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Kyle James — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:22:58 -0000

Andy,
I've been using ping.fm for a few months now (wow it's been that long) and I do agree with everything that you say and while I don't use it very often it's great for a status update aka one way channel than when your interested in a communication channel.
Ping.fm is the only way I ever update through Facebook or Plurk. Maybe I'll come back to plurk at some point, but right now Twitter is about all I can handle.

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Andy DeSoto — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:20:09 -0000

TJ, shame on you! ;-) At least with Pownce you can set up e-mail notifications so that if someone replies to your Pownce, you can get back in touch with them. Man, drives me nuts when people create conversations and then never check in on them, but I think the height of that arrogance is when folks don't even engage comments on their own blog! It's always frustrating to piece together a long, thoughtful reply only to have no one interact with it.

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teejayhanton — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:44:40 -0000

I proudly use ping.fm almost every time I post to a Social site. However, the two sites I use most are Facebook and Plurk. And, the people I have as friends on both sites (for the most part) are completely different people. Facebookers are my IRL friends, Plurkers are my online friends.

So, in my situation, it makes life easier because I can send the same message to all the people I know.

Of course, to make things right, I should turn off my posting to Twitter and Pownce from ping.fm ... since I rarely (if ever) check those sites but am consistently posting to them.

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Andy DeSoto — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:25:40 -0000

Rahsheen! You ought to do one on etiquette anyway-- I think there's plenty of room for more voices carrying a similar message.

That's an interesting point you make about Identi.ca; it's even worse when you don't know if the source was a Tweet or a Dent!

(And you have a happy subscriber with me!)

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Rahsheen — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:15:56 -0000

Great article! After I did my post, I started noticing a lot of cross-posting abuse and I was actually going to do a follow-up on etiquette. Now there is no need :)

It's very annoying to see people @'ing their Twitter followers on Identi.ca, for instance. It's also frustrating to find that these people never respond, or respond on the wrong service.

Oh, and I'm glad you enjoyed my piece. It's always good to know *someone* is paying attention :)