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Re: Tech news in real time

Eric — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:30:09 -0000

Seriously, this obsession with user-driven news has go to stop. Most of the ppl on the net don't know their earhole from their azzhole, and to expect them to deliver accurate news to you......that's just dumb.

Fact of the matter is there's a very small percentage of visitors on the net who are plugged in to a certain topic and can offer relatively insightful input. The rest is just garbag....::AHEM::.....noise

Personally, I'd prefer to read one techmeme created by Gabe Rivera or one techcrunch by mike arrington than 'listen to 5,230 ppl in real time'

Re: Tech news in real time

Lutfar Rahman Nirjhar — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:06:59 -0000

No comments from my side. I am watching the comments. Hopefully I'll learn something from these conversation!

Re: Tech news in real time

Michael VanDervort — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:46:48 -0000

@scobelizer

Robert,

Could you do a blog post giving the top 10 ways you parse your information flow, and which tools you use? Not everyone is as capable of sorting the flow of noise/information that you enjoy so much. I like the noise, although I am more swimming up a creek than the Niagra you are using. It would be interesting to read some of the techniques you use.

Michael

Re: Tech news in real time

Joel Marcey — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:25:03 -0000

Alex,

That live stream link was making me dizzy too. You start reading a sentence and the next thing you know, you are reading a sentence from a completely different post. It is maddening. :-)

I would use the pause button above the stream quite a bit. ;-)

Re: Tech news in real time

AlexSchleber — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:48:49 -0000

Robert, that live stream link can make you dizzy...

would you agree that FriendFeed is badly in need of a "track"-like filtering functions for individual users/user-groups/rooms/etc.?

I think that whoever is first in authoritatively figuring out how to bring the aggregate feeds back to a compact/manageable/meaningful/value-added level will win big-time next year.

Re: Tech news in real time

Blog Expert — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:47:30 -0000

I still think that friendfeed is going to fail in the end. A lot of people might know how to use it but most do not know how.

Re: Tech news in real time

feint — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:39:19 -0000

Yeah I think FriendFeed is realtime tech news. Once you work out who to to watch the experience becomes a lot better. When I first started using Friendfeed I had no idea how to use it but once I sat back a figured it out it was simply.....amazing

Re: Tech news in real time

Edwin Khodabakchian — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:32:10 -0000

Robert: http://friendfeed.com/scobl... is definitely valuable. But I guess it is like sausage, you do not want to know how it is made. :-)

Re: Tech news in real time

Robert Scoble — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:22:50 -0000

Andy, you tell me you visit http://friendfeed.com/scobl... and you don't find that useful? You don't find ANYTHING there that's useful? Wow. But, I guess not everyone will like getting news in that format. That's why there's TechMeme, Google News, Reddit, Digg, Hacker News, etc.

Re: Tech news in real time

Andy Gongea — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:57:27 -0000

Although it is cool, it looks nice, I think it is not quite usable. I mean, maybe for an automated system, but as a person I don't find it very useful.

Cheers!

Re: Tech news in real time

Ian Betteridge — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:55:52 -0000

I channel Robert's "Likes" through Notify.me, so I get a more or less real time update via IM. Fun stuff :)

Re: Tech news in real time

Robert Scoble — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:51:10 -0000

allen: Mahalo? I'd love to hear why you think Mahalo is doing real time news.

Edwin: thanks. One thing that I have that's different is I've been studying this community for a long time and have met many of the top bloggers and influencers and news makers. So, being able to see patterns there might be easier for me than it would be for someone new. For instance, if you don't know who Tim O'Reilly is, or who Dave Winer, or who Molly Holzschlag are, you won't be properly able to judge their news.

Re: Tech news in real time

Edwin Khodabakchian — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:48:44 -0000

This is wild. I do not know how you do it. You must have something in your brain wired differently to be able to handle this amount of information and do pattern matching on it.

Re: Tech news in real time

allen — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:42:13 -0000

i thought real time news was mahalo?

Re: Tech news in real time

Dario Salvelli — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:36:45 -0000

I think that Friendfeed is "2.0" version of chat and forum system. I always use real time feature but it isn't so accessible...what do u think?