With the recent downtime in twitter and the arguments around why this has been happening, I thought I would look at friendfeed as an alternative. I have to admit I like what I see, particularly the ability to create a ‘room’ to host conversations – this could be great for ad-hoc consultation activities. I’m still getting the hang of it, but it seems that friendfeed can offer a better ‘lifestream’ of UK Gov activities than shoveling press notices into twitter.
I’ll probably stick to twitter for the moment because the HMGOV feed works for me (when twitter does). Having said that, while I’m exploring friendfeed I’d like to see news I want come to me, so I’ve started aggregating UK Government feeds – I’ll add more as I find the time.
This isn’t an ‘official’ activity – but the content is. If any civil servants want to take ownership of their stream, or can suggest improvements, let me know and I’ll hand it over/do what I can.
Anyway, for now I thought I’d start with one of the more active government players in the social media space: 10 Downing Street is now on friendfeed.
7 responses so far ↓
Dave Briggs // June 12, 2008 at 7:22 am |
Didn’t know about this, good spot, Justin!
jkerrstevens // June 12, 2008 at 8:09 am |
Thanks Dave – I only sent it live this morning. Let me know if there is anything you think I can do to improve it.
SimonD // June 12, 2008 at 8:50 am |
Will you be prepared to hand the URL over to them if/when it gets popular?
Jenny // June 12, 2008 at 11:22 am |
I’ve found friendfeed to be a bit intense content-wise.
It ticks away in the background for me – updating my facebook page so I don’t have to go near the place mainly
Using it for aggregating government (and other organisation) web activity is a good idea. Be interesting to see how that evolves.
jkerrstevens // June 12, 2008 at 2:21 pm |
Simon – very happy to talk to them about how we would do this.
Tim // June 13, 2008 at 2:32 am |
Feel free to join the e-participation room.
Her Majesty’s news, also on friendfeed « extended reach // June 14, 2008 at 10:19 am |
[...] June 14, 2008 · No Comments I’ve replicated my original twitter project and have aggregated a number of government feeds into a HMGov News friendfeed. Looking at the aggregated product I’m not sure which I prefer – all of the gov feeds in one spot, or something that’s a little less cluttered, like the downing street friendfeed. [...]