Curation: TANSTAAFL... Ish.
One of the things that I've noticed, is that while the internet has made getting a lot of things free, keeping those things is still costly in terms of time, either up front or in batches.
Ex: I decided to move most of my casual browsing to an RSS reader, to streamline the process of keeping up on things I want to follow. Pretty straightforward, right?
Well, as you may(or not) know, LiveJournal doesn't allow us freeloaders to make RSS feeds of their friends lists. So, if I want to follow all of you, then I need to enter your RSS feed addresses individually. The individual entries look like this:add "http://somebody.livejournal.com/data/rss" "Somebody's livejournal"
Fair enough - copy/paste my friendslist from my userinfo page into VI, type something cryptic:s./, /.livejournal\/data\/rss" "'s LJ" ^Madd "http:\/\//g
...and away we go. Took me about a minute or so - But the speed of that is interest on time accrued from learning that tool - I imagine typing all that out would take longer.
But, for all the time saved, now comes the hard part - Since I'm moving this to a different format, it dosen't make any sense to group it all alphabetically. I want to group it by person, maybe include the other ways I keep track of you fine folk - Your FlickerSpaces and MiPages and what have you. Which is basically curating. It's time/money invested in organizing something that is, in and of itself, free.
And it seems that that's where the modern hit is: in the time spent figuring out what you want, and in keeping track of all of it.
PS: if you've got some place else you're at that I might like to follow, let me know. Either provide an RSS tag, or I'll do the footwork.
Ex: I decided to move most of my casual browsing to an RSS reader, to streamline the process of keeping up on things I want to follow. Pretty straightforward, right?
Well, as you may(or not) know, LiveJournal doesn't allow us freeloaders to make RSS feeds of their friends lists. So, if I want to follow all of you, then I need to enter your RSS feed addresses individually. The individual entries look like this:add "http://somebody.livejournal.com/data/rss" "Somebody's livejournal"
Fair enough - copy/paste my friendslist from my userinfo page into VI, type something cryptic:s./, /.livejournal\/data\/rss" "'s LJ" ^Madd "http:\/\//g
...and away we go. Took me about a minute or so - But the speed of that is interest on time accrued from learning that tool - I imagine typing all that out would take longer.
But, for all the time saved, now comes the hard part - Since I'm moving this to a different format, it dosen't make any sense to group it all alphabetically. I want to group it by person, maybe include the other ways I keep track of you fine folk - Your FlickerSpaces and MiPages and what have you. Which is basically curating. It's time/money invested in organizing something that is, in and of itself, free.
And it seems that that's where the modern hit is: in the time spent figuring out what you want, and in keeping track of all of it.
PS: if you've got some place else you're at that I might like to follow, let me know. Either provide an RSS tag, or I'll do the footwork.