What we need is a universal aggregator
Dave is talking about social networks, etc.
What I’m finding as I’m doing a lot more work online is that what I want is a universal aggregator — something that would let me know when something updates, and not require all this login stuff everytime I visit. It would not only include my blogs and websites, but my e-mail, Twitter, Facebook, everything.
Like my Bloglines aggregator, I could read the post or whatever right there.
This thing would send an alert to both my cell phone, if I’m using one, and my computer, if that’s what I’m using at the moment. Or maybe even be a standalone device I could carry in my purse or pocket with my car keys, that would work with any computer with internet access I happen to be near.
It would also allow me a universal signup for everything, with an unbreakable password (or as good as one gets) that also works automatically, so I never have to remember it. When I visit a new site, it’ll ask me, “Do you want to signup?” Then I push a button or click on something, and I’m done.
Not everybody would want to post stuff all the time, but I could also use this to post something on my varied blogs and etc. Or maybe not.
Just thinking aloud here.
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Each of us has such a ‘universal aggregator’. All of us who lack one at birth usually are stillborn, aborted, or die almost immediately.
Typically, we, our families, and society in general invest much money and a lengthy period of time preparing our universal aggregators to function at optimum capacity. \
However, unfortunately, some of us grow to great age before we get it to work properly.
But for most of us, our universal aggregators function well enough to get us through the day, week, year, lifetime; and help us to put together and understand data concerning an incredibly broad range of experiences, to weigh the difference between facts and factoids, and hopefully, love the wonder of life all the more for understanding all of this.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
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