June 3, 2007 14 Comments

Robert Scoble is My News Source

Robert Scoble at VON According to my trends report from Google Reader, I’m getting the lion’s share of my reading material from one Mister Robert Scoble.

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Funny to note that my next highest searches are mostly related to ego-surfing for PodCamp and Chris Brogan.

What the stat means, by the way, is that I read TONS of sources, but it’s stuff put out there by Robert that I drill down on and read more than a one-line description.

So What Does This Mean?

It means that I’ve chosen a curator. If you read The Wall Street Journal every day, they’re YOUR curator. If you read the New York Times or watch your local Channel 7 News, that’s your curator.

Should I have two or three curators? Probably. But no one’s really getting it done like Robert. I don’t know of another person working so hard to sift through what they find interesting the way Robert is.

Unless maybe BoingBoing?

What are your thoughts?

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  • http://www.MartyDaniels.com Marty Daniels

    I get most of my news from the voices in my head…they tell me what people are really thinking.

  • http://www.MartyDaniels.com Marty Daniels

    I get most of my news from the voices in my head…they tell me what people are really thinking.

  • Anonymous

    Curators play an important role. (And I’ve been thinking of writing a bit more on that all Saturday long, when I can’t log onto a computer. :-) Scoble pulls a good mix, but by choosing one curator you do limit your view to a particular bias. (Same as if one always watched CNN, or Fox or whatever those other networks out there are.)

  • http://goldiesgabs.blogspot.com/ Goldie Katsu

    Curators play an important role. (And I’ve been thinking of writing a bit more on that all Saturday long, when I can’t log onto a computer. :-) Scoble pulls a good mix, but by choosing one curator you do limit your view to a particular bias. (Same as if one always watched CNN, or Fox or whatever those other networks out there are.)

  • http://blog.platformagnostic.net Marc Orchant

    Chris – I tend to agree with Goldie. More than one curator makes for more balance. Robert’s pretty influential on what I read these days (not so much as your Trends show) but I find he tends to narrow-cast when he finds a bright shiny object. That’s his prerogative of course and in no way diminishes the value in his links blog in the big picture.

    I currently rely on a variety of curators in the different interest areas I’m focused on and, based on what I see in my Reader Trends, they do constitute the majority of where my clickstream originates from.

  • http://blog.platformagnostic.net Marc Orchant

    Chris – I tend to agree with Goldie. More than one curator makes for more balance. Robert’s pretty influential on what I read these days (not so much as your Trends show) but I find he tends to narrow-cast when he finds a bright shiny object. That’s his prerogative of course and in no way diminishes the value in his links blog in the big picture.

    I currently rely on a variety of curators in the different interest areas I’m focused on and, based on what I see in my Reader Trends, they do constitute the majority of where my clickstream originates from.

  • http://infomaniaworld.com/modules/wordpress Infomaniac/Ellen

    Thanks Chris for more to read in my Google Reader :) Now I subscribe to Scoble’s saved items. For news in the web 2.0 world I read TechCrunch, Mashable and O’Reilly. For new websites I read Killer Startups and Startup Squad. Lastly, I subscribe to Techmeme, Digg, and Megite Technology feeds. A lot is redundant but gives me a pretty good overview of the most popular stories on the web.

  • http://infomaniaworld.com/modules/wordpress Infomaniac/Ellen

    Thanks Chris for more to read in my Google Reader :) Now I subscribe to Scoble’s saved items. For news in the web 2.0 world I read TechCrunch, Mashable and O’Reilly. For new websites I read Killer Startups and Startup Squad. Lastly, I subscribe to Techmeme, Digg, and Megite Technology feeds. A lot is redundant but gives me a pretty good overview of the most popular stories on the web.

  • http://dydimustk.com tk

    Chris,

    You also should throw something in there that is seemingly in now way related to your field at all. Like, lets see, for your whole video-tech-motivation thing…. what about ecology? Find some search threads for ecology, to read everything up on that you can. Then you’ll be learning about something completely outside your scope, that could give you insights into your own little world.

  • http://dydimustk.com tk

    Chris,

    You also should throw something in there that is seemingly in now way related to your field at all. Like, lets see, for your whole video-tech-motivation thing…. what about ecology? Find some search threads for ecology, to read everything up on that you can. Then you’ll be learning about something completely outside your scope, that could give you insights into your own little world.

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  • http://scobleizer.com Robert Scoble

    I read TechMeme, Memeorandum, Slashdot, and Digg to get outside of the Scoble bubble. Balance isn’t hard to achieve. I do try to remain pretty balanced across all the tech blogs, though.

  • http://scobleizer.com Robert Scoble

    I read TechMeme, Memeorandum, Slashdot, and Digg to get outside of the Scoble bubble. Balance isn’t hard to achieve. I do try to remain pretty balanced across all the tech blogs, though.