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More than a week ago, I decided to temporarily stop using, reading, or writing on Twitter, FriendFeed, and MSN. That's a torture and inhuman! First 24 hours of this idiot idea is the hardest time. Even you know only few people would read your tweets, you still want to tweet. You just want to let the word out, doesn't matter if others read them.

It's a expression way, a life pattern. Something triggers your mind, being organized in your head, then being expressed via typing.

I wouldn't try this again, although this my second time. Now, I have many things have to catch up.

Don't dare to try!

After sharing on Twitter for about a week later, we now have FriendFeed IM. Combination of these two features is the new Twitter IM.




Here is my settings of FriendFeed:




Even this is better than nothing (official Twitter IM), but I don't like duplication. For those like relaying message to everywhere might be a good thing to do. I only tried this for writing this blog post.

A screenshot explains all:

I track these keywords on Twitter:

anyone OR livibetter OR linux OR fedora -mccain -obama -biden -palin

I track "anyone" because I think anyone who needs a hand would ask anyone comes to help them. So when I read a tweet which I know the answer for it, I will check that Twitter user, follow them (not always), and reply with my answer.

I believe anyone suddenly gets a response from unknown person may feel strange. 140 characters is not really enough to reply and introduce myself as well.

Besides Twitter, I also have a browser tab staying in FriendFeed's public page.

I don't have many things to do in current state of my life. I have not many desire for myself, therefore I think if I can fulfill for someone else, that will be making two people happier at least. However, I am really looking forward to reading something very thoughtful, insightful, or potential within those asks. For example, asking an implementation of a new idea, which can significantly improve the efficiency of something. But all I have replied are "what is the link of XXX?", "doesn't anyone know YYY?", etc.

When I take an action for a plan iff I will use the result or I know someone definitely will use the result. By tracking on Twitter, I actually seek the audiences of their own ideas.

People may make stuff for money, ideal, fame, or something I couldn't imagine. I know I do for fame, just want to see lots of people using my stuff. Unfortunately, that haven't happened.

I saw a posting on FriendFeed, the poster want a Super Feed which has contents of his FriendFeed Feed and Comments + Likes Feed. I think Yahoo Pipes can do this task easily, and it does. However, Pipes is extremely slow right now, it wasnt about three months ago. In other words, I havent used Pipes for three months, hope the issue is just temporary.

Here is the full view of this Pipe:

It uses three types of modules:

• Fetch Feed: On the top, they grabs your two feeds.
• Union: At middle, it combines all its inputs, which are your two feeds in this case.
• Sort: You need to sort the output of Union, because the output of Union is all items in first feed, then all items in second feed. That wasnt what we expected, it should be sorted by published date (time).

I think you can clone my pipe, and replace feed sources with yours (in Fetch Feed modules). If you cant, just drag-and-drop by following the figure above. You can also check out the RSS feed directly.