Unevenly Distributed

I like friendfeed. I really, really like friendfeed. I lets me aggregate web footprint of any friend or acquaintance (even those not on friendfeed via the unfortunately named imaginary friend feature ).

But like all things new and web 2.0, it doesn’t work quite the way I want it to. You see, it treats all the services it supports equally. I suppose it must, but that doesn’t work for me. Let me explain.

Suppose that I want to see all of a friend’s web footprints except one. Let us further suppose that I don’t care to see their twitter postings. I suppose I could rant on about how much of a time suck I consider twitter to be but that would be an aside.

So assuming the above supposition, a couple of options appear to me immediately:

1. Use FF’s wonderful API and filter our twitter postings
2. Use some other means like Yahoo Pipes to filter out twitter postings

I decided to look at option 2. first as it seemed less work. But lazyweb came to the rescue - some one has already built a FriendFeed minus Twitter Yahoo Pipe

Now I just read the output of the pipe (in RSS format) in Google Reader.  Works for me.

Thanks Lazyweb (and thanks Dawn Foster )