Owen -- An excellent point to Roger and the rest of us. Frankly, I struggle with my RSS feeds: at present, Bloglines has me at 576, which is probably on the high end of most users. Still, I like them largely because I selected them, which suggests a certain echo chamber bias. I read probably 20% within a week, another 30% within 30 days, and the remainder within 90 days. The latency bothers me a bit, since time matters somewhat, but I'm unlikely to devote more than about 20 hours/week to blogs directly. It's much better than surfing around to each, however.
I'd like to read some blogs more frequently (bOING bOING, for example), but find that the number of entries fills up quickly, and when I'm scanning, I'm much more likely to go for my more macroeconomic blogs that have had 10 entries since last I looked than those that have had 150. Maybe there's an interesting opportunity for blogs to optimize posting frequency, bearing in mind Machiavelli's admonition: Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better. (probably not the best translation, but the best I could find on the Internets). - Claiborne Booker -? -----Original Message----- From: Owen Densmore <[email protected]> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Sep 3, 2009 4:35 pm Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Psychology Blogs On Sep 3, 2009, at 4:28 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:? ? > I just put it all into Google Reader and star the stuff I might want? > to go back to read later. If I get too far behind, I just mark it all? > read and go on.? >? > -- rec --? ? The problem is that you are a computer pro. I doubt you could show others how to think in this fashion. You need to understand blogs, and that they are article based with dates. You'd have to explain RSS feeds as a notification stunt. You'd have to explain that there are ways to use the feeds: Google Reader, Browser functionalities, Aggregators, and so on. It really is hard, at least at the conceptual level for non-geeks.? ? I remember *several* folks at the complex begging for chats on "how to use the web" so to speak. We never got around to it, but boy would it be useful. Don had a few "barn raising" sessions: come with your laptop and we'll show you how to use the wiki or how to use forums. Maybe we ought to go back to that?? ? ? -- Owen? ? ? ============================================================? FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv? Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College? lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org?
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