I Need to Use FriendFeed More

By Jake • Published on June 22nd, 2009 • 13 Comments

Did anyone notice a larger than normal bump in their FeedBurner stats last week? Last week, the FeedBurner numbers shot up from about 1,000 readers to more than 1,500. I’m behind on my reading, but so far, I haven’t seen this covered anywhere but on the FriendFeed blog. Some movement in subscribers is common. However, [...]

All Your Comments Are Belong to Us

By Jake • Published on April 14th, 2009 • 16 Comments

H/t to Joel Garry for the AYB reference. As I mentioned when I enabled the new Disqus Social Media Reactions feature earlier this month, comment aggregation is all the rage with bloggers. Commentary and discussion that used to be centered squarely in the comments on a blog can now happen in a bunch of other [...]

Disqus Adds Comment Aggregation

By Jake • Published on April 2nd, 2009 • 29 Comments

I suppose I blog a lot about Disqus because we’ve been using it here for a while. I’ve gone back and forth about whether we should keep it, especially after WordPress introduced threaded comments. Although I’m not in love with the idea of a) not owning the comments and b) taking a performance hit on [...]

FriendFeed is for Lurkers too

By Jake • Published on March 18th, 2008 • 55 Comments

If you missed it, over the weekend, there was quite a testy blog war between Louis Gray and Duncan Riley, ostensibly started by FriendFeed or rather differing opinions of it. Short version: Duncan doesn’t find value, Louis disagrees, obscenities ensue. Makes for a good read. FriendFeed has been all the rage lately among the usual [...]