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Give me a couple of minutes please

Here's a thought.

Take your annual salary. Now, divide it by 120 000 - that's your per-minute wage.

Multiply that by 2, and that's approximately how much you'll spend reading this post, assuming of course that you do.

Will it be worth it?

I doubt it.

Now how many posts are you reading a day?

My brain is overloading, there is simply too much to take in. The way I see it, the future doesn't belong to the bloggers, but to the editors, guys like Johnnie Moore, guys that do a better job of aggregating good content than my newsreader ever could. My mission is to find 10 such editors, my grounds for choosing them is that they share no links in their blogrolls. When I get that right, I'll be a happy man.

Reading the same story, regurgitated and repeated by the masses ad infinitum is taking too much time.

And time is money...!

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Comments

2 things...
- whilst this blog might not be worth my time (this time)- the link probably will because I've just read that and realised all of the stupid bad e-mail habits I've got into!

- the future/concept of web/blog/news-editors was highlighted in the googlezon piece you blogged a while ago and which we were already linking to from our karma-zone - http://karmazone.pdggraphics.co.uk/

Posted by: davidcoe... | 21 Mar 2005 19:02:30

Yeah, that email piece is a pretty worthwhile read, deserves a post of its own actually.

I hadn't linked to the Epic 2014 flash preso before, but really wished that I had, it rocks...!

Posted by: Rich...! | 21 Mar 2005 19:46:31

Thanks for the plug Rich...!

Most bloggers struggle with whether they're journalists and you've promoted me to editor. This could go to my head.

Posted by: Johnnie Moore | 21 Mar 2005 20:54:28

I want a service like bloglines to highlight stories in colour. So when a load of blogs link to the same entry, those entries are shown in a brighter red or whatever. And when you've read one of the entries, all the others are greyed out at the same time. This way I don't have to read dull commentary on something I've already seen.

A cross-blog rating system would help, or at least some way of seeing which blog entries are popular by the number of people reading them.

I know trust webs are still crap, but wouldn't it be cool if you could leverage the brains of a bunch of people you trust to filter out crap you don't want to see. Then again, that's what blogs were doing in the beginning, but now there's just too damn many of them...ignore the fact that I just started mine...

Posted by: Vaughn Dickson | 21 Mar 2005 20:59:15

The thing is Johnnie, you spending all the time reviewing a bucket load of blogs, and then offering opinions on them, saves me time, and allows me to find some good shit. The trick for me is finding the right editors.

It's not unlike the Scoble link blog mentioned in the next post, except that Scoble doesn't offer any commentary, I miss that, but understand the time constraints...!

Posted by: Rich...! | 21 Mar 2005 21:01:18

Vaughn, the idea of your aggregator linking related posts would rock, basically it would need to scan the posts and links and then group posts that link to the same thing. It really can't be that hard to do. Why not write it up as post yourself and we'll see if we can get anyone to listen...!

Posted by: Rich...! | 21 Mar 2005 21:04:50

Will do, I'm still thinking it through.

You'll have to use a huge network graph to do what I'm asking for though, and that takes something as powerful as google's cluster farms to be usable... Maybe google wants to start bloogle? Hmmmmm

Posted by: Vaughn Dickson | 22 Mar 2005 11:44:56

Hmmm, you do realise that google own blogger?

I'm not sure that you need that much system strength, generally if you scan the first two links of an average post, you will find the link that they are reffering too, the bot just needs to read this. It should be able to use pings or something.

But don't listen to me, 'm just making converstaion, I have no idea what I just said...!

Posted by: Rich...! | 22 Mar 2005 21:33:11

Is it worth it? It just cost 4 pounds to read this entry. So the answer is that it depends on whether me or my client pays.

Note to self: File this blog in my Bloglines "working time" folder.

Posted by: weenie | 24 Mar 2005 00:06:40

;)

Either you read slowly...

or...

File this in the "I wish I had weenie's job" folder.

Posted by: Rich...! | 24 Mar 2005 06:44:59