FriendFeed "Rooms" and Blogging 2.0
Posted by Pat Kitano at 5/22/2008 9:52 PM 
Categories: social networking, Blog networks, Blogging, Social Media
Categories: social networking, Blog networks, Blogging, Social Media
I've been discussing the converging intersection between mass media and social media lately. Mass media strives to deliver the most content to the most consumers. Social media strives to deliver relevant, customized content within and among disparate, granular societal groups. The concepts of mass media are now making an imprint in social media by aggregating blogs, Twitter feeds and all those social networks into digestible channels. Duncan Riley calls it "Blogging 2.0".
Like any other 2.0 paradigm that speeds up the distribution of data, bloggers are becoming disintermediated. The premise is simply readers of blogs don't need to visit the blog any more. There are feedreaders, Friendfeed, del.icio.us, Facebook, blog networks, Twitter and other arenas where blog content are "syndicated". By taking the conversation away from the individual blog, Riley claims the professional bloggers who make a living off of traffic will suffer.
Why is this happening? Blogging 2.0 is a manifestation of the media's predilection to content channeling, which makes it easier for readers to find the relevant content they want to read. The "medium now does become the message"; content is digested differently from a Feedreader than through the more personal Friendfeed or Facebook, or from peripatetic Twitter. Here's the list of social "media" that can populate a Friendfeed profile:
And starting today, the RE.net has its own "room" in Friendfeed c/o Morgan Brown... it's already the virtual lounge for the hardcore RE.net we know and love. Note one of the first conversations addresses how content will be channeled through the FF room... and the thoughtful input from Jeff Turner suggesting that automated RSS feeds would create too much room noise:
Brad Nix posted a message
“Could this FF room replace my feed reader?”
- Brad Coy, Andy Kaufman and Morgan liked this
- it could become my one trusted RE.net feed instead of tracking down all the rest plus people could comment on the best stuff, bubbling it to the top! - Morgan
- I guess FF could replace my feed reader if all the bloggers I read syndicated to FF. Hmmm....should I ask them to? - Brad Nix
- Between Twitter and FF, I barely check my feed reader already. - Andy Kaufman
- i agree w/andy google reader = dusty these days - Morgan
- the question is. If everyone is looking at FF, then who's mining the feeds - Brad Coy
- We need a REnet version of Scoble to mine the feeds for us. Any volunteers? - Andy Kaufman
- I agree Andy. An REnet Scoble would make my virtual life easier to follow. (Is it normal to have trouble keeping up with your own virtual life?) - Brad Nix
- hehehe... where's the Zebra? - Brad Coy
- andy you're supposed to be the re.net scoble! - Morgan
- the Zebra would a great REnet Scoble! - Brad Nix
- the zebra would be great too! - Morgan
- Not as long as the font in the comments is a light eye-irritating gray. - Kelly
- any way to integrate toluu into this? - Jim Duncan
- Jim, one of the reasons I like this room concept is that they're not allowing feeds in the rooms. Direct input only. Allowing people to pump feeds into the rooms would have the same impact as having too many people in the room. Smaller, focused groups will be better for these rooms. If the rooms grow too large, they will quickly loose their focus. IMHO. - Jeff Turner
Note how Twitter and Friendfeed are replacing feedreaders as more efficient data filters because the RE.net trusts its constituency to mine the best content. The FF Room is one more channel, this is where media is headed.
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Thanks for posting. I have been trying to make a habit of actually going to blogs even though I participate in the conversation at twitter or friendfeed or share on google reader.
On this newest addition to web 2.0 I was only 2 days behind. So I feel like I'm starting to catch up!
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Interesting and educational post. It seems like every day there's something new in cyberspace. A bit difficult to keep up.
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