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Friday, June 6, 2003 |
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Not IF, but WHEN Today's desktop is dominated by a chat client, an email client, and a web browser. This represents your communications channels (both sync and async) and your information sources. Tomorrow's desktop line-up, however, will be a chat client, an email client, a web aggregator, and a web browser. Why do I say this?
Jon Udell analyzed the traffic to his site recently, to determine what tools are being used to get there. There are many interesting things in his data, his analysis, and his results, but I'd like to focus on the rankings of the aggregators vs the browsers. Here are the aggregator user agents with more than 1% in Jon's results:
But, even given all that, it suggest a time coming soon when people will aggregate as much as, or more, than they browse. And to me, that makes sense. Sometimes you need to go find new sources of information (with a browser), but most times you simply want to process existing sources of information (with an aggregator). Think of all the time you could save if an aggregator collected all your favorite bookmarks AND filtered the contents to your particular tastes?
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Blogger's block (from Sochi)As a new blogger, I am learning that the only way to do it is to do it regularly; otherwise you end up pitting back-clog against current events, and you postpone everything to another time… I need to remind myself that a blog is just a list of pointers with annotations.[Release 4.0]In case you missed it, Esther Dyson is now blogging. It is very interesting to see he struggle with the art and practice of weblogging, including the discipline to write regularly, as well as her blogging identity. 11:15:15 AM
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