RSS Addict

7 June 2007

Ok, I have a question for you:

Is 670 a big number?

Obviously this question means very little without context, so I’ll rephrase it slightly:

Is 670 feeds a big number?

At the pre-@media drinks this evening we’re were talking merrily away when someone asked what our favorite blogs were. Going round the table, the obvious ones cropped up – Signal Vs Noise a firm favorite by all – and someone mentioned that they only read 5 feeds.

Now this was widely accepted to be a little low, but when it became known that I read 670 feeds on a daily basis people seemed to be properly surprised. Now, I know that a read a lot (it’s one of the reasons I started doing Friday Links) but I really didn’t think that my feed reader usage was that abnormal.

Ah well.

I guess it is then.

When pressed I couldn’t choose a favorite blog, and to be honest I still can’t right now. As someone pointed out, there’s no way I can “read” that many feeds every day, only skim for the more interesting stuff to pick out and look at in more depth, which I guess really doesn’t help in trying to decide which “one” is a favorite. They all start to blur together and – unless a site is particularly notable or writes in a distinctive way – it can be quite hard to know what post comes from where.

Hi there.

My name is David and I’m an RSS addict.

The first step is admitting you’ve got a problem, right?

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7 June 2007