River of views
Posted by matt on 18 Jul 2006 | Tagged as: Uncategorized, davewiner, craigbarnes, attensa, riverofnews, opensource
I found this Craig Barnes of Attensa post about the River of News style aggregators very interesting. Since they have a great understanding of Attention in his company, it doesn’t surprise me that they want to apply that to NewsRivers in order to make our feed reading more efficient.
I’m not sure Craig gets river of news. I’m not quite sure I get it, but I’m a wee bit closer, methinks. But he does pose a good question of whether the river of news will cause production slow down like email has.
Probably, but you can’t say that any reader has solved that one yet.
I guess he’s saying that he has some go-to blogs that he can’t miss, but others that are must reads.
I never know where the day’s gem will be. Sometimes Dave Winer has nothing for me and James Corbett does, other days it’s reversed.
I do think Craig confuses the method of reading all your feeds, ordered by date, but in a three-pane window with a true news river that flows title, description, links and all into one pane. That makes a huge difference.
The River of News style of feed consumption leverages the best computing resource available. The human brain.
Without it, I scan headlines, but often click to find it wasn’t worth it after all.
On a side note, I’m glad to see Craig looking at Open Source . If you read this Craig, just go for it. Actually, I’d like to talk more about it with you later, cuz this post is done.
