Noise in 2008
ReadWriteWeb has an interesting article regarding noise and in this particulaire case- the one that FriendFeed generates. By aggregating your social network chatter, and everyone elses it can provide a good overview over all the discussions going on- but it is also littered with noise, noise about cats-dogs-rain-going to bed ,presidential campaign- gadgets I don’t care about, news I don’t care about etc etc etc. I call this Self Inflicted Social Spam or SISS. SISS is the byproduct of livestreams. I used to have that same problem on twitter when I was just following everyone- now I just follow the people I find interesting- however, i don’t limit myself to Twitter, I also use Pownce and Jaiku, and Facebook, Linkedin , Google Reader and Flickr. And I don’t remember how many more. And although the information is incredibly valuable to me, there is no way I can keep up anymore- and the noise is drowning out the signals.
What to do about this? I don’t know, but I am going to start working on something that will address this issue this year. Bold statement? Maybe- I consider this my personal mission for 2008. I have a feeling that Semantic web technology can play a large part in solving this problem , thinking about APML and SIOC right now.
Anyone interested in tagging (no pun) along?
Fantastic interview with Howard Rheingold.
Amazing never released footage of a Well party dating back to 1989 (gasp) , so way before the web- social media- twitter etc.