DISQUS

opensermo · 1 year ago

Totally agree about owning your own data, information, shares, updates etc. In terms of the News finding you, it's a interesting idea that has lots of truth to it. But what happens when the majority of people rely on this premise? Then the amount of news people consume could in fact, decrease and create an even more ignorant population... and that's one scary thought.

julienl · 1 year ago

next step: video. not static one but with interaction. we can already add comments, msft, yahoo and youtube are trying to put adds on them. that's only the beginning, when the hardware barrier will be broken (WIFI everywhere on everyDevice), we won't see any interest in typing! today more and more young people are watching tv and reading blogs/website/internet at the same time. I bet that in coming years, we will get the merge of the two on every device and then we will be able to get the next wave of social mapping more real (better to see people rather than reading their text isn't it?

nicolasschriver · 1 year ago

One of the problem I see with this profusion of information is that it is so much time consuming. In a way, because of the large amount of information your community share with you, you are controlled by this information. You need a way to rank and organize this information to keep the ones that matter the most for you.

How would you do that? How do your organize your time in order to be more efficient at reading the news? The fact is you have to make choices and you can't check all the information people send you.

I like however the idea that if the news matters to you it will find you.

PurpleCar · 1 year ago

I have used a similar phrase since 2001: "If the news is important, I will hear about it." The sensationalism in traditional news media is over the top and causes only fear and panic. But that isn't what this post is about. To me, this post is about our identity and our work.

I understand Loic's conflict: on one side liking all the different connections, on the other side wanting a fluid ease in conversation and control over his work.

Loic, perhaps making yourself and your work TOO available in too many places devalues your blog and the work itself. Limiting your availability on applications may help. This isn't a bad thing. Unlike you, Loic, I don't get many demands for my presence and work beyond my own metaverse, but I think if you respond only in one area, like the blog, then people will centralize their conversations around it.

This also takes a gentle push from you sometimes. I have been known to politely ask a person to cut and paste their Tweet, their FriendFeed comment, their email, etc. into a comment on my site if I think their views are vital to the conversation. This is especially relevant if a conversation leaks into listserv groups that operate only on email. Many lists' users are NOT using social media, so their fantastic insights never see the light of day. I plead with them to spread their wings and make a blog comment. Some do. Others I ask permission to copy and paste their email myself, and I give the user credit when I do.

Also, I have a Facebook account that gets updated from Twitter or FriendFeed, but I do not use Facebook for email or any other communication. People know they can leave me a message on my Wall that I will see, but if they want to converse with me in depth they will have to find me on my blog, Twitter or email. When the Seesmic staff and users wanted to contact me during a controversy back in December 2007, they left comments for me on my blog and Twitter. It worked fine. I also list an email account on my blog's About page.

It seems we early adopters feel the need to adopt everything immediately, but I find more and more stress popping up in our cohort. I've decided that I can't adopt everything; if a site is important, I will hear about it. It will find me.

nicolasschriver · 1 year ago

I am agree with you purplecar, because the conversation has exploded onto different platforms, Twitter, Facebook, emails, blogs and so on, it is difficult to establish a meaningful conversation. That is maybe a great idea of start up: Finding a way to reconnect all these different feeds in order to establish a new great conversation.
What do you guys think about it?

Abhishek · 1 year ago

Couldn't agree with you more.
Now when you talk about centralizing the information again back to your blog, do you mean just getting a simplified / integrated view?

djit · 1 year ago

I think this clearly shows time has come for a new communication platform.
The volume and pace of information we have to manage today needs a new approach: how long does it take you Loic to do do your "pre-flight" checks before starting your day?
Distributed profiles can't survive without losing the user "stikiness" with new services coming everyday.

Don't ask me the perfect solution I don't have it yet.
But we need and instant, centralized, data-portable, open way to communicate with our friends, family, partners, clients,...

Should we start by dropping or rethinking emails?
Can we make the blog this unique platform as Loic suggested?