I like your first idea, about bubbling. Have you checked out NoiseRiver. I think directeur has built what you are asking for - it would be nice to see it in the core FriendFeed offering as well. I am not a fan of the second idea, I think it's a fine line between reader and republishing blog content. - gregory

Your second idea is interesting. Previously, I wrote a post about blogging on FriendFeed (http://tinyurl.com/5fgv7o). I go one step further. So, instead of importing/republishing things to FriendFeed, we might consider using it as a publication platform. - Kerem Ozkan

gregory: i did try out NoiseRiver and either I couldn't quite figure out what it was doing or it's broken because I ended up becoming frustrated with it and just left it. I know what you mean about the second point. As a blogger, I'm not sure how I would feel about it either. If I'm trying to build a personal brand or attract people to my blog, then FF would potentially damage that goal, depending on how I looked at things. - Rob Neville

gregory: needed more room. Seems to me that this is the same argument over whether to publish full RSS feeds or not. The point of a RSS reader is so that I don't have to check a bunch of different sites. Now introduce all of these social networks and now I have to check a bunch of different sites again. - Rob Neville

Rob, I reshared your post here http://friendfeed.com/e... - Mike Fruchter

Kerem: I still want my own blog, but I can integrate FF features into my blog so that they meld together into one stream. But, I agree with you in principle. - Rob Neville

@Rob Neville (stage3): Can I help in any way? :) What are you wondering about? (btw, I noticed this thread thanks to NoiseRiver's highlighting :) ) - directeur from NoiseRiver

@directeur: I think my frustrations were twofold...1) the del.icio.us import didn't seem to work and I was too lazy to figure out all the stuff I'm interested in and type it in :) 2) I couldn't really tell what it was doing...why were things showing up that showed up, what did it mean that it was at the top of the list...most relevant? most recent? To be honest, I haven't spent enough time with it to give you much in the way of cogent feedback. - Rob Neville

@rob I am doing the full text feed, but thri feedburner so I can see the number of subscribers I have. It's sorta annoying to have to check stats in several places but I had readers who would only finish and share posts on my blog if I used full text feeds. If friendfeed would provide similar support (for tracking) I may feel differently - gregory

@Mike Fruchter (fruchter): thanks! - Rob Neville from NoiseRiver

@gregory (gregory80): Well, if Feedburner can figure out to keep track of Google Reader subscribes then why not FriendFeed followers? I know that's not completely Apple's to Apple's, but a thought.... - Rob Neville from NoiseRiver

@Rob if that is possible it would be great, but it's sort of a weight and see. I derive very little traffic from Friendfeed at the moment. On my blog much of my traffic comes fro. Search engines and go to my tutorials, sadly my editorials and topic pieces get little love... - gregory

@Rob Neville (stage3): Thanks for the feedback! I'll look deeper to that delicious issue. Meanwhile, there's an even better feature. I see you're using NoiseRiver right now, you see that little pink heart that comes with every entry? click on it and it will let you set your keywords much more easily. Another cool feature: hover a user's name and you'll see a tooltip with his information, your social proximity and you can even set your feelings about his entries there! Give it a try and tell me :) - directeur from NoiseRiver

Another thing: despite all the work I put in it, I have to say that NoiseRiver is less than a month old! And it mainly supports every feature (plus some more) that FriendFeed offers :) - directeur from NoiseRiver