Since FriendFeed’s launch of a new still-in-beta redesign, there’s been much debate over some of the features and style changes – both on blogs, and within the service itself. While any change is sometimes met with reluctance and skepticism, as Facebook has realized with their latest changes, there’s a number of reasons why the aesthetic and functional revamps of FriendFeed are helpful for both its users, and for the proliferation of real-time data on the web. Here’s a breakdown of why I believe FriendFeed has made a lot of correct choices in their transition from data aggregation, to a broad conversational hub for the web.

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I just discovered the relatively new Labels feature of Blogger and I’ve been going through the archived posts and tagging them all with relevant labels. It very neatly auto-creates all the label pages and collects all the posts that reference that particular label. Very cool stuff. I’ll be setting up a labels list in the sidebar for easy searching through topics shortly.

UPDATE: Apparently since I have an old Blogger template I am unable to add the labels list to my sidebar. Rats!