Comments on: I Follow People – Not Publications

By: Social Filtering – Social Business – Opposable Planets

Social Filtering – Social Business – Opposable Planets — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:48:32 +0000

[...] for what I should be reading and paying attention to right now. In my previous post I discussed how I now follow people, not publications – that is, I use people as my filter on what information I should be reading. The operating [...]

By: Joshuamross

Joshuamross — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:30:11 +0000

Carl,
Genius! You are right — the numbers are wildly skewed by the suggestion list. I still think that social filtering will play an increasing role in how we get our information.

By: carlmorris

carlmorris — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:24:00 +0000

Except that those content brokers are routinely featured on the suggested users list – which is curated by Twitter Inc and displayed to thousands of new users.

As much as I like Scoble and O'Reilly, it's more haphazard than a considered choice.

Cheers!