Light bulb turning on
March 14th, 2003Even Scott himself had to have this lightbulb turn on as it just did for me when reading this description of his epiphany.
I had thought that Feedster was cool but wasn’t quite sure of its killer usefulness. You see, since it’s based on current RSS feeds, its relevance follows a fairly narrow sliding window stretching only a few days at most into the past. After all, Google and the Wayback machine have much longer memories.
The cool thing is, though, many times I have seen something within the past day or so but can’t tell you where. I know it has been on one of the 100 or so blogs I regularly visit, or one or two clicks away from them. Drives me up the wall all the time.
Also, one of the features I love/hate best with Radio is that once I have read something, I mark it and delete it and it doesn’t remain to clutter up my reading. I love that. I also hate that, because oftentimes I hit the delete button and two minutes later wonder who had said that interesting tidbit. It’s too early to go looking on google for it – won’t be indexed yet. Even so, I’d rather search only my sphere of relevance rather than pull in the entire net’s search result.
The killer usefullness of Feedster – current events research and public perception thereof. Faster than a gallop poll. Able to leap mass media “spin” in a single bound. X-ray vision that can see through bias. Stronger than a single letter to an elected representative. Vulnerable only to the vagarities of human nature.