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The more ways of communicating and passing information there are, the more ways there are to fill these things up with noise so that the end result is that you have so much information available to you, you really spend your time trying to pick out the good bits.
This seems to be made even worse by the same information appearing in multiple channels.
For example, I use Facebook and Twitter. There are some people on both and some that just use one or another. Some of the people who use both have set things up so that their messages get sent to both systems. The end result for anyone who uses both is that you see a lot of duplicate information.
Another example is the practice of posting links from Delicious to blog posts. It is possible to subscribe to Delicious pages, tags or networks to get these in your RSS reader, which I used to do. People then post these links to their blogs – which I also subscribe to in an RSS reader, which gives you more duplication information to filter through.
The worst practice I’ve seen is somebody who has daily blog posts called ‘My Tweets’ which just parrot out a load of partial conversations they’ve had with various unknown people. How is that useful to anyone?
The end result of all this for me is that I just hit the off switch for feeds or Facebook or Twitter contacts when the duplication gets out of control.
Dave Wild, 
Karl 9:10 pm on August 18, 2008 Permalink
And the newsfeed didn’t break. Enjoy your new home. Are you keeping these carpets and curtains or decorating throughout?
Dave Wild 10:28 pm on August 18, 2008 Permalink
I think I’ll be decorating at some point – after bedding in and getting used to things. I need to get a number of other pages up so that there’s plenty of stuff there to test with other than just posts.
brendadada 12:29 am on August 19, 2008 Permalink
I really like it. What did you use?
rather cheesed off with WordPress myself: too many upgrades are wanted, and they don’t support the older versions. I have been vociferously warned off Drupal, but might go back to MT or even Typepad. I really like your galleries here. Good stuff.
Dave Wild 7:27 am on August 19, 2008 Permalink
@brendadada – I’m using Squarespace. So far, it’s very easy and pleasant to use – I’m having a few problems with the gallery upload of individual images but the support people are quick to reply and are trying to sort it out for me.
I didn’t really have any problem with WordPress as such, I quite liked it really, but having to update it seems like work! I have had a play with MT in the past, but I found that much more difficult to install and maintain (I remember lots of mucking about with cgi-bin folders and files) – so if you have a play, install it somewhere out of the way first as a test! I did have a brief trail run with Typepad too, but it seemed very restrictive with a fairly ugly set of default templates to use as starting points.
Typepad and Squarespace aren’t free of course, but then you’re not paying for hosting as a separate service, so it all depends on what value you put on it. You can get free trial periods at Typepad and Squarespace so you can have a play anyway without having to dive straight in.