randomosity

The Black­berry was cool because it brought us push versus pull email…realistically RIM was doing the pulling for you and push­ing it to you. As an email noti­fic­a­tion popped up as I was trolling through my RSS feeds, it sud­denly struck me that these are now com­pet­ing com­mu­nic­a­tion tools for me. The shift to RSS is a move back to a pull meth­od­o­logy — not entirely, of course as you are being pushed tan­tal­iz­ing indic­a­tions that there may be inform­a­tion to pur­sue fur­ther, but you choose and pull in addi­tional inform­a­tion if you choose to want more info. I want a whole series of very quick and pri­or­it­ized sum­mar­ies of what people are say­ing and I will scan and choose to pur­sue fur­ther in follow-up another routine. Its really the way of the world, with so much inform­a­tion being pushed at you. Is it pos­sible that an RSS feeder rather than an email cli­ent may become my main con­duit to the world? Am I mov­ing back to pull simply because there is too much push?