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Conversational fluidity: using the FriendFeed river

December 16, 2008 General

Like so many emerging trends of the last few years, perceptions around ‘conversation’ has changed. Once rooted in the idea that blogs would be the foundation upon which we converse with the world, there has been a real shift. Much earlier in the year, several of the blogerati noticed a phenomenon well articulated by Stowe [...]

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More content goodness via FriendFeed

October 3, 2008 Asides

As regular readers know, I’m a content freak. The more the merrier because it adds value to the site and offers users more choice in what they read. I’ve therefore added my FriendFeed feed to the bottom right hand side in the sidebar. It was really the only way I could do it though I [...]

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Did the conversation move?

August 6, 2008 General

Stowe Boyd has a fascinating post about how he sees the changing blog landscape. It’s a fairly technical piece but essentially he is suggesting that with the advent of ‘flow’ style applications like Twitter, the ‘conversations’ we’ve been having in blogs (which are effectively locked in silos) is now under the control of those who [...]

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Another tweak: FriendFeed comments plugin

May 14, 2008 General

This morning I added the FriendFeed WordPress comments plugin. If you’re not familiar with FriendFeed it’s a way of aggregating all the places where you have a presence that are supported by FriendFeed. These include RSS feeds, blogs, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter – the list goes on. From the plug-in blurbs: This plugin will allow you [...]

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I killed off my Facebook account today. Hello Altertthingy.

April 13, 2008 General

It’s no big deal. The proliferation of places that I could ‘be’ became too much for me to manage and something had to give. That something was Facebook. While long on promise, it was short on delivery for my taste so it had to go. I prefer the more robust and focused places such as [...]

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