Comments for Read/Write Filter

Read/Write Filter

2006-01-19T10:23:35Z

Aggregating and filtering the latest Web Tech and Media news, so you don't have to! (p.s. it'd be great to get some feedback on this new daily feature of mine - is the R/W Filter of any value to folks? How can I improve it? Thanks!)

- Chinese internet police (Rebecca MacKinnon tells us about two cartoon web cops named "JIngjing" and "Chacha", who will be patrolling websites in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen)

- The Walled Garden “Hit List” (Bill Burnham fingers eBay, match.com, Monster and Homestore as Walled garden perps)

- Tech plays supporting role at Sundance festival (a lot of great Web stuff happening at Sundance, including podcasts, web streaming of most Shorts Program entrants, and premiering films on the Internet in conjunction with their live premieres)

- Yahoo, Google & Web 2.0 Reality Check (Om Malik seems to be raising concerns about Yahoo's perceived lack of focus)

- Amazon.com To Launch Live, Weekly Online Show (starring some comedian guy called Bill Maher... I have to agree with current analysis that Amazon's media efforts so far have been stop-gap)

- YouTube not Acquired Yet (but TechCrunch will surely report it first when the actual sale does go through)

- The battle over bundling: Top Ten Sources and more (Susan argues strongly for bloggers getting a share of revenue. btw I'm in the Web 2.0 Top Ten List and gave my permission just today)

- Last.fm + personal data = excellent music (Matt McAlister: "In an increasingly trust-driven economy, Last.fm will get my business over iTunes any time I'm given the choice.")

- A life online: living decentralised (how to create an online platform for word-processing, spreadsheets, email, image-sharing, file storage, collaborative working, and for keeping up-to-date with current events)

Comment from vincent on 2006-01-19

2006-01-19T10:45:34Z

Filters are much needed these days. Thanks Richard.

Comment from Sean Et Cetera on 2006-01-19

2006-01-19T13:17:09Z

I just started checking R/W last week or so, but have quickly become a daily visitor.

Comment from Berkay on 2006-01-19

2006-01-19T15:31:33Z

It's definitely useful for me. It saves a lot of time for sure. I found that it also expands the pool of sources I get exposed to.

Thanks!

Berkay

Comment from Adam on 2006-01-19

2006-01-19T15:45:52Z

I've been in technology for almost 15 years. I consider your site one of the best at explaining what is happening out there on the web right now. I have adopted the term read/write web after hearing it from you. Great job!

I think its good the way it is. I read about 10 feeds out of 200 daily and yours is among these 10. Thank you for your hard work ;-)

Comment from Eric on 2006-01-19

2006-01-19T18:34:26Z

Me like the filter. Keep up!

Comment from Richard MacManus on 2006-01-19

2006-01-19T19:35:17Z

Thanks! It's nice to know it's a useful service and people are actually reading it :-) I'm still not convinced about the name - Filter. Hmmm.

Comment from Adam on 2006-01-19

2006-01-19T21:49:59Z

Yeah filter doesn't really fit.

Story Catcher
Useful Posts
Stickie Stories

Wow, I suck at this name thing...

read/write picks
read/write related
read/write reads

...eh...that's all I got. :-)

Comment from Richard MacManus on 2006-01-19

2006-01-19T23:31:33Z

Heh, yes it's hard work picking the right name - thanks for the suggestions Adam! :-) Read/Write Reads has a certain irony and symmetry about it, but the joke may wear thin... :-)

Suggestions welcome...

Comment from Michael McCorry on 2006-01-19

2006-01-20T02:48:52Z

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Comment from mcubed on 2006-01-19

2006-01-20T05:39:44Z

I'm a new reader of R/WW, so I don't have anything to offer in the way of advice for improvements to your filter feature. However, I did want to join in the chorus of praise and say I find it useful. I'd already come across some of the articles you linked to today via other feeds or because the sources are feeds I already check out. Interestingly, I had read (as opposed to skipped over) all of the previously encountered links, which I guess means you're picking things that interest me. That gives you attention cred in my book. :-)

BTW, I like Read/Write Reads. Or something like "Read WebReads" or just "WebReads," playing off the full name of your blog (Read/WriteWeb, instead of just Read/Write). But don't listen to me 'cause I suck at these things too.

Comment from Michael Bayler on 2006-01-20

2006-01-20T11:53:18Z

Brilliant concept and would love to compare notes on related matters ... are you NZ-based?

Comment from Mitch Olson (Outsmart) on 2006-01-20

2006-01-21T07:39:36Z

Hi Richard

I have been following RWW for about 3 months now & really appreciate your contributions & commentary on Web2.0. As a (fellow kiwi & Auckland-based) Rich Internet Application developer, keeping up with what is happening in this fast growing domain of the technology world is vital to our ability to anticipate and follow opportunities.

I've just finished reading your article "Popular elements of a 2006 web site or service" which I thought was bang on the mark. I've been using the Rojo.com Tagging/Aggregating/Filtering/SocialNetworking RSS Reader for the last month & it has transformed my ability to keep (more) up to date - I thought it made a good "poster boy/girl" for your article.

The differences these Web 2.0 elements is making to my life at the moment is improving the signal-to-noise ratio of web-based information and articles. I'm currently trying to convince my team to start using Rojo too, & then together with some tweaking of Rojo's social networking capability (article rating & the ability to add comments) I/we would be set.

In response to your request for feedback: question for me personally then is how to improve my capacity to more easily find the articles or ("sub-articles") you write that I'm interested in. In the absence of your own Rojo-like capability the only thought that comes to mind is supplementing your primary RSS with "specialist" feeds based on some sort of tags. ie. come up with say 10 tags that represent the cross-section of all the articles you write then produce 10 RSS feeds that match each of those tags. This would give people more filtering ability. Not sure whether this is possible given the nature of web2.0.

Anyway, thanks for all the signal in the sea of noise.

regards

Mitch Olson
Consulting Services Director
Outsmart
http://www.getoutsmart.com