Greg K.

"I saw him using Twitter on his show over the weekend. It's a great way for an anchor to interact with viewers. Hopefully, Twitter will solve the follower issue and stay fast enough so he can continue using it on CNN." - Greg K.

"Just use ping.fm and update both Twitter and identi.ca and monitor both sites for responses. You should also take a look at Plurk.com and Kwippy.com." - Greg K.

"I'll add another comment. Links from other blogs has never ever been the main source of a blog's traffic. Louis Gray probably got most of his traffic from other blogs initially as he was just getting started and now his traffic looks more like that of a typical blog where most traffic comes from search engines, social media, bookmarks and feeds. So to really know if bloggers are linking less we need another measurement other than traffic. That said links from other blogs are obviously very important because they can boost search rankings and because if other bloggers notice you they are more likely to link to you, etc." - Greg K.

"Bloggers are still checking inbound links and referrals from other blogs. Look a little farther down your list of referring sites and technorati (although not as useful as it once was) is probably there somewhere. :-)" - Greg K.

Funny how it's what I thought it would sound like. - Morton Fox

Corrected link to jelly wobbling sound http://twurl.nl/r4fbhj - Greg K.

What up, FriendFeed? Why you blockin, yo? - Rah™

May cause request over quota? or not friendly support by FF,why not add ping.fm into FF's import service ? - Chris Qie

Chris Qie, adding Ping.fm wouldn't work as an import on FriendFeed since you're publishing out from Ping.fm - Outsanity

http://www.plurk.com/user/czar - "Czar" DJ Peterman

http://www.plurk.com/user/Soci... - Jim Wilkerson

http://www.plurk.com/user/slag... - Sam Guzmán

"As usual Mathew makes some great points in his post. I think FriendFeed has some unique qualities but it is also endanger of being something people use primarily when Twitter is down. If Twitter totally drops the ball then maybe FriendFeed or another service will benefit but so far Twitter has managed to stay alive enough to continue growing. The biggest Twitter rival is probably Jaiku - if Google ever lets it compete." - Greg K.

Nice. Didn't realize I had this shout-out here. LG strikes again! - Hutch Carpenter

Hutch... I have nothing to do with this, except getting mentioned. :-) - Louis Gray

"One of the tenants I have lived by...." - j1m

@Mike: I make nothing by blogging, so you're pretty close. :-) - Voyagerfan5761

@Mike, Voyagerfan5761: I don't make anything, either. I blog because I need somewhere to have some nice, drawn-out memory dumps and I like sharing information. I wouldn't want to add ads, though, because I ignore/block them and I know others ignore/block them, so not much point for me. :D - Cyvros/fyc

Fill in the blanks. - Eric Rice

Is there a Twitter word yet for unfair block? - Greg K.

louis, i'm with you on this. unless the blog actually DOES offer some kind of boutique service, or merch or a comic or whatever, it's done for self interest and entertainment not for monie$ ...via AlertThingy - Snipergirl

@Andy lol @ "little lie". I've had my personal site on lunarpages for years and their service & support are 2nd to none. - Matt Shaulis

@Matt: A trusted recommendation for LunarPages is valuable. I think I looked at them prior to BH. Thanks. - Andy C

Not a bad return against 3.5 MIL investment and 2.5 years. - susan mernit

Good observation Mark. My personal view is that conversations will happen in places you never imagined or can control It would be nice to know about it (trackbacks or anything). But as a B (or maybe C-) list blogger I am not concerned about pageview. I'm interested in conversations. I'd rather have 5 comments of people that are willing to invest time and react, than 1000 anonymous surfers that don't add anything to the post. But hey, I don't have or want ads on my blog so pageviews aren't a concern for my income anyways ;-) - Alexander van Elsas

@Steven -- so despite all your blog posts saying it isn't about the money, it IS about the money. This is why Louis will fare better than you. And I'll add, the commenting traffic is BS. If you need the page views that your comments generate for revenue, Blogging is NOT the way to go. - Robert Seidman

For those who haven't found the discussion sparked by this thread yet: http://friendfeed.com/e/6a90c6... - Voyagerfan5761

Here's a conundrum: who do I give the "like" to? Scoble, whose brand already has major momentum and already has comments. Corvida, who got to it first (as usual). Ontario Emperor (who I don't "know" but has great commentary), or Atul Arora, who posts a lot of great stuff but doesn't get many likes or comments? - Ginger Makela

@Mike: Main problem with that is it takes up space in your Likes page. Perhaps if there could be grouping in *just* the Likes page for people who like the same URL multiple times... - Cyvros/fyc

i would assume a 'this originally belongs to' could make sense. all those tinyurl services seem to enerate one url from a base link, so resolving is possible, google shared items are usually going back to a link or they go to a redirect link (which is the same all the time as well) etc. - Nicole Simon

always good to challenge a view point, especially when it comes from corporate like this. - Nicole Simon

Congrats bighead! - Corvida

Congrats - peiman

congrats!! you deserve it! - Sarah Perez

Not for me. Everything just keeps going up! Twitter activities… FriendFeed… Google Reader… nothing ever goes down. - Louis Gray

I agree Daryl. By RSS, you mean # of RSS items *read* per day. Thanks to FriendFeed, I now consume more info via FriendFeed. It's not my main "client" for Twitter, too. I'm devoting more focus on links related to current discussions and behaviors of others. As such, in Google Reader, my skimming rate has increased from very-very-fast to very-very-very-fast. .... And I don't think Google cares that much about this trend. In fact, they'd rather I read articles on the sites since they can serve ads. - Mike Reynolds

Thanks for all the points of view. I have to agree with Greg though. I'm feeling I'm just about reaching the limits of the amount of information i can take in a day and i'm having to trim some out. - Daryl Tay

If you think of the sheer number of useful twitter apps out there in the cloud, it won't take long before they become more seamless. Do you think that Data Portability will become a reality? - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

@Phil - amen. - Jeremy Toeman

Phil, I agree too. - Alejandro S.

"The early version of the service will serve as a showcase for the user interface and engine itself, but it will not have a full web index behind it. For now, Powerset will query only Wikipedia and Freebase." - Paul Buchheit

Powerset has potential, but please don't tell me they are a Google killer. - Mike Reynolds

it will be interesting to see what exactly it can do - bob

"If you're using the service, you can use this Greasemonkey script to filter FriendFeed by service." Doesn't FriendFeed include that option now? Anyway, good article, a couple of sites I didn't know about. - Alejandro S.

Some good links on that post. Thanks. - Greg K.

@tomo: I have a Greasemonkey script that automatically hides any links you've already seen. Not quite the same thing, but pretty effective: http://internetducttape.com/20... - engtech

Google Analytics shows some Twitter referrals so they may be resolving some of these Tinyurls. - Greg K.

it is not always changed into tinyurl. - Nicole Simon

"Who Are You People? What I can't figure out is why so many people I've never heard of are following me. Frankly, given the nature of how I post on various services--which is to say, in bursts followed by long periods of nothing while more pressing work and play beckons--I don't think I'm providing much of anything worth paying attention to." - Louis Gray

What is he talking about? At least on FF you can see who is following you in one simple interface... compare that to a meaningless Feedburner subscriber count where it requires far more effort to look up "bios" of your readers or whatever - Aviv

You know what, this is an opportunity for a new userscript: http://idt-labs.blogspot.com/2... - engtech

"FriendFeed Show Domains is a Greasemonkey script that displays the domain name for all shared links." - Nicole Simon