sergiooooooo, yes, if its a roll in your sidebar. They're not extinct, but they are rare these days. Sprague, good to see you're still keeping the spirit alive - Duncan Riley
I used to use one, but it seemed as soon as I'd update it, people would go inactive, or I'd have to change it again. (Examples: GeekWhat and Kent Newsome, both who just about fell off the map) Now, I think the Google Reader shared items blog gives a good enough clue as to what I read and find important. - Louis Gray
I found that no one ever clicked on them so I removed it. It was just noise. - Kevin
I'm on the same boat as Kevin. No one ever clicked on them so, I just got rid of it. I have a section for "friends" that include a couple of blogs but that's it. - Candace Holly
I have one on my dembot blog and really believe in it. - Andrew Baron
My blogroll would probably span a few screens.. Anyway blogroll feels slightly 1990s.. Don't you think so? - Winston Teo
Which reminds me, I need to update my blogroll. - J. Phil
Still maintain one but update it about once a month as things change - Charlie Anzman
I still use them, but only for close contacts. I like them. - Jim Kukral
I once used them, when Zeldman was that name in the bottom of every blogroll (go figure why ;-) ) and then I stopped blogging - directeur via NoiseRiver
In my opinion, the best use for a blogroll is for a _short_ list of _related_ blogs that the reader can hit in order to get more information on the topic. The "600 blogs I read every day" doesn't seem to me to be the best use of a blogroll. - possible248
I'm trying to convince myself to compile a decent blogroll since 2002:) - Federico Giacanelli
Perhaps it's time to convert the blogroll to a micro-blogroll. Better yet, I would like to display the people I find interesting (at friendfeed) as a widget. - Czar Derek Peterman
I recently dropped the blogroll on my blog. No one ever bothered clicking the links. What people do click are the links in my blog posts (yes, it does still happen). The blogs to which I link regularly in my blog posts are a much better barometer of the ones I follow than my blogroll ever was. I really didn't keep the blogroll up to date. - Hutch Carpenter
Hmm, regardless of clicks, SEO's understand that a blogroll link is a vote in Google, or at least indexing priority. If you really like someone, you'll tell Google about their blog by blogrolling them. I never nofollow those. - Brian Carter
Czar: How do you describe your "intersting" people at friendfeed? - directeur via NoiseRiver
I have it on good authority that a new blogroll widget is in the works that will bring blogrolls back - well at least with this crowd. I probably shouldn't say who and I don't know when, but it sounds like it will be dynamic and awesome. So don't count them out just yet - David Knight
My blogroll was too long for my sidebar, so I used to have a separate links page. I should clean it up and bring it back. Need to add a TON of social media bloggers I've been introduced to via FriendFeed these past few weeks. :D - Nathaniel Payne
are blogrolls that hump of cheese n the back of your fridge? :) - (jeff)isageek via fftogo
How about this for a theory: The blogroll has been superceded by Twitter and FriendFeed as the easiest way to track and associate oneself with others that are active, interesting and influential in social media - Daniel Young
It's crazy to me how many have dumped them when it's the first step in being social online if you have a blog... good for blogger to blogger luv and also good for pointing your visitors to additional related resources of value, so good all around. - Scott Bannon via twhirl
Duncan, this is so true. I was literally thinking late last night about doing a post on this as I was tidying up my own (relatively new) blog a bit and looking at the standard blogroll links that came with my Wordpress template. I had a quick look at a few fairly well-known blogs and there wasn't a blogroll in sight.. - Matt Hooper
Regarding the value of blogrolls for Google SEO. Check out this thread, about 3/4 the way down, for a comment on that by Adam Lasnik (Google search evangelist): "be careful about making assumptions on how Google does or will weight 'constant' links ;-" (http://friendfeed.com/e/7c7d98...) - Hutch Carpenter
More like adult Kool-Aid. Not even a close cousin of vodka, which is why they call it a "malt beverage" and can sell it in the grocery stores here, which can't even carry wine. - Cyndy
Akiva wins. I have discovered 20 minutes later that this is nothing more than heart burn in a bottle. Guh. :P - Nathaniel Payne
with last nights and this mornings rush I'm closing in on 450 subscribed to me which only goes to prove that beauty wins out over crankiness any day :) - Steven Hodson
congrats! knew it was just a matter of time :) - Shey
you have my attention! look forward to the post. - (jeff)isageek
Is it in regards to the scifi social network Tor is building? I'm hearing that it's close to completion. Once that hits, I'm out of both Twitter AND FriendFeed (assuming it doesn't suck, and it probably will). :) - Nathaniel Payne
Jeff I do agree, Corvida should be on that list. I need to stalk her more on Friendfeed :) I think I might expand on that list at some point, and maybe do a post on 50 people one should follow on FF. - Mike Fruchter
50 would be kool. I could then add any I am missing. - (jeff)isageek
"I enjoyed the movie as well. its not a classic or anything but I dont think every movie has to be that way. I think not knowing much about the monster puts you in the same place as the actors. It lets you kinda feel a bit of what they are going thru. just my thoughts." - (jeff)isageek
Interesting I don't see Robert Scoble on your list, nor do I see several other very 'noisy' people. Was wondering how you have avoided having them show up on your stats page? - Jeff P. Henderson
Thanks for the list. Will follow them for a while to see if they are worth it. - Ansgar Wollnik
36 'likes' on the original article, 5 'likes' on Louis Gray's 'bookmarked on del.ico.us', shouldn't friendfeed offer a combined 'like' view or variant? Your opinion? - ingo ju
Ansgar: Yep, they're worth it - all 10 are keepers!! - Susan Beebe
I have been wondering recently if and when FF will open up some statistical data - not just on follower numbers, but on rate of change perhaps. - Jonathan Beckett
I have them all as friends that I follow. I would add Corvida to the list as well. - (jeff)isageek
Yes, I second add Cordiva to the list - Fred Grott
Louis, for Friday: How to tell who REALLY wrote the post. Because you are taking credit for EVERYONE!!! - Cyndy
@Cyndy and @Louis - I love the "Show Domains" Greasemonkey script from FFApps. It shows the link's domain out beside every link. So as I scroll down FF I can always tell where the article came from. Link -http://www.ffapps.com/showdoma... - Franklin Pettit
Thanks everyone. Jeff I do agree, Corvida should be on that list. I need to stalk her more on Friendfeed :) I think I might expand on that list at some point, and maybe do a post on 50 people one should follow on FF. - Mike Fruchter
Mike: Oh I like that idea... please do the 50 people to follow list! - Susan Beebe
@Cyndy, it's funny, but I had actually thought about that. It is becoming a recurring theme. - Louis Gray
That would pretty good actually. I hope they can integrate it into twitter experience, and make it part of their api as well - Shivanand Velmurugan via twhirl
well, they have to get code that works from somewhere. - Slobokan
I think it would be a smart move for them. - Alan Le
I hope not... Summize is great as it is. - Chris Thomson
Considering the email I got from Twitter's help dept. promoted Summize, I'm not surprised. - Erin Kotecki Vest
"I for one welcome our Twitter-Summize overlords." - Joe D'Andrea
Did anyone notice that Summize recently added translation links & language filters? Summize is a VERY well done webapp if you ask me. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Buy Summize? Why don't they just integrate the Summize API into Twitter - Just Kidding - Could be a good thing! - Eric Cedo
One company with no revenue buys another company with no revenue and whose existence depends on the first company? Why couldn't Twitter add the main Summize feature set in a few weeks if they could get their act together? - David Fry
valuations? I'm shorting Summize if this happens... - ryangraves
Summize would be doomed by being bought out... At least right now, they have the option of expanding to other networks such as friend feed, and brightkite, if they really wanted to! - Joel
They have to spend their money on something and they sure as hell aren't spending it on infrastructure at the moment. - Adam Helweh
I was thinking about that ever since I started using Summize... it makes perfect sense... - Manos Matsakis
They'd better buy Oracle technology for scalability! - Eric Sausse
I hope they buy up a few of the best apps that have been developed over the last year. They need to innovate, and it's people outside of Twitter who are developing the coolest stuff. Hopefully those people can help them integrate functionality into the site and bring new ideas! - Hillary Hartley
this is smart for twitter, but generally bad for summize -- although I don't think any of those guys are really high profile and a win like this would work in their favor if they were sick of swinging for the fences. Interesting to see how it plays out. - Tyler Willis
We'll need to think up new animals/concepts to signify the eventual 'Fail'
*I'm thinking of photoshopping up a chalkboard with an incorrect calculation* - Jake Fudge
They should just buy friendfeed instead... - Colin Brumelle
they'll buy a service that does what they claim to be able to do... smart.. - Absalon Isaac Prieto
this makes it interesting and open for someone else to potentially come in a build a summize-like search across the other networks like brightkite, plurk, friendfeed etc. - Brandon Zeuner
"great post! I think friendfeed can become bigger then just an AM radio station. You have the ability to take one person who might be on 10,15, maybe 20 services and bring it to one central location...for me that is huge with all the people I follow. I think friend feed takes all the info and puts it in a nice clean format that is easy on the eyes and also allows me to share with peole something they may never see because maybe they dont use a service I do but they are still given my content, thoughts, or media." - (jeff)isageek
Jeff, I think the picture and main heading might be a little big. They push the content rather far down the page. That and it felt like you were screaming at us :) Otherwise, it is nice and clean. - Rob Diana
thanks for the input. I am getting comments on friendfeed, the blog, and via twitter. i appreciate them all. - (jeff)isageek
"I see where you are going with your post and what someone might think...but if I was say someone in their late teens or twenties in college looking for people to follow in the tech world or social web it would suck that someone was not allowing me to follow them just because of their age.
I think its just how you handle the friendship or your interaction with that person that could make the big difference." - (jeff)isageek
Yep, we did, assorted sparklers and low-key stuff in the driveway. Raining here. - Larry Huffman
Raining here, but fireworks are not allowed in this state anyway. - Morton Fox
oh yeah had a great time. had 8 tubes shooting fireworks at a time. it was a nice show for everyonr watching. - (jeff)isageek via fftogo
Kids lit off sparklers, which are legal in las vegas. beyond that...no comment. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
We went to an Oklahoma City suburb, Mustang where they are legal and there were 15,000 people in the city park setting off fireworks until 11:00 PM. It was awesome! My clothes will smell like gun powder for weeks. I only heard the fire siren twice the whole evening. Some people must have more money than brains. The car beside mine set off some huge ones for more than two hours. I have never seen a professional show that could compare to this. - Paul L. McCord Jr.
Great time! Went to a baseball game and afterwards they let everyone sit on the field to watch the fireworks while they played classic american rock songs. - Tim Costantino
I would say blogging, because I count micro-blogging as just a subset of blogging. Meaning...I have really made no choice at all. I still get to do both :) - Rahsheen Porter
Does FF participation count as micro-blogging? I participate in FF a lot more than my blog now. More convenient, easier to start a conversation and keep it going. No self-imposed timetable or post quota to keep up with to make sure enough people are interested in being part of my "audience" (it's built in with FF). Easier to interact with people and get more interaction back. Easier to find the answers to my questions. FF does all I really wanted out of blogging anyway. - Lindsay Donaghe
depends on my mood and what I want to say. it obv takes a lot less cognitive ability to microblog, but many more mainstream people read my blog. - Philip Ryan Johnson
@Lindsay Yeah I definitely agree. FF takes away a lot of my time that I would spend doing other things, that's why I've significantly cut my usage over the past couple weeks. - Shey
definitely would stay with blogging. I can live without things like Twitter. - Rob Diana
If had known micro-blogging / lifestreaming would reach this level, I probably wouldn't blog at all - Charlie Anzman
I can always find time to micro-blog... - Rachel Beer
Micro blogging == FF? If FF posts supported more length, formatting and inclusion of media then blogging would disappear for most people - Brian Sullivan
I don't think we have to or need to choose. Both are great for different things. - Tris Hussey via twhirl
more and more I am falling towards the micro blogging side. I sometimes think I should just get rid of my traditional blog. - (jeff)isageek
Since you did not mention IM, blogging, even though I do little of it, there are times a long public rant is needed for the psyche - Michael W. May via twhirl
Mini-blogging. Creating content while wearing a mini-skirt. - Andy C
98% of my blog's readers do not know what twitter is and they don't care. When I used twitter tools to publish an daily digest of my tweets, they hated it. So: The answer is Blogging. - Rick Powell
I agree with Lindsay. Post directly to FF. - Russellreno
Now, now, Jeff. I mentioned in the article that I typically prefer native apps or Web apps to AIR apps, but this one is very interesting, at least to me. I dig it. - Louis Gray
im just trying to be funny...hehe good post btw. - (jeff)isageek
Wow, twhirlscope down -- gotta try this out - Shey
ah! and I was wondering why my twitter vanity search hit on that topic as I do not like the air apps. but grouping actually would be a reason to try it out. problem: as long as twitter decimates the request rates it is unreliable, but a first step in the right direction. will download it now ;) - Nicole Simon
Louis, I think you're right - there is still innovation happening around Twitter, fortunately. The fact is there is still a huge audience on Twitter and that audience still has the potential to be monetized. I'm even building something around Twitter at the moment. There is still that threat though, that developers could leave if Twitter keeps neglecting them - it's in the back of the mind - Jesse Stay
"feels" like Twhirl. Wish it had FF support...if it does it wasn't obvious from the website. I agree with others that I'd really like to see these Adobe air apps with some better skins - Rob Neville via twhirl
"Now, now, Jeff. I mentioned in the article that I typically prefer native apps or Web apps to AIR apps, but this one is very interesting, at least to me." - That's part of why I like the platform so much. Most people like native apps but AIR apps are pretty easy to build so there's bound to be a few that people really like. (Ryan - rstewart@adobe.com) - Ryan Stewart
Tweetdeck is very nice. Breaking tweets out into @ replies and groups makes sense. Pretty, too. - Leo Laporte
Excellent! I'm just not that into all the dark gray. - kennbell
'scuse me while i wipe up this drool, but that looks hot! - Sarah Perez
This is very nice. Love the grouping feature. Makes it a lot easier to follow tweets. - Dave Rutter
ok, see that got all screwed up just now, had to delete & start over. - TheMacMommy via twhirl
so what I meant to say was, I like tweetdeck for trying to improve on apps like twirl or twitterific for that matter, but I'd still love to see some über combination of tweetdeck & twirl that lets you group, customize color in UI, post using ping.fm and receive more than just tweets like FF does - not so much a firehose but more like a spiffy detachable shower head w/the different dial settings. Come to Mamma! - TheMacMommy via twhirl
I like it Louis - thanks for the tip .. even though there are acouple of things I would probably like as options it is very workable in the short time I have been using it - Steven Hodson
I really like this so far, it'll be interesting to see what future plans holds. I'd like to see a tad more customization of the client itself. Nice so far though. - Nick
Nice that you can keep twittering even when Twitter is down. Categories/groups/tags is clearly a direction Twitter user needs are heading. Also need an app, though, that can handle multiple Twitter accounts. I tried Twhirl but after a while kept getting timeouts on the 2nd open account. Maybe that's Twitter's fault, not Twhirl's. - Gordon Vaughan
I still wonder why all of these apps default with a dark background. - Caleb Elston
Just saw it with my 9-y-o daughter. Animation was amazing and it was visually attractive. Story was cute, but not great. I think that Monsters Inc., the Incredibles and even Toy Story had better writing. Most interesting thing to me was that more than half the people in the theater were adults with no children. Definitely a bit of a geeky crowd, different than you might expect for a Disney/Pixar flick. All that said, Nice. Now all I need is a blackberry version (that also handles friendfeed) :) - Barry Graubart via twhirl
Using it .. nice. Try clicking on the photo. Looks like most of us need to go higher rez! - Charlie Anzman
pretty slick...just not picking up all my twitter friends though for some reason. - Zee from WeDoCreative
Ok, another ugly black twitter client. I want an Air app with some brushed metal feel to it. Having something on my desktop that doesnt match the rest of the windows makes me feel like Im on windows. - Colby Olson
I would rather pay for Flickr than put my photos on Facebook to be fodder for advertisers. - Andrew Feinberg
Are there any other Twitter services/apps with the Grouping functionality? Really loving that. - Bryan Landers
looks excellent. love the "maximized view" for real twitter addicts. though I can't imagine there are many left that are addicted, since, well, you know. can't really be addicted to twitter when it's down all the time - Mark Bao
Thanks! I'll check it out over the next few days! - Soulhuntre via twhirl
This is lovely. Funny how some really nice apps sneak up on you. Thanks for linking! - mark.kemperman via feedalizr
nice but I doubt it fits the workflow now that twitter is a tiny bit of it - Dobromir Hadzhiev
thanks Louis, very cool app, what do you think of the group service? - John Cass via Alert Thingy
I like the group service, but I love the Summize integration more. I've watched my search for TweetDeck just blow up today, and the app hasn't crashed once or locked up - which is saying something despite the fact it's been open all day. - Louis Gray
It's not exactly a very liberal/free-speechy kind of nation is it? - Adam Turetzky
This more than anything I can think of makes me glad I'm American today. - Sprague D
That country's government sucks. The country itself and (most of) its people are awesome though. - Bjorn Tipling
Sunny-side up: At least they're debating it. :-) - Louis Gray
@Sprague D there are plenty of other countries that don't even have the death penalty for anything - America is only slightly up the scale you know - Ivan Pope via twhirl
It won't be long before Ahmadinejad installs his horse in the Parliament - Peter Simard
I feel sorry for the Iranian people who have to deal with these idiots - Shey
this is just part of a "good cop, bad cop" game. they'll defeat the bill and then everyone will go "Yay! now bloggers only get torture and years in prison for being snarky about the government! Iran is teh progressive democracy!" - Karim
Peter, your comment illicited a surprise snort out of me. I never snort. Good show! - Akiva Moskovitz
Need a shirt now that says, "Give me Blogging, or give me death!" - proud to be an American! - Jesse Stay
@Ivan Pope - nice reply - people in glass houses shouldn't throw rocks and all that
@Peter Simard - I think you'll find Nero (he of the horse for senator fame) was higher on the dodgy ranking than the Iranian Government or Ahmadinejad himself
@Jonnyc - spoken like a true Xenophobe - is it timely to mention the debacles that have been performed in the name of other religions - witness the crusades anyone
That said - this isn't what Islam is about - another case of zealots manipulating a religious message for their own purposes...... - Ben Kepes via FriendFeed MT Plugin
I believe they will just chop off hands for tweets - Nicholas Molnar
status updaters - the craze of the early 21st century! - (jeff)isageek
hellotxt.com is great from the desktop or mobile. - Paul W. Swansen
i dont want to send from one to several, i want to send from several into one ... if that makes sense ... i need a ONE site - gregory lent via FriendFeed MT Plugin
