Some thoughts about Robert Scoble and his blog reading

NOTE: This blog entry is about Robert Scoble the brand.  Not Robert Scoble the human being.

Robert Scoble posted a comment on my blog yesterday explaining how he "manages" his blog reading.

    http://weblogs.asp.net/dneimke/archive/2005/02/21/377034.aspx

He explained that he only ever reads blogs before 9am or after 6pm - which seems pretty cool, and he also commented that:

"On the average evening I get through 3,500 to 5,000 posts and post about 100 to 150 on my linkblog"

Those numbers seem too scarily big to be healthy.

Let's say that, for the sake of creating an argument, it only took 1 second to process the average message, 1 little second.  At an average of 4K posts, 1 second works out to around 1hr 7mins.  It's gotta be more than a second though right?  So, let's bump it up to an average of 4 seconds per post - 4.5 hours.  That's 4.5 hours, per night of 100 Human CPU cycles, churning stuff into the Recycler.

With all of that energy being spent "reading" and "zapping", I think that it must get difficult to step back and realize that this stuff just doesn't, can't, scale.  I mean, what happens if the blogshpere doubles or triples?  How can you turn up the tempo to hit 12 hours per night of "reading" and "zapping"?

I dunno... as I said in my previous post, I'm not doubting that he does it but, as I also said... "how many things did you just NOT do?"

FOOTNOTE: Robert, if you or any of your cronies offend me, I have your Opml and I've instructed everone who's on it, at my request, to launch a d.o.s. attack on your aggregator