11 comments

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  Robert Felty

  1 year ago

  "radio has been around for over 40 years"? Hmm. Try over 100 years.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio#History
  Television has been around for about 80 years now.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_in...
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  Phil Glockner

  1 year ago

  You got me, Robert. I did absolutely no research on how long radio has been around, and I was really, really off with my guess. Thanks for the correction. I will update the article.
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  Aaron Brazell

  1 year ago

  Eastern lit. :) Your thesis is:
  
  This simple concept has seemingly been thought out from a small service to a burgeoning community with tens of thousands of folks interacting continuously with it. It would seem to be a logistical nightmare, but on the surface FriendFeed does a very admirable job of maintaining a simple, responsive and, more importantly, engaging and addictive demeanor.
  
  Well done. :)
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  Phil Glockner

  1 year ago

  Between you and me, I really just wanted to use the words "burgeoning, logistical, admirable" and "demeanor" in the same paragraph.
  
  I think that's .. $2 in fancy words right there!
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  Aaron Brazell

  1 year ago

  Sorry, copied and pasted the wrong paragraph.
  
  In the past few years though, there has been a steadily and perhaps even logarithmically growing trend for adding a social channel to more traditional publishing mechanisms that have already existed. Where once you might have visited a web site to read the news of the day, you now can comment on the news, or read the comments of others. This once-intrinsic ability is starting to come back into its own, and in a big way.
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  Phil Glockner

  1 year ago

  Thanks Aaron. As I said, it's an attempt.. perhaps even a stab in the dark. LOL. I might give myself a B+.. I did not centralize FriendFeed enough as the thesis, but I did manage to tie the opening back in with the relevant example.
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  Aaron Brazell

  1 year ago

  The thesis, intentionally or not, is that there is an increasingly large number of social channels being added that contribute to the greater conversation. While you had FriendFeed in mind, you (rightly) used FriendFeed to support your much larger thesis.
  
  What makes this eastern in style is that you led up to the point of the story with a lot of conjecture and supporting evidence for the concept and then delivered the thesis, then went on to support the specifics of the story with examples such as FriendFeed.
  
  If I'm writing this post, I would use your thesis, use FriendFeed to support and tie in other specific examples such as some of the things that WPNI (WashingtonPost.com) is trying or even suggesting Disqus (which you are using here for comments) as other supporting evidence of the addition of social channels to traditionally understood content.
  
  I give you an A-. Don't sell yourself short. :)
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  jeffisageek

  1 year ago

  great post! I think friendfeed can become bigger then just an AM radio station. You have the ability to take one person who might be on 10,15, maybe 20 services and bring it to one central location...for me that is huge with all the people I follow. I think friend feed takes all the info and puts it in a nice clean format that is easy on the eyes and also allows me to share with peole something they may never see because maybe they dont use a service I do but they are still given my content, thoughts, or media.
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  Phil Glockner

  1 year ago

  Indeed so, Jeff!
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  Shey

  1 year ago

  Where is the real Phil and have you done with him??!
  
  Well done :)
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  Phil Glockner

  1 year ago

  Thanks, Shey!