Tag Archive for 'Blogging'

I Chose The Echo Chamber

July 30, 2008

After reading a recent post by Steven Hodson it made me think some more about the dreaded ‘echo chamber’ and its effects. In my opinion, the echo chamber is what you make it. Chances are you’ve isolated yourself on Twitter, or FriendFeed, or dare I say, even Facebook. This is understandably so, we have only so much time to ~~waste~~ spend online and it becomes increasingly difficult to keep up as technologies advance and networks grow.

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Tags: Blogging, community, conversation, echo chamber, friendfeed, Social Media

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5 Interesting Ways to Use FriendFeed

July 8, 2008

in Blogging, Social Media

No one can stop talking about FriendFeed. Obviously, that includes me. After all, there are so many ways to interact in FriendFeed and with a never-ending stream of content, the possibilities are almost limitless. This has enabled some users to find innovative ways of using FriendFeed; here I list the five that stand out.

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Tags: Blogging, community, friendfeed, research, Social Media

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Comment Portability: The Commenting Standard of the Future

July 6, 2008

in Blogging, Social Media

Disqus, IntenseDebate, and SezWho. 3 commenting systems that currently don’t work together, but here’s how they could.

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Tags: blog, Blogging, conversation, disqus, friendfeed, intense debate, sezwho, shyftr, Social Media

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The Case For Distributed Conversations

May 29, 2008

in Blogging, Social Media

A lot is still being made of the discussions happening in FriendFeed that some feel should belong on the actual post. Recently, the discussion over "fragmented comments" has been revived in posts from Fred Wilson, Matthew Ingram, and Allen Stern. Allen suggests that when FriendFeeders see the content, they should go back to the original post, comment there, and then have their comment pulled back into FriendFeed. I still don’t agree with centralizing comments on the blog post or any one place, and here’s why:

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Tags: blog, Blogging, conversation, disqus, friendfeed, intense debate, Social Media, yacktrack

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YackTrack: A Tool To Quiet Bloggers’ Whining About Distributed Comments?

April 27, 2008

in Blogging, Social Media, WordPress

125220948 YackTrack is the next step in the evolution of the conversation.

I just read about this on Regular Geek via Corvida and Rob Diana. The service allows you too see comments on your post across a variety of services including Digg, Disqus, FriendFeed, Mixx, StumbleUpon, Technorati, and WordPress blogs, with plans for expansion.

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