Comments on: Social Media Overload: Be Smart About It!

By: Serendipity, Simplicity and the Art of the Stumble « Unisyc.

Serendipity, Simplicity and the Art of the Stumble « Unisyc. — Sat, 17 May 2008 18:51:41 +0000

[...] to explain the title of this post. Serendipity is one of the ways Hutch Carpenter recommended to deal with social media overload: “Strategy: embrace serendipity, recognize you can’t possibly consume all updates”. I [...]

By: searchyogi

searchyogi — Sat, 03 May 2008 00:14:53 +0000

@bhc3 – I am glad you liked my blog. thanks.
# and quality of comments is definitely a good parameter to gauge how relevant the original post is. I would love to see posts surfacing based on my previous behavior. An interesting area to explore.

By: bhc3

bhc3 — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:48:47 +0000

@searchyogi – I saw Robert Scoble asking about ways to see only FriendFeed updates that had comments on them. The idea is that the presence of comments would be a filter on the content.

It still doesn’t guarantee you’ll see something you like, but if (i) the content has interactions around it; and (ii) it comes from someone in your social network, that’s a good start toward filtering.

Eventually, someone will figure out collaborative filtering based on your previous views to provide a way to show only relevant things to you.

BTW – I like your blog.

By: searchyogi

searchyogi — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:58:38 +0000

while getting updates relating to specific terms is a good idea, I think there needs to be a tool that need to show interesting information – You don’t know what good stuff you might be missing. One of the tweets (don’t remember who! – information overload) suggested that there should be a ranking of some sort. For example: 200 people read this post and these should flow to the top. Almost like digg. Alert thingy is asking users to rate “like” a post/tweet. I am assuming they will use this to surface more popular info.

By: links for 2008-04-19 | mad dog in the fog

links for 2008-04-19 | mad dog in the fog — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:31:56 +0000

[...] Social Media Overload: Be Smart About It! « I’m Not Actually a Geek “Complaints about social media information overload remind me of alcoholics griping about all the drinks they’re being served. It’s not the bartender! It’s you!” (tags: attention microblogging) [...]

By: Jack Causee

Jack Causee — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:53:00 +0000

“Online Social Networking” is a waste of time. I got an account the first month Facebook was around. Yeah it was cool for a week or so. hhhmmm, a message board with pictures.

Its too bad I’ve had to sit through 5 years of hype as 40+ pretends to pioneer a new field, “social networking”.

I much prefer services like http//www.referralkey.com/

They keep me informed but I don’t have to make a lifestyle out of communicating with people in an ineffectual world.

By: engtech

engtech — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:31:42 +0000

I manage my Friend Feed information with scripts. Here’s how:

http://internetducttape.com/2008/04/16/delete-it/

By: How do you read your feeds? (Yet another flimsy pretext to talk about myself.) « Unisyc.

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:46:12 +0000

[...] Saturday, 19th April, 2008 at 12:24:04 am · Filed under Internet, Miscellanea, Sci-Tech ·Tagged FriendFeed, Google, Twitter Firstly, the background for this question. I have absolutely no idea where I read this (it is presumably amongst my 1800+ bookmarks), but I recall reading acouple of posts a while back about how there is a trend of people preferring to find items of interest through linklogs, feeds of shared items than through ‘normal’ Atom/RSS feeds and places like Twitter and FriendFeed (partially relying on serendipity to deliver them interesting stuff). [...]

By: How do you read your feeds? (Yet another flimsy pretext to talk about myself.) « Unisyc.

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:24:14 +0000

[...] Saturday, 19th April, 2008 at 12:24:04 am · Filed under Miscellanea Firstly, the background for this question. I have absolutely no idea where I read this (it is presumably amongst my 1800+ bookmarks), but I recall reading acouple of posts a while back about how there is a trend of people preferring to find items of interest through linklogs, feeds of shared items than through ‘normal’ Atom/RSS feeds and places like Twitter and FriendFeed (partially relying on serendipity to deliver them interesting stuff). [...]