More on (no that's 2 words) blog processing
Over the weekend I posted an article about blog reading; specifically, I suggested that it's inefficient to attempt to keep up with a large number of blogs.
http://weblogs.asp.net/dneimke/archive/2005/02/20/376744.aspx
William Luu responded with:
> I guess you could say the Robert Scoble is insane reading in excess
> of 1000 blogs.
> Not to mention being subscribed to various aggregated sites such as
> weblogs.asp.net/blogs.msdn.com/dotnetjunkies.com etc...
> As well as picking up posts via PubSub which return results on
> keywords that he specifies (sometimes this amount can be quite substantial).
My response to a question such as this is... when do you suppose that Mr. Scoble does this activity? Does he do this on top of a job description which looks like yours or mine for example?
Here, try this... subscribe to 1000 blogs + all that other stuff. Sit down each day and process this information. Time it. Now tell me... how many things did you just NOT do?
Reading and keeping up with information via blogs is a new and important activity. Don't, however, let yourself and your customers down by spending exhaustive amounts of your (and theirs) time by overloading yourself with data.
If I was Mr Scoble, I'd consider having 2 .opml feeds set up. One I'd read only during the week and it would contain a very small number of blogs. The other can contain as many as can be comfortably consumed while eating my Saturday morning's breakfast - and that's the only time that it would ever get loaded up!