That is so true. I can't remember the last time I was in Google Reader. (But I do use Feedly-- so maybe that doesn't count.) - Kevin Gamble

FF doesn't replace my feed reader (Bloglines), but I do notice that when I go to Bloglines I'm skimming through a lot faster -- having already seen a lot of the items here. - Bill Hooker

Still use Reader as daily fodder to post on FF & Twitter - Jim Hardy

My Google Reader has far too many feeds to be useful anyway. Which means I'd have to do all the filtering myself, hours per day. Now, people I follow on FF do all the filtering for me. If it is important, I will see it. Same for Twitter. And even Facebook (where I have a different set of people I connect with). If I miss something on those three platforms, you bet someone will e-mail me! - Bora Zivkovic

I see, you're "delegating" the digging of fodder to your friends? You're pimping yourself, man. - Jim Hardy

If I understand the term, Bora's not pimping himself, he's pimping us! :-) I myself have been known to refer to my FF peeps as a distributed wetware online information filter. (Which I just now realized has the Noo Joisey-esque acronym DWOIF...) - Bill Hooker

Correct. I am pimping you all. You bring all the important and interesting stuff to my attention. All I needed to do is find who the smart folks on FF are (and you know who you are - check my "Subscribed" list) ;-) - Bora Zivkovic

I hope I also bring interesting stuff to you. - Bora Zivkovic

Like Neil, I still use GReader extensively, albeit with a significantly pruned library and active use of postrank - Deepak Singh

FF and Twitter can not replace GReader for me. Using extensively to filter - Alexey

"I hope I also bring interesting stuff to you." -- if you didn't, I'd quit subscribing to you. I'm quite ruthless when it comes to building my DWOIF. - Bill Hooker

Bill, can I use that phrase "distributed wetware online information filter" for I paper I am writing (with attribution of course) ? - suelibrarian

Sue, go right ahead, no attribution necessary unless you feel like it. :-) - Bill Hooker

Liking for the discussion, but it has to be said that if everyone did this, there would be nothing for us to filter. - Mr. Gunn

Mr. Gunn: I was wondering when someone would mention that. I still rely on Bloglines and 400+ library-related subscriptions, but FF does alert me to some of the best posts and to posts outside my own back yard. - Walt Crawford

@MrG: it's a good point. Like Jim, I still use Bloglines (~200 subs, mostly open access/open science) to find material that makes its way back here, either by direct posting or via my Diigo and blog feeds. - Bill Hooker

i originally started using friendfeed rooms to aggregate feeds with the goal of allowing others to see my subscriptions, and gradually stopped using greader as the friendfeed comments became as valuable as the feed content, although this was before greader improved its comment & sharing systems - Mike Chelen

While I do not use my full GR any more, I use it for some very specific single feeds that are important to my work. Otherwise, other people who import their GR feeds into FF or pick good items and tweet them (and feed that into FF) bring everything important to my attention. Checking out some science-related rooms here is also important. - Bora Zivkovic

My reaction was quite different. The day I joined FriendFeed was the day my blog died from disuse. - Steven Perez

My blogging certainly changed, but it took a year on FF and 6 months on Twitter for that change to become really visible: http://scienceblogs.com/clock... - Bora Zivkovic

My change was almost instant. My style of blogging is more hit-and-run anyway, so posting here and then blogging there was a waste of time. My Google Reader shares, otoh, have grown since then. - Steven Perez from IM

Depends on the blogging style, I guess. My blog was always a place for long-form writing. Then I started inserting a lot of linkfests. Now the linkfests are better served by Twitter and FriendFeed so the blog can remain for long-form. - Bora Zivkovic

Like Bora, my blog is (increasingly) for stuff that wouldn't work here anyway--although my *really* long-form writing goes into a different venue entirely. (The blog's likely to change character a little, oh, next week, for reasons that will become evident then.) - Walt Crawford

Wow maybe I don't use FriendFeed a whole lot, but I can't go a day without reading everything in Google Reader. Not all the bloggers I read are on Twitter or FF - Californian