Nils, you're wayyyy too far ahead of the majority of computer users :). The "plugged-in" community is still small so this kind of super rapid, distributed approach can work, but most people wouldn't be able to catch on to this method. I look at my friends and co-workers and I try to explain how a file gets transferred by torrent and see how they don't get it... I know they won't be able to come close to keeping up with your vision of the web future.
Then like you say, many of them aren't interested. However, they needn't be mentioned.
I'm of the mind that less is more. Our entire web world has to contain as much information as it does currently but in a smaller, easier to use format. The problem of linking and subscribing has to be dealt with but not in a way that simply changes the link destinations, but by eliminating the link entirely (somehow).
Edwin Khodabakchian
· 1 year ago
Interesting experiment
markdykeman
· 1 year ago
Good post and intriguing idea. I subscribed - look forward to more from you.
Nils Geylen
· 1 year ago
Tom, eliminating the link is a fascinating concept. It's what this entire internet thing was based on in the first place and perhaps, somehow, that needs rethinking. It eludes me what that could be though, for now. I'd love to hear more about that though.
Edwin, thanks, and Mark, thank you too. See you around.
Joe Drinker
· 1 year ago
Nils,
I like to think that, at least on some levels, I'm moderately socially connected. Then I read through the lists of everything that you're on, or subscribed to, or a contributor of, and it makes my head spin. I can't imagine how you manage to get anything done in the way of a job plus all the social media avenues that you're pursuing, and thinking about diving any deeper into that arena makes me literally glaze over.
Along the lines of what Tom said, I think that this whole plugged-in digital world is going to have to be simplified (somehow) for most people to be able to get their heads around it, much less make it an integral part of their lives. For example, how long did it take people to understand email, and how simple is that concept?
Nils Geylen
· 1 year ago
Well Joe, seeing how long it took me to reply, you can tell my head is spinning too.
But spinning's good. It's good.
In fact, I was missing my old feeds so, that I re-imported my OPML.
Experiment: failed. That is to say: I now have double the amount of feeds.
Soon I'll be connected to every server on the continent, in the world, and I'll become omniscient. Nay, immortal! I'll become the machine that rules the machines!
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Then like you say, many of them aren't interested. However, they needn't be mentioned.
I'm of the mind that less is more. Our entire web world has to contain as much information as it does currently but in a smaller, easier to use format. The problem of linking and subscribing has to be dealt with but not in a way that simply changes the link destinations, but by eliminating the link entirely (somehow).
Edwin, thanks, and Mark, thank you too. See you around.
I like to think that, at least on some levels, I'm moderately socially connected. Then I read through the lists of everything that you're on, or subscribed to, or a contributor of, and it makes my head spin. I can't imagine how you manage to get anything done in the way of a job plus all the social media avenues that you're pursuing, and thinking about diving any deeper into that arena makes me literally glaze over.
Along the lines of what Tom said, I think that this whole plugged-in digital world is going to have to be simplified (somehow) for most people to be able to get their heads around it, much less make it an integral part of their lives. For example, how long did it take people to understand email, and how simple is that concept?
But spinning's good. It's good.
In fact, I was missing my old feeds so, that I re-imported my OPML.
Experiment: failed. That is to say: I now have double the amount of feeds.
Soon I'll be connected to every server on the continent, in the world, and I'll become omniscient. Nay, immortal! I'll become the machine that rules the machines!
Ha ha ha!!!
Ha!