try again and tell me please? :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

@directeur, thank you. When I write about this, I will mention the excellent service. - Rob Diana

You are very welcome Rob :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

That would be a huge step. If they can do that and get xmpp running again, they may finally silence the doubters for a week. - Rob Diana

No, Louis Gray decides what will be on techmeme. - Rob Diana

Seriously, I do want comments! I really want to know what features people feel are missing - Rob Diana via Bookmarklet

There is an annoying issue with the RSS feeds. It seems like some items continuously "update" specifically Technorati links. I will look into a better solution to this. - Rob Diana

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.0 earthquake rattled southern Peru on Tuesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The epicenter of the quake was located 33 miles north-northwest of Arequipa, - Rob Diana

"And now a comment from one of the little people. I have gotten very little traffic from blog links, even the famed "Louis Gray Effect". I do get more subscribers from referrals like that, but pure traffic is really coming from StumbleUpon, Digg, and FriendFeed. The real question is what are you looking for? if you are you looking for traffic, submit stuff to Digg. If you are looking for recurring readers and more subscribers, then spread the link love." - Rob Diana

"Very cool! Thank you shyftr (Matt and Dave)!" - Rob Diana

Well founded rumor has it that microblogging service Twitter has acquired search engine Summize. Jason Calacanis appears to have made the first public statement about it, though it ... - Rob Diana

I thought Louis Gray created the internet. - Rob Diana

Why? So we can display an entry page with our custom permalinks. So we also can use ajax methods to retrieve content per entry - directeur via NoiseRiver

Yes. Yes. YES! Please don't make us resort to html parsing for comments and json parsing for likes. - Yuvi

directeur - what do you do currently? Do you cache the JSON results locally like I do? - Patrick Lightbody

Rob, yes you're right but this is true if the entry you're talking about is in the current "version" of the feed. How do you refer to an entry (and its content) that is 4 months old? - directeur via NoiseRiver

Patrick: I do some caching yes, but it doesn't go far... I mean, I try to process everything at once and reduce the "va-et-vient" - directeur via NoiseRiver

jkontherun.com is always a good read - Colin Walker via fftogo

thanks Colin! - Julian Baldwin

Theboygeniusreport, gizmodo, engadget and any niche specific blogs for winmobile, palm, iphone etc. - Corvida

Better yet, check out this feed made by Marshall Kirkpatrick and posted on RWW http://feeds.feedburner.com/Rw... - Corvida

Also, http://www.brighthand.com/. - Larry Huffman

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

Clean looking theme. - Mike Fruchter

Have not seen it yet, but I would love to read it. - Roland Hesz

They have but they made a really bad impression with the publishers they met with so no one would agree to print the book, they were going to print it themselves but they pissed off the distributors and buyers for major book stores so no one would carry it, they were going to just throw it online as an e-book but every time they had the slightest glitch with their isp or blog host they were so offensive to the customer service reps that their access was shut off. - Marco

Yes, there are several versions, but the earliest seems to be http://www.amazon.com/How-Lose... - Rob Diana

More information on the Irving Dart Tressler 1937 parody referenced by Rob Diana: http://www.amazon.com/How-lose... - Ontario Emperor

This thread, among other items, inspired a blog post on Irving Dart Tressler: http://mrontemp.blogspot.com/2... - Ontario Emperor

I'm sticking with Twitter for now, but keeping a close eye on identi.ca . I don't really care much for Jaiku- but that's probably only because I've spent very little time on it. - Bec

ping all - lot´s of talk on plurk and sometimes twitter - Dieter Schwarz

Lyonel, my gut feeling is telling me that it's all about simplicity. - Alex Popescu via twhirl

Of course Lyonel :) - Mona N

Ping.fm.... - Joe Dawson

Your followers, me included, can hide whatever we want from your feed or anyone's feed. So don't worry about it. - Louis Gray

Agree with @Louis. Although, wish FF had a "turn off all (socnet site) from everyone" (ie. Twitter?) - Barbara K. Baker

hide is there for a reason, people here are hungry for noise so why stop - Dobromir Hadzhiev

J. Phil, I'm famous! Thanks! - Akiva Moskovitz

Digg, what's Digg? ;-) Where's my Sphinn feed? Maybe I need to get RSS-clever with that. - Brian Carter

I think people need to start looking at traffic and subscribers. Granted, my blog is still fairly small, but I get more traffic and subscribers because of FriendFeed. - Rob Diana

If bloggers write less powerful titles, it will force people to click the link to see what the article is about ;) - Nick O'Neill

There are give and takes to everything, but at the end of the day I think there is a lot more "give." If a dozen people read and comment on an article of mine on FF it's worth orders of magnitude more to me than the pennies I would have earned if they clicked through. - Steve Spalding

Once again, a great demonstration of the rule that any headline which ends in a question mark can be safely answered with the word "No" :) - Ian Betteridge via twhirl

It will get really sweet when FriendFeed connects to other commenting systems. There is already some of that with Disqus. If comments are pushed back to the source article, they add value to the content published at that URL. Perhaps the killer upgrade from Friendfeed would be to have a widget that does in-place comments on any blog post. Actually that has already been accomplished with a Yahoo Pipes trick. - µnauta

I want like, love and hate links. That would be good enough for me. Not sure what benefits a slider/rank would give. - Rob Diana

I kind of like this post of yours, Steven, but not a lot. I give it a 6. - Joshua M. Neff

It is kinda funny when I want to "like" something to keep track of it, and the content of the thing I "like" is sad or bad news or something. - Steve Lawson

Hmmm. Maybe there should be a delicious/FF app/plugin? - Steven M. Cohen

I think the comments give enough room to expand upon how much you like/dislike a post - Slippy Lane

see what i did there? switched 'meme' and 'Feed' and poof: a whole new word! - MG Siegler

Bitchfeed. I can think of SOOO many reasons why it won't catch on! :-) - Slippy Lane

Am I the only person who wants to see this? Just for the "look how silly this sounds" potential. - Rob Diana

"See you next week when the topic of discussion will no doubt be how awesome FriendFeed was during the iPhone 3G launch. Followed the next day by how overhyped the iPhone 3G is on FriendFeed." HA! :) - Yolanda

MG, you simply must be involved in the next game of Half-Baked.com i put together... http://500hats.typepad.com/500... - dave mcclure

@dave - i'm in! - MG Siegler

"@Maing Sort of. Right now it is considered part-time/guest posting. We will see what happens." - Rob Diana

Really good business model for twitter. Yes, that is my name on Mashable! - Rob Diana

There have been several discussions about whether FriendFeed will kill Twitter or Twitter will kill itself or even some new application will kill both of them. - Rob Diana

<br/>"I am a big fan of Tux Typing. I have been using it in the classroom here in Saigon for about three years now. It is a great open source program to get students interested in learning how to type" - Rob Diana

Thanks in advance for every answer :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

I keep my RSS feeds to about 150. But I put a lot of effort into what I select, I focus on subscribing to the blogs/feeds that are at the very middle of what I want to track. Basically trying to find the blogs that everyone else gets their information from and then links to on their posts (ie TechCrunch for web 2 startups). - Tony

Thank you all! :) Caleb, how much time does it take you to fetch and parse them on toluu? - directeur via NoiseRiver

225 feeds here. Sometimes look at them via Feedly, sometimes Google Reader, most of them are in Flock too. I can go through them in different ways, according to the time I have on my hands. I need to ditch some feeds though, as I see the content elsewhere (via Twitter). - Ruud van Wijngaarden

directeur: not long at all :) - Caleb Elston

"The revenue can come from other streams. So for APIs, third party applications tend to add a lot of value. A new one like TweetDeck can make an application look fantastic even if it is not from the source. There is also the potential for something bigger right now, as nobody really knows where the web is going, but something has started. Twitter and FriendFeed look like major players in the future because of the amount of acceptance they have, mostly because of the AIR applications and other tools using the APIs." - Rob Diana

"actually, there has been talk of getting a standard for comments together by the various sites. It is not entirely formalized yet, but hopefully it can get off the ground." - Rob Diana