For some reason, while travelling, I've really noticed how I'd fallen into the bad habit of relying on Twitter and aggregaters like TechMeme to channel content for reading. While everyone is warm and fuzzy about WOC, recommendation systems,etc., frankly they scare the innovation right out of me. As I've mentioned in other posts, what gets things to the top of the pile is only partly what I vaguely call inherent value. A good part of what is going on is the force of social value, which, IMHO, can be the death of serrendipity.
Feed readers don't excatly cure this problem, but I've really enjoyed getting back to the long list of blogs that I've subscribed to and spending some time with the high quality, well thought-out opinions from the stable of blogs that I've spent years cultivating.
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Posted by: steve | July 29, 2009 at 12:50 AM
What blogs do you read?
Posted by: Alex | July 31, 2009 at 02:18 AM