Thanks! I'm doing the best I can, and wrote this post sometime between my 9 meetings today.

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This is the new challenge, 10 years after the introduction of Google’s PageRank algorithm.

If someone can’t keep up with all the flow of information, we have to provide a way to search this real time web. As the content is produced mainly by people on social networks, are we going to need some sort of PeopleRank? We’ll see.

[...] April 07, 2009 — CIO — When Facebook redesigned the look and feel of its site last month, the social network took some design cues from Twitter, the service that allows users to share short messages with their friends, family and colleagues. Twitter has been referred to as a “streaming” application; since updates occur in real-time, it causes a river of content to flow down the center of users’ home pages. [...]

[...] The title to this post are their Twitter names. This is not news if you are a follower of the real-time web and it was in all the mainstream news for the past few weeks. Some the Twitterati, early adopters [...]

[...] folks seem to say that “real time web” basically means everything more and faster.  It’s been a common tenet for at least a decade that the value in the Web is found in [...]

[...] When Facebook redesigned the look and feel of its site last month, the social network took some design cues from Twitter, the service that allows users to share short messages with their friends, family and colleagues. Twitter has been referred to as a “streaming” application; since updates occur in real-time, it causes a river of content to flow down the center of users’ home pages. [...]

[...] April 07, 2009 — CIO — When Facebook redesigned the look and feel of its site last month, the social network took some design cues from Twitter, the service that allows users to share short messages with their friends, family and colleagues. Twitter has been referred to as a “streaming” application; since updates occur in real-time, it causes a river of content to flow down the center of users’ home pages. [...]

Old media (print, radio, TV,etc.): flowed one way into pools, ponds, lakes. Information was ’siloed’
New media (Web 2.0 enabled, web-based – sites, rss, blogs, networks, apps, widgets,etc. ): flows in all directions, it’s a great network of feedback loops, information doesn’t stop flowing.

Many of us are still using the web (including me!) as a series of closed silos or ponds – the more activated we become in the arena of Web 2.0/Social Media the deeper we go -learning to go from
riding on top of the conversational/info flow (in metaphorical boats – or tubes or just floating on top) to swimming and eventually breathing, and existing totally in that environment (like fish). It requires a new set of
lungs, a new purpose, new methods, new philosophical underpinnings.

Web 2.0 is merely the evolution of the World Wide Web. It was a place of conversation and collaboration from the start. It has always had a social purpose, a relational or human aim. (see Tim Berner Lee’s book: Weaving The World Wide Web)

The river = is the web based conversation/info stream that is enabled by Social Media technologies – the river as metaphor is a way of using the Web – it is possible to not submerge yourself in it, and the business world often confuses fishing with becoming a fish.

Unique ways of relating in the new river: in old media there was a preacher and an audience. In new media -everyone is submerged (or riding on top) in a flow of mutual dialogue. Gates are crashed, hierarchies are diminished, the feedback and comments is now equally as important as the initial content.

-networks, communities and horizontal relational structures are now the means by which we travel within the river – like ’schools’ of fish -learning from each other -and traveling in rings of mutual trust – we are herds, flocks, tribes fixed on singular niches, passions, causes, shared values, missions, purpose. Your fellow fish and you move in an awareness of each other – often moving as one body.

-there are undercurrents in the river, there are bottom-feeders, there are rapids, there are shallow areas where those riding on top are in great peril, there are waterfalls, there are tributaries (mobile web? etc?), the river is going somewhere, the river dumps into the ocean/sea eventually (this is called convergence -where the web merges (via new technology) with life and the web so intertwined that the world will be a whole new submerged landscape (complete with sunken ships and great white sharks, as well as beautiful coral reefs,etc…)

Many people right now have just noticed the river. Some people are drowning. Some people are teaching others how to ride on top. Other people are becoming fish and learning how to swim in ’schools’. Media, education, business, causes, all these will find that these ’schools’ are the most progressive places to advance into the future of their organizations.

The river is: conversation, information, dialogue, community, social technology, decentralized, demassified, hyper-everything, (see Leonard Sweet’s book Soul Tsunami)

-shalom!

John Blossom pointed me to your post right after your publication but I have decided to wait a few days to see the comments and views on this front before contributing mine.

Personally I think Scott C. Lemon really nailed it. he wrote above in the comments:

“I also believe that we are going to need more “navigators” … or people/systems that begin to filter and “edit” the content flows…”

I have been writing about such emerging role and need since 2004, and have outlined a new human-driven I call the “newsmaster” dedicated to the very task of selecting sources, aggregating news and content in the backend and then manually picking, juxtaposing and republishing those relevant to a very specific audience or theme through an output format I have called a “news-radar”.

It is exactly as Scott writes: “If you look at historical patterns in prior media forms, there are people/companies that become the intermediaries that consume large amounts of information and then produce smaller outbound streams.”

If you Google yourself the terms, “newsmaster”, “newsmastering” and “newsradars” you can read more of what I have been having in mind.

No matter how many RSS feeds you subscribe to and how many filters you use, it is impossible to monitor a specific topic effectively without running into tons of unrelevant or duplicate content that comes into your stream simply because filter aren’t intelligent enough to recognize and classify news as a human being could do.

“I always like to look at this as “humaneural” behaviors … where humans take on near neural behavior in having hundreds or thousands of input signals, and then generate far fewer outbound signals.”

This is what, inspired by Stephen Downes I wrote 5 years back: http://www.masternewmedia.org/2004/02/19/the_birth_of_the_newsmaster.htm

Check also: http://tinyurl.com/d7vk7b

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The secret in my opinion is to decide what information that you want, then have it brought to you. Many are using our tool Techrigy SM2 to filter & aggregate info on topics & bring it to them.

I hope that your trip to MN is enjoyable! It’s not so cold anymore, although we still have too much snow up here.
Connie
@cbensen

-CGL

[...] Jeremiah Owang talks in his post about the changes and how we are facing some real challenges in the world where everything is a river of news Challenges to Navigating the “River of News” As the web continues to move faster and faster towards real-time (we see this in Twitter and elements of Facebook), it creates several challenges: [...]

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