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awesome work Tim! This has my vote for best blog post of the year so far, seriously!!

Andrew! that is an awesome list. Really appreciated

Just one last point. I use iGoogle for the fast skim over soem important stuff and feedly (which is just a fancy google reader) for the rest. I have 343 feed subscriptions.

I did this about a year and a half ago... after a few months I realized I was missing some important blog's... like Dare's (but we did not have friendfeed back then, or RSS meme, or twittury or friendfeed links or hacker news). I have also unlike you taken a step back from blogging. I blog a few times a week. last year I was blogging between 1-7 times a day.

All that posting a total stupid focus, it's like a dog chasing his tail. In general though I feel sorry for this years startups, we have had it with them because we overdid it last year (speaking for myself at least).

Scoble is passionate and honest... even if he may or may not be right. He wanted it to work. I did a compare a while ago comparing his shows on fastcompany with Podtech. The growth was very impressive :)

I admit to using twitter for only a fraction of the time compared to 6 months ago. But I am also fed up of all the moaning about twitter. Fact is, Friendfeed which is the only alternative I take seriously does not have to do much heavy lifting compared to twitter. My ''wild guess' is that it does not even have a third of the users of twitter. So we don't know if Friendfeed can cope with 1.5 million users. Is FF being built as a messaging service or as a microblogging (CMS) service? FF does not look like a fully fledged messaging service to me.

Great, great idea. Equally amazing but fairly trivial is that you made Techmeme with your first blog post

@SteveSmith leave me alone, I want to sound interesting. It gives meaning to my pathetic little life :p

*21* You now not only piggyback Twitter, but Pownce and Jaiku as well! If anything had happened to twitter up to now Seesmic would be in trouble (at least for a while). Twhirl spreads you around. Great move

I have my lifestream on my blog via a grazr widget. But todays cool lifestream service may not be tomorrows. I am using friendfeed since aboout a month and I love it. But Jaiku has been my first lifestream and it's the main one that I publish. But I publish it via feedburner. That way if I decide to switch to friendfeed I only have to do that at feedburner. The end users will not notice. You could in theory do the same for Flickr. If MS bought Yahoo and you wanted to switch to say smugmug or zooomr, publishing it via feedburner would save yourr skin!

What is the difference between Valleywag and Duncan Riley? What is the difference between bustups between TechCruch -v- Calacanis or Scoble and Valleywag. It is show, mud wrestling, blah, blah! Luckily TechCrunch has great stories as well. One serious critique. They are posting so many stories per day that half way through the afternoon the earliest ones have fallen off the main page! Take a tip from Ars or Om IMHO (headline/ summary/ read more). The CNET hate leaves me totally cold by the way. How many seasons are they planning to run this crap?

Steve get a life.... you really are dead. unplug and wander into the wilderness dork :)

I remember lots of people dancing and singing about the death of Facebook, when Open Social (a 2 bit widget piece of crap that nobody talks about any more). The Social Graph API could be something amazing though. Facebook numbers going down is big news, but hardly the end. In a years time we can see a real trend. The fact that Fox news is reporting this guy says a lot about Fox news as well.

I met Dirk-Willem van Gulik once and saw him speak at a conference on another occasion, You know he is also President of the Apache (server) foundation. His knowledge and intelligence is really impressive. I think we will all snigger at Joost for losing a guy like this. I bet that the guys over at the BBC cannot believe their luck. If I was Joost I'd cut my losses and die real soon. Joost does not need a box, neither does YouTube. YouTube has content... and Joost?

Hi Andy, I am thinking about this a lot as well. I do have some plans. While another project has gotten in the way at the moment, I would like to make this one of my main community todo's this year.

Tech blogger's are a kind of evangelist. But instead of 'preaching' to the converted (our readers) I want to take to the streets and organize a few sessions to show people how blogging, flickr, del.icio.us is. I have been testing this. Showing how easy it is to upload photos to flickr and then hit in the blog this button. We don't even think about it when we do it, but everyone I show is left gob smacked at the possibilities and how easy it is.

Also moving your stuff online via Google Docs and del.icio.us is a weird and possibly scary concept for many people. And then there is video... We have alot to do. I certainly want to do it and I hope that more like me do as well.

Your other point about salary differences is symbolic for the so many differences we have with 'John Doe'. Visit the in-laws :)

Thanks for that! That other anti twitter hype was just stupid IMHO. When I am too busy I switch off. Works just like TV! duh!

They can turn it around. Embrace the change. Selling digital and drm free is good. Embrace it. make it a value for money product. Most music is disposable, 1% are classics. If customers can enjoy buying again then they will buy (yeah it used to be fun to go to the record store on a saturday and bring back a few LP's or CD's). A CD costs $1 to produce. So songs can be much cheaper.... the profit margins on downloads should be bigger. Sell the stuff! that is the ONLY reason you guys aree in business. If you don't want to sell at a price we think is value for money... th go and don't come back!