{"id":86,"date":"2008-05-08T17:17:10","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T21:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washwords.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/08\/twitter-me-this-delicious-me-that-washwords-is-confused\/"},"modified":"2008-05-08T17:17:10","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T21:17:10","slug":"twitter-me-this-delicious-me-that-washwords-is-confused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/2008\/twitter-me-this-delicious-me-that-washwords-is-confused\/","title":{"rendered":"twitter me this, del.icio.us me that, washwords is &#8230; confused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/publishing2.com\/2008\/05\/04\/the-declining-value-of-redundant-news-content-on-the-web\/\">The Declining Value Of Redundant News Content On The Web &#8211; Publishing 2.0<\/a> Scott Karp examines the media Oversatura-plosion-ama that is the Interweb.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Microsoft withdrawing its offer to buy Yahoo is a sufficiently large story to demonstrate the problem of redundant news content on the web. Google News is currently tracking about 2,000 versions of this story. To get a better sense of why it\u2019s a problem to have 2,000 stories about the SAME THING, I\u2019ve reproduced about ten percent of them below \u2014 just the headlines and ledes. If you have the stomach to scroll through them all to see what else I have to say about it, check out the sources as you scroll:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This scroll (go check it out; we&#8217;ll wait) went on and on &#8230; and &#8230; It didn&#8217;t even count the blogs that repeated the same story or the multiple versions of each one, or editions or&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Conserve paper? Conserve time! and brain cells!<\/p>\n<p>I find I&#8217;m facing a similar conundrum with &#8220;social media tools.&#8221; For someone (me) who once considered going to library school, and has been a lifelong researcher\/journalist and social scientist (especially the <!--more-->social part) at heart, seeing the tools out there is like falling in love. They&#8217;re so shiny! They&#8217;re so fabulous!  Each thing does something cooler than the last gizmo, something cooler, something I NEED RIGHT NOW.<\/p>\n<p>But the trouble is&#8230; there are literally not enough hours in the day to use all these whiz-bangs, let alone use them well, use them like they should be. So I wind up playing each new toy just like when I FINALLY got the snoopy snowcone machine: cool! WOW! ZOWIE!! Better than my dreams!!!!  and then&#8230; what&#8217;s on TV?<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s my query, no, my solemn PLEA to my readers (all two of you as my pal<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/soupisnotafingerfood.wordpress.com\/\">Soup Is Not A Finger Food<\/a> likes to say), which of these them there whozie-whatsitz do you use to enrich your life and how\/why\/in what detailed ways is it better than all the other thing-bobs. Be specific! If I had to pick three, which ones? What if I could only use one? And which ones (dear God, no) don&#8217;t I already know about?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, here&#8217;s the list of what I know about already (yes, I know they&#8217;re not all the same thing, still tell me what they DO. I forget sometimes):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>twitter<\/li>\n<li>facebook (i know of myspace, but that&#8217;s too busy\/pop-uppy for me<\/li>\n<li>linkedin (i try to keep this one BUSINESS Washwords (it comes with a pink plastic briefcase and cell phone. no, mom, not really)<\/li>\n<li>digg<\/li>\n<li>del.icio.us<\/li>\n<li>soup.io<\/li>\n<li>technorati<\/li>\n<li>bloglines<\/li>\n<li>alltop (or other aggregator)<\/li>\n<li>popurl<\/li>\n<li>Google (or other) reader: is it me or is this not nearly as smooth as you&#8217;d think it would be<\/li>\n<li>scribefire (using right now)<\/li>\n<li>blog catalog (or blogher or &#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>IM (i have yahoo, gmail, msn-though-yuck, and now adium which combines them all)<\/li>\n<li>jott<\/li>\n<li>jangl (hmmm, waz that?)<\/li>\n<li>I do SMS, texting and can do this pretty darn well from my phone. I even after a practically month-long &#8220;internship&#8221; with some very nice boys on a message board (no, not THAT kind of web site) learned how to download music and contacts to my phone. once. now&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>I have widgets and google gadgets and home pages but the trouble is &#8230; I have one on google and yahoo and &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Does anyone email anymore? Email newsletters?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please help. Otherwise I&#8217;m going to have to go play in the box these things came in. and I guess that&#8217;s&#8230; the interweb itself. sigh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"poweredbyperformancing\"><em>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/scribefire.com\/\">ScribeFire<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Declining Value Of Redundant News Content On The Web &#8211; Publishing 2.0 Scott Karp examines the media Oversatura-plosion-ama that is the Interweb. Microsoft withdrawing its offer to buy Yahoo is a sufficiently large story to demonstrate the problem of redundant news content on the web. 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