i find i use google reader less & less now, since i find enough interesting stuff here on ff. i've been reading rss through snackr lately too, and even though it syncs read/unread with greader, it doesn't yet let you share from there. - Trent Olson

Trusted referrals. Someone's share means that post was deemed "share-worthy". - Hutch Carpenter

I do quite a lot of reading, not so much commenting here, as you've probably noticed - Prolific Programmer

maybe because FriendFeed is Google Reader evolved? - Vincent van Wylick

Its all here... More than enough content to digest... - James Fridley

I read Google Reader prolifically but I don't share items via Google Reader, I share them to FriendFeed directly so I can include text/inline images. - Robert Seidman

I read Google Reader almost every day. It's fun to comment here because you can see what other people think about an item right away and have a discussion. I'm liking FriendFeed more and more as a key discussion place on the Web. - Cathryn Hrudicka

I never used Google Reader - but FriendFeed seems to provide a sort of 'rating & review system' that means that one person shares it in GR, and if enough of my other "Friend Feed Braintrust" folks like/comment on it, then it's probably worth a look. Which would make more sense if I were coherent - but you get the gist. - Lucretia Pruitt

James: I'm actually noticing that the content here is a little light sometimes. Too much talk about certain jerks, or celebrities, not enough about smart topics. So I go off to look for some. - Robert Scoble

I actually read a significant amount in Google Reader. I also routinely share articles, sometimes with comments. I have continued to use Google Reader the same amount since I started using Friendfeed as I did before FF. I find I have interests and follow blogs and news with topics that just aren't discussed here so I do not see giving up using Google reader any time soon. - Jeff P. Henderson

I do enough Google Reader that I've caught myself trying to hit SHIFT+S to send an email :) - Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)

Fuck Google Reader, go FeedDemon/Newsgator! - J.T Dabbagian

Scoble, didn't you read my RSS Reader/Organizer post??? shh! Actually, I never really used Google Reader. Was always using iGoogle for my RSS feeds. - Justin Korn

Feedly+Google Reader == Heaven. I just wish I could integrate FF Comments with Reader. - Jesse Stay from twhirl

I agree with Robert that at times content can be a little lite here, or it can be so focused on the shiny new topic of the day (Can you say iPhone...) that there is almost no other discussion going on. But often I find some very interesting topics to discuss here that I can't get anywhere else. - Jeff P. Henderson

And you know how much Google Reader reading we do because...?? - jcunwired

The Scoble sees all, Jody - Robert Seidman

Jody: I do see it all. Well at least I see an interesting subset of all. :-) - Robert Scoble

I hecka use Google reader! - Clay Newton

I haven't figured out how to balance a full-time job, FriendFeed et al, sleep AND Google Reader. Until I gain your type of insight, something has to give. I do think longingly about my GReader from time to time. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF from NoiseRiver

I'm still in GReader a couple hours a day. - Chris Baskind

One thing I noticed is that the content duplication really bothers me. It's one reason why I stopped reading Google Reader so much. I see it again. I really wish FriendFeed's team would do something about this and cluster same items together. - Robert Scoble

I use http://www.feedly.com/ to read Google Reader, better overview (magazine like interface) and all. Sharing is easier too, but because it has a direct link to FriendFeed, it is an example of a route that grows on Google Reader but ends up on FF... - Ruud van Wijngaarden

... or at least suggest something like "This URL has been submitted in the last 24 hours. Would you like to continue your submission, or comment on the existing entry?" - Chris Baskind

I;ve been using Google Reade rto share items for a few months now, I really dig it. - Soulhuntre from twhirl

Really like Google Reader but Feedly makes it sing for me! http://feedly.com provides me with lots of options for responding to read items (FriendFeed, Twitter, Delicious.) - michael sean wright

if people were really using the service as FRIENDfeed, rather than Social Mediati feed, or Promote My Stuff Feed or Info Junky Feed, the duplication would be somewhat minimal. Duplicates are heinous even at 150 people (I am following too much of the echo chamber, my own fault) but I can't even imagine how that looks for Scoble with over 3000 people. - Robert Seidman

I use it but skip some days http://friendfeed.com/somenic... - Andrew Smith

Chris: What you are describing is similar to what a few other users asked for and what we tried to implement : each time you select an article, you get a list of all the friendfeed conversations related to that articles this way you can decide if you want to participate to that existing discussion or if you want to create your own post and create a new one. Here is a screenshot of what it looks like: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Edwin Khodabakchian

That's nice work, Edwin. I should have mentioned that I'm getting more comfortable with doing my daily feed crunch in Feedly. In fact, I did all my RSS "work" in Feedly today (at least until it was time to gather my starred items and write). But I usually submit to FF from the article sites. I'll play with that. Thanks. - Chris Baskind

i subscribe to your shared items and read directly from google reader -- in fact, i rarely use friendfeed at all! (although that's slowly starting to change...) - Shawn C. Reed

Robert: Google Reader -- much better signal to noise than Friendfeed. I find GR to be a much more powerful tool for identifying and processing highly strategic information than FF. Friendfeed, however, is entertaining and addictive, and has the potential, with new features for smart filtering, to replace GR. The GR developers should be thinking about how to assimilate FF, or they are going to be swallowed by FF. - Sean McBride

Not true Robert, being here encourages me to find interesting things in Reader to add to the stream. Reader is the godsend for the information addicted and I'm running at about 600 articles a day just to get by. - Aaron Krug

I use Google reader a bit. - Michael McGimpsey from twhirl

I'm a Google reader addict, I spend on average 2 hours a day or more... I think this cause I feel need read every news item, of several hundreds. like 500 everyday.. bad habit... but Friendfeed makes it easy to comment on any online network activity - Sebastiaan van den Akker

hey gReader is still strong part of the workflow - Dobromir Hadzhiev

I got hooked to greader after I sawa video by Scoble show him skimming through thousands of items using they keyboard... resulting being that my starred item list is huge... lol - Sebastiaan van den Akker from twhirl

Some good shares on Google Reader today Robert, I comment on occasional stories not many though! - Joe Dawson

For selected things, Google Reader is a better way to consume them. I will never see most things that pass through my FriendFeed; if it's in Google Reader, I'll at least see the titles (usually). - Ontario Emperor from fftogo

not me, although I've been a little quiet today (email fail crisis...and a 4 hours to research and write post). Link blog with shares here http://www.google.com/reader... - Duncan Riley

I still use Reader and Scholar for 1-2 hrs daily at the start of every day. It's mostly science and medicine stuff tho, so wouldn't expect as many to like or comment on the stuff compared to the tech news. Sometimes I share as an antidote to the lite stuff on twitter and iPhone - Sally Church from fftogo

I tend to use Google Reader as one might a broadsheet newspaper... whereas FriendFeed is like standing in the bar listening in on the conversations and chipping in now and again. - Jonathan Beckett

Some of us don't use Google Reader for our feeds. :) - Cyndy

I can't drive myself to use Google Reader's user interface. But I love to use FrendFeed. :D - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

I use gReader, just tooo dang busy to read many blogs these days...really bummed about it, but my job is really overwhelming lately. - Susan Beebe

I couldn't care less about Google Reader, Friendfeed gives me more stuff to read than the time I have to... - Marcos Marado from fftogo

i use newsgator because it easy syncs to mac/pc... netnewswire is the best rss reader ever made (mac)... web version is a joke compared to greader tho - stunnaman from twhirl

RSS is dead. I haven't used Google Reader in 2 months. Why waste time mucking around in Google Reader and sludging through all the crap when the best of what Google Reader and your RSS feeds have to offer can be filtered through FriendFeed. - Thomas Hawk

Thomas Hawk - I wish I had a better understanding of your model for using Friendfeed. I subscribe to nearly a thousand RSS feeds in Google Reader. I store the top 25 feeds in a folder at the top of my feeds, and tend to focus on that single folder for the pure gold, With GR I am able to reduce redundancy to a minimum by clearly separating read from unread items. FF is a mess by comparison. What am I missing? - Sean McBride

Ever since feeddemon/netnewswire and synching with newsgator became free, I ditched google reader. - Shmoe

simple. Communiy-collaborative filtering combined with conversation. My own G Rrader feeds are a lonely chore - Michael Markman

Sean, just subscribe to those top 25 feeds here in FF instead. Learn to hide everything in FF after you've seen it if you need to more aggressively filter out content you've seen. - Thomas Hawk

Thomas -- I find hiding to be far too much manual labor. The aesthetic of hiding violates all my principles of good user interface design. (IMHO, of course). And I find the hundreds of feeds that are not in my top 25 folder to be valuable -- I rely on Google Reader to sort unread items in that group by personal relevancy for me, and it does a pretty good job. I skim off a few 100 items from my B-list in odd moments. How do you separate unread from read items in Friendfeed? I dislike the redundancy. - Sean McBride

Perhaps GR appeals more strongly to solitary personalities who are more interested in their internal conversations than in conversations with others. Too much social conversation gets in the way of developing complex and difficult creative projects. - Sean McBride

Not I my friend. - Ryan

I still do a ton of feed reading and share items. - Steve Rubel

I would estimate that Google Reader is, literally, 100 times more efficient for scanning, keywording, storing and retrieving high-quality information than Friendfeed in its current state. - Sean McBride

The problem with Google Reader is that when you subscribe to more than 100 or so feeds you inevitably get bogged down in lower value information. While you can prioritize by creating subject folders or A, B, C type hierarchies, still there is no real relevancy filtering by interesting subjects. Throw your A feeds into FF and let your contacts decide what else is interesting. Add in super search and you have a system that is superior to GR. - Thomas Hawk

remember how years ago everyone used to think dial up AOL was an interesting way to access the internet? Then technology showed a better way. RSS readers are not going to die, but they will be seen as the dial up AOL of content consumption 5 years from now. Your parents might still be using RSS readers, but you won't be. The potential of social filtering through tools like FF today is only the tip of the iceberg for what is coming. - Thomas Hawk

Thomas -- I create separate folders in Google Reader for narrow subjects like "Semantic Web" or whatever. And the cool thing is that feeds can be stored in multiple folders. I also prioritize my folders. (My GR setup is actually a bit more complex than my previous description.) Perhaps I am slow to catch on to all of FF's functionality, but so far I haven't been able to match my GR setup here. - Sean McBride

Robert: I added too many busy feeds in GR and they became unmanageable. Upon review, each feed seemed valuable and a pity to drop. I am keeping my FF subscription list short for a reason. - Alexei Tolkachev

Sean, I used to do something similar. A folder for photography. A folder for ego searches. A folder for Flickr. Overlapping A, B, C folders based on prioritization. Etc. FF is far from perfect, it is where the ball is moving though, it is the future, and I'd rather master the systems of the future than waste time bogged down in the systems of the past. - Thomas Hawk

Thomas - more: the swarm/collective intelligence capability on FF is not being very efficiently used, in my opinion. For instance, I want "rank new links which mention *expression by times linked, liked, clicked and commented on." Currently the cool links swim in a chaotic morass -- I can't easily get my hands on them. My Friendfeed friends (like you) turn up good links (thanks!), but I don't feel like I am seeing the whole picture in any field of activity. - Sean McBride

Thomas - I'm listening carefully to your remarks - I respect your opinions. We are both rather fanatical early adopters. Bottom line so far for me: I want to see a merging of the best features of Google Reader and Friendfeed, and more. - Sean McBride

Google Reader is my number one shared site, I'm almost as addicted to it as I am to FF. - Bren -- feeling merry

Its all about the community effect; we are all here and its so easy to add a message. It all looks so nice and the user experience is great. - Joao

Some do, some don't. I see no problem with people using FF as an RSS reader of sorts, but I am seeing a disturbing trend where people are commenting on the headline and not reading the article! - Sarah Perez

Well, I share about 20 stories per day, but there is always some feed that I do not subscribe to that someone shares a good post from. - Rob Diana

GReader stats: From your 103 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 3,419 items, starred 27 items, shared 43 items, and emailed 2 items. - John Duff from NoiseRiver