by Andy Brudtkuhl on July 23, 2009
Yesterday I cleansed my Google Reader removing 75% of the feeds I subscribe to. Google Reader’s latest update adding people search, following, and likes completely changed how I consume information – with less noise and more signal.
For years I’ve been talking about creating networks of human filters. I’ve even tried building apps that allow these networks to form and once FriendFeed came along I realized that other people saw the value in creating these same types of filters. Techmeme also quickly realized what I’ve been thinking for years – a computer simply cannot remove all the noise and thus a human is necessary.
Back to Google Reader. So there are 10-15 blogs I read regularly. I was probably only interested in 10-20% of the “other” posts that came into Google Reader and due to the massive amount of noise I probably only got to read 10% of that 10% :-)
So yesterday I dove into Google Reader and started “following” people I trust to consume information, figure out what’s relevant, and share it. Now instead of subscribing to hundreds of RSS feeds I let Louis Gray, Robert Scoble, Michael Fruchter and others tell me what’s important.
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by Andy Brudtkuhl on May 12, 2009
On the drive home from BigOmaha Aaron Webb asked me what I thought was the next big thing coming to the web. We discussed the evolution of blogs, rss, podcasting, video, microblogs, etc. I said I thought things would come full circle back to search.
Today, Louis Gray spilled the beans on TweetMeme…
The search engine indexes new stories as they are found in Twitter, and offers a great deal of filtering and customization. You can sort results by “Best Match”, “Age” and “Retweet Count”, showing the most popular forwarded tweets. Meanwhile, the results display categories for each update, and you can even filter by the media type, including news, images or videos.
Then Scoble pointed us to OneRiot, via VentureBeat…
You can try such a search of tweeted links already at OneRiot. The upstart social-network search engine crawls Twitter, follows the links, and creates a database of the content of Web pages and videos linked from recent Twitter updates. Right now, Thursday afternoon, a search for “Star Trek” returns as top result a hilarious Onion parody news report.
And Google announces the “Wonder Wheel of Suggestions” making its search filters far more powerful for the mainstream. These “Search Experiments” will be announced today..
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