Comments on: Meta RSS Feeds - Sharing

By: Gerd’s dev 2.0 Blog » Google Reader Search

Gerd’s dev 2.0 Blog » Google Reader Search — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:23:41 +0000

[...] Google Reader finally got a search function. I proposed such function also in an last post about Meta RSS feeds so at least for me it was no surprise. After so long time the feature I waited for was finally [...]

By: Gerd Saurer

Gerd Saurer — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:33:00 +0000

I don’t think it will be a replacement for good journalism, further more there will be areas where other content providers become more important than journalists. E.g. take the current situation in our industry. I can’t see that much journalists providing content for software developers any more.
What i wanted to show is that we need new mechanism to filter information and i believe sharing is a very intuitive and good one. An other will be systems like AideRSS.
(btw. thanks for the link). There will be other tools that makes it easier to filter the huge amount of news some will be human (sharing) some will be automatic.

By: rmeindl

rmeindl — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:33:00 +0000

Maybe I misunderstand the problem, but is this not only another side of the same coin? The primary reason for social networks is that we need, and appreciate, some kind of filter either by people we trust or by communities who are sharing our own interests. In the infant days of the internet this were link lists on your first homepage or IRC channels. RSS makes the broadcasting a bit easier and with the first generation of social sites, like digg.com, the community share their opinion of the importance of an news snippet. More sophisticated applications like Yahoo! Pipes let you mash up a lot of more sources to your own news service.
Yes, one channel my be not enough, but the basic principle is the same, only who and with which scope they are realized is different. The important point is that they work in “pull” fashion and the users decide who they trust and what they think is important. This is not a replacement for good journalism, it is a complement.