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How is Reader passive versus Twitter and G+? It's completely active because you have to sift through hundreds of items and you have to decide what's important and interesting enough to share. That's a lot of work by the user. Passive news consumption is not Reader, but Twitter-like services where "interesting" articles are pushed to you. Twitter also doesn't have an unread count, so you only see what's shared recently. You completelt miss out on articles shared a few tweets ago because who scrolls back that far?

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It is 'passive' from google's point of view. You are neither producing marketing signals, nor frequent marketing opportunities. It is all utility to the user and lost opportunity to G+.

If I could take rss feeds from the N web sites I like to get new from, and pipe/merge/filter that into a live twitter stream.

that would be kind of useful.

If I could share that with my cabal, and use the clicks or upvotes to optimize the stream, that would be nice.

hmm..

yahoo pipes can provide you with pipe/merge/filter. Twitter part might be more difficult.

Create a new twitter account Add each RSS feed to IFTTT from RSS to twitter.

Follow that twitter account.

Welcome to the mid 1990s, when the sexy new "Push technology" was going to kill the fusty old "Pull technology". Pointcast was an Internet darling and people thought HTTP was due to be taken to the knacker's any day.

That being said, bad ideas from the 1990s internet have a bad habit of being reinvented as multi-zillion dollar startups. I guess I need to start reading old copies of Wired for inspiration.

That being said, bad ideas from the 1990s internet have a bad habit of being reinvented as multi-zillion dollar startups. I guess I need to start reading old copies of Wired for inspiration.

Funny you would say that. I (among a lot of other people) have certainly noticed how cyclical this industry is; and I also think that it's very easy for a technology to fail, not because there's anything wrong with it, but just because it's "too early".

And as it happens, I have this bad habit of saving old magazines - so I actually do have a rather large collection of old issues of things like Wired, Red Herring, Business 2.0, Infoworld, ComputerWorld, Information Week, etc. packed away in a closet somewhere. I actually am thinking about digging a box of those out one day, and spending a few hours just poring over old issues, trawling for ideas and inspiration.

In fact, now that you mentioned this and reminded me of thread of thought, I think I might just do that this weekend.

Let me know if you need to hire people who remember the 90s. I am ready to wear pastel coloured t-shirts, too-loose trousers and wander around the office saying "GBQ" instead of "traction".

LOL... I have to admit, I don't remember "GBQ". What was that?

"Get Big Quick".

Oh, right... of course. And let's not forget it's closely related cousin, "Who Cares If We Lose Money On Every Transaction, We'll Make Up For It In Volume". Not as nice an acronym though: WCIWLMOETWMUFIIV.

This definitely did not go out of style yet, the Milo Minderbinder school of management is doing just fine.

GBQ? Gigabecquerel?

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