B. Mann Consulting

I was a bit late to BarCamp Brussels due to the wrap up of DrupalCon Brussels 2006 the night before, but I was immediately energized by the people there.

I jumped straight into an in depth conversation with Ton Zijlstra, a long time "blog buddy" who I met for the first time in person last year at BarCamp Amsterdam.

Somehow, we quickly dived into feed reading strategies. Ton uses essentially the "Blink" strategy (my words, not his) to capture hilights of the content that he reads. And that was our first point of interest. He doesn't read via content or by information/topic slice, but rather primarily reads via people. Ton uses Lektora, and tends to read in disconnected mode on the train.

Aside: I need to write up some thoughts on the use of media by "commuters"...I have a virtually non-existent commute, so my media usage is very different than those that do commute. Silicon Valley/the Bay Area has very long commutes...does this have an effect on innovation?