{"id":187,"date":"2010-02-11T11:02:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T19:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mcelroy\/?p=187"},"modified":"2010-02-11T11:02:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T19:02:28","slug":"google-buzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mcelroy\/2010\/02\/11\/google-buzz\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Buzz"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been a terribly negligent blogger, but I’ve been saving some things up. First off, let’s talk about Google Buzz<\/a>, since everyone<\/a> else<\/a> is also talking about it.<\/p>\n

At this point, I just have my most initial personal reactions to Buzz, plus the mix of confusion and annoyance I’ve seen playing out amidst my own connections. First off, I find it annoying that there’s a lot of duplication. I loves me my Google Reader, and I have started getting things through multiple streams here. That is, when my friends share something through Reader, it shows up in Buzz. And then, if I comment on it (in either format), it then shows up in my Gmail inbox when someone else comments. Then I will also see it when it pops up again in my Reader.<\/p>\n

Basically, Google is trying to force me to consolidate things I want to keep separate. Maybe I don’t want to share my comments with everyone in my email book — although Google has conveniently set up me with a group of followers, I use my Gmail account for both work and play. This is just one more way to muck up the line between personal and professional: in the records business, there can be serious consequences when these divisions are blurred. (Think of former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick<\/a>.) Google Buzz isn’t creating this problem, of course — it’s just one more tool that could make it easier. The privacy settings with Buzz are also a bit fuzzy — I don’t like when it is hard to opt out, rather than just easy to opt in.<\/p>\n

Buzz has been called Google’s response to Twitter. See, one of the brilliant things about Twitter is its simplicity: you use it to do one very simple thing. Of course, you can use those 140 characters for a lot of different purposes, and you can incorporate them in diverse ways, but the root is simple.<\/p>\n

All this being said, I know I can be stubborn with new tools. I was slow to get into aggregators, because I really liked to go to separate websites and catch up on my blogs periodically. But, thanks to a gentle push, I gave Google Reader a try and now I just adore it. So, we’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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