RE: [syndication] An Open Letter of Mindless Blathering

[Morbus Iff <morbus@disobey.com>]

>One idea that immediately jumped out at me as I was browsing went like this:
>Allow users to publish their subscription lists, and also allow users to
>manage "trusted users", e.g. lists of users whose judgement they trust, and
>can hook into their list of feeds, etc.

Indeed, I think this idea would work wonderfully and was hoping that 
something like it would emerge out of whatever happened. Along with the 
idea of a user "subscribing" to RSS feeds ("my favorite news sites"), 
they'd also subscribe to people ("my favorite people who have similar 
interests"). Clients could auto-subscribe new feeds, becoming smart agents. 
Oh god, this sounds like "push" all over again <g>...

>Webshots [1] does this very well, and is actually the first place I can

I've always been meaning to play with Webshots. Never got around to it.

>decisions? I don't have time to review everybody's choices and decide who I
>agree and disagree with. I don't even participate in Amazon's "did you find
>this review useful?" doohickies because I perceive it as a waste of my time.

Sadly enough, I agree with you. I find myself answering the "am i hot or 
not" question far more than I find myself rating reviews. Anyone have an 
idea why that is? Perhaps more pictoral than anything - many writers know 
how hard it is to viscerally say and convey everything you want to everyone 
who reads, but an image bespokes opinion based on what you see - not much 
interpretation or misunderstanding can happen (again, assuming a picture 
like you'd see on amihotornot.com, not a painting or "artsy fartsy" piece).


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