Robert Scoble plopped down in the seat next to mine at Gnomedex this morning.
Several years ago, before his time with Microsoft, Robert was known for following 1,200 blogs. At a Geek Dinner in Berkeley, I asked him how he did it. He explained that he’d changed his modus operandi. He mainly monitored one blog, the consolidation site Memeorandum.
Times change. Memeorandum has been supplanted by ranked sites like Digg. So once again I asked Robert how he kept up.
FriendFeed is his primary source. FriendFeed? See What is this, a cult? Brian Saxton writes, “In short, Friend Feed pastes the pieces of conversations that Web 2.0 applications tear apart. It helps cut through the noise that applications that produce content can (and often times do) generate. It does it in a way that makes keeping the conversation convenient. And while it’s not the RSS feed to end all other RSS feeds (what about when you want to organize feeds by topics?), it’s darn convenient.”
I just opened a FriendFeed account; I’ll see if it makes it over the one-month hurdle. About one in 25 apps I try are still around a month later. FriendFeed looks cool for now: it’s fascinating to run my eyes over all these posts, pictures, Tweets, and bookmarks from a hundred friends all pasted together in one spot.
Scoble surfs for information four or five hours a day. This is interspersed with his other activities. Increasingly, it comes in on his iPhone. He does not obsess on seeing everything that floats by. If it’s important, it will come around again.
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