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Nice video and prescience Jeremiah,thanks for sharing. - Murat Gök

I like the idea of social contracts like a bee-glue between Social Context and Social Commerce.My Question is how can a small community with not such a strong social hubs influence a social contract when is challenge with a stronger community? It's about minority representation in a social contract... - Dan Romescu

Richard, only if they sound interesting. - Jesse Stay

Ya know, some sort of in-line RSS reader FriendFeed mashup would be pretty slick. Just have a little ">" link next to the article you can click on to expand/collapse the entire body of the RSS entry... - Ken Sheppardson

Ken, that would distract me and force me to stop media snacking. I also really like that FriendFeed encourages people to click through to my blog to read the article. It makes you really think which articles are really worth your click. - Jesse Stay

Yeah, I can appreciate that. I'm just sorta thinking out loud trying to reconcile my Google Reader use (display all new posts, with full content, hit 'J' key as I scan the first paragraph and pics of each one) with FriendFeed. Hmm. - Ken Sheppardson

Ken, my recommendation - step away from the Reader for a week. It really helped me discover what I really needed and didn't. - Jesse Stay

Jesse: I read a couple of obscure, non-tech/social media feeds that would *never* show up or would get totally buried in the real time flow. Reading those feeds is still the equivalent of a "follow". I could just add the feeds here, but that process is still a little cumbersome, I'd still have to add them to a filter to keep them from getting buried, and I'd still have to go off-site to read them. Having them all show up in an RSS "inbox" still has some advantages. - Ken Sheppardson

Ken, I found the same thing as I was going through this. What I did is I realized a very large number of those feeds I really didn't *need*, and weren't really doing much for me in the long term. There were a few I just couldn't do without though, and needed to maintain my sanity, so I kept just a few "guilty pleasures" to keep myself sane. I think it's important not to have too many of these though for sake of time. Then again, everyone has their own way of doing things - this is just how I prioritized - Jesse Stay

Microsoft introduced in late 2005 their two way feed technology called Simple Sharing Extentions which you can use today. Its an RSS extension. I haven't touched it since 2006 but implementation was a bit quarky back then but worked once up. You could also have mobi reads. - Monique

Jesse, oh sure... you don't "need" any of it. You don't "need" to read fiction, or go to movies, or go to museums, or listen to music... they're just things you do to keep from getting completely sucked inside the real time black hole's event horizon :-) - Ken Sheppardson

I enjoyed your post but I wonder where will I discover new articles and info from sources I am not following. I do that now via RSS based on specific search terms. Are you saying bring those filters over via new feeds (rooms) in Friendfeed? - Amani

Amani - verify you actually need those posts, and if so, RSS is still good for that - Jesse Stay

"RSS is not dead. It’s just losing its value." Agreed. Real-Time Web is great when you have the time to invest in attempting to stay up to date in real time, however to me, RSS or some other feed (from the real-time stuff) is needed to remain up to date. Sometimes your brain just needs to operate at it's own speed without needing to hit a pause button. - JR

RTW is the new black! - Dimitar Vesselinov

Oh, the painful irony: getting a friendfeed link via RSS which is a link to an article found via Google's RSS reader ... about the death of RSS. Yeah. Uhuh. Frankly, after reading the article, it sounds to me like the main changes he made were: start using FriendFeed's RSS reader instead of Google's, and stop subscribing to news, instead preferring to trust his friends to filter it for him. - Joel Bennett

What's the video about? I can't do YouTube at work. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Daniel, the video is from SXSW, filmed by Morgan Brown. Topics include information overload (or lack thereof), real-time Web, aggregation, etc. - Louis Gray

i'm looking at a very similar angle out my window right now. not really sure what has changed. - MG Siegler

It's Hollywood. :) - Roberto Bonini

The artist took the canonical picture of the Golden Gate Bridge (http://images.google.com/images...) and drew on top of it. In photos, the far tower is off in the distance. In the drawing, the perspective is fucked up -- the far tower is still shortened, but the roadway is much less so, and the near tower is rotated, so the whole thing doesn't make sense any more. It's like the far tower collapsed, but not in a way that makes sense -- why would cables attach halfway up a wrecked tower? - ⓞnor

Also, there are *extra* cables dangling off the bridge. Some sort of makeshift detritus? I would have expected some of the original cables to have snapped or something. What are all these fires burning? This whole thing looks like someone lazily painted a bunch of "generic industrial/post-apocalyptic stuff" on top of a tourist photo without even trying to conceptualize a scene that makes sense... - ⓞnor

I can't imagine beautiful SF that way in the future, even more Golden Gate bridge, that is one of the most amazing places I've been... - Rebeca Zuñiga