Almost weekend
Beyond the blog: …many of us will be reading 10,000 weblogs.
Some comments from SWSW on the future of weblogging, by Anil Dash, Ben&Mena Trott, Justin Hall and others.
Via mymarkup.net
I see RSS aggregators (like my current favorite Syndirella) as complementing, not replacing web-browsers.
In a typical research session, I scan perhaps 200 news sources, browse headlines and a few paragraphs here and there - then open up maybe 10-15 pages that I actually want to read. I open all pages on separate tabs (which Opera and many others have), then keep them around until I’ve read them.
So far, actually reading individual weblogs is too much fun to give up - effiency isn’t everything. But if smarter tools can refine that pleasure I’m all for it.
In some way, I belive this is like weblogger dinners: not all webloggers can be dinner companions - but it would be sad if none of them were.
Swedish weblogger Förvetet recently coined the expression Bloggbreddning. This is difficult to translate well. But the idea (which I agree with), is that webloggers become interesting when they have an unususal combination of context and perspective - not just because they have a narrow focus on some favourite subject.
Which reminds me of a discussion I had with Det perfekta tomrummet, På kornet, Mulli.nu! and Klipspringer at the recent weblogger dinner.
Very long day yesterday: swim training in the morning, then worked until late in the evening.
Today I did my laundry early in the morning, then had my usual Friday massage before work. Now it’s past nine in the evening and I’m at the office, wrapping up next week’s software release.