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8/14/2006

Overloaded by bookmark feeds

Filed under: — Chris

I found -actually, the beast found me — a new instance of information overload: bookmark feeds disguised as blog postings.

I try to focus my reading list by subscribing to blogs, but now some blog authors are publishing their latest del.icio.us (and others) bookmarks. Being the naif that I am, I think there’s a new posting, but really it’s just a new page they’ve bookmarked. If I want to view other people’s bookmarks, I will find them through other means than reading their blogs.

It is simply too much information for me to be reading people’s bookmarks the way I do blog postings. That is the beauty of searching/browsing. It is active on my part, rather than me passively being shown links that I may or may not be interested in.

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  1. Amen. There should be ways to opt-out of posts like this.

    In some ways, this kind of post is what blogging started as, “check out my cool links of the day!”, but I have no time/interest to check out links unless someone writes a persuasive paragraph about why I should.

    Comment by Alice — 8/14/2006 @ 11:13 pm

  2. Exactly. Well-stated.

    Comment by Chris — 8/15/2006 @ 12:27 am

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