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Back and Forth
Aug. 20th, 2011 12:56 pmGentle Readers,
Note: my apologies to those of you who have to deal with chronic pain, I hope that my whining is not seen as trivializing what you have to deal with. I'm still trying to figure it out.
Here I am, lying on my back having maybe pushed a little bit too hard this morning. The back is getting better, but it's not perfect and pushing too hard does still make it cranky. After an excruciating Thursday afternoon things seemed to make a dramatic improvement. Dinner out last night to celebrate the birthdays of Cortejo and Lydia was quite bearable.
One of the many things I've been thinking about while lying here is Google+ and the Nymwars. I've been trying to figure out what it is that appeals to me about systems like google+ and facebook and what it is that encourages me to interact more there than here and also why the google+ experience is so unsatisfying.
The big thing that both Facebook and Google+ allow me to do is to easily share links (be they to articles, pictures, videos or whatever) and also to associate my friends with my messages with @pat or +lee.Sure, the rich text editor here does allow for some of that but not nearly as trivially as the other two.
On the other hand, both of them have fairly cryptic ordering algorithms for their reading pages which annoy the fuck out of me. The lack of ability to tag my posts (although I suppose I could use Circles for that in google+) or really any way to search through my history in Facebook is also really frustrating. Then there is the issue of the nymwar which is astonishing me with google's stubbornness regarding "real" names.
Sadly there are too many friends on both to abandon them completely. What I really need is an application that can pull in the content from my LJ friends, Dreamwidth reading page, facebook news feed, google+ stream, various email accounts and the mailing list therein as well as RSS feeds and present them to me in a big long list starting with the last thing I saw and adding newer things below it.
Hrm, that looks remarkably like a requirements list. Let's see, it would need to have plugable modules for each source that I wanted to pull data from so that I could add sources and associate accounts with them. It would need to be able to reorder incoming content. Responding in place would be nice, but not absolutely necessary.
I'm going to wonder if such a thing exists as it's probably safer than starting to wonder how hard such a thing would be to build.
Note: my apologies to those of you who have to deal with chronic pain, I hope that my whining is not seen as trivializing what you have to deal with. I'm still trying to figure it out.
Here I am, lying on my back having maybe pushed a little bit too hard this morning. The back is getting better, but it's not perfect and pushing too hard does still make it cranky. After an excruciating Thursday afternoon things seemed to make a dramatic improvement. Dinner out last night to celebrate the birthdays of Cortejo and Lydia was quite bearable.
One of the many things I've been thinking about while lying here is Google+ and the Nymwars. I've been trying to figure out what it is that appeals to me about systems like google+ and facebook and what it is that encourages me to interact more there than here and also why the google+ experience is so unsatisfying.
The big thing that both Facebook and Google+ allow me to do is to easily share links (be they to articles, pictures, videos or whatever) and also to associate my friends with my messages with @pat or +lee.Sure, the rich text editor here does allow for some of that but not nearly as trivially as the other two.
On the other hand, both of them have fairly cryptic ordering algorithms for their reading pages which annoy the fuck out of me. The lack of ability to tag my posts (although I suppose I could use Circles for that in google+) or really any way to search through my history in Facebook is also really frustrating. Then there is the issue of the nymwar which is astonishing me with google's stubbornness regarding "real" names.
Sadly there are too many friends on both to abandon them completely. What I really need is an application that can pull in the content from my LJ friends, Dreamwidth reading page, facebook news feed, google+ stream, various email accounts and the mailing list therein as well as RSS feeds and present them to me in a big long list starting with the last thing I saw and adding newer things below it.
Hrm, that looks remarkably like a requirements list. Let's see, it would need to have plugable modules for each source that I wanted to pull data from so that I could add sources and associate accounts with them. It would need to be able to reorder incoming content. Responding in place would be nice, but not absolutely necessary.
I'm going to wonder if such a thing exists as it's probably safer than starting to wonder how hard such a thing would be to build.
