Catch the Brainwaves of Mona N. – the queen of FriendFeed
Catch the Brainwaves is our ongoing series of interviews with a variety of folks participating in blogging and social media. I ask them questions and they respond with their brilliant answers and insights! This is a special installment that combines both scripted questions and some live chat transcript. Today we are featuring that lovely and witty Mona N., the queen of FriendFeed and author of Pixelbits!
Are you sitting comfortably? Then let’s begin!
1. What’s your day job and does it have anything to do with the Web or social media?
I’m a Product Manager specializing in software. I chose to contract last year, which was the best decision I’ve ever made! No affiliation to Web (front end) or Social Media.
2. How did you discover FriendFeed?
Through Roshan Vyas http://friendfeed.com/rotron, who I don’t even know. We ‘met’ on Facebook through mutual friends. (maybe, I don’t remember)
3. Why this fascination with the unusual and why do you feel the need to share?
haha! I love technology and all things related to tech – basically if it has a power switch and USB, I’m obsessed. I especially LOVE the Internet. Google has a trillion pages indexed, yet a lot of people choose to talk about and share similar ‘hot topics’. So instead of sharing what everyone else shares, I like spicing things up a little with the unusual and bizarre. 
4. Are you a mobile computing user (e.g. Blackberry, mobile phone w/ Internet connection) or do you work on a PC/Mac?
Yes. I have a Blackberry Curve, 1st gen iPhone, and a junky Sprint camera phone.
My personal computer is a Macbook (2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo w/ 3gig RAM) but also have two Windows machines (both XP) and a LINUX server. The latter three are in storage LOL.
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Note: the Q&A was going just fine, but, for a change, I decided to do the rest as live chat with Mona. Here it is, unedited (it’s short):
9:06 PM me: hey mona, thanks for your answers. got more stuff coming back at you soon!
monamail: Hey! No worries, take your time. 
9:07 PM me: where are you based, anyway?
9:08 PM monamail: San Francisco!
me: ?? really ?? I thought you were overseas. No matter.
9:09 PM monamail: HAHA
No LOL!
9:12 PM me: well, let’s interview a bit more while you’re on…
Is FriendFeed ready for primetime yet or is it still for early adopters?
9:13 PM monamail: Early adopters.
me: Do you think it’ll ever go mainstream? Why or why not?
9:14 PM monamail: No. Because of the UI and the content, but I really hope I’m wrong.
9:15 PM me: Do you use Twitter much?
monamail: No
9:16 PM me: Do you think that FriendFeed would be any more or less popular without microblogging tool like Twitter?
9:18 PM monamail: Less
9:19 PM me: different topic: pretend that the Internet is destroyed over night. What do you do the next day?
9:20 PM monamail: Die with it HAHA
me: eep
monamail: hahahhahahha
Maybe… go outside?
Oh, LOOK FOR A JOB
me: OK, that’s good.
9:21 PM monamail: I don’t have a job w/out Internet!
me: different question: are any of your real-world friends or family members on FriendFeed?
monamail: Yes, but they are inactive LOL
9:24 PM me: who do you think is an underappreciated FriendFeed member?
9:26 PM monamail: 75% of my subscription list.
9:27 PM me: good answer
monamail: I don’t like naming names, because listing or naming = exclusion.
And who am I to include or exclude anyone?
Who is anyone, for that matter,
9:29 PM me: gah!
9:30 PM monamail: GAH!
9:31 PM me: ok, I panicked!
monamail: Why? LOL
me: I dunno, just seemed like a funny thing to type
monamail: Nice choice LOL
9:32 PM me: if I recall, gah is a Klingon delicacy
9:33 PM monamail: I don’t like that word!
9:34 PM me: ok then
9:35 PM I think that’s a wrap… thanks very much!
9:36 PM monamail: You’re welcome!
You can ask more if you want LOL
me: OK, maybe later
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Many thanks to Mona for sharing her brainwaves here at Broadcasting Brain!
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smbeebe:
Awesome interview!! Mona rocks!
Susan Beebe
16 October 2008, 10:26 amhttp://friendfeed.com/susanbeebe
Randy:
Nice! +1 to you both! =)
16 October 2008, 10:47 amLouCypher:
Mona rocks!
16 October 2008, 11:46 amMark Dykeman:
Everyone: thanks! Wasn't Mona awesome?
16 October 2008, 4:52 pmHaggis:
Mona = Awesomesauce
16 October 2008, 5:13 pmhomaid:
Nice interview, Me too thought that she is from outside US
18 October 2008, 2:27 amI Hired Mona and You Didn’t | Sean Percival's Blog:
[...] who actively uses the site is well familiar with Mona’s work, you might even say she is the Queen of FriendFeed. That would of course imply that someone is worthy to be the king [...]
28 December 2008, 3:37 amConversazioni come opportunità: Mona Nomura « Diario Semistupido:
[...] è la regina di FriendFeed, come scritto da Mark Dykeman (un altro di quelli che seguo) in questo articolo dedicato a lei, e condivido il comune sentire di chi la conosce e legge: Mona è intelligente, [...]
28 December 2008, 6:16 amKeep It Simple, Stupid. « Pixel Bits:
[...] “Queen of FriendFeed” MORTIFIES me. Though flattering, deemed “Queen of XXX” brings me back to first grade, and how a 4th grader beat me up for telling her I was the “queen of the playground”. So I learned the hard way: Do not boss people around or try to be something you’re not — and I am definitely not a queen of a Social Networking site. [...]
30 December 2008, 1:54 am