Aggregation
Feb. 21st, 2010 10:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumI am, in context, for it. I like they way the net lets me compile all sorts of related facts; which I can then ponder and discuss.
But there are limits. Buzz has me thinking about it. I think I am likely to go to the effort to opt out. What it does doesn't really appeal to me enough to make up for the intrusion it introduces to me e-mail.
I'm not a Luddite. I do, perhaps, have some amish-like traits. I am not so much an early adopter as I am a patient one. I didn't get a cell phone until I had to (Maia and I were a continent apart). I am still irked that to get the features I wanted on my present phone (purchased because the first phone I got.... in 2003, died), I had to get a camera in it too.
Which is why I agree with this guy.
Unlink your feeds
I have a faceboook account. I have a flickr account. I have an Lj. I have a twitter account.
None of them talk to each other. I use them for different things, but more to the point, I don't want to make an opt-out model for things. If someone wants to read the odd retweet I make (I think I have twittered maybe four times, one of them to enter a contest), they can look me up.
I don't feel it all that kind to force them to read m on Lj (this is not a smack at the people on Lj who post tweets. It's my quirk).
There are also some other problems; structural ones, he discusses. Go, read the manifesto. He might be wrong, but he's got some points which ought to be pondered.
But there are limits. Buzz has me thinking about it. I think I am likely to go to the effort to opt out. What it does doesn't really appeal to me enough to make up for the intrusion it introduces to me e-mail.
I'm not a Luddite. I do, perhaps, have some amish-like traits. I am not so much an early adopter as I am a patient one. I didn't get a cell phone until I had to (Maia and I were a continent apart). I am still irked that to get the features I wanted on my present phone (purchased because the first phone I got.... in 2003, died), I had to get a camera in it too.
Which is why I agree with this guy.
Unlink your feeds
I have a faceboook account. I have a flickr account. I have an Lj. I have a twitter account.
None of them talk to each other. I use them for different things, but more to the point, I don't want to make an opt-out model for things. If someone wants to read the odd retweet I make (I think I have twittered maybe four times, one of them to enter a contest), they can look me up.
I don't feel it all that kind to force them to read m on Lj (this is not a smack at the people on Lj who post tweets. It's my quirk).
There are also some other problems; structural ones, he discusses. Go, read the manifesto. He might be wrong, but he's got some points which ought to be pondered.
