So Many Feeds, So Little Time

Posted By: fdisk | Jul 11th, 2007 @ 1:10 PM
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#Jul 11th, 2007 @ 1:10 PM
fdisk
fdisk
Scoble the Feed-Reading Machine
Scoble wrote:
Google Reader says: “From your 739 subscriptions over the last 30 days you read 28,433 items, and shared 979 items.”
lol

Doing some basic math, that's approximately 948 items per day, and nearly 40 feeds per hour if he stays awake a full 24 hours a day. Assuming that is physically impossible, it comes about to about 79 feeds per hour in a 12 hour period (per day).

All I can ask is: why?  Wouldn't that time be better spent doing something other than observing "virtual flowers" or things like that? I have this vision now of Scoble sitting at his computer (or using a pda) and obsessing over it constantly.

Perplexed

There is also the fact that only a whopping 3.44% of items that he looked at that were actually worth sharing. Talk about low signal to noise ratios!
#Jul 11th, 2007 @ 2:05 PM
blowdart
blowdart
Peek-a-boo
How many of those feeds are technoati feeds looking for mentions of himself though?
#Jul 11th, 2007 @ 2:15 PM
JChung2006
JChung2006
By "read," he "marked them as read."  I doubt he actually read them word for word.
#Jul 12th, 2007 @ 7:54 AM
BlackTiger
BlackTiger
If you stumbled and fell down, it doesn't mean yet, that you're going in the wrong direction.
I found a perfect solution for this problem - I'm NEVER reading RSS! Never ever! It's annoying technology.Mad
#Jul 12th, 2007 @ 8:20 AM
Harlequin
Harlequin
http://twitter.c​om/TrueHarlequin
BlackTiger wrote:
I found a perfect solution for this problem - I'm NEVER reading RSS! Never ever! It's annoying technology.


Well you have to pick and choose the feeds that are best for you. The only alternative to getting up to date on stuff in this industry would be to surf 100 sites 8 times a day. Sounds better to get feeds than to do that.
#Jul 12th, 2007 @ 8:52 AM
ScanIAm
ScanIAm
On a scale of 1 to 10, people are stupid.

I've gone on RSS jags a few times, and I've noticed that if you start adding every neat sounding feed out there, you eventually get a lot of overlap.  He may be 'reading' that many, but they aren't all unique items.

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