Encouraging the Resistance
via NewsGang, I got this great post from Jacob Sloan on why he hasn’t signed up for FriendFeed yet. He identifies a number of issues, each one Cullect is designed to minimize or solve completely.
Me neither. Cullect was built on the assumptions that; you’d rather not have yet-another-name-and-password to remember, you currently have an account that can be used to uniquely identify you, and well, you’re at least as lazy as I am.
Jacob on comment silos:
“With FriendFeed, my posts collect their own comments in various places that never ping back to my blog. These comments are never shared with regular readers.”
While I touched on this in the Comment Silo post, this is one of the benefits of the ’send to; blog, twitter, tumblr’ feature of Cullect. This spreads the meme, rather than keeping it hostage.
He continues with issue of context and distinct social groups
“I maintain a pretty unified social presence across all services, but for those who do not, connections originally from one social media service might be bored or offended by your social actions and blogging within another service.”
So many services (esp. feed readers) assume I want everything in one big pile and that I want to share the same info with everyone. That’s a recipes for information overload and spamming-you-’friends’.
Think of Meetup.com or 37Signals’ Basecamp, while there may be the same names and faces across the different groups and projects you’re a member of, it’s not assumed nor is it expected. Cullect is designed for sharing your different reading lists with the different groups of people in your life, not everything to everyone.
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Very compelling. More FriendFeeders should read this. I love the concept of spreading/releasing the meme. It’s what drew me to explore Cullect in the first place. Keep up the fight!