1. People who ONLY Twitter have a high propensity for much more noise than signal. Those who are best? Those who post to a lot of different services, and who blog often. - Robert Scoble

2. People who change their avatar from the default are more likely to have signal than those who don't. - Robert Scoble

Is this more of a "early-adopter" feed? - Kyle Lacy

3. Past results are best predictors of future results. As I look through my list of people who have fed a lot of "signal" into the system, like Tim O'Reilly, they have done a lot more signal in past week than most people in my list of about 3,300 people I'm following. - Robert Scoble

4. Those who use graphics in their FF posts are far more likely to have signal than others. - Robert Scoble

If you publish it, we can call it the S-list :) - Charlie Anzman

love #2 - MikeAmundsen

5. My list is very male heavy, and I went looking for women who feed good tech news to their friends. Looking to balance that out, will watch over next week to see if I can find anyone on the "Everyone" feed. - Robert Scoble

6. That would be super. - jeneane sessum

6. This hand-picked list is WAY better than the feed from the 3,300 people I subscribe to. MUCH lower noise (for me) and much better stuff, and easier to find the good stuff (again, in my opinion). I don't like cat photos and there are a LOT fewer cat photos on this feed. - Robert Scoble

I guess one persons noise is another persons signal though. - Ian May

jinx. - jeneane sessum

7. This feed does NOT match what is "popular" on FriendFeed right now. Very little politics. Very few "goofy posts." No Bacon. :-) - Robert Scoble

Kyle: I don't see it as an early adopter feed, more of people who talk mostly about tech. But, yeah, I'd guess that it is very heavy on early adopter types. You can see what I like here: http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... - Robert Scoble

Ian, that is absolutely true. My brother thinks my list is boring. I'd guess that Mona won't "Like" a whole lot of stuff on my list. - Robert Scoble

Ahh no bacon? Thanks for the clarification, Robert. - Kyle Lacy

I didn't say that your list is boring. I just said that a lot of the noise is fun. That doesn't mean that tech stuff (as long as it's not a lot of blah blah blah on blogging, web 2.0 and social media) isn't interesting. Personally, I'd like to see a home theater list, but that's just me. - Alex Scoble

Robert - I don't 'like' stuff that is echoed since I only need to read headlines / news once. ;) - Mona Nomura

I'd probably post more tech-oriented stuff because I'm very tech-oriented but it requires a lot of work 'keeping up with the Joneses' trying to out-scoop people who are far more well-connected than I or trying to shout my useless opinion louder than the next 'tech blogger'. So I try to have fun on FriendFeed in other ways. I do see, though, that FriendFeed has changed significantly since the old days when it was almost all tech-oriented. Now it's bacon, pirates, mangoes, and a variety of memes. - Akiva Moskovitz

Not that there's anything wrong with that! - Akiva Moskovitz

I made an effort to cut down on my 'echoes' soon after I joined FF. It bugged me to see stuff appearing multiple times, so I know it must have everyone else. I don't feed feed Twitter or Tumblr into here now. - Ian May

Couldn't you just have not subscribed to 3300 people to begin with? Seems rather silly now that you're culling it back to people you actually want to listen to. - Jason Carreira

+42 Jason. - abacab

I like the mix of the fun with the other stuff. I've also discovered some great stuff out here that I might never have known about...or at the very least, it wouldn't have come to my attention this quickly. There is still enough tech for me. -

Jason: I am NOT cutting back. I still like my main feed, but for other stuff, like tonight I'm following the emmys there. But it's now very noisy because that's how things go. Plus, I never would have known who to put in my special list if I hadn't followed so many to start out with. - Robert Scoble

Robert, in an era in which online conversation is becoming so vital, you are playing such an interesting role, helping us to see what's possible. - John McCrea

+1 JMakelovenotwarS - Kyle Lacy

Friendfeed needs to be smart enough to figure out which posts from which users are most relevant for each user. - Sean McBride

Agree with Sean. Also, Robert is right: one has to have high statistical sample - big numbers of followings - to get a better tailored smaller sample! I like to have cats and bacon but my interests are further including tech, business (a lot of my posts) and politics (not that many but still). - Hayk H.

Looking forward to seeing the list, Robert. I try to filter through the news and feed specific news to my friends. Since I blog about LA tech, I try to filter through the major blogs and feed LA news through Twitter. It would be cool if more people were doing that for other regions. - Calley Nye