What starts to get interesting to me, though, is seeing the effects of people's subscriptions rather than the subscriptions themselves. I've been fascinated with memeorandum ever since I heard that the tech channel was seeded with Scoble's blog roll (is it true?). So, it's logical to consider an interesting lens might be yourboss.memeorandum.com and yourmusicobssessedfriend.memorandum.com. Then I started seeing referrals from megite.com in my logs a week or so ago. And this week Alex Barnett posted about megite showing that he now has, essentially, alexbarnett.memeorandum. Doc Searls' blog is a bit of a pain to read, but I like his views and what he's all about. Luckily, I can now see the Doc Searls lens on the world rather than read all his posts.
Megite is the Being John Malkevich RSS Reader. Here's the view through my head (Apparently, I'm a gay AJAX programmer. My wife will be surprised to hear this, as will my boss).
UPDATE: Nick Cubrilovic challenges both the accuracy and utility of a service like Megite:
"The more memetrackers that commit themselves to the personalized path
the less people we have working on the real problem of prioritizing
content and finding the smaller stories that everybody would be
interested in knowing about. Getting the first part right would be far
more interesting not just for me but for most people out there who are
interested in the long tail of news."
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| Attention engines - screencast | |
| Weblog: | Alex Barnett blog |
| Excerpt: | I created a quick screencast to show what I mean by the term 'Attention Engines'. Before I sign out... |
| Posted: | Fri Feb 17 03:58:04 EST 2006 |