How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Google Buzz | Linux Today

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Google Buzz

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 25, 2010

[ Thanks to James
Maguire
for this link. ]

“Everybody’s first reaction to Buzz was: How do I turn
this off? Most people sit on the brink of information overload, and
Buzz seemed to push us all over the edge.

“But the more I use Buzz, the more I like it. The
discoverability of new people to follow is better than on any other
service. People actually have conversations, rather than one-off
posts followed by sporadic heckling. There’s no sophomoric
“poking,” Mafia wars or invitations to inane “causes” to wade
through every day. You can fine-tune the signal-to-noise ratio on
Buzz very easily.

“Then it hit me. Rather than controlling, containing or
eliminating Buzz, why not open the Buzz floodgates and do a
scorched-earth on everything else?”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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