Comments on: Lifestreaming, Summarizr, and Statzen http://jaxn.org/article/2007/08/28/lifestreaming-summarizr-and-statzen/ the philosophy of technology Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:23:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta2-9582 hourly 1 By: Jackson Miller http://jaxn.org/article/2007/08/28/lifestreaming-summarizr-and-statzen/comment-page-1/#comment-25684 Jackson Miller Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:10:47 +0000 http://jaxn.org/article/2007/08/28/lifestreaming-summarizr-and-statzen/#comment-25684 Rex, of course I am not knocking the experimentation of it all. I don't think any of us knew how twitter was going to be useful when we first started experimenting with it. One thing I have been thinking about is allowing subscribers to customize the feed they subscribe to. When I was working on Emma I added a way for people subscribing to email lists to choose which topics they were subscribing to. I don't see any reason not to do the same thing with feeds. I may not want all the information on your tumblr, but I do want your blog and your SmallBusiness Linkblog. I would opt out of twitter since I get that in another way and might subscribe to flickr just for the hell of it. Just because someone is Lifecasting doesn't mean I want to subscribe to the whole thing. Rex, of course I am not knocking the experimentation of it all. I don’t think any of us knew how twitter was going to be useful when we first started experimenting with it.

One thing I have been thinking about is allowing subscribers to customize the feed they subscribe to. When I was working on Emma I added a way for people subscribing to email lists to choose which topics they were subscribing to. I don’t see any reason not to do the same thing with feeds. I may not want all the information on your tumblr, but I do want your blog and your SmallBusiness Linkblog. I would opt out of twitter since I get that in another way and might subscribe to flickr just for the hell of it.

Just because someone is Lifecasting doesn’t mean I want to subscribe to the whole thing.

]]> By: Rex Hammock http://jaxn.org/article/2007/08/28/lifestreaming-summarizr-and-statzen/comment-page-1/#comment-25683 Rex Hammock Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:56:13 +0000 http://jaxn.org/article/2007/08/28/lifestreaming-summarizr-and-statzen/#comment-25683 As I was adding those feeds to the tumblr account, I was thinking how random they all are -- some go thru feedburner, some straight from the service. I really can't think of why anyone who would be interested in reading my tumblr page nor subscribe to its feed -- but, frankly, that's how I start out with most stuff on the web. As I was adding those feeds to the tumblr account, I was thinking how random they all are — some go thru feedburner, some straight from the service. I really can’t think of why anyone who would be interested in reading my tumblr page nor subscribe to its feed — but, frankly, that’s how I start out with most stuff on the web.

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