Which is of course, about getting information, from The Prisoner, being shown again this summer on BBC Four.

Pat Kane quotes Wilson/Bey:

“…the more of this information you take in, the darker things get. I call it the “lite age” as opposed to the dark ages. A situation where you have all the information all the time — completely accessible — where in other words there are no secrets, or there’s a perception that there are no secrets, that there’s no information that we can’t get. This kind of false omnipotence, this superman of information.”

Victor steps outside to see if the shape of all this information makes more sense than the substance.

Which is always an alternative if you’re allowed.

“Be seeing you!”

Robert Scoble of Microsoft uses persona-driven design in illustrating the potential of RSS.

Has there been any serious user-research and investigation of RSS from a user-experience or information science point-of-view?

Not just the UX of the aggregators or readers, but how people might use RSS in their daily information foraging behaviour, and as part of a greater mix of media that we’re all swimming in these days.

Or has anyone looked further outside that to ‘pain-points’ in people’s everyday lives where an rss-type delivery of information or services might bring benefit?