I'd gotten locked into this tiny little world encompassed by my RSS reader... so tonight I'm venturing out to read new blogs. How the heck did I miss Diego's MetaCool blog? Really smart stuff. Onto the blogroll he goes. His Creating an Organization around Customers and Good Brands are Fractal are a fresh and different take on my thoughts around Brand as Ecosystem... I'm really digging this fractal idea.
I think I haven't ventured out because... good God, how many blogs can one read? I have no idea how Scoble peruses 1000+ blogs per day. I have a hard time keeping up with the 50 or so in my list. Scary.
Robert has it exactly right. I have about 480+ feeds. Here are my secrets: pre-saved searches for topics you're interested in and group your blogs into must read, and down.
I rarely read the info from all my feeds, I just don't have time either (with writing for about 10 blogs...time is a premium).
Also having an RSS aggregator that lets you power-skim through the information really, really helps. I like Lektora (lektora.com) and I've heard good things about the new Onfolio. Sage for Firefox is also good for skimming, but no save-able searches. I can cruise through, like Robert, several blogs a minute. It's all in training and skimming.
Posted by: Tris Hussey | February 16, 2005 at 09:53 PM
I read a ton of feeds in one minute.
Here's a hint: out of 10 blogs, only 2 or 3 publish anything in the past 24 hours.
Of those, only 10% of the items are worth reading.
So, you can chew through feeds very quickly.
I put the best 100 or so things up on my linkblog. You can see that at http://www.scobleizer.com
Posted by: Robert Scoble | February 16, 2005 at 12:38 AM
I probably only check 20-30 or so on a regular basis (all manual, I'm stuck in the pre-rss era), I tend to cycle out the pop-sites though. The real power is in the long tail - the real voices of real people (who you can even strike of a two way conversation with via the comment section). I've found some very unique voices through searching odd keywords on technorati and following blog recommendations.
Posted by: Derek Woolverton | February 16, 2005 at 12:17 AM
1,000 blogs a day! There are 1,440 minutes in a day. At one minute per blog, that leaves Scoble 7 hours and 20 minutes to do everything else.
I don't doubt him.
I wish I had that kind of time.
Posted by: Troy Worman | February 15, 2005 at 09:04 PM