Bloggers – Stop Reading Blogs!
I remember when I first discovered RSS feeds. I read reports of some bloggers who boasted a feed list of hundreds of blogs, which they watched each day. I think Dane Carlson said he had close to 500 or even more on his bloglines feed reading account. Whatever it was, it was a lot.I started watching blogs too. I noticed many other bloggers were monitoring many feeds each day and filling their blogs with links to stories they found interesting on other blogs. It seemed like a circle of recycled content going from blog to blog.
As I started to watch blogs I found myself becoming overstimulated with ideas, most of which I never got around to acting on because there were even more new ideas the next day. I followed the pattern and blogged about other blog content, regurgitating the already recycled news which was going from newspaper to online news portal to blog and blog and blog. True, each blogger made things interesting by including their own point of view, but I noticed that the traffic results for me from regurgitated news wasn’t as good – heck, I wasn’t even interested in reading the same news on my own blog that I had just read somewhere else.
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