a culture of feeds: syndication and youth culture – Danah makes some interesting points on RSS aggregation and its “IM” counterpart. By and large I can agree that current models of the ‘feed-reading’ activity are weak (for example, I strong prefer the newsmap [even better with time-based checkpointing). That being said, I do like the idea of flagging what I want to see (things to remember, things I haven’t seen). Some of this has been discussed before. But it’d go a long way into making ‘feedreading’ a fundamentally different activity.
aaronland.info: stagger into perl – one way of organizing code. My recent thoughts have strayed away from the repository dump and towards a release blog