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Digital and Environmental History

The Stream

Posted on by Richard

I spent yes­ter­day try­ing to catch up on my feeds and found my read­ing tak­ing me down the “stream.” Here are some links to yes­ter­days discoveries:

  1. The Evo­lu­tion of Blogging
  2. How Inter­net Con­tent Dis­tri­b­u­tion & Dis­cov­ery Are Changing
  3. Why Blogs Need to be Social
  4. Dis­tri­b­u­tion… now
  5. Dimen­sion­al­iz­ing the web
  6. Wel­come to the Stream: The Next Phase of the Web
  7. Min­ing The Thought Stream
  8. Towards a Pro­gram­ma­ble Web

What relationship/​role/​understanding/​use of the stream should the dig­i­tal human­ist develop?

2 Responses to The Stream

  1. Cameron Blevins says:
    2009/08/24 at 09:42

    Great set of links here, a ton of fas­ci­nat­ing reading.

    One issue with the stream is the seem­ingly eter­nal one of breadth vs. depth. I think there are a lot of options for man­ag­ing the flow of it all on a hor­i­zon­tal level — RSS read­ers, group­ing on Twit­ter, etc. This means it’s not too dif­fi­cult to skim the sur­face of the stream and be able to con­trol how much you drink, but what I cer­tainly strug­gle with is fig­ur­ing out when and where to stick my entire head in it. IMO, that’s the area that has the great­est poten­tial for real advance­ment, espe­cially in the dig­i­tal human­i­ties. It also is the biggest chal­lenge from a user per­spec­tive, to tran­si­tion from hor­i­zon­tal skim­ming to ver­ti­cal bor­ing down. Devel­op­ing those two skills in tan­dem is going to be essen­tial, but that’s prob­a­bly another conversation.

  2. Richard Ross says:
    2009/08/26 at 10:02

    I would agree with you Cameron about the skim v. bor­ing skill (I think I’ll post more later…).