Social Media – [ What's in a Name? ]

On the morning of March 3rd I checked Facebook, and for the first time in a good while, there was a post that wasn’t spiteful and full of venom, an ad for something, or a post that was generated by some Facebook algorithm that thinks that it knows what I want to see.

It was refreshing at the beginning, and I saw the potential for good conversation. After watching the post and it’s comments throughout the day I became more disappointed. Hope for something turned to muck once again. The bird was flying up and out of the nest, then falling into the mud at the base of the tree, and finally mud being slung back and forth (at least I hope it’s mud.) Continue reading “The Pattern of Facebook” →

I heard the news that Google is going to drop Reader in a few months. I was heartbroken at hearing this; I searched for other “proof” that it was indeed not a joke.

It wasn’t a joke. They are going to give it the axe unless by a miracle the petitions that are circling the web manage to save the service. It is a simple, clean service that just. gets. it. done.

This week I have been trying Feedly, which seems to be a combination of Flipboard and reader. I tried Flipboard before and wasn’t happy with it. Now I have tried Feedly for a week, and I am not entirely happy with it either. I don’t like the “flipping” experience. (I enjoyed writing that line because I think that somewhere in my head I was saying it as it was doing double duty.) (Hah, duty…)

I digressed there, sorry about that.

A friend of mine is checking out “The Old Reader” which I heard about this weekend, but I haven’t yet tried.

I will continue to look around, as RSS isn’t dead. I don’t care what they say about Twitter and the other social media stuff taking RSS’ place. RSS comes to you; Twitter has too much static in its broadcast. I haven’t seen Facebook pull the readership that most RSS feeds do. I just can’t bring myself to be on Pinterest, I just don’t get that one.

What readers do you use?