@Kevin: I don't think I've posted much of anything about Friendfeed, and nothing about Twitter. I *reply* to a number of posts on those topics, but they don't interest me enough to dwell on them independent of input. So as Scoble pointed out, it's all down to who you're reading. - Roger Benningfield

As I've said a few times when this comes up, it's because FriendFeed is so shiny and new that it goes in waves. You had the first users back in October, then you had the post-beta surge, and now you're seeing the post-Scoble surge, and the post-Twitter issues surge. With more pushing by Steve Rubel, Jeremiah Owyang and Thomas Hawk, this won't go away immediately, but you should see the mix fluctuate. That said, Robert is right. You need to follow more folks who talk about more things. - Louis Gray

At least 100% of your friends in friendfeed or twitter are Geeks and care only about Twitter and FriendFeed!! - john

Twitter is useless. Anyone on twitter is definitely on FF, and if they are not, they are stupid. Having said that, rather than going to twitter to post your little message, that will inevitably end up on and get the most action on FF, you might as well just skip twitter, and go right to the crowded room that is FF. - Anthony

Here's one way to change this mix: everyone go to Flickr and favorite some photos. Then go and write an interesting blog post. Then do a little video on youTube. Then go to Google Reader and share some interesting stuff. If everyone did that then we would have other things to talk about. Yes, I'm taking my own medicine I'm over at Google Reader right now. - Robert Scoble

you ought to subscribe to more interesting people. people who have interests outside of the internets :) - melmcbride

Including you. - TranceMist

for nascent tools that's pretty common, and agree if twitter wasn't sucking fumes right now it wouldn't be as interesting - my guess is the team behind ff isn't minding the conversion though - built in focus group and feature request pool if used right... - mike "glemak" dunn

Robert: You like the noise that much? Without an adequate filter I doubt you'll survive it... just try an analogy, I play jazz in my coin, someone sings "Wherevaaa you are..." by Celine Dion of course, someone else, an other one imits Eminem, what would you do? - directeur

directeur: noise is like the waves in the ocean. You gotta learn to swim and surf. After you do, all you want is more and bigger waves. - Robert Scoble

Robert: I never learnt to swim actually, but I still think that we all need filters, because noise is not as uniform as waves may be. Noise has some bad sides that even the best exercice won't defeat. - directeur

That's so not true, we're also talking about Plurk. - Mark Drapeau via twhirl

Most people will want filters. I agree. I just don't care about them for ME. I'm very adept at surfing the noise. Most people aren't. Don't design your products for ME design them for everyone else. That's why I want filtering, so I can get more people in here. - Robert Scoble

FF can seem almost exclusive to social networking and media stuff. Only it's really not. Want to see what else people are talking about? Go to the everyone tab and type in a search term - baseball, "sex in the city", what I had for dinner, or whatever. You'll likely find lots of conversation about those things, and the people who posted them. And remember you can exclude search terms by putting a - sign in front of them. - Tom Landini

"That's why I want filtering, so I can get more people in here." Sorry didn't understand this one :) - directeur

fair enough - i'll post some videos to go with the pictures and blog posts that i added this afternoon - and don't get me wrong, i do really enjoy the out-of-tech contributions: Scoble with science, Rubel with with sports, Fred Wilson with NYC and music, Hawk with photos, and much more... in any case, it's more an observation than a criticism, and yes, one that says I should be branching out more to find the optimal mix for my own personal tastes - Kevin

When I show most people FriendFeed all they see is the noise. I want a way to show them that they can control the noise. If I had that, then a LOT more people would like hanging out here, which would improve all of our lives. - Robert Scoble

For this reason I hope FF will first worry about improvements around duplication and hiding content and worry about all the stuff Steve Gillmor asked for...after that! - Robert Seidman

@Scoble agreed. One ofthe biggest turn-offs to me about Friend Feed is the constant noise, esp. about twitter and FF - Simon

I more than completely agree Robert! I'm not talking about filtering "people" (God how I'd hate this!) I'm simply talking about filtering information, which is a different thing. Of course having a lot more people here is such a wealth! I meet people, I learn many things, but I, for example, just don't care about R'n'B or hate strawberries, that doesn't mean that I don't care of what else Scoble has to say :) - directeur

Robert: they covered all of that on Gillmor Gang on Friday. I think their answers were very interesting. - Robert Scoble

I agree, time to get a life beyond Twitter or FriendFeed!;-) Take up gardening or music or something already! My two cents... - Cathryn Hrudicka

I agree. Just had a talk with a few people about that last night. It's one of the main reasons why I've been staying away from FriendFeed lately. - Corvida

jesus too true - adolfo foronda

If you don't want to see stuff about twitter or friendfeed, enter this search term: "service:internal who:everyone -twitter -friendfeed" This query will return all the stuff shared from Friendfeed except those that mention twitter or friendfeed. Amazingly, there are posts that talk about other things. Lots of post. (You can change the service parameter to see googlereader, blog, flickr, or whatever.) - Tom Landini