Positivism

After looking over some of my recent posts I decided that I’ve been a little negative lately. So I thought I’d throw out some things that I believe are good ideas. Why you would care, I can’t really say.

1. Comment Trackers: I haven’t started using one yet, but it’s a great idea. I’ve been commenting on other blogs more frequently and really like to follow up on the conversations that are created, but subscribing to comments from one post is a waste if you ask me. But, if I had a place solely for tracking my comments I would use it. I don’t know of the features of any of the sites that are offering this, but I would like to have my subscription to any comment feed expire in one week. Try CoComment
2. Blogging for a purpose: I don’t like edgio, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t like something useful being done with tags. Tags are a great way to organize information on the web, but now edgio is taking the tags and giving them a more useful purpose. I like the theory, just not the application.

3. The free exchange of ideas: This more than anything is what the web was supposed to be about, and it’s finally becoming a reality. I get to experience the insight of so many more intelligent people on a daily basis because I’m active on the web.

Before I get too cheery, I think that there is still a long way to go. I think that too many sites come out as features and not complete sites. I know that it has a lot to do with wanting to be the first to do something, but its setting some sites up for failure.
I think that feeds need to become more prevalent and more accessible. I think that my mom should be able to post things that get picked up on edgio. But, we’re not there yet and glossy eyed optimism without critical thought is not the way to get there.

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