I’m a strong believer in the disintermediation of classified ads, which is partially why I chose the name of this blog.

In fact, I heralded Edgeio as a sign of what was to come, especially to the CareerBuilder people I work with.

So, like James Corbett, I was confused by Mike Arrington’s wording of “decentralised job board for tech” , as you can see by my comment on the CrunchNotes post.

Here is the way decentralization for job sites must work.

1. Companies make RSS feeds of their sites available.

2. A decentralized but comprehensive OPML directory of jobs is wrought.

3. The directory is available under an open license.

That’s really all there is to it. And there will still be plenty of ways for service providers to make money.

Now if I were Mike Arrington, I’d continue the lucrative site he’s got. I think that’s great.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with adding those feeds to the Open Job Directory as well. (OPML heads can go to the directory , but it’s all OPML 2.0 inclusion, so you better Grazr it.)
Since the majority of jobs in the Open Job Directory are from paid listing sites, it looks like just another aggregator. But that’s not true. It includes feeds from O’Reilly, Edelman and even Edgeio (OPML) .

And once a critical mass of Businesses are publishing their job feeds, it’ll make those paid-listing sites irrelevant.

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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.

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