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Limitations can cause creative condensation of communication. - Phil Boiarski

To me Twitter is the "news ticker", and Friendfeed is more interactive. While both can do the other's job, each one is suited mainly toward those roles. - David Bisset (sn)

@phil - that's both true and a familiar field of discourse in the Visual Arts - I'm reminded of Matisse affixing charcoal to a long stick to get his "hand" out if his drawing. I'm fascinated by these self-imposed limitations - anyone know of others? - Marko Bon via fftogo

Oh, the irony. - Nate Pilling

I think 140 characters is a great filter. - Nicola Quinn

I also find the Like function on FF useful to squirrel things away in your Comments/Likes for later perusal. - Nicola Quinn

Robert's response explains why I find myself spending more time on friendfeed now. - Nation Hahn

Marko, the film "The Five Obstructions" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...) is an interesting take on the idea. Lars Von Trier forces Jorgen Leth to re-make a short film five different times, each with a different "obstruction" or imposed limitation. In the first example, Von Trier forces Leth to remake the film, but the limitation is that each shot can be no more than 12 frames (1/2 second) long. In essence, Von Trier forces a "twitterization" of the original. ;-) - Karim

Also, Frank Herbert's "Destination: Void" series of sci-fi novels starts off with a series of space missions that end in disaster. SPOILER ALERT: one of the missions eventually figures out that the disasters are actually *intentional,* the idea being that the experiment can only succeed if the crew figures out how to avert disaster. It is only through overcoming the *intentional* limitation that they go on to achieve greatness... - Karim

sometimes you do need more than 140 chars, but the limit does make the writing more concise and limited to usually one thought which is a good thing - Todd Dewell

@Karim, a Destination: Void shoutout, you are my hero! - Christopher Galtenberg

So is FriendFeed an aggregator with community features or a community that aggregates content? :) - Bwana

Bwana, I think people start out using it as the former but are more satisfied with the service when they use it as the latter. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

+1 Tina, It is much easier to track a conversation on ff - even given search and hashtags on twitter - Alistair

Every time this pops up, I think the person being responded to @negrophobe. - Anika Malone

lol Christopher :-D - Karim