Comments on: *Info. Trapping* http://ladrake90.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/info-trapping/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:53:38 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Jason Adams http://ladrake90.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/info-trapping/#comment-9 Jason Adams Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:17:46 +0000 http://ladrake90.wordpress.com/?p=38#comment-9 RSS is a type of information trapping because your RSS feed reader is automatically fetching information from a source and serving it up to you. The feed represents the trapped information. Actively hitting the website generating the content everyday would be the opposite of that. Now active search as described in this post, where you go to a search engine and enter a query, is not information trapping. But setting up a google alert to get an email anytime some new result matching that query appears, would be. RSS is a type of information trapping because your RSS feed reader is automatically fetching information from a source and serving it up to you. The feed represents the trapped information. Actively hitting the website generating the content everyday would be the opposite of that.

Now active search as described in this post, where you go to a search engine and enter a query, is not information trapping. But setting up a google alert to get an email anytime some new result matching that query appears, would be.

]]> By: jimmydlg http://ladrake90.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/info-trapping/#comment-8 jimmydlg Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:04:48 +0000 http://ladrake90.wordpress.com/?p=38#comment-8 Wow that's a bit different definition than what I came across.. I'm not saying it's wrong, cause I'm sure like all the other topics we cover information trapping has a broad definition, but I had seen it as the opposite of RSS.. With RSS, you pull information from sites at a regular interval to see if they've updated any infomation.. but with information trapping you have sites trap your information and push it to you whenever it comes around without you even having to give a second thought about it. At least that's what I had thought it meant. Wow that’s a bit different definition than what I came across.. I’m not saying it’s wrong, cause I’m sure like all the other topics we cover information trapping has a broad definition, but I had seen it as the opposite of RSS.. With RSS, you pull information from sites at a regular interval to see if they’ve updated any infomation.. but with information trapping you have sites trap your information and push it to you whenever it comes around without you even having to give a second thought about it. At least that’s what I had thought it meant.

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