email... honestly ;) wait I lied. I check FF while waiting for my email to load - Mona Nomura from fftogo

E-mail. Here's the process: http://www.louisgray.com/live... - Louis Gray

Dammit, Louis, you've blogged your workflow. I'm awed. ;-) - Chris Baskind

I've started checking my SNs before my email. Not sure why, because it's more fun? - jjprojects

ff - Duncan Riley

Email. I use the Mail App, so it is more prevalent on my screen. However, if I were to be using web-based email like I used to, I would almost certainly glance over FriendFeed first. - James Mowery

LG, your organization and the articulation of the flow is impeccable haha - Mona Nomura from fftogo

i do both simultaneously :D - c010depunkk from twhirl

Socialthing, Friendfeed, Email. Why socialthing - I actually find it easier to read posts and sort through them without the comments etc. Then I use the best of features and rooms in friendfeed to read the more interesting stuff with comments and leave my own. - Mick Adams

Twitter used to be the very first thing I checked. Now it's Friendfeed/Facebook, then Twitter, then forums, then news sites and (sometimes) e-mail. - Jamie Clark

I suppose we could risk introducing a mid-conversation followup here: are you out of bed yet when you check? - Chris Baskind

email, if I start on FFeed too quickly, I don't do anything else - Michael W. May from twhirl

:) whichever loads first! - edythe

Email.. else I'll never get to that.. - Winston Teo

@Chris I'm out of bed, but I am not always dressed. ;) - Jamie Clark

email immediately followed by FF and then on to Google Reader. - Scott Jarkoff

email, then ff - Alex Plank

I open a set of tabs at once: email, friendfeed, y!finance, techmeme, huffpo - Mark Interrante

Whichever loads first -- Thunderbird or Firefox :) - Alex Kapranoff

email, email, reader, ff - EricaJoy

I also have a set of tabs I open every morning, but usually read email first. Spam. It's what for breakfast. - Trish R

email. - Stewart Rogers

email -> reader -> ff - Graham Garland

still email - AJ Kohn

E-mail, definitely. Followed almost immediately by FriendFeed. I haven't read a single feed since Feedly stopped working for me. - Akiva Moskovitz

FF - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

Still E-Mail. - Matthias Schwenk

E-Mail -- Google Reader -- Twitter (there is less to look at for me) -- FriendFeed - Jake (aka Jawee) from twhirl

Sadly, when I wake up, I don't even get out of bed. I pull the iPhone off the nightstand and check e-mail. Then I hit FF, followed by techmeme. Then... coffee. :) - Kevin C. Tofel

FriendFeed is my home page - first thing I see when the browser loads. Then email. - Hutch Carpenter

I have not checked my email yet today :) - ǝuǝƃnǝ

For me it's email, Google Reader, Twitter, FriendFeed. Then I get up. No wonder I'm often late to leave the house! - Martin Bryant

In order: E-mail, Twitter, High-priority RSS feeds, then FF - Aaron B. Hockley

Email, Reddit, Hacker News/News.YC, FriendFeed - Rudolf Olah

Techmeme,Twitter,FriendFeed,email - Igor Poltavskiy

Email then friendfeed then greader - Ricardo Vidal

I have a bookmarks folder in Firefox with everything I open at the beginning of the day. The first thing I do in the morning is click "open all in tabs" in that folder. The usual stuff is in there -- Google personalized homepage, FF, Reader, mail, calendar (for both home and work); generally, I go through my home email first (just a few messages, usually), then FF, then work email, then Reader and miscellaneous other futzing around. - Tudor Bosman

Google reader is my first stop! - Geoff Schultz

Email is far more critical - Sarah Perez

Friendfeed first and next I'll check email. - Czar

friendfeed - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Email first. Hard habit to break ;) - Yung-Hui Lim

email is the first check of the day - mostly because some system notifications and alerts appear there and I want to know how my day is going to be :-) - Kevin Cearns from twhirl

google reader then ff. Only check email occasionally an then usually on iPhone - Brad Davis Seal

I have a weasel answer: both. I usually roll over, grab my iPhone, and have a quick look around as I'm waking up. I check my sites and site comments first, but FF always comes before email. Once I'm up and in front of my desktop, ready to actual work, I do email. I won't touch FF again until I have my workflow for the day. - Chris Baskind

Always e-mail.....because I have to check the status of things, and see where things stand with the tasks for the day and projects for the week... FF is pretty close after - the_IT_factor

both. 1st I open Thunderbird, then I open Firefox. Friendfeed is one of my 7 homepages there. - Cat Laine from twhirl

email then FF - Susan Beebe

FriendFeed. Email is a little boring these days, more of a responsibility than a surprise. - Steve Isaacs

email - Tyler Gillies