Nov07
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Can You Publish Too Much Content?
Four websites 90% of social media geeks and techies will follow almost religiously: Techcrunch, Read/Write Web, Engadget and Gizmodo. Four websites that between them realistically publish at least 200 posts a day. Good posts. Not great posts, but good posts.
Even if they were the only four websites I followed on a daily basis I wouldn’t have enough time. So, apart from Read/Write Web, they’ve all been removed from my RSS reader.
Two thoughts:
1. This illuminates the case for aggregator-type publishers. No, I’m not referring to Amatomu and Afrigator, but to bloggers like Cherryflava and Micropersuasion. These guys trawl the Web and their feeds for the very best, thought-provoking content, add a thought or two of their own and publish. I’d rather read them than any of the other four.
2. There exists the problem of too much content. I guess it’s the same reason I choose one news resource over another - following the stream of news on some local news sites is impossible. Hence why I love The Times‘ feature on their front page that shows which articles out of the current stream of content are getting the most views.
There’s no shortage of content out there - but it’s certainly quality as opposed to quantity that has my attention.
Yeah, and to be honest, im starting to skip over the sites you mentioned above. im getting really tired of 30 bad posts for 1 good post and the ads at the bottom are giving me a headache
…and not to mention how long it takes to load the Techcrunch home page…
Whew, I’m glad RWW survived!
I should add that we don’t publish anywhere near as much as the two gadget blogs mentioned. Our average is around 6-7 posts a day; and we definitely want to keep them high quality.
Thanks for the kind words - and for keeping reading!
I wrote this a while back:
http://www.helloworldblog.com/2005/03/give_me_a_coupl.html
I quite like the idea of finding people with diff blogrolls to my own…!