Wednesday, March 3, 2004
Blogger relations
Inspired by Scoble, I did a rare ego-surf on Google, which brought up an ad on the right for a post at carSerfs announcing its Hall of Heroes. Nice company.
Watch this feed
And I'm at the other end with about five
Seb sez most people can't handle more than a couple hundred feeds.
Scoble says here that he reads (up to) 618. (I think at Demo he said 1500 or something.)
Eric Norlin suggests this means "echo chambers" are natural.
I hate to admit that on the whole I don't use a news aggregator, mostly because I don't have the time. (The time consuming part of blogging isn't writing, it's reading.) Most of my posts here are public responses to emails. (In this case, one from Eric.) If the emails don't strip my gears (which they usually do), I'll hit Technorati for Breaking News or Newcomers. Then if I still have time I'll see if anybody's linking to something I've said. Then maybe I'll hit some links in my blogroll. And sometimes I'll go in some different order. Like right now, while I'm being tortured by music on hold (how many singers do nothing but belt out identical songs that do nothing but show off their pipes?), and I'm punching down my blogroll, digging, for example, how Tony explains that blogging "is how you get hot chicks if you can't play guitar."
In most cases, for what it's worth, I try not to get echo effects, though some are inevitable, fersure. (Echoing Tony is always a Good Thing.)