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 )

Turns out that I use it mostly for my linkblog and tag stuff for distribution for my currently employer Kaplan Test Prep & Admissions (KTPA)