Aggregation

[pecunium]

I 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.

Comments

[sylphslider.livejournal.com]

I think it's ok if it's behind a cut-tag.

I have a friend who has entirely turned her blog into a collection of her tweets. I don't read her blog any more.