Should Lists 9
We added a new feature to All Consuming today that we really love and we hope you will too. We call it a “should list” - the idea is similar to a wish list - but rather than building an eternally growing collection of items you wish someone would buy for you - this is a queue of your intended consumption. Does that sound interesting yet? Well wait, it gets weirder. You can add items to your queue of intended consumption, but so can anyone else. If you don’t like the suggestion you can easily remove it - but gone is the feeling that you need to be in charge of your own consumption.
Not only can your friends, family and adoring fans add items to your list, they also get to drive the priority of the items in the queue by weighing in on what they think you ought to consume. Items with the most endorsements move up your list. You can still decide what book to read next or what movie to watch, but hopefully the annoying problem of “what should I read next” has been solved through clever social software and a little wisdom from the crowd (or at least, comments from the peanut gallery).
We all know the experience of reading a book, hearing an album, or seeing a movie that changed our lives. We want All Consuming to be a site that lets us share those experiences with others and makes the sometimes lonely experience of encountering our culture through privately consumed media just a little more social and humane. One of the reasons this is a satisfying feature for us to release is that it is an idea that helps pull together some of our aspirations for the site. Plus it took a day and a half to go from inspiration to the interweb.
To try out the new feature, first make sure you are logged in to the site (you can tell because it will say your name across the top). Now find someone’s profile page (we know, that is not so easy right now, but here is Erik’s) and on the right hand side of the page you can see the list of what people think Erik should consume (including Erik). Add a suggestion or look at the list and add an endorsement to one that is already there. If you want to add an item to your own consumption queue, on the right hand side of any item page is a link that says “I intend to consume this” (remember - this is serious planning, not idle wishes).
I’m REALLY excited about this new feature. Mainly I’ve just wanted an intended consumption list for sometime. Now that you have it I YOU will be the ones I stick with for the long haul (goodbye Reader2 and others). I’m not TOTALLY set on allowing other to control my Should list. Most of my personal friends are not on ALLconsuming and they are the ones I’d want to allow to influence my choices. If there was a way to allow just anyone to come and incluence my should list then I’d be up for trying it. Can they do that?
Very good idea. I’ve been trying to find a good way to manage my list of books to read. What I’ve been doing is keeping the list in <a href=”http://del.icio.us/dlc/booklist” rel=”nofollow”>del.icio.us</a>, and adding to it manually.
Now if only there was a <a href=”http://www.robotcoop.com/articles/2006/01/06/web-services-for-43-things-43-places-and-43-people” rel=”nofollow”>web service</a> for AllConsuming, I would be able to port all 160+ items on my current list—that’s just too many to do manually.
This feature is really really cool. Thank you.
Awesome. This is a great feature!
“remember – this is serious planning, not idle wishes”
Out of curiosity, what do you mean here?
this is an interesting filter. obviously we are all consuming too much. Funny you specifically used the word consume because that love of my life that would not have me because I was German in his mind ( I was too American to know …all men are created equal…blah, blah . blah, dumb little adopted girl, etc..etc..) He showed me a movie he did for one of his art classes ( we went to SCAD together ). In this movie he was on the ground, a skinny english kid shoving refried beans into his mouth …..saying CONSUME, CONSUME…....consume..how I loved him…....as young as we were….months later Beijing tore us apart…....love you you Robot cops, sincerely, what’s left of freedom..gabrielle(a man sat on a bus traveling 19 miles at the speed of light and asked the question “what’s left of freedom?”......the answer came from a child..the child said…”my name is Gabrielle and I don’t butter my cabbage with handsome words, if I am lucky I use pepper and hot sauce…certainly knot butter…...
Thanks Robots, I really love this new feature! Just what I`ve been missing, I`ll now start using this site more actively. And I love the twist that we can add things to other peoples lists, this should be fun ;)
Hmm, so it seems inviting people to consume something is not the same as suggesting an item… correct? Could they be, as in I could click a link next to an item in my list that says suggest to one of your peeps and be able to suggest to anyone in my subscriptions or who I want to meet/have met… or maybe to anybody who’s “looking for suggestions”... or maybe anonymously to anybody who’s subscribed to me or has been following my activity? Ideas, ideas… =)
Need clarification ss to what is happening here?i.e. can I join in? If so, How? And like in that vein
I’ve been wanting to be able to cheer comments and entries on Allconsuming for some time now. Thanks for reading my mind.