Seth's take on too much noise
Seth had a post today about too much noise in blogs & RSS fatigue. He's right. Talk less, make your words mean something. People talk about one medium vs. another in terms of effectiveness when the truth is they are all abused.
It's like we see an opening and we rush to the gap before it closes. The result is chaos and everyone winds up trampled.
Your advice of 'make your words mean something' is obviously solid (and applies to any medium).
Unfortunately, more posts means more traffic, so not everyone will listen.
Based on that, we're working on Feed Rinse (http://www.feedrinse.com), a tool to help people clean up their RSS feeds. It launches soon and hopefully will be part of an ongoing solution to getting RSS back under control.
Posted by:stefan hartwig | March 14, 2006 at 01:53 AM
Go Feedrinse, good idea. Email etiquette is a huge issue in the web space especially those using it for business. There is a lot more to the written message that speaks loudly to the client. If your wasting their time that's not a good message and if your sloppy in your grammar and spelling that says that you really don't care and on and on and on.
We do more to destroy a sale in the way we right our emails than any other way other than just being annoying. Like Spam!
Posted by:Tim Whelan | March 18, 2006 at 10:20 PM
Please - "Rennaissance Seth" needs to ruminate about long tails, Top N-lists, link love, and tagging.
Post whatever the hell you want. I'll tag what I like.
Seth is getting a little fuzzy (in spite of his bald head) if he doesn't understand how tagging (del.icio.us, EVDB, Twaggle, and the like) acts as a defacto blogging filter. How many people use feeds, RSS or aggregators anyhow?
p.s. Purple cow tar and feather my butt for saying so, but if you ask me, Seth's just jealous that some people are more intellectually prolific than he is. :)
kindly,
kirsten
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Posted by:Hakee | April 03, 2006 at 05:24 PM
I like Tim Whelan's post on "If your wasting their time that's not a good message and if your sloppy in your grammar and spelling that says that you really don't care and on and on and on." And then in his next sentence he uses "right" instead of "write". Comical.
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