Exercise 1

I am interested in the idea of Really Simple Syndication, and how it is changing the way people create and maintain personal connections. With a feed reader and a set of blogs, RSS becomes a proxy for relationships. You can know intimate details of people's lives — friends or otherwise — through RSS feeds of their blog posts, photographs, shared items, etc, without actually having to meet face to face.

For this project I collected public RSS feeds of people I know from a variety of sources. These are a collection of people I "keep in touch with," despite not having seen them in weeks, or even years.

allsorts (blog)

dave-sensei (blog)

jeff likes buildings (blog)

population: two (blog)

sassy radish (blog)

sassy radish (flickr)

father stacy speaks (blog)

normally (blog)

normally (flickr)

julieb23 (flickr)

twilight invasion (flickr)

jshawn (twitter)