Platform

washwords — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:41:09 -0000

oy. still trying to figure out just HOW to get it on my wordpress blog. I love all the power in this technology. and I hate it. ;)

thanks for the post.

Re: FriendFeed and the Web Itself as a Blogging Platform

Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:29:07 -0000

I'm not looking to cut any of them out of the equation, really.

The content is on display at my blog, for the moment, but to join in on the conversation, but each item contains a path back to FriendFeed, and in certain cases a path back to the original item.

Re: FriendFeed and the Web Itself as a Blogging Platform

Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:27:21 -0000

There is a bit of context lacking, you're right.

That's why the specific feed I chose was items only with comments on them, so that there was the context of a discussion.

I've also done a bit of custom programming to pull in the source material, in certain cases (like in a google shared item discussion, I pull the text of the share in from my shared items feed).

I haven't tackled the Twitter issue, yet, but I theorize that pulling in the discussion from the Summize API would be a decent solution for this problem.

Re: FriendFeed and the Web Itself as a Blogging Platform

Markdykeman — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:58:21 -0000

I tend to see my FriendFeed output as being separate from my blogging output, although I do have the Wordpress FriendFeed widget on my blog that displays likes and comments.

Mark, don't you find that your FriendFeed stream suffers a bit from lack of context? For example, if Disqus comments appear, you can't automatically see the original post where they came from. Also, having Tweets appear can be one-sided, particularly if you are replying to someone else. I see that you've added in a lot of the context, though, so you're compensating pretty well. Isn't Disqus still a problem?

Re: FriendFeed and the Web Itself as a Blogging Platform

Yves — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:15:14 -0000

I had a similar intention with my blog, that aggregates all my micro and blogging activities in one place: my blog. So I have everything friendfeed has, except the commenting possibilities of my micro blogging. But the intention to have it all in my own (walled) garden is only an option if you have the proper coding skills - today. For the rest of us, there's no way around friendfeed, disqus & Co.

Re: FriendFeed and the Web Itself as a Blogging Platform

Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:28:49 -0000

Clearly. :)

I should clarify that I don't use my own homepage as my central point to find and update conversations I like. It simply acts as a showcase for what I'm doing already on the FriendFeed site.

It would appear, though, that casual viewers of my site enjoy that type of content as much as my actual blog posts, if the traffic is any indicator, which says to me that there is something in the idea of using FriendFeed as a content creation tool as well as a discussion system.