Stilgherrian » del.icio.us http://stilgherrian.com All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris. Vive le poisson rouge sauvages! Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:18:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en © stil@stilgherrian.com () stil@stilgherrian.com() 1440 Live Internet broadcasts from Stilgherrian. All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris. stil@stilgherrian.com No no http://stilgherrian.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/sla_144w.jpg Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com 144 144 Twitter versus Del.icio.us versus blog posts http://stilgherrian.com/internet/twitter_vs_delicious_vs_blog/ http://stilgherrian.com/internet/twitter_vs_delicious_vs_blog/#comments Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:28:39 +0000 Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/internet/twitter_vs_delicious_vs_blog/ I’m starting to think that my “here’s what I’ve found” items should move from Twitter to Del.icio.us or maybe even Tumblr [no account there yet, will explore soon] and just be summarised here daily. Then Twitter can be just the day-to-day status stuff — which needn’t be archived here at all, but maybe elsewhere.

Are you OK with that one, Mat F?

There seems to be a surge in “RSS aggregator” products like FriendFeed to create a unified “life stream”. But the more I think about it, the more I think “one stream that contains everything” is wrong. It might be fine for archiving — for your needs. But what about those following you? Dumping everything into a single sewer of undifferentiated crap seems to throw the burden of understanding you onto you audience. And all successful media creation is about what the audience wants — no matter what the scale.

It’s better, I think, to separate out the threads into different streams. People can subscribe to the combination they want. And they can choose to view them in the aggregator of their choice.

Business contacts get your business posts. Family and friends get the status reports about your lunch. A select few choose to view the reports of your illicit camel sex. where they want them, when they want them.

Well, that’s what I think today, anyway. What do you think?

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]]> http://stilgherrian.com/internet/twitter_vs_delicious_vs_blog/feed/ Link digests: an experiment http://stilgherrian.com/notes/link_digest_experiment/ http://stilgherrian.com/notes/link_digest_experiment/#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:43:37 +0000 Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/notes/link_digest_experiment/ As you can see, I’m running another experiment: recording the websites I find in del.icio.us and publishing a daily collection here. Just as with the daily Twitter updates, though, the list of random pieces changes the character of the site. And the experimental system provided by del.icio.us doesn’t let me format the posts — the most annoying aspects for me being the last of capital-L in the headline and not being able to format the entries. I may take up Brad Kellet’s offer to use his script instead.

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