Robert Scoble is starting to use Friendfeed like a blogging platform with his chronic "here's why" postings. I think that's pretty cool. If FF expands the text field and supports domains, it could get interesting here. - Steve Rubel

Supporting domains would be HUGE - andy brudtkuhl

The practice is very good if you have enough followers who can engage with you and their comments are interlinked with your own, unlike the typical blog that has the body and comments below. But if you don't have a following, you're talking to yourself. - Louis Gray

Robert is the only one who can do this effectively right now. In order for FF to become an effective blogging platform, it needs more features which I fear would hinder it - Bwana ☠

Robert's coverage of CES using FriendFeed was good too. As he walked around he took pictures and posted them right away to FriendFeed along with simple captions. Details could be added later. - Loren Heiny

@Louis - Agreed... Sometimes it does feel like you are talking to yourself on FF - especially if you are posting topics. But it's easy to get into the conversation, and that part I love - andy brudtkuhl

I would seriously consider doing this for the real-time interaction but for one thing: don't the FF "blog" posts become ephemera? It seems like in a day or two they disappear. A blog lives forever and is Googleable. - Leo Laporte

Scobez is fearless and willing to try anything new and seems to be constantly trying to improve himself and his relationship with his audience. Even with his Jupiter-sized ego, he seems to be a genuinely nice, honest guy. That's why I'm one of his legion of fans. - Internet's Tad

You could subscribe to your FF via RSS and archive it with a 3rd party app/etc. is something that comes to mind if FF themselves don't provide a way to directly store everything forever. - Ari Braginsky

Let's not forget that folks can interrupt you as you blog... that will get annoying for the blogger and the reader - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Leo: FriendFeed gets indexed: my FriendFeed page has a PR of 5. And posts exist forever, you can bookmark and link to direct posts from the start of FriendFeed. The big issue is the pager, which only goes back 21 pages right now. - Mark Trapp

Leo, every FF post has a permalink even if you can't get to it via the pagination at the bottom of your feed. Older items show up no problem via search (FF or search engine) or again via that permalink. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Leo, ephemera is part and parcel of the internet in general. :) - Internet's Tad

@Leo I would think better support for multimedia too. - Steve Rubel

I think that FF should be both a blogging platform (with support for long, paragraphed posts and inline media) and an RSS reader with ability to have full feed popups (a la iGoogle's Google Reader widget). Those that don't want those features don't have to use them -- I want them. - Brian Sullivan

Rob, please no cussin' in my stream. Please edit. Also, why do obscenities fly here more than they do on Twitter or blogs? - Steve Rubel

dont know... ask ya mate scoble why he said it in a 14 year olds stream? I dont cuss mate... just stating what he said. sorry... - Rob Sellen :o)

Deleted your comment. Sorry. This feed is family friendly. Happy to have your point but without the word. - Steve Rubel

Rob, without a profile at FF it's really hard to know anyone's age so I don't think your connection of calling a 14 yr old a name is valid if he didn't know that person's age. I knew the person you're referring to is young but not everyone else does. I just found out a few days ago there's another 8th grader subscribed to my feed, even though based on conversation I would have assumed he was about 5-10 years older. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Steve: I blocked Rob so can't see his comments. I also blocked the 14 year old for being a jerk too. - Robert Scoble

Yeah....but it was already stated in the tread he was 14....just shocvking.. i got a 14 yr old..well nex week he is... and i would be funing if scoble or anyone said that to hm.... its not good...and yet people stick up for scoble here... censoring me as steve did, no problem, it shows true colours of peoples perspective... we all learn from it, but just saying we should be seeting an example to younger ones. - Rob Sellen :o)

Rob, I am not censoring you. Your last comment remains. I just remove curses since these all end up in my lifestream feed which has a few thousand subs. - Steve Rubel

No worries steve... :o) - Rob Sellen :o)

Rob -- you are really being a troll - Brian Sullivan

I like the echo effect Robert has. If he throws a stone into the pond, you can watch it ripple for several hours on FriendFeed and Twitter. Some of us (and I include myself here), throw stones and they sink to the bottom:-). I think he's living proof that it's not about the number of people who follow you, but how active and engaged that audience is that does. - Brandon Mendelson

you think so Brian? well thats according to whatever definition you give it.... i am whats the word..talking in my definition, I know a troll when i see one, I know what they are like and I dont act that way... maybe I shouldn't have unintenionally hijacked the thread... sorry if I did...never meant that...just sick of the hypocrisy. - Rob Sellen :o)

+ 100 on Tad's first comment on why he's a fan ... - Patrick Jordan

me too me too :) and Steve Rubel Ace. :) - YusufOzanTasdemir

I can live with the occasional profanity but try writing in English, Rob. You sound like Vicky Pollard from 'Little Britain'. - Andy C

Nice anology brandon... shame that in a sense its partly because of what you said about "sink to the bottom comments" is what ultimately will lead a possible divide here on ffeed.... its already starting in my mind..and in my experience it was scoble who started that divide by blocking what i see because it didn't suit him. - Rob Sellen :o)

andy..... how the hell do you make a join like that? - Rob Sellen :o)

Andy, Rob is deaf and it's possible that his method of 'speaking' i.e. his writing might be shaped by that. Seriously FriendFeed, THIS is why we NEED profiles, to keep us from accidentally stepping on each others toes like this! - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Nice point Tina. :o) true, my speech was shaped by reading, why i say it is so important to read, write, its communication...the world currency...proud to not ever had to use signing. :o) - Rob Sellen :o)

I signed out so I could see what Rob was saying. I had no idea that the 14-year-old was 14 when I was talking with him. I assume everyone here is an adult and treat them as such until they prove otherwise. I blocked Rob because he is a jerk and a troll and I blocked the 14-year-old for the same reason. Sorry, but I won't get along with everyone here. - Robert Scoble

LOL friendfeed is Scoble's unofficial Blog - sofarsoShawn

shawn...if so...that is worrying! - Rob Sellen :o)

People tend to love the Scobles XD - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

We all have the ability to act like 8th graders, we just don't need to. - Greg GuitarBuster

Andy....foot in mouth springs to mind..... doh! steve you DID censor me then...removing that post...maybe not censoring me overall, but... I get the picture anyway. .. zu... "people".??.. speak for yourself.. ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)

Back to Scoble's "here"/"here's" posts. It was noted by Mark Trapp last night that his formulation not only works on FriendFeed, but also works when he propagates his FriendFeed posts to Twitter. I have pictures: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Ontario Emperor

I agree that FF is a great blogging platform, but it can also be used to combine with an actual better blogging platform. I use WordPress to blog and then the conversations around the post here are automatically pulled into the post on WP. I think that's the best of both worlds actually. The reader does have to click at least once to the blog but you can also post part of the post here to engage people who don't want to click through. - Thomas Hawk

oh, and I love Robert's enthusiasm in all that he does as well. - Thomas Hawk

I've been asking for blogging features in FF since I started using it. Glad to see Steve supports this point of view: maybe now someone will listen and less people will complain and argue that FF IS NOT a blogging platform (of course it isn't, but it could be MORE THAN JUST THAT!) - Jordi Soler

Scoble is da man. I also enjoy Micro Persuasion greatly. :) :) :) - J. D. Ebberly

sometimes I wish Scoble was my dad - sofarsoShawn

Shawn, he's Luke's father! - Steve Rubel from IM

So just starting a converation by posting a topic is now considered "blogging"? Posting a list of bullet points intertwined with other peoples comments might be interesting to some folks, but I wouldn't call it "blogging", and I really can't get into it myself. There's enough noise in the system now that injecting it in between sentences of a "blog post" really isn't necessary, IMHO. - Ken Sheppardson

I can just look at his "likes" and get all caught up on the day. RS is the editor needed for the real-time web. It's a tough job, but someone has to do it. - Sarah Perez

Relentless, a great quality in a person. - adolfo foronda

http://bit.ly/8I1r @web3ff, @Duma, @oharaville, @TA125, @globalnomad *After* the ObamaWeb2-Hype -what's popular *now* ?” - ewing2001akaNicomedy2010

I'm going to get a tattoo of Robert Scoble, because I can... - Joe Dawson

He should be the nation's CTO - Richard Binhammer

CTO?? what is that? and no he shouldnt...he is a nobody... outside this circle online noone knows who he is... - Rob Sellen :o)

Robert Scoble's smart and fun. - Igor Poltavskiy

I think Scoble would laugh if you suggested that. There is a huge difference between being a blogger/journalist and reporting and analysing, and being a CTO supposed to give technology leadership and guidance, make the decisions and see them through. PS: the best CTOs actually are nobody too, people don't know them. This is something that needs correction as technology is so key to so many businesses. And inventing a more business-ey CIO position is not necessarily the right solution. soapbox off. - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Robert is a fun mixture of tech geek, open-minded blogger, and a very human and passionate advocate of his interests! - Hayk H.

Cheers for Robert lovers - Rachael Depp

do I have to hang out with terrorist sympathizers like McBride to get love? down with Scoble the fail whale. down with his sphere and spit on his feed. Steve Rubel don't you know that Scoble is bad PR for you? don't you know the only people who appreciate him are people who want to see bad things happen to the guy. He is lower then low. a total scum bag that looks to hang out with turds. - Noah David Simon

I have gone from thinking Roberts feed too noisy to actually searching for his "here's why" posts - great conversations - Peter Efland

amazing that with all the followers he has you can only get under 100 people to comment and say they like the fat jerk - Noah David Simon

Man crush!!!! - Jeremiah Owyang

OK, everyone, back to work. Thanks for the compliments! - Robert Scoble

It's been said above - but very few people on FF can really do this. I think more quality gets missed on this platform than others. There are good posts shared that get 2 comments (if any) and Scoble can write a 4 word post that even he would admit was "noise" and have it get 100. But - it will grow and it's def. a trend worth watching.... - George Smith

George: I think that's bull. I see a LOT of posts here (10s of thousands if I'm active) and you're not missing many high quality ones, believe me. Why? Anything that's decent quality I like and comment on so you see it. - Robert Scoble

Robert - I see lots of posts that are "high quality" that you neither liked nor commented on so I can't help but thinking that there are hundreds or thousands of posts that are "high quality" that you miss either because you just don't see them or your quality standards are different. BTW your statement that you can actually view and digest 10's or thousands of posts is suspect at best. - Brian Sullivan

Brian: it's very easily provable that if I'm online I am able to digest 10s of thousands of posts. By the way, anything you like or comment on I see on my window. I have a very specific bias. I like geeky posts that make me smarter about technology, science, or business. There's lots of funny stuff here that I don't get involved in for the most part. I do see a lot of it, though. - Robert Scoble

By the way you are welcome to check out my inbound and tell me all the cool posts I miss here: http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... - Robert Scoble

"Easily provable" -- not sure how -- so we are talking about 10s of thousands over what period? And what percentage of the total FF posts is that? I am assuming you are referring to English posts only? - Brian Sullivan

It's a small percentage of the ff posts, but here's the rub: good stuff gets likes and keeps coming up. Even stuff I don't touch. There are tens of thousands of people reading here. I always check "best of" lists. So, if something isn't getting attention and you care you gotta figure out why. I read 10s of thousands of posts per day. Provable. - Robert Scoble

So you are saying that you can read and digest 11 posts a minute (that is one every 6 seconds) (assuming a 16 hour day and 10000 posts in that period). I think you are trying to play to your super hero image. I assume you eat, go to the bathroom, and do other things during the day? - Brian Sullivan

Scoble is full of it. I say Prove it Scoble. - ld

I love reading this sentence in your post: "These days, I would rather post to Friendfeed and let Twitter scoop it all up." I was really active in twitter prior to joining Friendfeed, but now I just post to FF and let twitter scoop it up. - Alan Le

My key conveyor/transmission belt: Google Reader > Friendfeed > Twitter. - Sean McBride