Dear TechCrunch and Mashable – I know you guys may have little beefs with each other every now and again, but you actually have more in common then you think. You both pretty much suck as using FriendFeed.

See the picture above? That shouldn’t happen. I wouldn’t see that if you would simply click the ‘This blog has multiple authors’ button on FriendFeed and put your name in. This has been around for a while now. This way, on TechCrunch when Mike does a post, it only shows up on Mike’s stream, when Duncan does one, it’s only in Duncan’s etc.

VentureBeat may only have a couple guys who routinely use FriendFeed (Eric and I), but we have it sorted so as not to post each other’s work.

Mashable, same thing applies to you guys (though I think Rizzn and Adam O. have it set up correctly now) – and thanks to Pete’s insistence on using his Twitter stream as both a personal account and the one that displays all of Mashable’s posts it is arguably worse. All of those tweets then go to FriendFeed as well, so we have the same blog posts over and over again being ported it, followed by the tweets about those same blog posts coming in over and over again.

I’m not perfect, I sometimes send out a tweet with a URL to a story I worked on if I think it will be interesting to people – and that in turn puts it in my FriendFeed stream along with the actual blog post link already there. But when I’m seeing the same posts 4 or 5 times from multiple people, it’s tiresome.

Don’t make me choose which authors I love most on each of your blogs and cut the rest.

Talk about the department of redundancy department – I’m drowning in dupes!