So does the spreadsheet aggregation itself count? - Cameron Neylon

@Cameron yes I suppose - if we get enough entries :) - Jean-Claude Bradley

@Cameron your proposal writing using FF is a classic - Jean-Claude Bradley

You could add further examples to the "expanding the reach of conferences" one -- there has been lots of excellent liveblog coverage of conferences. (In a little over a week, Science Online 09 will no doubt join the list.) - Bill Hooker

@Bill yes we can add a few more examples (there are so many now) of conferences - note that this is a chemistry journal so the reporter will probably focus on those if possible - Jean-Claude Bradley

Well the on the fly CID to CAS lookup by Rajarshi is a clicher..the chem journal should really like that kind of stuff - Hari

Added Survey of the protein in WP: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Pierre Lindenbaum

Added sorting papers on impact factors: http://tinyurl.com/5qtu9h - Pierre Lindenbaum

I could add: FF motivated me to learn new things (isn't it concrete ?) e.g. learning SPARQL. - Pierre Lindenbaum

@Pierre - those are great examples. The longer conversations really highlight the strengths of the platform. Yes the article will cover things more broadly but I thought it would be nice to have a table with some nice examples - Jean-Claude Bradley

@Hari - yes good example, although I wonder if everyone will be happy with the way it started on Twitter (I can't repeat the comments here :) - Jean-Claude Bradley

Thanks for your help, everyone. I'm the science reporter working with Jean-Claude. I'm also trying to brainstorm ways how one might represent a FriendFeed conversation to someone who only uses the web for very routine things, and may not be familiar with social networking tools. - Carmen Drahl

@jean-claude - added my one. @Carmen - Friendfeed has been described as the Higgs boson of the web2 world. No-one can quite describe what it does... - Cameron Neylon

@Cam - thanks I like that example - Jean-Claude Bradley

I learnt so much from friendfeed, a great way to keep abreast of development, since it is not possible for everyone to read everything. - Aarthy

@Cam&@JC The 'Invisible' Higgs Boson may not exist, though it would be cool if it did. We'll hopefully find out when they get the LHC online, but don't hold your breath. :) - Andrew Lang

So, do we need to build a Web2.0 LHC to figure out what FF does? :)I'm still getting used to all these layers- I was going to ask Hari what his abbrev's meant and then I clicked on the spreadsheet. - Carmen Drahl

@Carmen this post is turning out to reveal what happens when over a dozen human particles collide on FF - for constructive purposes :) - Jean-Claude Bradley

@Cam - this comment stream is itself an example of what a FFeed conversation can provide. While I think the analogy to the Higgs boson is generative; it's not because we don't know what FFeed does. We're demonstrating and documenting it right now! - Bill Anderson

@Bill - that's fair and I think I mangled the original quote anyway - here is the link http://scienceoftheinvisible.b... - Cameron Neylon

@everyone Thanks for your contributions! We've got 12 examples showing both individual conversations and FF rooms. I separated the multiple links into their own columns so that you can click on the top left corner of the cells and to right to the web page. - Jean-Claude Bradley

Seconded. I very much appreciate everyone's help. - Carmen Drahl