Have you seen that thing?

So the answer to the ? then, is “Yes indeed. Robert Scoble Really needs 600 feeds. Until he doesn’t.”

Not only do I prefer snuggling up with (or having coffee over) newspapers, I also don’t have a cell phone.

600 sounds dizzing. (Does the article author say how he does it…time attention energy and his method of take-away, storage, usage?)

For e-delivery…I simply set e-filters to divert my “unsubscribes” to the trash folder…so I don’t have to do/think too much in case I want to access or re-filter back to “IN.”

Having the same email address for a dozen years helps, too.

Tia Dobi
P.T Barnum in a skirt producing intelligent creative to sell your stuff

P.S. Yes, perhaps much of that content is duplicated, it would seem to me…when I want to bake a chocolate cake, I only need 1 great recipe. (Could the subscriber be choosing inferior feeds? Or have difficulty making decisions? :-D)

1. In most cases the print on your screen is as large or small as you want it to be.

2. True, but you are still carrying around a newspaper and my guess is that you have your cell phone with you anyway, so you net 1 extra thing being carried around. Also, gadgets don’t get ink on your white shirt.

3. Agreed, you can rip something out of a paper to pass along to one person. Online you can blast a link or copy of the article to as many people as you want. And, even after you’ve shared it you can still save it on your own computer. If you make a habit of doing this often you should also be able to retrieve what you’ve saved more efficiently.

4. What is this? Filler? Fun, entertaining and relaxing are subjective. And, I scan my feeds when I eat breakfast every morning.

5. Seriously? You’re contending that of the millions of feeds out there you can’t come up with a collection that provides this same benefit?

6. I’ve never had to dig my feeds out of the bushes on a rainy morning.

My main reasons for preferring feeds:

- It is much easier to come up with a collection that provides a mix of biases and perspectives.

- Much easier to focus on the areas that I want. I can dispense with unwanted sections (paper equivalent: “entertainment,” comics, inserts, inserts, inserts) by not having them delivered in the first place.

- If at some point something changes in my desired portfolio of information, I can change it in moments.

I find reading the paper relaxing but have yet to commit to delivery or a regular buying pattern.

But haviong the time to read 600+ news feeds daily or on any other time frame, certainly in not within my mere mortal reach!

Fiona Fell
The Profit Maximising Web Geek