Cloudnotes is a gem of a little blog I have been reading for over a year. But now the writer, Marshall Preddy, is trying something new. He's moving primarily over to Friendfeed because he wants "full-on exchanges" in a place where everyone’s on equal footing and a simpler way to share things. Definitely worth watching how narrow verticals can thrive by finding community inside Friendfeed, which once again is starting to consume more of my social time.
I think the notion of the top-level domain itself is becoming somewhat less relevant. My online identity is scattered across the Web, not just concentrated in my vanity domain. WWW.mydomain.com just really doesn't encompass my Web identity any more. Perhaps we need something more identity-centered and dynamic than a top-level domain.
tighter facebook integration would be cool too, but i doubt facebook is up for that
i still blog too, usually by emailing post@posterous.com from my iphone and that goes over to ff also... and when i'm feeling up to it i can embed (via the share link under each entry) someone else's or one of my own friendfeed entries into my blog very easily.
i understand that you may not 'dig' it, but you have to marvel at it's sheer genius, right?
@ Adam Clark: I used to say the same thing about Friendfeed, now I am starting to realize that is has a few features that can come very handy. It is indeed very easy to share, you can go over 140 characters and choose not to obsess about it, you can have groups and lists and thus organize your “feed reading” etc.
I recomend using friendfeed as much as possible for a month and see how you like it... import all your twitter friends and use it as a twitter client. Like anything, the more you use it, the better it gets.
Have you heard of anyone ditching their blog for twitter? Of course not, because it is too limited to what you can say.
It is really interesting that CloudNotes has shifted primarily to FriendFeed. I'm not sure I would do that because I still see my blogs as important tools for what I do. I aggregate my various content streams into FriendFeed and use it as an extension of conversations that start elsewhere as well as a way to participate in new conversations I participate in.
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