I just trashed half of my Google Reader feeds
Last month I saw Cullect for the first time and was very impressed. Up until that moment I was convinced that Google Reader was the best way to stay on top of news and trends in my field(s).
Five minutes ago I just deleted half of my Google Reader subscriptions in favor of migrating my reading to Cullect. Why would I do that?
Google Reader is free!
Yes! Google Reader is free. And, as Garrick Van Buren explained to me, it is a reader that is based on the paradigm of reading email. Reading in Google Reader can be stressful and it does not scale very well. The more feeds I found, the faster I found that I read and, consequentially, the less satisfying that reading became.
Cullect can be free, but there are pay scales
And you get what you pay for. Cullect is a new paradigm of reading. It uses your attention patterns to serve you content that is relevant to how you have been reading. That means that if you only have time to read three posts, you can feel confident that reading those three posts will not be a waste of time.
Cullect also lets you have multiple interests. I am interested in many categories of news, blogs and feeds. I can create several reading lists in Cullect so my reading time becomes even more satisfying. Cullect is about quality and diversity of interests.
I'm on the move. I moved my photography interests out of Google Reader today because they are already in my photography reading list on Cullect. I'll be creating a web reading list and perhaps a new architecture reading list.
How can we use Cullect in an academic setting
This is my big question. There is a lot of potential to use curated Cullect reading lists to create pools of resources. More soon...