I know. Time was that I commented on someone's feed or pic from Flicker right here on Jaiku, but it didn't take me long to realize that some folks were just doing a "dump and run" here. Which begs the question that maybe people just don't want to be conversational. Maybe all that matters is that we shout "look at me!" everywhere. How boring.
I think it depends, in part, on whether the person is active on here (vs just their feeds being active). If the person is active, then I'll comment. Otherwise, it's just a broadcast - not a conversation opener.
Then there's the old "lifestream" argument. For some people, Jaiku is the master aggregator of all their content. Rather than checking their blog, Flickr, Jumpcut etc etc you could just check in to the one spot here on Jaiku and keep up to date that way.
It's not the way that I would do it but that shouldn't make it any less a valid way to use Jaiku.
On the other hand, I only make contacts with people who actually participate, but that's because of the way that I choose to use Jaiku :)
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I find they're not - it's like half a conversation that I can't join in on.
2 years, 1 month ago by malach
I know. Time was that I commented on someone's feed or pic from Flicker right here on Jaiku, but it didn't take me long to realize that some folks were just doing a "dump and run" here. Which begs the question that maybe people just don't want to be conversational. Maybe all that matters is that we shout "look at me!" everywhere. How boring.
2 years, 1 month ago by LEMills
I think it depends, in part, on whether the person is active on here (vs just their feeds being active). If the person is active, then I'll comment. Otherwise, it's just a broadcast - not a conversation opener.
2 years, 1 month ago by malach
Exactly. Which prompts me to unsubscribe from the feeds, since they're no better than personal advertisements. Makes the pages more interesting, too.
2 years, 1 month ago by LEMills
There's no point to this without conversation. Monologue gets old very quickly. I know I want dialogue.
2 years, 1 month ago by Z80GameCoder
Then there's the old "lifestream" argument. For some people, Jaiku is the master aggregator of all their content. Rather than checking their blog, Flickr, Jumpcut etc etc you could just check in to the one spot here on Jaiku and keep up to date that way.
It's not the way that I would do it but that shouldn't make it any less a valid way to use Jaiku.
On the other hand, I only make contacts with people who actually participate, but that's because of the way that I choose to use Jaiku :)
2 years, 1 month ago by smperris
I can´t find a way to add feeds to jaiku. Where´s that option?
2 months, 1 week ago by klamm