Random Articles

• Re-Tweeting FeedSeeder If you’ve been reading my twitterings over the past week or so, then you’re already read this stuff. I’m posting it here to include it in the FeedSeeder category archive fer later. “…there are only very few instances where unsub’ing from a feed makes sense.” “@swirlspice - exactly. the real issue is how always find the relevant/intersting
• Aggregate Trust, Filter Relevance “I want to subscribe to other people who I can trust, and also, who I can dial down a little” - Eric Rice I like and trust Eric Rice…though I’m not as psyched about Second Life as he is. Same with Mark Cuban and basketball. Same with Doc Searls and photography. Same with Dave Slusher and
• Rule 1: Be Useful Without an Account Software as She’s Developed bring reminds us about lazy registration, i.e. a system that’s useful to people just kicking the tires, or just don’t want to set up another name/pass combination. I’ve baked this into the FeedSeeder project (see the 2nd screencast). I’m working on the deployment recipe right now, so I should be able
• Bring Back the Important Bits “My entire field of news and information is flattened by my feed reader. Topic, author, credibility, popularity, context, and relevancy are all stripped.” - Aaron Mentele
• Streamy.com: Kicking Off the Next Generation of Feed Aggregators Looks like somebody else out there is building a next-gen feed aggregator: Streamy.com Beta. “Our goal is to bring you personally relevant news in an engaging, collaborative environment….we do intend to kill the dry, boring RSS reader. I’m talking about the inbox-style RSS reader that is not intriguing, not social, and makes little or no attempt