On Twitter (was Re: [LINK] Microsoft Live Mesh)

[Stilgherrian]

On 24/4/08 11:37 AM, "Craig Sanders" <cas at taz.net.au> wrote:
> "planet" RSS aggregators (e.g. Planet Linux Australia) are an
> all-or-nothing deal, so an otherwise useful service (RSS aggregation of
> lots of australian linux-related blog posts) gets spammed with the
> vacuous ephemeral thoughts of a few.
> 
> if it goes on, i'll have to dump PLA and other aggregators, and run my
> own. which kind of defeats part of the purpose of using an aggregator,
> including: 1. reduced load on the originating blogs, better to have one
> aggregator every 5 minutes than a few hundred direct RSS subscribers,
> and 2. serendipitous discovery of new and interesting blogs as they
> appear on the aggregator.
> 
> 
>> The medium is not the problem. :-)
> 
> the medium IS the problem.
> 
> private trivia is being distributed publicly. twitter wouldn't be a
> problem if it was kept private.

Well, that's hardly the fault of Twitter. It's the fault of the humans who
dump their Twitter stream in with everything else, and then dump that into
the Planet aggregators. Tell them to stop. Or make the Planets more
discriminating, somehow.

If you watch an open sewer, you will see turds...

:)

Stil


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