Comments on: Why Big Reading Lists are Useful http://www.annezelenka.com/2006/02/why-big-reading-lists-are-useful a blog about the connected age Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:55:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Anne Zelenka http://www.annezelenka.com/2006/02/why-big-reading-lists-are-useful#comment-168 Anne Zelenka Sun, 19 Feb 2006 09:42:39 +0000 http://www.annezelenka.com/testbed/2006/02/why-big-reading-lists-are-useful#comment-168 Yeah, I'm thinking "reading list" is all wrong for what I'm talking about. Someone else suggested "attention lens" but that is more for the purely personalized approach. Maybe a category or topic feed list. Anyway, yes, it's a kind of subscription list, but specified by URL so that the curator can update it at will. I don't mean to endorse Adam by linking to him, just was setting the context for discussion. Not saying I disagree either. Just glad to be participating in a really interesting and useful discussion. Yeah, I’m thinking “reading list” is all wrong for what I’m talking about. Someone else suggested “attention lens” but that is more for the purely personalized approach. Maybe a category or topic feed list. Anyway, yes, it’s a kind of subscription list, but specified by URL so that the curator can update it at will.

I don’t mean to endorse Adam by linking to him, just was setting the context for discussion. Not saying I disagree either. Just glad to be participating in a really interesting and useful discussion.

]]> By: Dave Winer http://www.annezelenka.com/2006/02/why-big-reading-lists-are-useful#comment-167 Dave Winer Sun, 19 Feb 2006 04:23:00 +0000 http://www.annezelenka.com/testbed/2006/02/why-big-reading-lists-are-useful#comment-167 Thanks for an interesting piece and I agree -- there's promise in this application, but as you note in your last paragraph, it's confusing to call this application a "reading list." Reading lists are no different, in format, from the subscription lists we use to move from one aggregator to another, which is good (why invent another format when you can reuse one that's already broadly supported). BTW, I'd really like to avoid the emotional arguments that Green uses. I came to my conclusion by using other people's reading lists, not by imagining that users are dumber than I am (I can't cause I'm a user myself). Thanks for an interesting piece and I agree — there’s promise in this application, but as you note in your last paragraph, it’s confusing to call this application a “reading list.”

Reading lists are no different, in format, from the subscription lists we use to move from one aggregator to another, which is good (why invent another format when you can reuse one that’s already broadly supported).

BTW, I’d really like to avoid the emotional arguments that Green uses. I came to my conclusion by using other people’s reading lists, not by imagining that users are dumber than I am (I can’t cause I’m a user myself).

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