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I respect your sympathy for and willingness to read what those you follow deem interesting. But I think the author of the blog post is speaking of a problem tha
by avk 16y ago
I respect your sympathy for and willingness to read what those you follow deem interesting. But I think the author of the blog post is speaking of a problem that emerges at a larger scale when you follow more & more people. Your stream becomes bigger while the amount of time you have stays the same so your options are 1) unfollow people, 2) don't read everything, or 3) put in more time. Personally, I don't like 1 or 2 because I feel like I'll miss out on timely, relevant information and 3 isn't an option for most of us. Thus, the need for a solution like the one the blog post describes. Shameless plug: here's how I'm trying to fix the problem - http://slipstre.am/ http://slipstre.am/
- pmcginn 16y agoI agree with all of that, except I've found 2 to be the most useful, especially with regards to how I manage Reader. My time spent in feeds has been a lot less hurried since I learned to stop worrying and love the Mark as Read button. I just feel like I personally get information in so many different ways, that if something is big enough, I'll see it in many places and am pretty much bound to read one of them. I can count on seeing any big tech story here on five different feeds, Google News (go to time-killer on my phone in the rare occasion my feeds are empty), several twitter accounts, and probably here on HN (more like 15 feeds if it has Apple in the title.) I went to your site but you lost me with the lack of content--maybe at this stage that's important to weed out the laziest of the "testers." Have you thought of doing just a quick before/after screenshot to show default twitter vs. your application, or is it too early for that? Edited to add: er, my fault. My brain skips over flash almost automatically. I didn't watch your video.