Robert Scoble at RSS Winterfest:
- 300 weblogs in Microsoft (internally?), reading 1200 external feeds + 200 internal
- Social pressure is keeping weblogs alive
- “Now the entire world can have a conversation about you before you wake up in the morning”
- Public weblog posts get more attention internally than internal e-mails
- Bill Gates considers writing a weblog (internally :)
- “E-mail is where knowledge goes to die” (UPDATE: it was said during Robert’s session, but I’m not sure by whom; Seb suggests that it’s likely to be a quote from Bill French)
Robert on reading weblogs via RSS (see also: RSS vs. HTML), RSS can bring 10x improvement to your productivity:
One last thing. What’s funny is I’ve spent a bit of time making my weblog more efficient for the folks who read my blog via a Web browser. What’s really weird is that people are still using browsers to read blogs at all.
Why do I say that? Because if you read my blog via an RSS News Aggregator, it’s at least 10 times faster to read there than to read via a Web browser. How do I know that? I have been timing how long it takes to read an RSS feed vs. reading the same thing in the browser. There is at least a 10x difference.
Tags: blog reading, RSSArchived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/01/22.html#a946; comments are here.
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