Startup Mentality linked to my post yesterday about FriendFeed becoming my interaction portal, taking the stance of keeping things on your blog:

There should be no reason why you have to monitor everything to see what people think about what you said — just have it fed back into your blog. Your blog is the center of your universe.

[snip]

To steal a late 90’s term, your blog should be your portal. You start with it everyday and you don’t need to leave it to keep up with your friends and your conversations. Your blog is all about you. Keep it all together.—Startup Mentality » It’s the blog, stupid!

It’s a fair complaint I think.  However I’ve noticed that there are far more comments on my posts on FriendFeed than on the post themselves.  I think it’s easier to interact and share on FriendFeed than it is on a blog.  Everything is there and you really get to see the breadth of hte conversations.

I read yesterday (and I don’t remember who said it) that a WP plugin to integrate FriendFeed comments would help this.  I think integrating FF comments into the post’s comment stream is a great idea.  Maybe the bulk of the interaction will still be on FriendFeed, but blog readers will get the benefit of seeing a more complete discussion.

Now I need to go back to FriendFeed and see what I missed in the last little while…

Post from: EveryJoe

Do you try to pull in all the comments or go where they are?

In the last few days though, I started making a concerted effort to pay attention to my FriendFeed stream.  Realizing that there might be comments and questions about the things I wrote or shared, I wanted to make sure I tuned into that.

While doing that, I found that the people I was subscribed to (lots) were streaming/sharing lots of interesting things and started to “Like”, comment, and follow the links.

Before I knew it, I was wondering about the stability of Twitter, Pownce, and what FriendFeed could do to capitalize on it.

With today’s addition of FriendFeed groups, we have a whole new layer of interaction, one that can be as public or private as we wish.

Chris Heuer said–

“so friend feed rooms finally creates a context for collaborating with groups instead of just communicating. twitter should have done longago”

–which he sent through Twitter, but I read in my FriendFeed stream.

All of this together made me realize that FriendFeed is becoming my interaction portal.

I use its aggregation of your various content streams to both interact with the content through “liking” and commenting but also going to the source and further disseminating it.

On the flip side of this is the part that kept me from getting into FriendFeed in the first place it’s another thing that I have to manage and keep track of in my already taxed attention.  Which is what Louis Gray is getting at talking about—continuous, parallel attention.

Looks like I’ll just have to figure out how to manage more data, or just cut back on the bits that aren’t adding value—or both.

Post from: EveryJoe

FriendFeed is becoming my "interaction portal"–Begrudgingly becoming addicted to it.