Scoutle
Too early for me to say just what I think about Scoutle, but I am utterly fascinated and intrigued by the model of defining my own ‘scouts’ that can have conversations on my behalf with other’s individuals scouts to find things or blogs that I might like to connect with, read, and so on. The level of agency in there, some sense of having agents spidering away, really appeals. It might be the autonomy. At first glance it seems the model is to have several scouts, since my first one doesn’t appear to be able to contain all my interests, you choose a large domain then interests within that, but it doesn’t appear that an individual scout can have more than one larger domain. So the first one is arts and entertainment. But I want one that is specifically for finding other researchers in things like hypertext, media studies, new media, video, and so on. At the moment the categories are broader. I’ll see how we go with the first one, and perhaps I’ll add more scouts to make a troop (they are scout troops, aren’t they?)
Hi Adrian!
Thanks for joining us and believing in the idea. You are very right about one Scout not containing all your interests. When you are selective in giving your Scouts interests and Networks, the results will be selective as well. If you tell your Scout you are interested in everything… He will meet all sorts of Scouts and it will be hard to find something really interesting.
We do need more users to bring our users together in a nice way, but after one week being online we are very happy having hundreds of Scouts crawling the Internet. These user stories help building up the network, so we are very thankful.
Kind regards,
Godfried
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