Comments on: River of news http://www.starchamber.com/2005/09/river-of-news.html Ned Gulley's Blog. Resident buzzwords: synthetic biology, ambient displays, swarm robotics, wise crowds. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:12:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Ned http://www.starchamber.com/2005/09/river-of-news.html#comment-829 Ned Tue, 04 Oct 2005 12:34:17 +0000 http://starchamber.com/?p=1141#comment-829 True, Bloglines does not completely mingle things at the article level. Does LiveJournal let you mix in other external feeds? True, Bloglines does not completely mingle things at the article level. Does LiveJournal let you mix in other external feeds?

]]> By: Erik Ostrom http://www.starchamber.com/2005/09/river-of-news.html#comment-828 Erik Ostrom Tue, 04 Oct 2005 05:39:08 +0000 http://starchamber.com/?p=1141#comment-828 LiveJournal is the only RSS aggregator I use--I used to try others, but I gave up. In LJ, I can set up multiple "friends groups", each containing multiple feeds. When I view a particular group, all of the items from all of the fields are mixed together, in roughly chronological order. (It's actually the order they were picked up by LJ's RSS fetcher.) This is exactly what I want, for example, in politics, because it makes it easy to watch a story spread. With other aggregators, if I picked the wrong blog to read first, I'd always be missing context from the other blogs that I needed to understand the first one, and then later I'd get to the posts that started things off and they'd be redundant by then. Anyway, this is what I thought "river of news" meant, but it looks like Bloglines still segregates the feeds from each other, it just puts them all in one page. So I guess I'll keep using LiveJournal. It's not so bad. (And, hi, I'm a friend of Ghostweather. Just passing through.) LiveJournal is the only RSS aggregator I use–I used to try others, but I gave up. In LJ, I can set up multiple “friends groups”, each containing multiple feeds. When I view a particular group, all of the items from all of the fields are mixed together, in roughly chronological order. (It’s actually the order they were picked up by LJ’s RSS fetcher.)

This is exactly what I want, for example, in politics, because it makes it easy to watch a story spread. With other aggregators, if I picked the wrong blog to read first, I’d always be missing context from the other blogs that I needed to understand the first one, and then later I’d get to the posts that started things off and they’d be redundant by then.

Anyway, this is what I thought “river of news” meant, but it looks like Bloglines still segregates the feeds from each other, it just puts them all in one page. So I guess I’ll keep using LiveJournal. It’s not so bad.

(And, hi, I’m a friend of Ghostweather. Just passing through.)

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