Comments on Simon G's Blog: Keeping up with what's happening in the world

I subscribe to over 100 feeds covering a variety o...

2008-12-18T00:01:00.000+13:00

I subscribe to over 100 feeds covering a variety of topics, including NZ/AU Technology News, Social Media, Web Strategy, Innovation, User Experience, Programming, Telecommunications, Web Strategy, Company Blogs, ...

In terms of my current top 3 Blogs for happenings in the Technology world: ReadWriteWeb, Techmeme, O'Reilly Radar.

what rss feeds do you follow?

2008-12-17T21:59:00.000+13:00

what rss feeds do you follow?

Thanks cnawan for the useful mashup information. ...

2008-12-14T23:46:00.000+13:00

Thanks cnawan for the useful mashup information. Lots of good ideas in there to try out.

I definitely agree that we'll have more of these "social agents" which build up a complex understanding of what we are interested in by observing our behaviours (what we read, respond to, etc.). They will then use this as basis for finding and filtering information specific to your needs.

Simon

One technique I've found helpful is to use a devot...

2008-12-14T20:57:00.000+13:00

One technique I've found helpful is to use a devoted email address to catch comments and other notifications and send them to mailbucket to be converted to a rss feed, which is then periodically polled by twitterfeed and pumped into a devoted twitter account which I've subscribed to with my normal twitter account.
The end result of all this is I no longer have to subscribe to comment rss feeds (like this one) - replies just find their way to me.

I found the technique at:
http://grinding.be/2008/02/25/more-notes-on-presence-how-to-stay-in-contact-when-youre-everywhere/

A better way might be through mashup services, like yahoo pipes or tarpipe, but this way is still working, so meh :)

I think in the future we'll have more of these 'social agents' to harvest pertinent information and send it our way without having to do as much active trawling. It would give us more personally focused info - there's only so much one can do with the old 'one size fits all' model of relevance in google, something I think they realise judging from the fact that they're talking up more personalised search.

Something else I'd like to see is a browser plugin that can run text to speech conversions readily. I could fit more of that firehose into my head if I could listen to anything (social agent feed perhaps?) on the fly while buttering my toast, etc. Podcasts are flexible, but not everything I want is in a podcast.