FeedPressure

by on October 17, 2007

Wow, the feeds bloggers are working overtime. Web 2.0 Summit is going on, plus tons of other events, and things are just flowing at a rate I’ve never seen.

How does ANYONE pay attention to ANYTHING in such a high flow state?

Some things did catch my attention, though, while “J, J, J, J’ing” through more than 1,000 items (that’s the keyboard command for looking at the next item in Google Reader).

For instance, this headline: “QVC Sells 4,000 of My Balls in Five Minutes.”

Anyway, I’m reading feeds so you don’t have to.

It’s fun to race against TechMeme and see if I can find cool stuff that TechMeme hasn’t found yet.

What do you think? How am I doing on my feed blog? Does it add value to your life?

I’m trying to find the best of the feeds for you.

  • digibubblept
    Much value, thanks. Altough I filter again the feeds.
  • "Oh, Those Backward, Bemused Elders"
    the best of the feeds?
  • What exactly does a fella need to do to get on your linkblog?
  • Overall I think your link blog is great - FeedDemon's new attention report shows that I'm reading, flagging and sharing a lot of articles in it. In other words, it's bringing me a lot of value.

    The only thing I'd recommend is not adding so many articles. There have been a number of times when I've seen 40+ new items in your link blog after updating my feeds, which combined with my "regular" subscriptions is far too much to keep up with.
  • I generally check on the mixpanel.com feeds, usually grabs everything.
  • I agree with Nick, in that not all of your items are of interest to me. But, we are different people, so that is to be expected. You do add value with them, and I appreciate you doing it.

    Thanks.
  • I don't read the link blog. I've never understood the point of having someone else find links they think you might like - I follow my own 300 feeds that I know I like and I count on those to find me the ones I'm missing!
  • Ron
    I'm curious how you could possibly know what the best feeds are for your large audience and what feeds we should or shouldn't be reading
  • Sod techmeme, your linkblog is the number 1... esp. cause you have it going through twitter as well. I can't follow everything but value the more than I can eat approach :-)
  • Robert: “QVC Sells 4,000 of My Balls in Five Minutes.”

    Many thanks for the "link-love." Yes, doing business with QVC was a rush.
  • LeeH
    >>Anyway, I’m reading feeds so you don’t have to

    I do miss the daily zefrank...
  • Brad Buset
    I compare what I'm reading to you by reading your shared items last in my cycle. Right now, I'm around 85 subscriptions, highly focused on marketing/pr/social media/tech and I generally have already read or noticed about 1 in 6 of your shared items. A lot of those feeds are aggregates as well though - I don't mind someone doing the first sift for me.
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