I am speaking today with marc canter and hugh with suw managing it all..."with a two by four" she said.
RSS DISCUSSION
they say...rss word is going to die, that it will be called "web feed", because, as marc said, "we have to start talking to human beings."
"the software will be smart enough to only bubble up the information that i want" one of the panelists said. my question is (and i guess that's why i am on the other panel), who do we become as people when the technology "becomes smart enough" to decide for me what i find interesting enough? what happened to school where you got a general knowledge of everything. yes, focusing is good, but i am so glad bugs and stuff exhist so that one xxx bit of information comes up spontaneously for me to see (maybe i need to see it and it has nothing to do with work...) "the relevency of something is dependent on my context. if i am in a professional context then i want certain info, and if i am in a social situation i want other info, and will the software will ever be smart enough to know my context? it's timebound!" blog.namics.com (juerg is sitting next to me).
"improving privacy, improving targeting, individual intellectual property as far as what a person wants to read on the web."
microsoft example of syncronizing information accross a field so that when you have say, a job offer out there, and then the job is no longer available, and yet the information still exhists and you still get bombarded with emails.
