FriendFeed has a very interesting feature that bloggers can make use of to generate content for blogging. “An Imaginary Friend”, in their own terms, is
You can keep track of your friends that don’t use FriendFeed by creating “imaginary friends.” For example, if you know your friend’s Flickr username, you can create an imaginary friend with that Flickr account, and you will get notified every time your friend publishes a photo.
This feature helps you add all your blog news sources for blogging and track the content at one place. This will help you in preparing content for your blog posts.
How to access : Go to “Friend Settings” -> “Imaginary” and Create an imaginary friend. Give it a name and add the RSS feeds of your favorite news sources to this new friend. You can subscribe to this imaginary friend feed in any news reader or read it online. This feature is different from other RSS Reader based methods in the sense that all of your favorite news sources can be tracked at one place as a life stream.
From ‘Imaginary Friend’ content stream, you can pick the news of your choice by using FriendFeed search. Go to their Advanced Search page, type a search phrase (”startup acquires”) and choose “shared by one person” [give your imaginary friend name here]
You can further limit this search to blog entries, twitter tweets, etc. Subscribe to the search result page in your RSS reader and let FriendFeed deliver you the news as soon as it is posted anywhere on web.