Peter Caputa on reading someone else’s feeds:
Bloglines allows users to make ‘what feeds they read’ public. (ie mine, amy gahran, martsanz, mfagan)
I started reading through Amy Gahran’s feeds and I felt like a bit of a voyeur. Of course, SNSs allow people to spill a lot of info about themselves, and some people have no holds barred on what they write in their weblog, eurekster lets people share what they search for. And now bloglines lets people see what you read.
I am thinking outloud here, and just wondering what the implications for this are? It isn’t like I could feasibly read everything Amy Gahran reads. But, I can tell a lot about her based on 1) what she reads and 2) how she categorizes it.
[...]I think browsing someone’s public bloglines subs is the quickest way for me to find out about someone and what they are into. An advanced, yet still easy to digest, business card.
[...]And last random thought/question: When will the big hosted blogging services (ie blogger, typepad, livejournal) integrate an aggregator. Imagine knowing not only what people search for (google), write(blogger) and read (bloglines). It wouldn’t be too hard to guess what I was thinking if you could monitor all that. You could call it google brain monitor.
I’m a bit hesitant to make my Bloglines subscriptions public: mainly because I don’t feel comfortable with people finding that some are in the “Core” category and others don’t :)
Btw, you can earn 5$ linking to Peter (it’s not that I need 5$, but may be you do :)
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