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aka Steve Hodson - a cranky old fart wandering the internet causing mayhem as he goes

A better Disqus integration with FriendFeedYesterday

I am an avid user of FriendFeed and I use Disqus here on WinExtra and on an off I would use FriendFeed’s import feature to add comments made on any posts into my FriendFeed stream. The only thing was that the implementation irritated the shit out of me. It wasn’t anything that Disqus was doing or the FriendFeed was doing but when I used that option I always had the feeling that the imported comments were out of place.

After all the original post that the imported comments were made on showed up as individual items and one would think that The imported comments would show up under those items – but they don’t. Sure it’s not a big thing but the separation of the two bothered me. Then today along comes a post on the Disqus blog about a new 3rd party tool that would let me fix the problem.

Apparently a Disqus community member by the name of Carter Rabasa has gotten a littler creative and develope

Yes I am a .. Social Media slutJanuary 5

Yes folks it is true – yours truly finally admits to the inevitable – I am indeed a Social Media slut. No longer is playing around with Social Media just a whimsical past time and even though I joked about it last night on FriendFeed I can no longer keep it a secret.

It all started out innocently enough with this blog but it wasn’t long before the naked tendrils of Social Media began weaving themselves through my life.

After all, I have been seen hanging out on Twitter occasionally throwing out the enticing tweet or two to get people’s attention. I’ve been seen wandering the main streets of FriendFeed and littering the social media landscapes with my just loved songs on Last.fm like a music p

I guess it pays to get the Big Guns involvedJanuary 4

The tech blogosphere is littered with posts giving the big boys of blogging a slap around or chain yanking over their popularity and presumed power but today proved that there is something to the A-List power after all.

I wrote earlier over at The Inquisitr about the complaints that are going on about Feedburner and Google’s apparent lack of interest. The basic back story is that in a pile on that started with Steve Gillmor, spread to Dave Winer and beyond and how Feedburner was in danger of becoming irrelevant. At this point per usual, nothing had been heard from Google – officially or otherwise.

Then Chris Baskind wrote an excellent piece on the problems with the service that then got shared by Louis Gray and as a result showed up in

Bitching about Twitter is so last year, now it’s all about FriendFeedJanuary 3

It never fails.

No sooner than we have had a round of bitching about one social media service than we turn right around and start on some other one. In this case; specially for me, Twitter has ceased for now to being the bitching darling of the tech blogosphere, only to be replaced without even losing a breath by FriendFeed.

The whole rigmarole was started in a post by Louis Gray who made some valid points but all in all it has proven to be more of a great linkbait on an otherwise boring post holiday weekend. Among others that have picked up on his post are Stowe Boyd and Alan Patrick who have both weighted in with equally points of view.

One of the points that Louis raises is that FriendFeed is to noisy for newcomers and they end up either going into information shock or run screaming for Twitter. The suggestion that Louis has is that FriendFeed needs a lite version for the n00bs to play with when they first sign up

The impossible dream – Social TechnologyJanuary 3

For the past month or so I’ve had an idea percolating just beyond my grasp. I would occasionally get glimpses of what it was or what it wasn’t but never enough that I could get it down on paper – per se. I talked about the idea with Alexander van Elsas on Skype a week or so ago but as great as the conversation was it didn’t make getting all the pieces in place any easier. What I had in my head connected well enough but translating that to paper is still proving to be difficult.

The other part of the problem is like in the post I wrote about fear of thinking. It is one thing to work through an idea or concept in your head; or even talk with friends about it, but to commit it to a public viewing is nerve racking to say the least. However the bigger problem with ideas is that sometimes they just won’t let you go and you have no choice but to take the chance and let them free. This is such a case.

The germ of the dream

As enamoured as we are currently with Social Media we have become more entrapped by the se