Comments on: Those youngsters! They should straighten up and fly right. http://fronttoback.org/2007/05/01/those-youngsters-they-should-straighten-up-and-fly-right/ Your users experience it that way around. Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:59:29 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: philbuk http://fronttoback.org/2007/05/01/those-youngsters-they-should-straighten-up-and-fly-right/comment-page-1/#comment-8 philbuk Wed, 02 May 2007 07:19:57 +0000 http://fronttoback.org/2007/05/01/those-youngsters-they-should-straighten-up-and-fly-right/#comment-8 Thanks, Matt. You bet there's a role for agregators - that's what I was referring to when I said "find something that’ll digest stuff for me." Ultimately, just as in any crowded market, we have to rely on brand or personal relationship to select what products we go with. So, I'll read blogs of people I know, and I read blogs that have a strong reputation (and deliver against that reputation - this is the age of customer experience). And I'll "shop" at "stores" (ie go to aggregators) that have a good brand too. Brands like the burgeoning Amatomu, perhaps. (Oh stop it! Amatomu is Matt's blog aggregation site.) The problem for me is that I just don't find sitting reading industry blogs to be that relaxing, of an evening. So unless an aggregator can boil down my view ont the blogosphere into 12 words or less, I'm always going to complain about there being too much stuff. Now THERE's a challenge. Thanks, Matt. You bet there’s a role for agregators – that’s what I was referring to when I said “find something that’ll digest stuff for me.”

Ultimately, just as in any crowded market, we have to rely on brand or personal relationship to select what products we go with.

So, I’ll read blogs of people I know, and I read blogs that have a strong reputation (and deliver against that reputation – this is the age of customer experience). And I’ll “shop” at “stores” (ie go to aggregators) that have a good brand too. Brands like the burgeoning Amatomu, perhaps. (Oh stop it! Amatomu is Matt’s blog aggregation site.)

The problem for me is that I just don’t find sitting reading industry blogs to be that relaxing, of an evening. So unless an aggregator can boil down my view ont the blogosphere into 12 words or less, I’m always going to complain about there being too much stuff.

Now THERE’s a challenge.

]]> By: Matt http://fronttoback.org/2007/05/01/those-youngsters-they-should-straighten-up-and-fly-right/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Matt Tue, 01 May 2007 16:52:26 +0000 http://fronttoback.org/2007/05/01/those-youngsters-they-should-straighten-up-and-fly-right/#comment-7 Well argued phil. Quite right... there is a strong element of history just repeating itself again and again re: the generation battle and the argument that high culture is being eroded by the new... the older assume that the new is inferior, so they fight it. One day I'll be in my rocking chair pining for the the good ol days. re: there being too much to read -- do you think aggregators have a role to play in highlighting the good stuff and helping users discern? Well argued phil. Quite right… there is a strong element of history just repeating itself again and again re: the generation battle and the argument that high culture is being eroded by the new… the older assume that the new is inferior, so they fight it. One day I’ll be in my rocking chair pining for the the good ol days.

re: there being too much to read — do you think aggregators have a role to play in highlighting the good stuff and helping users discern?

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