Comments on: The Purge. http://www.randallcbennett.com/2007/04/27/the-purge/ The random musings of one Randall Bennett. Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:25:56 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Engadget: too much of a good thing? » Ryan Block http://www.randallcbennett.com/2007/04/27/the-purge/comment-page-1/#comment-930 Engadget: too much of a good thing? » Ryan Block Sun, 29 Apr 2007 03:16:32 +0000 http://www.randallcbennett.com/2007/04/27/the-purge/#comment-930 [...] too much of a good thing? I suspect it isn’t the first time (nor will it be the last), but Randall’s pal J killed us from our feed for being guilty of high quality overload: “I’m [...] [...] too much of a good thing? I suspect it isn’t the first time (nor will it be the last), but Randall’s pal J killed us from our feed for being guilty of high quality overload: “I’m [...]

]]> By: Conrad http://www.randallcbennett.com/2007/04/27/the-purge/comment-page-1/#comment-893 Conrad Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:55:14 +0000 http://www.randallcbennett.com/2007/04/27/the-purge/#comment-893 I have the same habits as Jake. I have a tonne of smaller feeds where I read every article (usually because they don't post very often) and a bunch of bigger sources with dozens of posts a day that I just skim. Most of the time I end up just browsing the html side of big sites. I certainly used to do that with Engadget before I started working there (I have to read every article now, though!) I have the same habits as Jake.

I have a tonne of smaller feeds where I read every article (usually because they don’t post very often) and a bunch of bigger sources with dozens of posts a day that I just skim.

Most of the time I end up just browsing the html side of big sites. I certainly used to do that with Engadget before I started working there (I have to read every article now, though!)

]]> By: Jake http://www.randallcbennett.com/2007/04/27/the-purge/comment-page-1/#comment-892 Jake Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:27:50 +0000 http://www.randallcbennett.com/2007/04/27/the-purge/#comment-892 Hmmm, good questions. As a content consumer, my personal RSS preferences fall into 2 categories. There are feeds where I want to read every item (my friends' blogs, columnists who post every few days, Flickr comments and Contacts photos), and others (mostly news feeds) that I just like to skim the headlines occassionally and maybe dive in if something looks interesting. The former category are the ones I'm tracking with Google Reader, and the others I have on my Yahoo! portal, where I can stop by and browse if I feel like it, but it doesn't add hundreds of "Unreads" to my feed reader. Having never been a content provider, aside from blogging for fun and posting photos to Flickr for sharing, I haven't really thought about what you are asking. It seems like if its not too much trouble to just post the news you find interesting, and then do the video show of what you think is most note-worthy, you could offer more options to your consumers, and then offer a couple different feeds. Hmmm, good questions. As a content consumer, my personal RSS preferences fall into 2 categories. There are feeds where I want to read every item (my friends’ blogs, columnists who post every few days, Flickr comments and Contacts photos), and others (mostly news feeds) that I just like to skim the headlines occassionally and maybe dive in if something looks interesting. The former category are the ones I’m tracking with Google Reader, and the others I have on my Yahoo! portal, where I can stop by and browse if I feel like it, but it doesn’t add hundreds of “Unreads” to my feed reader.

Having never been a content provider, aside from blogging for fun and posting photos to Flickr for sharing, I haven’t really thought about what you are asking. It seems like if its not too much trouble to just post the news you find interesting, and then do the video show of what you think is most note-worthy, you could offer more options to your consumers, and then offer a couple different feeds.

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