Comments on: All noise, no signal. Lifestreaming is a timesink

By: Many me « electronic museum

Many me « electronic museum — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:36:07 +0000

[...] by a re-emergence as more people I knew found themselves on it. I also, of course, blogged (”All Noise, No Signal“) and have been slowly eating my words (some of them, not all) ever [...]

By: The person is the point « electronic museum

The person is the point « electronic museum — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:17:14 +0000

[...] a year ago, my assessment of so-called “lifestreaming” was that it was all a timesink. Back then, I hadn’t pulled as deeply on the Twitter crack pipe as I have since, or do now. [...]

By: Webnoise « electronic museum

Webnoise « electronic museum — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:06:52 +0000

[...] noisy” is a hugely perverse argument. Yes, there is noise and hype…no, Twitter probably won’t last..no, you shouldn’t be on Facebook just because you can…but the point as far as I see it [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:14:35 +0000

Hey Owen, thanks for that – I’ll take a look..

Mike

By: Owen Stephens

Owen Stephens — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:31:44 +0000

Tony Hirst at OUseful has written an app which points Twitter streams at the Yahoo extractor – http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/serendipitwitterous/ – which could be used to do the comparison suggested by Phil

By: Museums and the Web day 3 (or day 1..) « electronic museum

Museums and the Web day 3 (or day 1..) « electronic museum — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:44:26 +0000

[...] to focus on. I’ve used this to defend Twitter recently (yes, I know the irony, having said bad things about lifestreaming before…) – Twitter has recently got me back in touch with people out here in the real world, [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:56:53 +0000

Nice. We could market it and retire (notice how I’ve cut myself in on the deal)

By: Phil Wilson

Phil Wilson — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:42:38 +0000

Actually need a lifestream first

I do actually have some PHP for generating this from an OPML file and a form somewhere. I’ll see if I can remember where I put it

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:17:35 +0000

Phil, I like it (cos it’s kind of weird..). When shall we build it?

By: Phil Wilson

Phil Wilson — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:49:15 +0000

So getting pragmatic about it, point the Yahoo! term extractor at someone’s lifestream, when there’s a match with the terms from my own lifestream, show me the post/photo/whatever.

Basic, and you’ll miss some stuff, but should work well where there’s otherwise a lot of noise.