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Reorganing My Web 2.0 Information Flow


Posted on April 12, 2008 at 16:04

Last night, there was a discussion amongst my tweeps (an aside... should a discussion on twitter be a twitscussion) about andy shuttworth's online info flow diagram mention in this article which got me to thinking that I should create a simpler one for how some of the content I'm using is flowing around the web.  My first draft, which isn't complete, looks something like this.

current

(Colors: Cynan = content created; gray = aggregation, yellow = sites where I'm bookmarking (favorites and sharing are bookmarks as far as I'm concerned), and green = sites where content I've created is hosted or syndicated)

I was a little surprised at how much I've spread around my content.  Actually I noticed that I noticed that be best place to follow me is http://friendfeed.com/nibbler, not http://seanreiser.com.  Also it occurs to me that any of the life stream sites I'm using are subject to "social network rot" as I most between services.  For example, if I decide to leave flickr for smugmug tomorrow I'd have to remember to update friendfeed, tumblr, etc.  This is the reason why tumblr isn't complete is that I haven't been maintaining it.  It occurs to me that what I should be looking to do is create a RSS abstraction layer between my content and any of these sites so when I move around, I update in one place and my content continues to be aggregated everywhere like this.

desired

Where this is not going to happen perfectly (for example facebook's status auto-update required communication between fb and twitter).  I can ensure that all my content is available in some form on http://seanreiser.com .  It is something I can start moving towards rather quickly and should make setting things up in the future easier as long as the service excepts RSS.

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