future of ~the internet~

and counting the unread articles, also a downer!

― ice cr?m, Thursday, February 24, 2011 12:34 AM (2 minutes ago)

lol mine is always 1000+ unread and i just ignore it and assumed that was the standard but then i was looking over someone's shoulder and they were clearing theirs out and i was like ugh that would be a full time job, feeds for irish times, five star hiphop and nyt art beat by themselves are a pain in the ass to keep up w/ when yr just reading the odd one.

i try to be strict about keeping the number of rss feeds i subscribe to below ~100, and then it's only sites that update ~daily-weekly-monthly that i read most posts on. stuff i just check out when i'm bored (news sites, etc.) i just have a bookmarks folder. that way the unread stuff in my news reader stays low, ~50 new per day, most of which take seconds to read.

don't forget the vanity/competitive aspect of twitter - getting RT'd, follower count etc. easy to get carried away with this nonsense.

― ♘ (blueski), Thursday, February 24, 2011 8:23 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah to me this seems like the REAL genius of twitter, turning the internet into a middle school popularity contest - asymmetrical friendships is probably the greatest internet idea

― Neu! romancer (dayo), Wednesday, February 23, 2011 7:35 PM (10 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

its a maybe feature for power users - like if twitter wants be ubiquitous they know that most people who use it will never tweet that much or get many followers - theyre consumers of tweets

ice cr?m, yours is the only twitter feed i read. hope you can handle the responsibility.

(via rss). be sure to let me know of any big deals in the twitterzone.

obligatory:

http://achewood.com/comic.php?date=10162003

my only use for twitter is squatting on my government name, hope one of the hundreds of other people w/ my name gets real big and wants my name

cool man thx but do you mind following me on twitter instead following me on rss DOES NOT HELP MY FOLLOWERS COUNT AND SHOULD BE ILLEGAL xp

Hadn't encountered Stack Exchange before - is this like Quora but better?

i love rss, although i get pissed off by feeds that are truncated/delayed.

twitter is cool if i'm extraordinarily bored and have read everything in my reader, which is not often.

HIGH SPEED INTERNET

xxp yes

Oh yeah and the other reason I like reading articles through rss is that once I scroll past the last paragraph I get to read another article, not a bunch of commenting fuckwits.

sorry ice man. i am a twitter parasite.

whoooooooshhhhhhhhh

I got out of the RSS game like 5 years ago, it was such a timesink

ILX is my RSS feed these days

which brings up the idea of intelligent gatekeepers, I know google is working on this via personalizing your searches, but has any company made real headway in this direction

Hadn't encountered Stack Exchange before - is this like Quora but better?

― Pisle of dogs (seandalai), Wednesday, February 23, 2011 7:44 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

stack exchange is more for technical advice on particular topics - like they have all these diff dedicated verticals wordpress, math, bicycles http://stackexchange.com/sites

Twitter seems to fill that same niche that irc did (even down to the hostile jargon) -- irc was even used to get word out in 89 iirc. I miss it now it has been abandoned to the dweebs and pirates. Same thing could def happen to twitter, but the principle of having a way to read short updates and have fleeting conversations w/strangers will stick around.

Don't think I have enough points to read stackexchange yet. I still need to connect it to my oauth endpoint and then vote on fourteen tag submissions before I can get access to the secondary comment review facility which will let me amass enough points to read edit notes on questions that have more than seven up votes.

haha

choice incomprehensible posts from web 2.0 xp

i had to un-follow one because without exaggeration he tweeted every 5-15 minutes. My page was just flooded with his random shit.

― Trayce, Wednesday, February 23, 2011 10:40 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

sorry abt that

hahaha :) No it wasnt you. (I'm memorygongs if anyone wants to hook me up but I p much never post, so)

Man I used to LIVE on irc back in the day - I was a chanOp on #melbourne and #gothic on oz.org server and I could run both those and priv chat windows all at once somehow.

I went back on there a while back and it was a ghost town, same old saddos still logged in but no one saying anything - and if even 2 chats would open I couldn't keep up, and I have no idea how I managed to in the past.

haha a few years ago i went back to a newsgroup that shall remain nameless and the same dude was still trolling everything wtf

Ah newsgroups, I miss them tbh. They were my pre-ILX ilx.

there's this dude that's really into prog........xp

lots of tweets are headlines, maybe follow diff people idk

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 21:34 (Yesterday)

I am following u now do not disappoint me

ill try my best boss!

haha I used to be heavy into IRC, almost got made op of #starwars on undernet

I miss mIRC.

I looked up a couple folks I know and it's funny to see how many ppl tried and gave up on twitter

self included

secret of twitter is follow news sources not friends

A HA

http://grab.by/987s

eh who am I kidding, I'm not a compulsive news junkie, I just wanna know what got added to streaming netflix and where the local noise & punk shows are

I 'preciate the hat fulla stars tho

i have a bad perspective on all this stuff b/c i kind of HAVE to use both twitter and google reader for work. so far for me twitter is basically only good for breaking news, but its GREAT for that, it feels like an old-school news ticker, which is maybe why "media people" love it so much. (and that in turn is why hype hype hype)

i dont think itll change the world (i dont really even understand HOW its supposed to have like caused a revolution? like the mechanics of twitter being a political tool are foreign to me. people retweet slogans?) but i think it or something like it will always exist, if only as a tool for news junkies/reporters. (also for palinesque media-hating pols & celebs)

(also seems worth pointing out that i didnt really like twitter until had a couple hundred followers and all of a sudden people were actually reading/RTing/replying to me with some frequency. & my guess is that most people who are hyping twitter are in the same boat, and dont see how boring it can be if no one is paying attention to you)

sounds like you have a great perspective on all this stuff

I am nominating max king of all media

http://grab.by/98rJ

i still irc on the reg tbqh

I use the internet to get jobs and music thats it

(also seems worth pointing out that i didnt really like twitter until had a couple hundred followers and all of a sudden people were actually reading/RTing/replying to me with some frequency. & my guess is that most people who are hyping twitter are in the same boat, and dont see how boring it can be if no one is paying attention to you)

― max, Thursday, February 24, 2011 10:31 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i have over literally 100 followers - i havent really been into using it for two way communication - i like it more or less for syndication purposes - in fact when im checking out someones feed to see if i want to follow them and its all @ replies and RTs im like naaah - im in it for the links mostly - although recently i seem to have started following a lot of i dont know what to call them 'mentally ill twitter comedians' - like people who say v strange abstract things that structurally look like jokes but dont really make any sense - also it made me realize thats kinda what my tweets look like :/

ya i follow norm mcdonald too

game recognize game

xp

although recently i seem to have started following a lot of i dont know what to call them 'mentally ill twitter comedians' - like people who say v strange abstract things that structurally look like jokes but dont really make any sense

i follow/know/rip off some of these guys and its weird to me how they have pretty big followings and this kind of quip culture has emerged on twitter bc of it

georgelazenby to thread

I pretty much stopped reading twitter entirely. idk. I mean it's not that I don't get it or anything but I guess I found it kind of annoying. Too much crap to follow. Maybe I should try again.

yeah i never use it and dont get much value out of it personally

tbh I read it first thing in the morning while on the toilet