Comments on: In Defense of Blogging: Lifestreams are Lifeless http://www.1rick.com/blog/evolution-blogging/ A Canadian in Japan, by way of China Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:20:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rick Martin http://www.1rick.com/blog/evolution-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-1958 Rick Martin Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:29:09 +0000 http://www.1rick.com/blog/?p=381#comment-1958 Cheers Paul. I think it's important to focus more on the message rather than the medium. But having send that, I don't want to throw a bunch of garbage at a reader and say "Hey, there's a message in there somewhere for you!" As for my blogs, yeah -- they tend to be all over the map. But I tend to be myself the most here, for better or for worse. I don't really want them all in a single channel, because they're all different topics. I do have a catch-all feed (1rick.com/rss), but I don't recommend using it! Cheers for putting me on to that Malik article. And thx for the thoughts. R. Cheers Paul. I think it’s important to focus more on the message rather than the medium. But having send that, I don’t want to throw a bunch of garbage at a reader and say “Hey, there’s a message in there somewhere for you!”

As for my blogs, yeah — they tend to be all over the map. But I tend to be myself the most here, for better or for worse. I don’t really want them all in a single channel, because they’re all different topics. I do have a catch-all feed (1rick.com/rss), but I don’t recommend using it!

Cheers for putting me on to that Malik article. And thx for the thoughts.

R.

]]> By: Paul Papadimitriou http://www.1rick.com/blog/evolution-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-1957 Paul Papadimitriou Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:01:26 +0000 http://www.1rick.com/blog/?p=381#comment-1957 Love your post, Rick. It reminds me of the discussion we had on Twitter (kinda of livestreaming there, heh ^^) when I mentioned blog strategy. I agree with you that most lifestreams are useless. Too much noise, not enough coherence. This is why I'm trying and still struggling to find a way to talk about all the subjects that matter to me (social media, Japan, photography, etc ...yes I may have too many, was born like this) in a consolidated way. The problem with lifestreams or social broadcasters (or shouters) is that everything goes. The tuning has to been done by the receiver, while I think it should be done by the sender (to a point), like choosing a TV channel. I want to find a way that allows for people to follow only the topics of interest, not forcing them to go through useless blog entries for them. I think I've found how to do it, but the coding required to do it is too big for my time now. I'll wait until Wordpress MU is integrated into WP to play with it. Or do it in a simpler way. You have a very interesting way of balancing your blogs, yet I sometimes wish I had a single channel to see what you're doing. It's Twitter for now, but I hope technology allows us to find smarter ways not to shout. Cheers, Paul. Love your post, Rick. It reminds me of the discussion we had on Twitter (kinda of livestreaming there, heh ^^) when I mentioned blog strategy.

I agree with you that most lifestreams are useless. Too much noise, not enough coherence. This is why I’m trying and still struggling to find a way to talk about all the subjects that matter to me (social media, Japan, photography, etc …yes I may have too many, was born like this) in a consolidated way.

The problem with lifestreams or social broadcasters (or shouters) is that everything goes. The tuning has to been done by the receiver, while I think it should be done by the sender (to a point), like choosing a TV channel. I want to find a way that allows for people to follow only the topics of interest, not forcing them to go through useless blog entries for them. I think I’ve found how to do it, but the coding required to do it is too big for my time now. I’ll wait until Wordpress MU is integrated into WP to play with it. Or do it in a simpler way.

You have a very interesting way of balancing your blogs, yet I sometimes wish I had a single channel to see what you’re doing. It’s Twitter for now, but I hope technology allows us to find smarter ways not to shout.

Cheers,

Paul.

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