"Louis, I set up a Techmeme bot in fact before turning off its updates. The old updates are here: http://friendfeed.com/techmeme I turned off updates because the results would overwhelm the FriendFeed search results for "Techmeme". Yes, I'm aware that's a bit selfish of me! FriendFeed still doesn't offer a way to search "everyone" while excluding certain users, to my knowledge. If they ever do, I'll turn updates back on, since I'll then be able to search for "Techmeme" without results from the Techmeme account appearing." - Gabe Rivera

"To me the interesting question is why people make the comparison at all. I think it's because there will always be people to sit and sift through services like Twitter and FriendFeed all day, who love the "noise" and aren't easily overwhelmed. To them, Twitter/FF reports news "before" Techmeme, so they're "better". A similar argument can be made for using Google Reader with 500 subscriptions. Obviously most people don't collect news that way most of the time. In fact, even the ones who do generally still use Techmeme anyway." - Gabe Rivera