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Did I harm my blog by FriendFeeding this year?
Since I’ve been blogging eight years this month I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about my blog and how I want to do things differently in 2009. I told Mike Arrington, founder of TechCrunch , that I wonder if I’ve made smart time investments in 2008 by spending so much time ...
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Techfuga: If Techmeme and AllTop Had a Baby
louisgray.com — ... and Scoble's blog. So, in theory, the algorithm works. It's not the prettiest I've ever seen, but if you assume that Techfuga is the superset of data, incorporating Techmeme as one of its sources, it does have a ton of data to work with, and as many early versions of sites have shown, cleaning up the GUI can be easier than discovering the content initially. ...

Should You Avoid the “Scoble-Dilemma?”
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — ... Scoble takes it in his stride, providing some good self-analysis of what he’s gained and lost by focusing his efforts away from his blog. ...

FriendFeed Officially a Time Waster as Companies Begin to Block it in the Offices
Profy — ... So the interesting thing to watch is what new websites are added to the list of blocked ones with the latest addition being FriendFeed, the social media darling and obsession of the year with Robert Scoble currently trying to determine if he damaged his blogging by spending too much time on FriendFeed or not. ...

Scoble’s Twitter/Friendfeed Intervention (aka these tools are for different missions)
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The Perfect Social Tool
ReadWriteWeb — (Hint: It's Not FriendFeed) Robert Scoble just admitted to spending 7 hours per day in FriendFeed. It's easy to see why. The more you explore that service, the more you find, and the deeper you fall down into the rabbit hole that is the social web. It's probably one of the most interesting and powerful social sties that we've seen develop over the past year. Yet it, like many other of today's social web services, seems to be a somewhat incomplete vision of what a real social web could be. Sponsor ...

8 Ways to Start a Conversation: Social Media Style!
louisgray.com — ... , the Scobleizer has a knack for starting both conversations and controversies. Robert is the kind of guy that loves to be in a noisy room of 30,000 geeks, and even tries to listen to all of them at once. Robert took time off from his blog this past year to jump feet first into Twitter and FriendFeed. He now has over 23,000 followers on FriendFeed and over 44,000 on Twitter, logging an estimated 2000 hours on these services alone in the last year. Between interviewing up and coming tech-execs, blogging, and participating heavily in social media, Robert’s ...

Goodbye 2008, Hello 2009 On the Social Web
louisgray.com — ... Whatever happens, we know there's going to be no shortage of things to talk about, hash over, debate, and bitchmeme about in the year ahead. One of the most interesting topics I came across that in some ways combines all of the above involves Robert Scoble's post, called Did I harm my blog by FriendFeeding this year? Not only did it open up a flood of discussion on ...

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