Dear Mom and Dad: Welcome to Friend Feed
Dear Mom & Dad,
Comparatively, I don't live a crazy life. I'm fairly passive and things aren't too exciting, but I know that you love keeping up with my life. Work, kids, house, dog, etc.
Like a lot of the kids these days, I'm doing all sorts of things on the interwebs. Blogging, taking pictures, making videos, sharing all sorts of stuff that I find interesting. Things move pretty fast.
Sadly, neither of you use IM. I've tried to explain RSS on numerous occasions, but let's face it, most people in my industry can't explain it to their folks, so let's skip that one. And Twitter, I might as well try explaining things in Klingon.
So what to do?
My friend Alan and I were talking about creating a service that would allow you to follow just one person in Twitter. Just to keep our parents up to speed with what we are doing. Clever, but kind of dull, especially as your other kids start to realize that the interwebs are a series of tubes and post their own missives.
But I've been using FriendFeed for a while. As a parent, this should be super fantastic cool for you. Kind of a one stop Scott shop. Want to know what I'm up to? Look for my Twitter feed. Want to see pictures of the wedding I was at this past weekend (or of the kids), look at my Flickr Feed. Want to see my latest blog post, that is fed into FriendFeed to. That article that I mentioned from the NYTImes? Like Prego, it's in there. Now it's all available in FriendFeed.
So check it out. I even took the liberty to sign you up for the service and subscribe to my feed. Once in while check it out. Total strangers know what I'm up to, now you can too.
Love,
Scott
PS - yes I realize the irony of the odds of you reading this on my site.

