2009/4/16 Rachel Walmsley <[email protected]>:
> To my mind, there are two things that we want to do:
>
> 1. Give poeople the tools to post what they want, how they want.
> 2. Give people the tools to read what they want, how they want.
>
> It's a similar sort of logic to letting people style their journas
> however they want, but giving people ?style=mine so they can read in
> whatever style they want.
>
> What I expect this will lead to:
>
> 1. Fully integrated twitter posting that doesn't rely on a third party
> (or rather, a fourth party, since it has to involve Twitter itself).
> 2. Reading page filters based on tag. This would mean not only that I
> could subscribe to (for instances) "all posts by denise that don't have
> the tag 'twitter'" but also "posts by mark but only those tagged
> 'dreamwidth' or 'perl'".
>
> This isn't something that we'd be able to implement quickly, but IMO
> it's what we should be aiming for.
>
> I'll also add that it's not our job to solve social problems. If Alice
> thinks Bob is being rude by posting lots of twitter entries but Bob
> thinks Alice is being rude by refusing to read them, that's something
> Alice and Bob will hav eto work out between temselves, and not something
> we can help with.

^ this, exactly.


-- 
Katie Sutton
www.xugglybug.co.uk

"The ‘Net is a waste of time, and that’s exactly what’s right about
it." ~ William Gibson
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