Comments on: Glue Me Back Together

By: john_minnih5395

john_minnih5395 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:51 +0000

The concept (and implementation) of buckets is going to be *very* important. Managing the intersection of data (unique, overlap, duplicate) amongst buckets will be the secret sauce.

By: bfeld

bfeld — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:51 +0000

I totally agree. Using search today (vs. search ala 1999) as a proxy for the problem is good – I almost included an example of this in the post but then decided it made things to ponderous. Soon we’ll need PEO (personal engine optimization).

By: dan_burcaw6513

dan_burcaw6513 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:51 +0000

A major problem with the way things are heading is information overload. The same thing that has made search so awful (compared to the early days when there were relatively few sites to crawl).

The trouble is information overload causes fatigue. Fatigue limits participation. This screams for glue that gets ahead of the problem rather than amplifying it.

By: jay_parkhil2393

jay_parkhil2393 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:51 +0000

I just listened to an interview with Clay Shirky (http://tinyurl.com/3y72d5) where he identified a big gap between "famous" and not famous people- the difference being (online and off) the ability to respond symmetrically to every conversation directed to a person.

Loic wants everything on his blog because he produces a lot of content, gets a lot of attention and can't respond equally to all of it- i.e. he'd rather respond in comments on his own blog than click through to other platforms, log in, comment, etc. He wants a magnet more than he wants glue.

People with more symmetrical graphs may be happier using something else (eg Facebook)- or lots of places- as the hub(s) of their social graphs depending on how they respond to others as well as what they produce. A layer of glue would work better here.
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The glue metaphor is breaking down for me. I wonder if "synapses" is more accurate- not sticking things together permanently, but constantly forming and re-forming connections, getting stronger and smarter as it goes.

. . . mmm, glue still has a better ring.