DISQUS

bearlog: FriendFeed and Scoble and the crowd-as-community problem

  • Scobleizer · 1 month ago
    The thing is I would have to do such dramatic surgery on my lists that it would take me more time than I have. I put thousands of hours into building my FriendFeed lists and curating them. Already in one week I've gotten more value out of Twitter's new lists because they are publicly sharable and because they are inviolate (lists ONLY show tweets from those who are on the list).

    But FriendFeed is useful for other things for me, like live chat for audio shows. I'll stop poking at it, though. That's one reason I wrote such a long post. I wanted to get everything out of my mind.
  • bear · 1 month ago
    I completely understand your point about the amount of time you would have to spend to massage the lists on both services - it's something that keeps me from truly jumping in with both feet to most of these sites.

    I have been waiting to make any "public" comments on the debate going on until just now - but i'm glad at the core you do recognize that they are tools to be used properly. And thanks for the reason-dump, it helped draw me out of my micro-blogging shell and post something more substantial.
  • Scobleizer · 1 month ago
    The other thing is that I made a database of people/brands/things I want to listen to and looked at where they were active. 80% or more were only on Twitter. This has only gotten deeper since lists came out (I've followed 8,000 new accounts in the past week or so). Since they are NOT here on FriendFeed and provably so, I just did a personal and business decision: I went where the people I wanted to read are.

    For instance (and this is a small instance) I could NOT follow all these news brands on FriendFeed easily and I certainly couldn't share them with you the way I can here: http://twitter.com/Scobleizer/tech-news-brands
  • bear · 1 month ago
    *nod* - and that was the difference I was trying to draw out of your post, so i'm glad to see you reinforce it here.

    The fun part is watching the methods and styles of curation and list building work their way thru the older and newer applications and seeing how folks are responding to the limitations.