Tim Worstall

Small rivers is one of these possibly interesting little internet applications that pop up from time to time. You never really know whether they’re going to take off or not: I still don’t understand why anyone would use either Facebook or Twitter for example even though I’ve tried both.

Small Rivers though it trying to do something a little bit different. One way to think of it is as a way to create content channels across blogs and sites. You add the appplication to your post on, say, exciting new methods of fretworking.

Other bloggers and or sites which are using the same application, and which are also talking about exciting new methods of fretworking, then see your post turning up in their Small Rivers box on their site. If you’re talking about iron ore, then your post will turn up in the same boxes of those talking about iron ore.

So in one way this is like an alternative to trackbacks. Instead of manually adding a link to somewhere, you’re automatically being added to the list of those who have already declared that they are like minded by blogging or writing on the same subject. The huge advantage of this is of course that you don’t actually have to know who is doing that other writing on the same subject. This is the bit that the Small Rivers application finds for you.

It looks very easy to use, that has to be said for it, and the idea at least seems to contain merit. If enough people start using it then it will indeed link you to those other places, places you didn’t know about, which are mentioning the same subjects (although probably with very different views of it!) than you are.

But then that becomes the main question: will enough people be using it. Hoping to kick start such usage is of course why they’ve asked me to advertise it, as here.

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