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10 People to Follow On FriendFeed for the Month of JanuaryToday

By Mike Fruchter of MichaelFruchter.com (Twitter/FriendFeed)

It's the start of a new year, and what better way to kick it off with it than a tradition I started back in July of 2008?

This is the type of post that really makes me happy. It's my way of paying it forward to a community that already has given back to me so much, in so many different ways. What better way to do this than joining forces with Louis Gray, who is one of the most vocal and positive supporters of the community we all have come to love, FriendFeed.

This post highlights 10 FriendFeed members that I feel are of value to the community. People often ask and recommend other FriendFeed members for this list. All that I can say to that is, whoever is on my radar, I try and take notice of. I have close to 1,000 people following me on FriendFeed, and I reciprocate back to about the same. Therefore if you are active on FriendFeed and

Changing It Up on Twitter & FriendFeedToday

As the new year starts, I am increasingly thinking of changing my follow habits that I have maintained since I first logged in on Twitter and FriendFeed. 

Mutual Respect

My attitude was, mutual respect. You follow me, I follow you. I can learn from everyone. I still think it’s a good attitude to have, and I wish it was the right one. But increasingly, especially on Twitter, I don’t think it is. 

I’m going to rant a bit here, just warning you.

For months, I have been using FriendFeed and Twitter actively. At the beginning, I followed anyone who looked interesting and didn’t care about who followed me back. I maintained what I thought of as a fairly altruistic policy toward both services, just concerning myself with finding great people.

More recently, my active search for new great people has begun to taper. First, I found tools for both services that figure out who my ‘mutual followers’ are.. and I have to admit, they have shaken my original innocence.. people who I thought I had connected with were

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Building Character for 2009January 2

Happy New Year everyone!  I hope you’ve all had a very warm and enjoyable holiday with your friends and family.  I’ve been rather busy for the holidays and I do apologize for not posting but there are some rather major changes arriving just in time for this year.

I thought taking a look at 5 different characters from various media that had an interesting impact on me over the last year might help with building character for the new year.  I’d be curious about what other people think but for me, these characters are from releases in 2007 or 2008.  I tried to keep it to 2008 but I admit I strayed into 2007 a bit.  School and textbooks — ‘nuf said.

M-O (aka. Microbe Obliterator) from Wall-E

This little guy makes a huge impact.  His persistence (some like to refer to it as obsessive compulsiveness) and slightly bigger picture understanding allows him to realize that he can step off those grid lines (unlike all the other robots) so that he can track Wall-E down and clean him up!  Along the way, he inadvertently saves the main characters and thus, the humans too!  Way to go M-O!