Nicerobot’s “Just For Friends” is no more
So it looks like friend of the journal, nicerobot, has had too many problems with WordPress or something and destroyed his “Just for Friends” community blog in a fit of rage. He has suggested the handful of us who frequented ( or infrequented) there should start up Friendfeed accounts and keep in touch that way.
I don’t know Friednfeed, but it seems kind of Twittery to me. Nothing against Twitter, but I just can’t get into massive quantities of one sentence phrases coming in fromall directions like an attack of locusts. It seems like the logical progression of online Attention Deficit Disorder. Maybe it’s just me – maybe I Just Don’t Get It. But it seems likemore and more data is coming in with less and less information and context.
I think that’s my biggest issue here – lack of context. I guess you can make your own context with very short messages. I think I will start a messaging service with a message length limited to one character:
- nicerobot says: “A”
- caroliner says: “C”
- n8 says: “G”
etc. If enough of these feeds are coming at you at once, I am sure you will begin to see the patterns in the traffic.
A question to anyone who happens to be reading this – is there a reason that a new community blog should not be started? Does anyone think Friendfeed will be a better place for conversations? It seems like it would be pretty easy to set up a blog for community discussion.
FriendFeed is not like twitter, it’s more of an aggregation service for your online places. it pulls together and lets you share from Flickr, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc. afaik, there’s no limit to the amount of content you can share.