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As of lately, members of the social aggregator Friendfeed are really starting to piss people off (including me). Here’s a look at why.
      

Attitude Problem

The elitist attitude problem is definitely starting to take over on Friendfeed. Users are being down right rude to bloggers who have various issues with Friendfeed. For example, David Risely recently posted "The FriendFeed Orgasm And Why It Is Off The Mark". It’s a pretty controversial post, but only in the mind of Friendfeed users. Risely points out some echoed problems of Friendfeed, including it’s contributions to the "Conversation Fragmentation" arena.

Friendfeed users are complaining that Risely shouldn’t worry about where the comments about his content are going. Well, those same users should’ve left the numerous bloggers who complained about Shyftr doing the same (among other things), the same comments!
      

No Respect

On top of that, users are hiding behind the walls of Friendfeed riddled with snarky and borderline derisive words for Risely’s opinions.

The FriendFeed community (not as a whole) shows very little respect for those that disagree with the service. They’re doing the same thing that Mac fanboys are prone to doing: being ignorant. Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time I’ve seen this happen on Friendfeed.
   

Not Everyone Is A Friendfeed Junkie

David Risely’s post pointed out valid problems of Friendfeed: really high noise levels and sucks for bloggers. Not everyone could care less about where the comments about their content is headed. While no one owns a conversation, you could still respect an authors opinions on what they’d like.

And who hasn’t said it; Friendfeed’s noise level is really high! Sure you can hide everything for an entire service or for various people, but that’s a tedious process in itself and doesn’t solve everything.

It’s a bit hard to wrap my head around some of the comments because some of these people are bloggers that I respect and who have always been polite and helpful when disagreeing with the opinions of not only myself but others.

This continued shallowness and "eye rolling" attitude will piss people off like crazy. As I stated on Friendfeed to Alex von Halem and Robert Scoble, not everyone is a Friendfeed junkie.

What’s so hard about respecting that?

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Steven Hodson of WinExtra made an announcement today about Meme13 in a post titled "Tracking the Techmeme newcomers"

The Meme13 web service is a tracker that follows the Techmeme leaderboard and according to Steven Hodson’s article:

[...] mashes together the last 13 sites that made their first appearance on the Techmeme Leaderboard. You can read these sites by visiting Meme13 or subscribing to its feed, which contains the latest entries from all of them.

Though the service is in it’s beginning stage, its homepage could use a serious makeover. I also noticed, and Marshall Kirkpatrick pointed out in Hodson’s article, that it’s showing full posts. This was a hot topic just last week and it’s still creating quite a buzz. Meme13 would be best advised to change this format quickly before they get swept up in the issue too!

On the other hand, the service is a great concept and a really generous way to help out up and coming bloggers and their content. Sometimes, even if you do make Techmeme, your story could go unnoticed with all the news that’s constantly flowing through it.

So Kudos to Rogers Cadenhead for launching the Meme13 service and for helping out the "little guys" trying to make it big!

Be sure to check out Marshall Kirkpatrick’s article "Meme13 Tries and Fails to Solve the Techmeme Echo-Chamber Problem", which notes how Meme13 is also contributing to one of Techmeme’s biggest problems.

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It’s official: B-List is the new A-list. We’re taking over and making headlines for our contributions to this wonderful community we call the web (or blogosphere if you’re into ugly words)

Steven Hodson of WinExtra has replenished his personal A-list bloggers, while Louis Gray lists 5 more blogs you should be reading, somewhat of a follow-up to his 5 potential entrants to the Techmeme leaderboard post.

I figured I’d shout out my list of A-list bloggers that you should also be following along with the many awesome blogs that Hodson and Gray have listed, including Steven Hodson(Subscribe) and Louis Gray (Subscribe)!

Corvida’s A-List Bloggers

The Social Networker (Subscribe Here)

My partner in tech crime! The Social Networker is a great site for social media and technology news and commentary. If you love SheGeeks, you’ll thoroughly enjoy The Social Networker.

Sarah In Tampa (Subscribe Here)

A Grand Effect network blogger, Sarah Perez does a fantastic job of giving you a daily dose of social media tools and web 2.0 applications that everyone can use.

The Last Podcast (Subscribe Here)

Another Grand Effect network blogger, Frederic of The Last Podcast gives great insight into some of the hottest topics being discussed within the tech community!

Mobigasmic (Subscribe Here)

One of the greatest mobile gadget blogs I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading with plenty of eye candy and mobile app reviews!

(Jeff)isageek (Subscribe Here)

Another great site with awesomesauce coverage of web apps and social media services!

Chris Brogan (Subscribe Here)

If you’re looking business insight and commentary, Chris Brogan is your guy!

Queen of Spain Blog (Subscribe Here)

With all the males in the tech community, you’ll love the Queen of Spain Blog for great insight and witty commentary on issues that plague women and mothers in tech and life! She’s a refreshing must read!

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