Brent has pointed to an interesting new little technology that’s being proposed called Neutrino, mentioning that he plans on supporting it in an upcoming release of NetNewsWire. Neutrino is one feed (a la RSS) that points back to everything an individual sends out into the ether: their blog, a Flickr account, whatever. The idea is that you subscribe to the person, as opposed to having hunt down disparate parts that they happen to put out there. Having been a fan of email forwarding services since my Bates days (Got enough of your ISP? No problem - just change the settings with your email forwarder to forward your email to your new ISP email!), I’m really intrigued to see this happen.

Of course, I just have just this blog, so it’s not like I have a huge need for something to package the different things together. Speaking of which, I’m still having a hard time wrapping my mind around why Flickr is such a boon. I used to use the original online photo services Ofoto (erm, before Kodak bought them and renamed them Kodak EasyShare Gallery - the latter of which I just discovered) and Shutterfly, but have long since abandoned them. I know it has its fans - Sean, Jess & Basil, for instance. I mean, I get that it’s a place to display your photos, but unless you’re using a restrictive blogging service, you can do that on your own site anyways. Heck, if you have iPhoto, it gets even easier. From what I can tell, the unique feature would be the Notes & Tags feature which looks admittedly very cool. I dunno - am I missing something here?

Of course, I suppose I should just sign up and try it out since it’s free…