Interview 1
- Twitter **
- Follows 600+ accounts
- Keep general tabs on various groups of people/areas of interest
- Phone interface is most natural
- In the morning, scroll back as far as the client will go to catch up
- Wouldn't want tweets going to e-mail because it's harder to Mark All as Read (don't want to miss out) than to be limited by Twitter's scroll-back history
- Receives tweets from important people as text messages
- Favorites tweets she wants to revisit
- Occasionally would want a tweet via e-mail
- Google Reader **
- Doesn't want to think about how many unread items she has
- Wants to split the feeds into Good and Meh (my words) so that she can regularly read the good without feeling bad about ignoring the meh
- E-mail **
- Uses e-mail as a TODO list (regretfully)
- Would see tweets and RSS items as TODOs and doesn't want that
- Sometimes, when she's expecting a stressful e-mail, she doesn't want to open her e-mail client at all
- Has never used an automatic filterer that worked well. She's the best judge of what she would find interesting and feels the investment is worth it.
Interview 2
Interviewee 2 is a graduate student. She reads information from a lot of sources, mainly Twitter, Facebook and 93 different RSS feeds via Google Reader (though many of these are comics and other things that aren’t quite news). She does most of her reading at home and at work, on her laptop and on her Kindle Fire.
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