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Sort of wondered about that on my blog too. - phil baumann

Twitter's already kind of like the short attention span version of a blog - Mark

FF is a big, huge, group blog - Mike Doeff

hell ya, my new site just feeds and project links - videopixil from twhirl

Don't forget your vidcast. - connor

Thanks kevin: I just wanted to hear that from someone else as well. I am happy that it come from you. I have been thinking about the same in last few days. I want to set up a blog for our site and I thought why not do it for example here on Friendfeed and use the other tools you mentioned above to support it. - Joao

I still can't feel comfortably with Pownce. I preffer Tumblr for easily and freedom. - Leandro Ardissone ⍨

I use the blog to talk about the stuff that I find on the sites. - Bradley McSpinn

i was commenting something similiar the other day - isn't facebook for people that can't type more than one sentence in their own blog? Does it make you seem more interesting than you really are? - Jason Hoch

Joao: yea, have been thinking the same thing - I might start forwarding kevinrose.com to friendfeed. Just wish I could customize the layout. - Kevin Rose

A blog is still good for long-form thoughts as opposed to the quick bursts that you'd put out on Twitter or FF. - Alex

Posterous works for longer things. - Jason Wehmhoener

Without blogs, what would we submit to Digg? - Josh Kenzer

You bring up a good point... Soon, design will not matter much.. Content is King. - Robert

I think a blog still has its place, but it is used much less frequently. Like Alex said it is really just for long (multi paragraph or even page) thoughts and personal opinions that you can't find on say Digg. Even still, using FF in conjunction with a blog improves it even more :D. - Shaun Bevill

Think about how many "flash" websites you used to see and how many you see now.... - Robert

Has anyone set up a FriendFeed room as a personal blog yet? I can't think of any reason why that wouldn't work. - Mike Doeff

well for you no. For people who don't own Pownce, Digg, etc and want to make $ from the internet by creating content and selling ads around those content. Still need a blog or site. - Greg Wilker from twhirl

good point Greg - no way to place ads on these sites. - Kevin Rose

@Greg Wilker good point... I am sure there is another way, but not sure what that way is... - Robert

I'll post wherever I get the most interaction... for me that happens to be FriendFeed. - Brandon

its a good point / question. what ecosystem works? I still think having a blog as a personal home base - an airport if you will - is a good idea. touch down on all the other sites - engage - and for further content: blog - j sven

well, it's not really needed. But being a writer, it helps me to be in the writing habit and maintaining discipline... - Fajar Jasmin

Yes, but the form will change. A successful blog will have API access to all of the above and be able to sort/arrange your online footprint in a meaningful way that is easy for users to scan through. It would also allow you to make traditional blog posts that work in reverse order. Friendfeed is close to this, but it is too disjointed and not customizable. - Cade Brown

Dang, seems you struck a chord. Conversation's exploding here and on Twitter. I am glad you bring this up, as you have the ability to get this question answered quite effectively. I WANT to have a blog, but these other services are treating me quite well. The issue comes in remembering where all this stuff you've saved/said is located and the audience that receives it is more and more niche...enter FF? I guess. - Victor Vasquez

One other thing is I'm all about less is more. Do you really want to say "hey go friend me up on twitter.com/insertname friendfeed.com/insertname digg.com/user/insertname etc etc or would you rather just say insertname.com to people with links to those other sites on it. you can insert my name into those if you want to friend me up. =D - Greg Wilker from twhirl

you forgot your tumblr zen-style blog.... - Dan van Moll

Agreed, blogs should be long form thoughts. Stop posting one sentence updates to your blog. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

I'm still keeping mine! A blog to me is different than what Pownce, Twitter and FF offer. They are more "communities" where there is far more interaction than in a blog. Receiving and responding to comments out on a blog is very different than the instantaneous interaction I get while using the likes of Twitter and FF. - Geoff Peterson

Depends on if you want to write. I like the idea of a personally branded dedicated space... - Ryan

I still think a blog is important. Its just more personal than forwarding your site to FF. Ya, FF is personal, but its something that you don't own, and can't customize the way you want. - Nick Humphries

a blog is the only place where you own both the content AND the style. - Brian Ries

But FriendFeed might be able to monetize the comments, especially if there's a thread/pattern among participants. - phil baumann

All that stuff is wonderful if you suffer from ADD.... but for thoughts, arguments, commentary, etc that's longer, fuller, better developed and hopefully more "permanent" than one off comments, you still need some kind of site or blog. Contrary to popular belief around here, sometimes you need more than 140 characters to say something worthwhile. - Eric P

Hell yeah, for SEO! :) - Melle Gloerich

I'm still having issuse with the FF comment plugin for wordpress =( I really like FF so far just wish my coding skills were up to part to figure this out. send me an email if you know how to get it to work gregwilker.net@gmail.com - Greg Wilker from twhirl

Since you don't post long entries, probably not. FriendFeed catches my Diggs, tweets, and Pownces, I just pipe all of that to my blog: http://www.screwtheman.com - Paul Reynolds

And Vimeo (HD videos), QIK (mobile live streaming) - Langley Zhu

... Demonoid (torrents), Last.fm (music), Adium (IM).. that's about all ya need. - shaggyshaw

Nope! - justine

You use Pownce? - Andy DeSoto

One of the most interesting things is that there is, so far, no content spam here in the discussions. On my Wordpress blog (lightly used) I had to turn off all comments because of horrible drug spam. While the filters usually caught it, nonetheless, it ended up on my server, and added to traffic. My site (not the blog :-) ) has 65,000+ visitors per month and doesn't need junk added into the blog space. While Kevin may not need a blog now, his material is readily and happily accessed and organized, some may. - iSteeve

blog for fuller content, but you'll use it less. - clarke thomas

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