```json
{
    "title": "Strategic Reading: Managing FriendFeed My Way",
    "url": "https://performancezen.com/2008/08/12/strategic-reading-managing-friendfeed-my-way/",
    "datePublished": "2008-08-12",
    "dateModified": "2008-08-12",
    "language": "en-US",
    "description": "For FriendFeed has become my replacement for Google Reader, which I only visit occasionally now to see if there are blogs I need to add to my feed. But, if…",
    "author": "spierzchala",
    "publisher": "Performance Zen"
}
```

# Strategic Reading: Managing FriendFeed My Way

For

[FriendFeed](http://friendfeed.com/)

has become my replacement for

[Google Reader](http://reader.google.com/)

, which I only visit occasionally now to see if there are blogs I need to add to my feed.
But, if you are going to replace a reader with FriendFeed, how do you manage the flow of content. While tools will likely improve over time, I have adopted a simple strategy.

**1) Scan for items with obvious links**

As I power through the front page of my feed, I look for items that are obviously links to longer articles. I can then decide if I want click through to that article. But rather than opening it in a new tab right in front of me, I use the wheel-click option in Firefox and open these articles in a background tab. This allows me to scan through the fees and read the articles when I want.

**2) Read Twitter/indenti.ca/Jaiku/etc. last**

Personal conversations come second for me. If there is a thread I am interested in, I will wheel click the

[Twitter](http://twitter.com/)

page for the person and pick it up that way...or use

[Twitter Search](http://search.twitter.com/)

. Being the kind of person who processes personal communications last makes this easier.

**3) Use the FriendFeed interface as much as I can**

If there was a way to open posts in a frame such as the way that video and images are embedded in FriendFeed, I would never go to anyone's actual site. While that may be a feature of the future, the storage implementation for the FriendFeed team is potentially enormous - unless they choose to retrieve the content on the fly.
And finally...

**4) Gripe about TinyURL, etc. links and how I don't know where they lead**

A great feature of the future for FriendFeed would be to translate obfuscated URLs to their base URLs in a rollover
And there you have it. Not the world's most intense primer on using FriendFeed, but it works for me!