If you haven’t signed up for FriendFeed, just pop on over and sign up. Once you’re signed up, you can use set up Rooms for discussions on niche topics with select friends. But you can also set up private Rooms (for just yourself) for you bookmarks, to-do lists, and notes. Here’s how:

1. Click the Rooms tab
2. Read about the info on the screen (optional)
3. Click Create a room now
4. Give the room a unique name (FriendFeed will tell you if it’s available or not)
5. Type in it’s nickname and a description
6. Click one of the radio buttons for Permissions and check Private
7. Click Create Room

Your room is now set up.

Now, if you haven’t already, go grab the FF BookMarklet. Now anytime you have a page that you would like to bookmark, just click the bookmarklet, type in a note and use the pull-down to show your bookmark Room you created. Click share. You’re done!

You can also FF to “share” your to-do list or notes. Create uniquely named Rooms for those and then use the share feature to write your text. If you set the Room’s permission to privacy, you won’t have to worry about others.

What’s great about this, is that you can consolidate your bookmarks, to-do lists, and notes into searchable chunks for convenience. Use the comments section as your tagging area.

If you have any questions about how to use these tools on FF, comment below or send an email to:

Speneralist [at] Gmail [dot] com

I’m pretty confident that I coined the word Speneralist. After spending a fair amout of time learning to blog and learning rudimentary elements of the so-called Web 2.0 social media tools abound the interwebs, I realized that we are becoming increasingly specialized and yet we also are becoming more generalists. The contradiction was unbearable.

Also, CEO and marketing guru Seth Godin had once declared that We Specialize in Everything. At the time I had mostly agreed with him, but thought we needed to build out his idea to incorporate our generalist characteristics. So then I saw a photoshoped image on Flickr of a cow swimming with a dolphin and it hit me: we’re all Speneralists.

And because I believe that the Speneralist is practically a new species, it’s going to need some help along its way. That’s what this weblog hopes to be: a hacker of sorts for all you Speneralists.