Comments on: Reigning in Microblogging http://jaxn.org/article/2007/09/08/reigning-in-microblogging/ the philosophy of technology Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:16:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jackson Miller http://jaxn.org/article/2007/09/08/reigning-in-microblogging/#comment-30181 Jackson Miller Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:14:23 +0000 http://jaxn.org/article/2007/09/08/reigning-in-microblogging/#comment-30181 RSS is good, but it does not solve what I am talking about. Microblogging is shaping up to be more of a two-way communication protocol than blogging. The @ convention for replies in Twitter is a large part of what makes Twitter useful. So, if two users were on Service A and two users were on Service B, how could replies in microblogging work? If it is like email a "follow" service, then the users of both systems could interact. Could RSS serve as a "follow" service? Not quite. The first problem is that RSS is incredibly inefficient (especially if you want anything close to near-real-time). Second, I need to be able to see who is following me to make sure I am seeing all replies and such. I really think that "following" needs to be a push service provided by the publishing microblogger's service. RSS pull is insufficient. RSS is good, but it does not solve what I am talking about. Microblogging is shaping up to be more of a two-way communication protocol than blogging. The @ convention for replies in Twitter is a large part of what makes Twitter useful.

So, if two users were on Service A and two users were on Service B, how could replies in microblogging work? If it is like email a “follow” service, then the users of both systems could interact.

Could RSS serve as a “follow” service? Not quite. The first problem is that RSS is incredibly inefficient (especially if you want anything close to near-real-time). Second, I need to be able to see who is following me to make sure I am seeing all replies and such. I really think that “following” needs to be a push service provided by the publishing microblogger’s service. RSS pull is insufficient.

]]> By: Mark Mead http://jaxn.org/article/2007/09/08/reigning-in-microblogging/#comment-30074 Mark Mead Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:34:39 +0000 http://jaxn.org/article/2007/09/08/reigning-in-microblogging/#comment-30074 I agree with kieran. At the moment the RSS option sounds like the most reasonable one. By the way, among all the microblogging tools you've tried, have you ever tried hictu? I referred your article there. http://www.hictu.com/topic.php?lang=English&mid=19194 I agree with kieran. At the moment the RSS option sounds like the most reasonable one. By the way, among all the microblogging tools you’ve tried, have you ever tried hictu? I referred your article there. http://www.hictu.com/topic.php?lang=English&mid=19194

]]> By: kieran http://jaxn.org/article/2007/09/08/reigning-in-microblogging/#comment-28510 kieran Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:49:17 +0000 http://jaxn.org/article/2007/09/08/reigning-in-microblogging/#comment-28510 It's likely that I'm not thinking about this deeply enough, but I have to wonder: could RSS not address this in some form? Your friends subscribe to your micro-blo feed in whatever tool they choose and you do the same... heck, I use Google Reader right now to make sure I don't miss Tweets from some of my less prolific twitter-mates.. just to make sure their notes don't lost in the torrential Scoble downpour.. It’s likely that I’m not thinking about this deeply enough, but I have to wonder: could RSS not address this in some form? Your friends subscribe to your micro-blo feed in whatever tool they choose and you do the same… heck, I use Google Reader right now to make sure I don’t miss Tweets from some of my less prolific twitter-mates.. just to make sure their notes don’t lost in the torrential Scoble downpour..

]]> By: Paul Chenoweth http://jaxn.org/article/2007/09/08/reigning-in-microblogging/#comment-27922 Paul Chenoweth Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:49:52 +0000 http://jaxn.org/article/2007/09/08/reigning-in-microblogging/#comment-27922 I agree that you are "on" to something. Visionary. I am just not sure that microblogging is far enough down the adoption-diffusion trail to 'know what it wants to be when it grows up'. I agree that you are “on” to something. Visionary. I am just not sure that microblogging is far enough down the adoption-diffusion trail to ‘know what it wants to be when it grows up’.

]]> By: Rob Robinson http://jaxn.org/article/2007/09/08/reigning-in-microblogging/#comment-27912 Rob Robinson Sat, 08 Sep 2007 11:11:13 +0000 http://jaxn.org/article/2007/09/08/reigning-in-microblogging/#comment-27912 I've noticed this, too. I think you're on to something here. I’ve noticed this, too. I think you’re on to something here.

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