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  • J. Phil  totalpardo shares my article and then goes to the trouble notating it, "Asshole" All press is good press, dude. Thanks!
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    •   RSSmeme | I’m Blogging This!
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  • J. Phil  You're even over at his house! Dang now that's how you treat a guess blogger, I tell you what!
  • • 23 hours ago
    •   louisgray.com: Bloggers' Interactions with Readers Decrease With Prominence
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  •   Louis Gray  If he's at my house, then I better leave work and warn the wife and kids.
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  • J. Phil  This is a great article, and it makes a lot of sense to me. I'm also really like the insight people are bringing in the comments to fame and blogging. Thanks for this! Man, all the guest bloggers are really bringing out their best stuff this past week or two. I love it!
  • • 1 day ago
    •   louisgray.com: Bloggers' Interactions with Readers Decrease With Prominence
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  •   Hutch Carpenter  Thanks Phil. Fun hanging around here at Louis's house.
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  • J. Phil  That sounds very cool Steve! I'd be jumping up and down at the prospect but I have a houseguest this week. But please keep me in mind for next week.. Also, please add your talkshoe feed to the feed radio room in FriendFeed! I think I made you an admin over there.
  • • 2 days ago
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  •   StevenHodson  thanks for the words of encouragement. Besides the fact that Talkshoe appears to have eaten my first attempt I did make a local recording which just got uploaded so it will take a little bit to show up. there weren't any callers in but I was kinda expecting that so the show isn't that long. Plus I'll be playing around with the time slot a bit as I have another idea that is being worked on as well that will be better suited to the afternoon. As for adding the feed let's give it a few days or a week until I get the bugs worked out of the format and see if people get involved since that is the whole idea.
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  • J. Phil  Jeff, first let me say good article. Of course I'm a fan of periodically re-visiting the old RSS feed list and doing some housecleaning. Feeds tend to creep in like spiders and even when you decide you don't especially care for one, it's hard to get rid of it. Sometimes, it's easier to start over. I essentially did something similar to your plan a few months ago, as you referenced (thanks BTW). What I've found is for certain subject areas, using human filters is a really good idea. You end up getting important stuff right away. However, it's sort of like switching from a scalar chart to a multiplier or even logarithmic chart -- if you have straight site feeds, important stuff barely stands out above other articles. When you use human filtering, the big articles get echoed like crazy! You end up seeing a lot of duplication of some stuff. On the other end of the scale, stuff that isn't in the same subject area as your human filters gets ignored. So I've found that it is always good to subscribe to a site or two in the subject areas you are interested in to get that information too. Or, if you can find them, a subject matter expert you can use as a human filter. I think augmenting your feed addicition with FriendFeed and Twitter is sweet if you can do it. It gives you a more rounded view of what's current out there, especially if you have a lot of friends/followers on those services.
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    •   louisgray.com: Trimming the Fat On RSS Feeds - You Could Lose 99%!
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