Sean Reiser

Although the situation in Mumbai is still unfolding I've been reflecting on I consume news has changed in the past 7 years. I'm finding the difference in how I consume news and media interesting and a major statement on what's going on in technology.

On 9/11 when I finally found my way back home, like many Americans (and I assume world citizens) I sat in front of my television set and watched the news. Where I did read some news sites and blogs the main source of the information I was getting was from the television and radio. The internet provided supplemental information but the primary information came from more traditional sources.

A couple of folks have asked why I am basically reinventing friendfeed and presenting my lifestream on seanreiser.com.

I've been trying to describe to folks why I like friendfeed, the one stop shopping site for web 2.0 presence aggregation. Today Terry Paul Walhus tweeted this which linked a message on pownce :

Hey, you're already my twitter friend and I'd like to add you as a friend on pownce. If you'd like to see me and my work, check out http://austincast.com/blo... where I interview Leah Culver, Cali Lewis, Zadi Diaz, Veronica Belmont and more blogerati/digerati at sxsw 2008 I'm springnet on twitter and walhus on skype. I'd like to do a skype interview with you for my blog like the interviews I just mentioned.

I've been playing with FriendFeed the last couple of days after seeing posts from folks like Scoble. I've long discussed the need for the "great Web 2.0 presence aggregator". It's something I've considered writing it, although I've never had the time nor the web design skills (I can do functional, just not pretty). Now that I've played with it it's about 75% of what I envisioned.

The system provides a clean interface for seeing all the activity of your friends in one place. This is more people centric, so a person can have any number of web 2.0 services attached to his account which are presented coherently and logically.