I’ve been really into content aggregators lately. These sites gather information around specific topics and troll the internet to find out what is top of mind and any moment in time. There are many ways to do the feed but here are a couple that do it well:

Lou Rosenfeld’s UX Zeitgeist

Rating the top UX topics, books, people across the blogosphere, amazon, etc

and

perspctv

Following discussion trends for the major party leaders through news, blog mentions, and tweets.

What I would like to see is the evolution of this through dialogue. The artifacts on Flickr have a one to many relationship without discussion. But with conversation around, how a photo was taken, or how to reproduce the results of the photo, it produces that many to many dialogue that creates a rich set of tangents and a more human way way to stitch information together through conversation.

I guess in a way this is an extension to the post I wrote about APML feeds. Except the ambient feeds are around topics of interests instead of people. Still with these types of feeds becoming more prevalent and the future casting of the Aurora concept, feeds associated to people and topics will only become more popularized and embedded within the technology we use.

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