General Musing

I was reading Mashable and discovered SocialMedian, a social news website. It’s quite an interesting way to go, rather than being tag or vote oriented it’s a subject based news microblog with links. They describe it as socialmedia, but for me that term tends more towards audio or video. It has a feature to create a front page, based on the newsfeeds you are subscribed to, which you can have mailed to you. There are a number of these out there, but I have yet to find one that delivers the combination of news and rss that I want.

I was subscriber to the newsfeed Web2.0 and received this article: Writing Once, Publishing Many Times, Makes Context Critical. It describes the problem that many microblog (twitter) comments suffer from: context loss. For people following the microblog and aren’t in the conversation the context is almost certainly lost on them.

The solution: Quote! Instead of just writing “Me too!” You can write: “I also want to have free stuff.” It’s a fair complaint, but feels like I’m reading a complaint that could have been written for USENET in 1994 when I first got online. I wonder if is Louis Gray top poster?

technorati tags: usenet, microblogging, context, twitter, socialmedia, folksonomy