Wow... I can't believe he just blew up like that. It doesn't look like you were attacking him at all and all of a sudden he just comes after you. - Brandon Titus

It's not too big a deal. He can have "last word" here. He blew up on Twitter as well. http://twitter.com/duncanriley - Louis Gray

The most amusing part is being mentioned as if I positioned as an A-Lister. Anybody who has talked to me or traded e-mails knows I know my place. But... seriously... I'm not engaging here. - Louis Gray

LOL. Someone needs a hug. If that's what he calls someone "coming after him", I'd hate to see someone really give him some nasty criticism. I hope he lightens up and realizes his overreaction. - Bwana ☠

Calling you Louise as an insult was a throwback to Jim Rome-Jim Everett. What year is it again? Resorting to LCD insults, nice. Remember this guy called Doris Lessing's comments "the ditherings of an ignorant old woman". - Jake Kuramoto

Holy cow. Talk about temper tantrum. Personally, I'd say *his* article is about as "useful as tits on a bull" - Michelle W

lol: "That’s right, I forgot, I’m a complete retard." Ironically, I think his post has just welcomed you permanently to the A-list. - j1m

Also there are amusing comments, like "Grow up, you immature, ill tempered idiot. You sound like an 5 year old stamping his feet, throwing a tantrum who has just discovered swearing." - j1m

Not the kind of insight you'll expect from a person who claim to blog for a "bloody long time". - Carlo Maglinao

Louis, just wondering, are you doing PR for Friendfeed? - Erick Schonfeld

heh I don't agree with you there Louis... the techcrunch I've read is wrong most of the time, specially this Duncan fellow. - Mario Romero

If he's not doing PR, he should be. I dismissed FriendFeed just as fast as Duncan until I read his blog post about it. - Bwana ☠

@Erick, no. My LinkedIn profile is here: http://www.linkedin.com/profile..., but I firewall work and the blog, so they should be out of it. (please) - Louis Gray

He responded to my comment on his blog: "his whole tone was Duncan is an idiot and it does these things and its wonderful because I say so. If you can see that you're either up his arse so far the sun isn't shining, or you need some remedial reading lessons." I think he means "can't" in that second sentence. - Brandon Titus

I wish Duncan would make all his TechCrunch posts this colorful. - Jess Lee

@Jess, sure... just keep me out of it! :-) - Louis Gray

It's an odd discussion. One party is saying others who don't like Friendfeed should like it. The other party replies that those who do like Friendfeed shouldn't. Why not just let those who like it use it and let those who don't like it, well, not use it. E.g. I never used Twitter or a (traditional) feed reader and even when others love it, if it's not for me why should anyone worry. Might be better to just leave friendly tips on how to improve browsing but not try evangelize about the right or wrong things to do. I suppose this whole debate is partly caused by the fact Friendfeed is a bit like a rorschach ink test... you can project anything into it based on your suscriptions, which complicates reviews as there's not "one" Friendfeed. - Philipp Lenssen

Wow, is there nothing Duncan likes, or do I just keep seeing is negative posts? :( - Paula Hawk

I agree with one of his points though: conversation at the source isn't enhanced by friendfeed. Certainly it's a different use case, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be a part of the aggregator. By using APIs, SocialThing is actually able to push comments/replies/likes back to the sources. Then you can have both conversations with friends and with the public. What's yet to be seen though is a service which merges both conversations in a meaningful way. - taj

Sorry to "get off topic," as it were, but this discussion has revealed a drawback in FriendFeed. When Louis shared this item, a ton of discussion took place, yet (last I checked) there was hardly any discussion at the FriendFeed link to the post in Duncan Riley's own feed. http://friendfeed.com/e... Louis had to go to that entry and manually link to this entry, since FriendFeed didn't automatically relate the two. - Ontario Emperor

@Ontario_Emperor I don't know if that's a drawback, I don't think FriendFeed would have any problem associating the posts, this is just the way the comment communities work on FriendFeed (I think it's pretty cool). We're discussing with Louis his shared item, which happens to be Duncan's post which also has its own comment thread for his friend circle. - Mario Romero

With FriendFeed's introduction of search capability, this issue is effectively solved. Try a search for the words more hyped yawn. - Ontario Emperor