Links are dead, are aggregators next?

File under: rssnews, attention, trust, clickstream, rss

At the "Search for Attention" SD Search SIG tonight, Steve Gilmor said that "links are dead". He claims that 5 years ago, he declared Notes dead, and then 2 yrs ago started declaring Office dead. Dave Sifry smirked.

Also, Dave said current aggregators suck, Seth Goldstein said he's addicted to Memeorandum, and Mike Arrington said he's stopped using Bloglines. Are aggregators dead too?

Dave said "‘consuming content and crapping cash - that's eyeballs’".

oof - I like to think I'm a smart guy, but I still can't follow Steve's ideas on attention.

(originally posted from my treo via mo:blog)