Mark Dykeman

There are advantages to both. At this point, if I make a comment to you here, 2,000 people could see it. If I comment on your blog, a few dozen might see it. Commenting here now gives you more visibility. - Louis Gray

Depends. If you have over 1000 followers here, then maybe. 90% of the people have a number of subscribers that guarantees that almost no one will notice the comments made here. - Roland Hesz

commented on the blog :) - Steven Hodson

Louis is correct. Saw it here - Andrew Smith

@Scoble That's why continued FF/Disqus integration is a no-brainer - JonathanJoseph

This also allows commenting to continue when a blog is down. Like right now... :( - Mark Dykeman

@Louis - yes, there are advantages to both. I actually have more blog subscribers than FriendFeed friends, but by the same token, the sharing/bookmarking of feeds in FriendFeed, plus the public streaming of comments and likes, certainly do increase visibility to my blog within this environment. When you think about it FriendFeed can certainly help posts go viral, if they're interesting to the FriendFeed community, because each person who acknowledges the post automatically increases exposure. - Mark Dykeman

@Roland, @Andrew - see my comment to Louis. - Mark Dykeman

@Steven - responded back to you at the blog ;) - Mark Dykeman

I find that the conversations are slightly different on blogs vs. FF. On the blog, you get your blog readers who are all there for mostly the same reason. On a service like friendfeed, you get various people reading that might not have read before. Scoble may never have seen my blog until it hit FF and Louis Gray recommended it. The social recommendation aspect helps because there is always some nugget you may get from a blog you wouldn't have expected. - Rob Diana

@Rob, the more I think about it, the more I think that the "FriendFeed effect" of getting the "pass-along" advantages of the networks of FriendFeed followers is starting to resemble the "StumbleUpon" effect with one possible difference: StumbleUpon is better (so far) at driving traffic directly at the blog. - Mark Dykeman

@Mark, but with FF at least you know (at present) that the visitors you are going to get will be more likely to engage in some way. SU traffic has no inherent quality. - Colin Walker

@Colin - fair point. - Mark Dykeman

From a commenter's point of view, another thing to consider is the backlink. On FF the link used in your username points to your FF profile page, while most blogs will permit the commenter to post a link to the website of their choice. - Sharon McPherson

I get 99% of my comments here - b/c the only people who subscribe to my blog are my own test subscriptions :) - Mike Reynolds

Can't FF do a trackback or ping back to the blog with a link to the FF entry? - ydfeed

@ydfeed - I don't believe that FF can trackback or pingback at this point in time - Mark Dykeman

@ydfeed @Mark - no Disqus doesn't have pingback / trackback support at all. However from talking with Daniel they know it is an important feature that bloggers want but they want to make sure they do it right especially when it comes to dealing with trackback spam. - Steven Hodson

There's another thing to consider. Friendfeed is not forcing people to comment on their site instead of the blog. If Friendfeed does something it's to allow more people to find what you write. Users choose where to comment. - Alejandro S.

That's been my experience. I've gotten more traffic from FF and it has tended to be from really interesting folks. Some comment at the blog, some here. - Abby Martin