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- JonRohan, on 10/11/2007, -3/+59pshht! You aren't a man unless you read 623 RSS Feeds Each Morning.
- slimjimworm, on 10/11/2007, -3/+46So what you are saying is that digg needs to have a "bookmark/read later" feature instead of everyone artificially inflating the ranking of an article just because they want to read it later?
- DrDigg, on 10/11/2007, -6/+49http://www.artezen.com/shop/images/img_l_mirror_66710.jpg
- futureb, on 10/11/2007, -3/+27jeezus...this guy needs to go take a walk. breath of fresh air, or something.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -7/+28Yeah themarq, only Digg is not a social *bookmarking* site. I don't know why so many people seem to think like you. maybe it's the del.ico.us part in the "epic story" of Digg's conception.
Anyhow, Digg is supposed to be a social news website (or something) - i.e. digging a story equals recommending it to the community. And if you haven't read a story, it's pretty stupid recommending it, don't you think? - 7of7, on 10/11/2007, -5/+23No wonder his own is such crap. Garbage in garbage out.
- brianboyko, on 10/11/2007, -2/+16Can I get his OPML file?
- themarq, on 10/11/2007, -17/+30One stupid digger doesn't understand the idea of social bookmarking.
If I bookmark it (digg it) now, I can go back a read it later when the load is more manageable. That's why we have descriptions on Digg. - fitzsimj, on 10/11/2007, -0/+111) He doesn't read 622 feeds. He skims over them. There's nothing really impressive there.
2) In his little rant about how he "imprints" the article, he says that he doesn't "just read the headline," then says something like, "I read the headline... and look at the author..." Okay, basically, he's not saying anything meaningful there.
3) Summary: Use Google Reader in the 'View All' mode, skim through quickly, look for link-density in the posts that you read, and don't post links to other articles that don't reflect this same standard. There, I just saved you eleven minutes. - manifestdata, on 10/11/2007, -3/+13I bet he couldn't do 6.22 pushups!
- mikeyrock, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10Wow. That can't be healthy.
- slimjimworm, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9As themarq stated above, apparently people digg an article just so they can come back later and view it (incase the digg effect takes it down). Thus artificially inflating the algorithm digg uses to put articles on the home page.
- flashback99, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7watching that video makes me feel like i'm in an infinite loop.
- euphemizeme, on 10/11/2007, -6/+12If you add this to the 622 that he read in the front page story yesterday, that makes 1244!! What a man.
- mach4x0r, on 10/11/2007, -7/+13actually i saw him at web2expo
he was in really good shape
great calves.
seriously. - msaleem, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7Cached: http://www.dotcache.com/http://www.fourhourworkweek.com.nyud.net:8080/blog/2007/05/16/how-scoble-reads-622-rss-feeds-each-morning/
- PunkHop, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Take a drink every time the dude with the camera says "Mmhmm."
- solusdotipse, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5"mmhmm...uh huh....mmhmm....mmhmm...uh huh....mmhmm"
- maexus, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5http://www.dotcache.com/http://www.fourhourworkweek.com.nyud.net:8080/blog/2007/05/16/how-scoble-reads-622-rss-feeds-each-morning/
- nomad1109, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Who is this and why should I care? All kinds of useful information can be included in the first few lines of text, but rerely is...
- idconvict, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I couldn't even watch the video, it was driving me insane. The camera guy needed to shut the hell up
- whalesalad, on 10/11/2007, -5/+9Why is this on digg... why is this on the homepage?
- Wisgary, on 10/11/2007, -5/+9Mindboggling? Don't you mean... Mindbloggling?
- mykos, on 10/11/2007, -6/+9Haha...that was my first thought. Is this a penis waving "mine is bigger than anyone's" article?
- dbr_onix, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Direct link to the video
http://www.viddler.com/explore/masterlock77/videos/1/ - msaleem, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Even Rubel is on it, so you can see the video there: http://www.micropersuasion.com/2007/05/goo_inside_the_.html
- augsod, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Fortunately for him, none of them are Wordpress.
- IMOG, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Umm, the link in the article is broke but going straight to the source (I must be new here) works fine:
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/05/16/how-scoble-reads-622-rss-feeds-each-morning/ - JonRohan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@BrianBoyko
here's scoble's OPML
http://www.bloglines.com/export?id=scobleizer - iamdexter, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This sucks, wonder who are digging this ?
http://www.diesel-shoes.org/ - marnaq, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3WordPress Syndrome.
- GerryBot, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I wonder how many of those 622 feeds are updated daily? Still, it's a massive number of feeds...
- cdevroe, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I like the tags in the video. Teehee. Ok, I'm just playin' cuz I work at Viddler. Good video though.
- shiftless, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1After keeping up with about 100 feeds/day it is surprising how much information I've actually retained. I really thought I wasn't going to be taking in anything, but it is very surprising how much I've learned and remembered. Keeping up with 100 is just casual. 600... that seems pretty demanding!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1He needs to _get_a_life_
- marsyas1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1whats the point of reading so many blogs, if you don't have time to do anything with the information you pick up.
- ernieoporto, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Yeah, if your job is reading blogs, then it becomes easier to dedicate a morning to reading blogs. I find that Google Reader is just too darn slow for scanning headlines, and frankly if the headline doesn't grab you, it isn't interesting. Besides, there are so many memes that are reblogged, that if you don't catch it in one blog, another will surely have a grabber headline and get you into the story. That said, there are so many things that are reblogged that you HAVE to scan headlines to get past it all. To process feeds quickly, scanning headlines is the way to go, not looking at bodies of articles.
I use a reader like MonkeyChow ( http://www.shokk.com/blog/articles/category/monkeychow/ ) on my own server (LAMP) so that I don't have to rely on Google's erratic feed updating. It also features search, a river of news view and allows you to reblog things into your own RSS feed and share your OPML for the whole bunch or a tagged group. You can also "star" stuff to bookmark it for later. Most options are use configurable to suit your taste. As for keyboard use for viewing the page, Page Up and Page Down work really well! I'm going through 200 feeds, but can cut through to the good stuff right away. A lot of it is feeds for software releases that I might need to update at home or on the work network and which do not update frequently. But some of them are prolific bloggers that spray content all day long. - redmond007, on 10/11/2007, -5/+6That guy needs to get a life.
- vonskippy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Thanks for the concise summary - I thought it would be some dweeb blathering about their own self puffery, now I don't have to waste my time.
- MasterQ, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2did anyone else notice that his gmail address is clearly viewable at the top of google reader?
- crossers, on 07/14/2008, -0/+0one more genius! nice!
http://www.rsschanelwriter.com
http://www.emergencysoft.com
http://www.sitemapwriter.com - stusmith, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0This is a blatant plug, so I apologize in advance....
I subscribe to approximately 200 feeds, some of which I read in-depth, some of which I skim, and it takes me about an hour each day using FeedGhost.
http://www.feedghost.com/
Six-hundred-odd feeds is a lot, but once you get used to J / K reading, and considering blogging is a large part of his job, it's not really a superhuman feat. - coherentlight, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Let's see now ... let's assume a six hour morning which give us (6 x 60 x 60) or 21,600 seconds a morning. And if he reads 622 RSS feeds each morning .. that means he spends approximately 34.7 seconds per feed. No stops, no looking away. Just 6 hours @ 34.7 seconds each.
Ummm ... ***** ?
cl. - Jenovaside, on 10/11/2007, -3/+0and we crash another site, the digg effect works so much better then the /. effect
- wiihuck, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1Giant who cares.
- slimjimworm, on 10/11/2007, -14/+10Stupid diggers digging an article that you can't even access.
- PUNKporVIDA, on 10/11/2007, -9/+3Mirror?
- drgmdp, on 10/11/2007, -6/+0i couldn't care less about the article.
but dugg for linking directly to the mirror. - raynar, on 10/11/2007, -10/+1*****
- dygel, on 10/11/2007, -16/+5What he's saying is that if you think digging something and bookmarking something to read it later are necessarily different concepts, you're being demoted to remedial noob class. The kids there smell like fart and have cheeto-colored hands. Maybe you'll fit in.
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