Feed Envy - A New Term is Born
November 18th, 2004I promised Jane that I woudn’t steal this from her, so I was a good boy and waited until she posted about it:
“Over cocktails last night with Jenny and Steve and lots of other bloggers, it became apparent that the new challenge is how many feeds you can subscribe to in order to keep up with the changing material on the Web. We decided that Michael Sauers definitely had ‘feed envy’ as he reported that he had to get subscribing to RSS feeds in order to catch up with Steve (he now only subscribes to 80)….. and a new concept is born!”
Yesterday, the audience gasped when I mentioned that I subscribe to 400 feeds. It’s really not that much, considering that I don’t read every single thing that comes into my aggregator. But, as I mentioned, the probability of my seeing something worthwhile increases if I subscribe to the feed. If I don’t subscribe to it, then the chances of seeing the content is 0%. If I do, then at least it has fighting chance to grab my eyeballs.