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FriendFeed And Intention

Started by webomatica · 8 months ago

Alexander van Elsas wrote a good critique of FriendFeed which I think I’ll comment on. He says a lot of the activity lacks “intention” making it harder to separate “signal from noise.” The end result is when all your friends’ activity loads up in one feed there is no value added to the information, leaving you to ... Continue reading »

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  • Ontario Emperor

    8 months ago

    I made an intentional choice to stream everything I listen to on last.fm, which is when we discovered that FriendFeed does not currently allow you to selectively hide one "blog" but view others. But I found that commenting on songs in my feed is easier than blogging about them. Once FriendFeed can hide selective blogs, the noise problem for some of my readers will go away.
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  • Ross McKillop

    8 months ago

    I've found the various filters to be super-helpful, and I'm pleased with the results.
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  • engtech

    8 months ago

    It's always been about signal to noise.

    I'm with you in that I have my original content published feeds, and I have everything else. That's why I don't drop links into my twitter stream but instead use another one for links. I try to monitor my own sharing to keep down the ratio.
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  • webomatica

    8 months ago

    Yep it seems many of us are treating the service respectfully and trying not
    to overwhelm the "followers". I have mixed feelings on if this balance will
    be maintained as more users come on board, as they inevitably do. Twitter
    for example is starting to get messy. However, we all have the ability to
    "unfollow" people who are sending out more noise than signal.
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