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Re: The John Dvorakification of the blogosphere (I’m signing off of Memeorandum)

Jack Yan — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 06:05:38 -0000

Good point. With smart people, we can make the world better. With snarky people, we just add to the clutter.

Re: The John Dvorakification of the blogosphere (I’m signing off of Memeorandum)

Richard Soderberg — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:07:25 -0000

The 43folders RSS improvements article came up in the context of my newsreader recently; it sparked good discussion. I'm cheered to see it highlighted here; both points are valid. Feed expiration based on lack of attention would have useful implications for bookmark ordering as well.

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The Vole Strangler — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 10:46:15 -0000

People like David Aaranovich are the John Dvoraks of MSM. This is not a new phenomenon, but you are right we must strangle the voles. When you strange a vole you cut of the oxygen supply and they die. Come to my blogsite and discuss the best way to strangle voles.

Re: The John Dvorakification of the blogosphere (I’m signing off of Memeorandum)

Net — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:44:38 -0000

Hey, you need a life (outside Tech), you know there is a whole beutiful world out there without trackbacks, pings and links: go fishing, pick up bird watching, read a REAL book (not tech or business related),play with kids or listen to old peoples stories...and it comes without RSS, OPML and all that scary stuff.

Re: The John Dvorakification of the blogosphere (I’m signing off of Memeorandum)

Paul Montgomery — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:27:42 -0000

Gabe, if you had implemented permalinked memes like I asked then Jake's search would be much easier. :D

Re: The John Dvorakification of the blogosphere (I’m signing off of Memeorandum)

Gabe — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 22:00:03 -0000

Me again. In Trackback #54, Jake Ludington infers that this post was manually blocked from appearing on memeorandum. The problem with this conclusion is that it DID show up on memeorandum. I'm not sure why Jake didn't bother to check the archives. Just thought I would respond here.

Re: The John Dvorakification of the blogosphere (I’m signing off of Memeorandum)

Goebbels — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 17:19:22 -0000

Duh. Some of us have said this for a very long time now. You were just hyping it 5 days ago. If only it didn't take you a year to figure out crap that must of us see on first viewing, maybe you'd deserve your reputation.

Re: The John Dvorakification of the blogosphere (I’m signing off of Memeorandum)

the head lemur — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 17:08:28 -0000

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Get some help Robert! Step away from the computer and find a treatment program where you can return to sanity. Take all the time you need. We will be here when you get back.

Re: The John Dvorakification of the blogosphere (I’m signing off of Memeorandum)

Robert W. Anderson — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:58:46 -0000

Robert -- I've come up with the HypterText Snarkup Language (HTSL) to both help publishers be more snarky and readers to avoid unwanted snarkiness.

;)

Re: The John Dvorakification of the blogosphere (I’m signing off of Memeorandum)

scobleizer — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:22:36 -0000

Wil: my RSS subs are shared on the right side of my blog. (Use the NewsGator one, it's more up to date).

Re: The John Dvorakification of the blogosphere (I’m signing off of Memeorandum)

Wil — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 12:51:52 -0000

I've recently cleaned up my bloglines subs for largely the same reason, and I have also noticed an unsettling trend for bloggers to go well beyond snark and cross into outright cruelty and insults in order to generate traffic to their blogs. It's almost like the troll is no longer content to spew in comments, but has figured out that he can draw a small profit by pulling people into his own blog.

The posts you linked are all interesting; any chance you'd share your RSS subs (or part of them) with the unwashed masses who also like to feel smarter?

Re: The John Dvorakification of the blogosphere (I’m signing off of Memeorandum)

Serge Lescouarnec — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 12:12:14 -0000

I personnally do not use memeorandum.

Maybe because I am not a Tech guy, I usually read varied blogs on a number of topics.

I find ideas and inspiration for my business in many places including the following: Coudal, Learned on Women, Is my blog Burning, Chocolate & Zucchini, Knowledge at Wharton to name a few.
I like the diversity.

While visiting the SEOS in New York last week, a number of companies in the Expo bored me by repeatedly bringing up Google rather than telling me how special they were.

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Re: The John Dvorakification of the blogosphere (I’m signing off of Memeorandum)

Bernard Farrell — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:58:59 -0000

I can't resist. All this talk about snark made me think of Lewis Carroll. I really like his description of a Snark in the second fit (See http://www.literature.org/a..., the fifth mark of a Snark is ambition, which seems entirely appropriate.

And if you read Fit the First, then the first two verses might aptly describe Memeorandum!

Re: The John Dvorakification of the blogosphere (I’m signing off of Memeorandum)

Poster — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:47:20 -0000

Communities rise and fall, like civilizations; the tide rolls in and rolls out; music scenes bloom and wither. Do what builds you up.

Re: The John Dvorakification of the blogosphere (I’m signing off of Memeorandum)

Joe Palladino — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:12:15 -0000

Robert,

Memeorandum suffers from the same affliction that all peer ranking sites do. It is the very samething that makes them popular. Its the people who read them. Its not that they are bad, but its always the same people and as someone pointed out above, popular does not mean interesting or noteworthy. By using sites like Memeorandum, Digg, and the like; we’ve given up a fair amount of control for the convenience and automatic filtering of what we see.

As far as the snarking goes, people will be people. No matter what the medium is, if it is open to the public to participate it will happen, especially with the anonymity of the net. Just look at the history: BBS’s, Usenet, then websites and forums, now blogs. They all suffered from snarking. Why should a peer aggregator/ranking site that culls from these sources be any different? A desktop or web personal aggregator isn’t going to be much different as the sources are the same. The only difference is that you can remove a feed from your radar if it gets too noisy for you.

So my question to you Robert isn’t should you sign off or use a personal aggregator, but wouldn’t something like Feed Demon’s watches be more suitable?

Re: The John Dvorakification of the blogosphere (I’m signing off of Memeorandum)

Thomas Hawk — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:14:29 -0000

My individual RSS reading has been off a bit as well, but you may be throwing the baby out with the bath water here. Memeorandum is an excellent place to get a quick snapshot, say first thing in the morning, to see what is going on. Most of the time I see it and don't blog from what I find there. Sometimes I do.

But what's been zapping my time more than anything these days are my Digg feeds. With Digg feeds I can customize by subject, person, etc. and get generally speaking interesting stories (most people try to submit stuff that will get dugg). Because it's focused on feeds I've set up (search terms of interest) it's focus is great. It's much broader than the authorities who get on Memeorandum and helps me find interesting new bloggers and people all the time.

I think there is a place for all three though, my Memeorandum reading, RSS and Digg searches. But in the end we all only have so much time and it's a zero sum game to some degree.

My problem with all of my blogs that I track is that so often they post articles I'm not interested in. I still think someone needs to come up with RSS feeds for search terms in predefined authority filters.

Re: The John Dvorakification of the blogosphere (I’m signing off of Memeorandum)

Al — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 09:33:39 -0000

Well if you had been paying more attention to newer RSS feeds and your constant new discoveries you might have seen this folknology post : http://www.folknology.com/b... and de-focussed from the meme earlier.

Although keeping the meme as an RSS feed can still make sense.

Enjoy the return of sernedipity
regards Al

Re: The John Dvorakification of the blogosphere (I’m signing off of Memeorandum)

John Tokash — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 05:27:35 -0000

I use tech.memeorandum, tailrank and slashdot (GLADLY) as safety nets. I focus on relatively obscure feeds in my aggregator. If I didn't have those services around to make sure I don't miss the popular, general interest stuff, I'd have to subscribe to a lot more feeds.

Re: The John Dvorakification of the blogosphere (I’m signing off of Memeorandum)

missrogue — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 04:04:20 -0000

oh...and...for the record...I don't think any of us wanted to be such a news item on Memeorandum. The snark came from true places of passion and hurt.

...I didn't even know it was there until I saw it appear in my bloglines...in your post and Richard's.