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Shawn Bass
Monday, July 02, 2007 7:41:31 PM
Ok, so...
It's not a joke and it doesn't involve a bar.
But it is a burning question of mine. What exactly consitutes a twitter versus a blog entry versus a full-fledged "article". There are a variety of websites/blogs/article columns, etc. out there that have differing content. When does a simple twitter become a blog entry? When does a blog entry become an article? And finally how does one avoid joining in on the throng of bloggers who do nothing more than aggreggate content that's found on thousands of other blogs? While I find myself re-reporting some of the same content that may be available elsewhere, I should make it known that I only post information on about 1 out of every 20-30 things that I read elsewhere. Why is that? Simply because I feel that there's enough other people already reporting on a particular topic that it's really not valuable to increment people's RSS counters one more time for me to say the same crap. Seriously! I track (and sometimes even read, no really!) about 100 separate RSS feeds. I can't tell you the countless times that I see the same information repeated ad naseum on 10 different blogs. Obviously there's much truth in the "content is king" concept. At the same time, there's no sense in blogging/writing if there isn't anything worth saying. So my question(s) are this:
1) When is a twitter a blog entry?
2) When is a blog entry an article?
3) When is an article a book? (ok, I'm joking here)
Aside from all of that, how does one avoid the desire to repost the blog fodder from everywhere else to feel as though there needs to be something posted within this number of days?
Shawn
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3 comments so far...
Re: A guy walks into a bar and asks "What's the difference between a twitter, a blog entry and an article?"
I think it would be great if RSS readers could programatically filter duplicate content so that you would not even see it in your reader. I'm sure it couldn't work 100% of the time and would have some false positives but it would be really nice. I'm not sure if this is already a feature of some RSS readers but it definately is not a feature of Google Reader which I use to read RSS feeds. That is one of my only requests for Google Reader.
By awong505 on
Tuesday, July 03, 2007 9:30:13 AM
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Re: A guy walks into a bar and asks "What's the difference between a twitter, a blog entry and an article?"
awong505,
I completely agree. While it would be nice to have a filtering system within an RSS reader, I think the struggle there is that it almost has to be AI capable since many people quote different portions of an article when they regurgitate the content. I assume it would be just as difficult to do this as it currently is to fight spam. One can hope though can't he?
Shawn
By Shawn Bass on
Tuesday, July 03, 2007 9:36:04 AM
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Re: A guy walks into a bar and asks "What's the difference between a twitter, a blog entry and an article?"
A guy walks into a bar, his friend ducks.
By CLB on
Wednesday, July 11, 2007 6:49:21 AM
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