Blogging vs. FriendFeed

We’re only halfway through 2008, and already I’ve changed up my online work/info flow a bunch of times. Happens really quickly. I’m an early adopter, and I’m always down to scrap and reshape my flow to fit my needs. What’s unique right now, is that I find I’m blogging less since FriendFeed. Since moving to Tumblr for blogging, I’ve been very happy with it’s ease of use and wide variety of posting methods. Also the Tumblr dashboard for sharing posts between tumblr users was an unforeseen win. Tumblr is a great service and I hope the creators make a gazillion dollars.

Lately though, I find myself drawn to FriendFeed because I get to realize something that blogging doesn’t satisfy - open dialogue. Blogging is largely a one-way broadcast, with the comments thread giving visitors the ability to create a tail of comments, but nothing that effectively works as a discussion. The blogosphere acts like a vast array of broadcasting towers, seemingly isolated, somehow.

What feels so fresh and fun about FriendFeed is the ease and speed of starting and joining converstaions. I really enjoy this. A giant multi-threaded uber convo. The system isn’t flawless yet; for instance there’s no way of “starring” or “flagging” conversations to continue them, but at the rate that the FF staff makes improvements, I am confident that the service will grow and change to accomodate.

I’m not making any sweeping changes here, just looking at my habits lately and they seem to be oribiting the starting and continuing of conversations there as opposed to broadcasting here. If you want to join up and add me at FF feel free…