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Uberblogger Robert Scoble is truly one-of-a-kind. For those who don’t know, he became famous as a technical evangelist at Microsoft and quickly became their most outspoken and influential blogger. He now interviews people like Bill Gates, and the worldwide media reports on his every move. One of his most mindboggling skills is information management. He currently reads 622 RSS feeds a day — it used to be 1,400 feeds a day!
How the hell does he do it?
I dropped by the Podtech offices and hung out with Robert to find out. How does he avoid overload and process so much information? In this exclusive 11-minute interview, we answer quite a few burning questions I’ve wanted to ask since first meeting Robert:
Which RSS reader does he use and why?
How does he configure it to save time?
What are simple keyboard shortcuts anyone can use?
How does he find and pick feeds?
How can you catch his eye with your posts?
How does he use RSS feeds for building relationships?
How does he use sites like Techmeme/DIGG vs. niche blogs?
One thing impresses me about Robert more than all of his credentials: he smiles more than almost anyone I know. All the time! There is much to be learned from the Scobleizer. The ending of the interview — Robert’s last line — is also not to be missed.
My apologies for the hyperactive camera work, but the whole thing was quite impromptu, and I’m no Spielberg. Just close your eyes and listen if I make you seasick.
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Stay tuned for part II, coming in the next week, which will answer the question: How does Robert Scoble read and organize e-mail? From speeding up Outlook’s performance to reverse spam filtering, it’s all covered. In the meantime, for a solid overview of how I cut e-mail time by about 90%, see my new manifesto at Seth Godin’s ChangeThis.
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130 Responses to “How Scoble Reads 622 RSS Feeds Each Morning”
May 16th, 2007
7:57 pm
Goo Inside the Mind of a Human Aggregator…
Wanna know how a power blogger lives? It aint glamorous. They gorge on information like RSS feeds. Tim Ferriss, author of a fascinating new book I am listening to called the 4-Hour Workweek, interviewed the Human Aggregator, my friend and…
May 17th, 2007
12:39 am
This seems totally ANTITHETICAL to the low-information diet. It appears this dude is devouring information in the same manner in which a person might try drinking from a fire hose.
Tim’s approach is MUCH better.
May 17th, 2007
1:52 am
Hi K,
It is pretty overwhelming to even imagine! That said, there a few things that make Robert quite different from most of us: 1) It is his job to aggregate, filter, and interpret tons of news. His inbox is thus his workspace, whereas it is used by most people (my former self included) to avoid doing work; 2) He enjoys being an early adopter (if not the earliest), connecting the dots before anyone else, and otherwise being on the information cutting edge. He really loves the constant connectivity! Just check out how many Twitter friends he has. It’s mind-blowing.
There is no need for most people to consume as much information as Robert does. It would be just as you said, like drinking from a fire hydrant. His techniques and coping mechanisms, however, are ultra-refined and perfect for average Joe and Jane.
Me personally? I know this will seem like sacrilege, but I don’t even currently use an RSS reader! It still helps me to know how he thinks about filtering information, though. As you’ll see in Part II, the philosophies and principles can be applied all over the place.
Thanks for contributing to the conversation!
Tim
May 17th, 2007
4:29 am
[...] (00:11:38) mit Ãœberblogger Robert Scoble wie er jeden Morgen seine 622 Feeds liest… Fragen über Fragen: Which RSS reader does he use and why? How does he configure it to save time? What are simple [...]
May 17th, 2007
7:02 am
Hi Tim,
A good set of questions! It’s interesting to hear how Robert does manage all his feeds. He seems to have a very similar approach to them as I do, however I tend to go through a series of culling of my feeds at regular intervals. The funny thing is that I removed Roberts blog from my feeds list because his personal interests are very different to mine, but I do have a number of the same blogs on my feed list as he has on his link bloog. (Sorry Robert… I do pop over there from time to time if I see someone linking to you though!)
Good choice of video host too! I quite like Viddler because if the ability to tag the data. We use it for the Girl Geek Dinners videos.
I wonder what would happen with Robert if we disconnected him from the internet for a few weeks… ;) I did it for a week not so long ago and it was an interesting experience, but it was hard work catching up with all the e-mails and everything afterwards.
If you ever happen to pop to London and fancy talking at one of our events then do let me know. We’d love to have you talk.
Sarah
May 17th, 2007
8:45 am
[...] morning I Steve Rubel had a video interview that Tim Ferriss did with Robert Scoble. Tim, of course, is the author of the very interesting book, The 4 Hour [...]
May 17th, 2007
8:53 am
It’s good to know that I process information much the same way.
The video was helpful in how he processed the information.
May 17th, 2007
9:06 am
I suspect you have a cunning plan…
May 17th, 2007
9:15 am
[...] wie schafft er das? Siehe Videointerview [...]
May 17th, 2007
9:27 am
Good interview, Tim. I met Robert at SXSWi this year (but I was trapped at work when you were making your presentation – Aargh!) and found him to be just as nice as you say. For a while I resisted subscribing to his Google Reader links postings, but now I find that scanning them is a great way for me to sail through a lot of interesting/job-related tech stuff that I might miss otherwise.
Also, I like how you make the point that, for Robert, a constant high dose of information is what juices him up. For me, one of the takeaways from your book is that each of us should *reflect* on our own *appropriate* levels of work, information, etc. For folks wired like Robert, those levels may be high; for many of us, they’ll be much lower. But there’s no single definition that works for everybody – we each have to find it for ourselves.
Anyway, keep up the good work!
May 17th, 2007
10:54 am
May I recommend BlogBridge as my preferred RSS reader for such masses of feeds.
May 17th, 2007
1:30 pm
I know he’s using Google Reader’s “share” button to add items to his link blog, but I wish you would’ve discussed how he organizes the ideas he gets when he sees an interesting post. How’s he logging his ideas? What (if any) cool hacks is he using to start posting and linking based on what he’s read. That sort of thing.
The first part of the interview (imprinting, etc.) was really interesting though. Glad you did it.
May 17th, 2007
1:58 pm
enjoyed the video… interesting to see someone in the process of processing all that information, but get a wide angle lens on that camera for up close shots…
May 17th, 2007
2:55 pm
Mastering the Low-Information Diet
After reading Tim’s book I just started this week my new low-information diet cold turkey. I set up a virtual newsstand with the new feature, iGoogle (it’s now my start up page). I have set up a quick summary page of RSS feeds, del.icio.us feeds and newspaper feeds. I can browse the headlines in less than 30 seconds. iGoogle makes it real easy to setup and do. If I want to read it later, I just del.icio.us it and read it on my “free day.�
May 17th, 2007
5:36 pm
I’d love to view this (and I’m enjoying the site as a whole – great articles!), but unfortunately
a) the site’s laggy as hell for me, and the video’s stopping every 10 seconds.
b) The viewer that Viddler uses seems not to cache the video once it’s downloaded, so I can’t do my normal YouTube “fix” of letting the video run through once, jerkily, in the background, and then playing it once it’s fully downloaded. If I try that with Viddler, it just starts buffering again from the point I rewind to – and so I can’t watch the video at all without it stuttering.
I know you can’t do anything about a), which may well be my local connection anyway. But b) is a bit of a problem…
Sorry my first post’s a complaint, but the video looks really interesting!
May 17th, 2007
6:08 pm
I personally really like this kind of content. Although you don’t blog that much every week, mixing in a video like this spices your posts up a lot.
Hmm… realizing where current technology is leading to (I never thought about videos or multimedia on the web a lot) I just can’t help but smile :) What world of possibilities we live in!
May 17th, 2007
8:34 pm
For me things like PopUrls are the best solution. I’ve even considered doing a PopUrls clone solely for personal use with the feeds I like. It’s perfect because I can log on, click on a few interesting things, and log off.
I find RSS feeds to be overwhelming as well. My job isn’t to blog like Scoble. By the time everything else is done even an hour digging through feeds is a pain. I don’t mind missing a few little things here and there, so with a PopUrls-esque solution I’m only seeing the last 20 bits of any feed and it doesn’t pile up in an RSS inbox. Just having that little reminder that there’s hundreds of unread items makes me feel buried, and 95% of it is destined for deletion anyway.
May 17th, 2007
10:36 pm
[...] how bloggers read feeds is interesting to some people. Or so I’ve read. I’m far, far too lazy to go put make-up on and a clean t-shirt this time of night, and my [...]
May 17th, 2007
11:56 pm
[...] of dozen RSS feeds and feeling guilty at not keeping up with them all, check out the video on this post. You’ll learn some possibly useful tools! Posted in Efficiency, Blogging [...]
May 18th, 2007
1:59 am
I actually read much the same way. I’ve always been able to scan fairly quickly so that definitely helps. I too use Google Reader although it would be nice if out the box, the window dressing consumes less real estate (I know about the various plugins) and if there was a nice way to split personal and work feeds.
So the read sequence is as follows (using GReader and Firefox):
1. Open GReader.
2. Scan through articles using ‘j’ or ‘k’.
3. Interesting articles get opened in a seperate tab via ‘v’
4. Things I want to keep track of get the star. This can happen either as I scan the article (’s’)and already know it’s a keeper or I’ll leave the article unread (’m') if it’s a maybe and go back to star the article if I decide to after reading it in its entirety.
This lets me minimize the amount of time taken to read and I average 100-400 articles a day this way (calculated via trends).
May 18th, 2007
10:14 am
If your job is reading blogs, then it becomes easier to dedicate a morning to reading blogs. I find that Google Reader is just too darn slow for scanning headlines, and frankly if the headline doesn’t grab you, it proabaly wasn’t interesting. Besides, there are so many memes that are reblogged, that if you don’t catch it in one blog, another will surely have a grabber headline that gets you into the story. That said, there are so many things that are reblogged that you HAVE to scan headlines to get past it all. To process feeds quickly, scanning headlines is the way to go, not looking at bodies of articles.
I use a reader like MonkeyChow ( http://www.shokk.com/blog/articles/category/monkeychow/ ) on my own server (LAMP) so that I don’t have to rely on Google’s erratic feed updating. It also features search, a river of news view and allows you to reblog things into your own RSS feed and share your OPML for the whole bunch or a tagged group. You can also “star” stuff to bookmark it for later. Most options are use configurable to suit your taste. As for keyboard use for viewing the page, Page Up and Page Down work really well! I’m going through 200 feeds, but can cut through to the good stuff right away. A lot of it is feeds for software releases that I might need to update at home or on the work network and which do not update frequently. But some of them are prolific bloggers that spray content all day long.
Anyway, the old way of doing this stuff was through mailing lists, and just the portion of my feeds that involve keeping up to date with technology would be totally out of control if I were to continue with that. RSS is perfectly suited for the one-way broadcast that the web was become these days. Thank goodness for RSS in making my day more efficient.
May 18th, 2007
1:36 pm
I couldn’t help but notice Scoble has a copy of ‘Founders At Work’ by Jessica Livingston on his desk. That’s a cool book. I’m eating it up at the moment, and loving every minute.
Essential reading for anyone interested in the Silicon Valley startup culture.
May 18th, 2007
2:25 pm
Tim –
I just finished reading your book yesterday. Well done, very inspiring and motivational. It’s given me some good idea’s for the time that lays ahead. Thanks for writing this, it was very positive reading your work. Keep the influence coming.
Beeler Van Orman
May 18th, 2007
2:35 pm
[...] and asked Robert Scoble how he managed to keep up with 622+ feed subscriptions. You can also read Timothy’s blog post about this [...]
May 18th, 2007
2:44 pm
[...] Scoble reads about 622 different feeds a day. That’s a lot of feeds. Of course, he’s not actually reading each item in the feed, but scanning for anything that will catch his [...]
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9:58 pm
[...] Lazy-pants Tim Ferris of The Four Hour Work Week fame talks to Rob Scoble about how he reads a million RSS feeds everyday. [...]
May 19th, 2007
11:06 pm
[...] Feeds Each Morning, or Decaf? 19 05 2007 Four Hour Workweek author/blogger Tim Ferriss found out “how the hell” Scoble reads 622 feeds each morning. One cool tip I learned from this is the use of J (forward) and K (backward) keys to cruise through [...]
May 20th, 2007
12:10 pm
Seems like a sweet vid Tim but I just can’t watch it from down here in the 3rd world. I’ve been trying for the past week with no luck. The problem is that your video player won’t allow me to load the whole video and then watch it from the beginning – it has to stream. This means that with our TERRIBLE South African bandwidth, this vid only plays in 1 second sound bytes every 20 seconds or so… pretty unusable.
Do you perhaps have a line where i could download the video?
Dig your blog.
Rob
Oh and PS, I think I track more feeds than Robert and couldn’t do it without my custom FeedDemon config ;)
May 20th, 2007
12:43 pm
Tim — another great post — I really like your thinking. Could you possibly share the vendor that handles your calls from India/China? I want to start using someone like that and want to reach out to several vendor possibilities for quotes. Thanks and best of luck — keep up the creative ideas — they are great!
May 20th, 2007
9:46 pm
Hi All,
I’m really sorry for the lag with Viddler. Though I compressed the video to less than 100MB, it was over 10 minutes and couldn’t be uploaded to YouTube. If you have any other suggestions, my ears are wide open. I would use the impressive Stage 6 (stage6.divx.com), but I’m lazy and don’t want to convert to DivX format each time. Alternatives?
Jim, I would love to share the outsourcing teams that I use, but here’s the problem: they’d get overwhelmed and my work would suffer! Right now, my teams are mostly small (5-10), filtered and selected on Elance. Even GetFriday, which has done great work for me, is getting snowed under with work since their mentions in the book. The price of success! Be careful what you ask for ;)
Good luck!
Tim
May 21st, 2007
12:45 am
[...] week, we covered how celebrity tech-blogger Robert Scoble reads 622 RSS feeds each morning. In Part II, we answer the [...]
May 21st, 2007
10:54 am
[...] How Scoble Reads 622 RSS Feeds Each Morning (Via Tim Ferriss). Mike Guerena turned me on to Tim Ferriss’s book, The Four Hour Workweek… I bought the book on iTunes* and I subscribed to Tim’s blog. I was quickly rewarded for my new subscription as Tim has just posted an interview with Robert Scoble. In this, the first installment, he asks Scoble how he manages reading 622 feeds, which is about the amount I am subscribed to in NetNewsWire. Scoble uses GoogleReader and some different strategies than I do, but for anyone interested in how to manage large numbers of feeds, it might be worth it. I’ve read Scoble for some time, so I enjoyed seeing him talk about the process, too. [...]
May 23rd, 2007
10:23 pm
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May 25th, 2007
6:24 am
[...] Reader is even used by Robert Scoble, one of the internet’s most popular bloggers. In a recent video, Robert explained how he uses Google Reader to manage over six hundred [...]
May 25th, 2007
10:56 pm
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May 28th, 2007
10:49 pm
[...] hear how he does it in his on words, check out this 11 minute interview by Tim Ferris of the 4-Hour Workweek. The camera-work is pretty bad, but Scoble is interesting. He [...]
May 29th, 2007
12:10 am
The real question is why is he reading all those feeds?
You, the author of Winning By Intimidation and many others have said, “Don’t be an information junkie.”
So why encourage people to read 622 news feeds?
May 29th, 2007
2:15 am
Jonah: YOU shouldn’t read 622 feeds. You should only read one. One that’s already been filtered to just the good stuff. I thought that was pretty well communicated by Tim and me.
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5:06 pm
[...] I need instead of the usual hours I spend hopping from one site to the next. Just look at how this guy reads 622 feeds each morning. RSS reading is a must for [...]
May 30th, 2007
11:57 am
[...] most, newspaper reporters and editors. Print journalists, on the whole, aren’t exactly a 622-RSS-feeds-a-day bunch, after all. Fair enough. But the lack of alternate viewpoints generally reflected in [...]
May 31st, 2007
12:32 am
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2:59 am
Duplicate post detection in Google Reader…
I’ve been thinking about RSS readers and specifically Google Reader (my reader of choice) since watching the video below after seeing it on Hackzine.
For me, the most interesting part of the video is not the process that Robert Scoble goes throug…
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10:29 am
[...] Nutzung herunterzuladen und lokal auf dem Rechner zu speichern. Diese Kapzität müsste auch für Robert Scoble reichen, um einen Flug ohne Internetzugang zu [...]
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11:56 am
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1:26 pm
[...] my Google Reader addiction May 31st, 2007 — thebackroomtech I love Google Reader (but apparently not as much as Robert Scoble). If I have a few spare minutes (like waiting for a server to reboot!) I’m always scanning [...]
May 31st, 2007
4:41 pm
[...] using Google Reader to read RSS feeds for a couple of months now, but it wasn’t until I saw Tim Ferriss’ interview with Robert Scoble and heard Robert mention how much he liked the shortcuts that I realized that there were so many. [...]
June 2nd, 2007
2:13 pm
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[...]We act as human aggregators and filters for our readers, a useful service that applies human insight and creativity to increase the amount of meaningful information(signal) you receive, and reduce the amount of repetitive, uninteresting informatio…
June 2nd, 2007
5:40 pm
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4:32 am
Wie liest Robert Scoble jeden Morgen 622 RSS-Feeds?…
Wenn ich nur meine eigenen Feeds lesen würde, wäre ich unglaublich effektiv. : ) Robert Scoble Im Interview verrät Robert Scoble seine Tipps & Tricks, mit denen er die Menge an RSS-Feeds täglich durchstöbert, die Informatio…
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7:56 am
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June 5th, 2007
8:48 pm
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2:06 pm
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12:55 pm
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June 8th, 2007
7:29 pm
[...] Read your RSS Feeds Faster and More Productively (http://www.blackbeltproductivity.com) June 6th, 2007 by Michael Ramm Today, I followed a link to a video interview with Robert Scoble (aka the Scobleizer) that show how he digests the content from his 600+ RSS Feeds every day. The video was shot by Tim Ferriss (of The 4-Hour Work Week fame). It is located on Tim’s blog here [How Scoble Reads 622 RSS Feed Each Morning]. [...]
June 10th, 2007
1:04 pm
[...] just added the 200th blog to my feed reader. Hey, if Robert Scoble can handle 622, I can do a paltry [...]
June 18th, 2007
12:41 pm
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June 21st, 2007
8:22 pm
[...] blogs, just imagine what Scoble has to deal with — he reads over 600: Lifehacker, Hackszine, Four-Hour Workweek (primary [...]
June 22nd, 2007
5:48 am
[...] the extreme end of information processing, famed blogger and total nerd Robert Scoble sorts through 622 RSS feeds every morning. This takes him a few hours, but thankfully he shares only the good stuff with the [...]
June 25th, 2007
4:11 am
[...] I may not have as many RSS feeds to read as Scoble does, I crunch through my fair share of blog posts and news every day. I’ve already mentioned [...]
June 27th, 2007
10:07 am
[...] and reveals that he currently subscribes to 986 RSS feeds, which is TOTALLY INSANE. And to think Scoble gets all the attention for his paltry 622 subscriptions. Seriously, though, if Will tops 1,000 feeds I’m going to kidnap the guy and ship him off to [...]
June 27th, 2007
2:27 pm
[...] Tim about a month ago when he interviewed Robert Scoble of Scobleizer.com. The interview has about how Robert is able to read 600 blog’s everyday which seems to be an impossible feat. Turned out the method in which Robert was using really does [...]
July 6th, 2007
7:16 pm
[...] using Google’s RSS feed reader, aptly named Google Reader. I had discovered it after seeing a blog post featuring a video of blogger and information junkie Robert Scoble demonstrating how he went through [...]
July 7th, 2007
11:46 pm
Tim,
I heard a recording of a call via Robin Robins regarding your new book and I thank you for challenging me to rethink the way I conduct my daily life. I have ordered your book tonight. I also have signed up for Google Reader and I want to thank you for this interview with Robert.
Kevin
July 10th, 2007
3:04 pm
[...] have currently 178 feeds, and get about 300 articles a day. (Yes, I know, Robert Scoble handles 622 feeds – but I don’t get paid for blogging). After taking a good look, I found out that 10 of those [...]
July 13th, 2007
9:47 am
[...] though, Google Reader is great. In a very short time, you can be cranking through dozens or even hundreds of feeds every day with a minimum of [...]
July 19th, 2007
6:53 am
[...] After using AideRSS for a few days, there’s definitely something there. While it probably needs to become more user-friendly, AideRSS shows good progress in tackling a major problem/challenge for many people who rely on RSS feeds to consume information. I’d be very interested to see Robert Scoble’s take on AideRSS given he checks out hundreds of feeds a day. [...]
July 19th, 2007
7:00 am
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July 19th, 2007
8:59 pm
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July 20th, 2007
10:52 am
its to go through this page…..
July 25th, 2007
8:48 am
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August 2nd, 2007
5:45 pm
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August 2nd, 2007
6:03 pm
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August 4th, 2007
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August 12th, 2007
6:41 am
How about publicizing a text transcript of the interview, for the benefit of the hearing impaired?
August 14th, 2007
4:42 pm
[...] allocate 1 hour in the morning and in the evening to read through articles. Robert Scoble has a great technique for parsing through 600+ RSS feeds every day. If I start to go over this time [...]
August 15th, 2007
8:04 am
[...] Cut down to 10 feeds. A-list blogger Robert Scoble famously reads 622 feeds every morning (and used to read well over 1,000). While I’ve never reached that level of insanity, I had [...]
August 16th, 2007
8:16 am
[...] How Scoble Reads 622 RSS Feeds Each Morning — this is a video post/interview filmed by Timothy Ferris which has shattered my belief that he’s only bad at one thing, and that’s hiding the fact he’s a superhero. Turns out he’s also quite bad at holding a camera. The video prompted me to examine my own feed-reading habits and share some tips in tutorial form. It’s a good visual aid for some of the principles in the resulting post. [...]
August 18th, 2007
12:44 pm
[...] a video clip from the official Google Reader Blog courtesy of Tim Ferriss. WPvideo 1.10 NOT [...]
August 18th, 2007
10:47 pm
[...] to read the post in more depth. 4. Cut down to 10 feeds. A-list blogger Robert Scoble famously reads 622 feeds every morning (and used to read well over 1,000). While I’ve never reached that level of insanity, I had well [...]
August 20th, 2007
12:03 am
[...] at least how Robert Scoble does it. The omnipresent author of The 4-Hour Workweek Andrew Ferriss did a neat little video that explains Scoble’s [...]
August 20th, 2007
2:24 pm
[...] ton of feeds in Google Reader. Then for the next few days or weeks, I spend a lot of time trying to keep up with all of the feeds that I have subscribed to. Finally, I eventually start to feel overwhelmed [...]
August 22nd, 2007
10:18 pm
[...] Robert Scoble while commenting on a single blog post…one of many, from among his 600 RSS feeds in Google Reader. View the video [...]
August 23rd, 2007
10:27 am
Tim,
thanks for the interview, definitely some great takeaways there.
One thing of note: Id turn off the little popup comment feature on the videos. All it does is give the negative nellies a way to distract from your message. Leave that to VH-1:)
Mark
August 23rd, 2007
11:19 am
Use RSS Already…
If you are reading this sentence on the website, let me put this lightly:You are soooo Web 1.0 – do try to keep up.
Seriously effiecient developers do not go hunting for new information, they use RSS to have it delivered. Here are some videos and…
August 24th, 2007
10:30 am
[...] great bloggers and brand ambassadors (at one time for Microsoft) is Robert Scoble. Tim Ferris, commenting on the interview he had with Scoble had this to [...]
August 26th, 2007
7:07 am
[...] I’ve also been pruning back the number of feeds in my reader. While Scoble can go through 622 feeds a day, I can realistically check out 20 to [...]
August 29th, 2007
3:18 am
[...] » How Scoble Reads 622 RSS Feeds Each Morning Video about how Robert Scoble manages to read a lot of feeds in the morning. (tags: blog howto feed “robert scoble”) [...]
September 3rd, 2007
6:15 am
Can we have the transcript of the interview please?
September 6th, 2007
5:02 am
[...] Usando essas primeiras em negrito são a chave para se conseguir navegar de maneira rápida em uma quantidade muito grande de feeds. Pra entender melhor, veja abaixo esse cara que consegue acompanhar 622 feeds toda manhã! [...]
September 8th, 2007
2:25 am
[...] might already know Robert Scoble reads 622 RSS feeds each morning. But I’m not him, I don’t even want to. My brain is too tiny to even try [...]
September 11th, 2007
9:37 pm
[...] his blog Tim writes about super-task-accomplishment being done daily by Robert Scoble. If you’re not new on the net (less than 3 month online), [...]
September 12th, 2007
9:29 am
[...] fandt det på bloggen 4 hour workweek af Tim [...]
September 18th, 2007
11:47 pm
[...] Work images into your articles. As Robert Scoble said when explaining how he reads feeds, images slow the eye down. They’re magnetic when it comes to eye contact, and do a lot to [...]
September 21st, 2007
12:43 pm
[...] by smoothspan on September 21st, 2007 I’m no Robert Scoble reading over 600 blogs every day, but I read a lot of blogs. I try to process the information there, take notes in [...]
September 23rd, 2007
6:02 pm
[...] RSS feed reader, which is appropriately named Google Reader. I had discovered it after seeing a blog post featuring a video of blogger and information junkie Robert Scoble demonstrating how he went through [...]
October 2nd, 2007
7:08 am
[...] Video: How Scoble Reads 622 RSS Feeds Each Morning [...]
October 2nd, 2007
7:14 am
[...] Video: How Scoble Reads 622 RSS Feeds Each Morning [...]
October 9th, 2007
6:12 pm
[...] The distribution of links in blogs can be modeled by a Power Law almost perfectly. A-List bloggers read hundreds of data feeds per day. They find the content that will uniquely appeal to their user demographic, comment on it, [...]
October 12th, 2007
11:42 am
[...] Robert Scoble while commenting on a single blog post…one of the many, from among his 600 RSS feeds in Google Reader. View the video here. Sphere: Related Content Add to: [...]
October 18th, 2007
12:16 pm
[...] Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here’s a quick excerpt [...]
October 20th, 2007
8:03 am
[...] on RSS reading productivity, Rober Scoble has an interesting video on Tim Ferriss’ blog with additional RSS reading tips. (It’s in video!) Software tips Time saversShare This Related StoriesShould I take notes on [...]
November 8th, 2007
7:15 pm
[...] had discovered how to read feeds properly needed them to do it even faster. Robert Scoble reads 622 tech-related feeds every day! Many people have great tips on how to read your feeds better and faster but, my [...]
November 26th, 2007
4:06 pm
[...] But it forces me to consider a difficult question. How many feeds before I reach overload? Each week I add new feeds. The goal is to cut through useless and repetitive news. Each extra feed increases the chances of missing important or interesting information. I don’t want to end up reading 622 RSS feeds each day. [...]
November 27th, 2007
2:13 pm
This is a very impressive post. Interesting to see how professional RSS-subscribers do things. This is extremely informative for those of us starting to use RSS feeds.
November 27th, 2007
2:15 pm
Very interesting post. It’s great to know how a true professional manages RSS feeds. A great video for those barely starting out subscribing to RSS feeds.
December 20th, 2007
7:02 am
[...] Tim Ferris’s interview, Robert Scoble explains that he reads the headline, sees who the author is and what blog the post [...]
January 7th, 2008
1:38 pm
[...] may have heard of the wordpress magazine. In the blogging world where everyone is subscribing to 600+ rss feeds you may be looking for a site that brings all the content from the masses to 1 site, like techmeme [...]
January 17th, 2008
5:08 am
[...] a od v?erejšího dne pro to má o d?vod víc. Robert Scoble s Google Readerem v akci díky video podcastu Timothyho Ferrisse. Loading… Tagy: Blogy, Google Reader, produktivita, Robert Scoble, RSS, Tim [...]
January 22nd, 2008
3:20 am
[...] How Scoble Reads 622 RSS Feeds Each Morning [...]
February 6th, 2008
12:03 am
[...] recently came across Tim Ferriss’s [1] entry How Scoble Reads 622 RSS Feeds Each Morning, which motivated me to post an “aha” I recently had about processing RSS feeds. (What I [...]
February 18th, 2008
12:40 am
[...] and then bragging about reading a lot of blogs in your RSS feed (which I thought was reserved for megalomaniacs, but at least in that case there’s a reason), but somehow even less [...]
February 18th, 2008
10:32 pm
[...] When I look down the list of aggregated del.icio.us links over there on the right-hand side of this page, I get the sneaking suspicion that I don’t get out much. By which I mean that I don’t seem to have enough volume or variety in the sources of my information/inspiration. Noah and Amber and Arthur and so many others seem to be doing much better than I in that regard. (Heaven forbid I venture out into the dangerous world where Scoble cavalierly consumes 622 RSS feeds daily.) [...]
March 28th, 2008
1:30 pm
[...] March 28, 2008 · No Comments Earlier today, Steve and I were discussing how we get our news. He prefers to go out and get his news, while I want my news to come to me. Case in point, I (currently) have 112 subscriptions in my RSS news reader. I typically read somewhere between 100 and 200 posts per day. (n.b. “read” is actually “skim”. I only “read” those items for which I have a particular interest). Now before you fly off the handle, Robert Scoble, a technical evangelist for Microsoft, reads about 622 posts each morning. [...]
April 20th, 2008
5:49 am
[...] like Robert Scoble says at the end of this video, should I just forget about it and is ignorance bliss after all? Nah, it [...]
April 23rd, 2008
2:42 pm
[...] Yet I’d argue RSS is essential for the busy solo. We simply cannot afford to spend time that we don’t have to spend. How much time are we really talking about, though? It’s a fair question. I estimate I save about five seconds a blog. Not much individually. But added up over the 300+ blogs in my feed, times however many days a week I keep up with them — that’s time I’d like to keep, thanks. That’s time that could be directed to publishing our own articles. (That’s not an outrageous number by the way; Scoble hits over 600.) [...]
April 23rd, 2008
3:44 pm
[...] Here’s how IT Bloggeratti Robert Scoble monitors over six hundred RSS feeds daily. [...]
May 7th, 2008
3:00 am
[...] after nearly six months of hoarding feeds, I looked up and had 379 subscriptions. It’s not Scoble-esque, but way too [...]
May 7th, 2008
6:57 am
[...] I know there are people that read far more stuff than me. But my questions is how and why? So many blogs out there now just repost stories from other sites. [...]
May 12th, 2008
3:02 am
[...] Piper’s step-by-step approach to Google Reader (link at the end of the post). Also see Tim Ferriss’ interview with Robert Scoble and see how he keeps up with over 600 RSS feeds a [...]
May 27th, 2008
1:24 am
[...] RSS feed reader, appropriately called Google Reader. I had discovered it after seeing a blog post featuring a video of blogger and information junkie Robert Scoble demonstrating how he went through [...]
September 5th, 2008
8:58 am
[...] keep reading more and more posts from overloaded bloggers, I’ve started thinking a bit more about what exactly [...]
October 12th, 2008
9:17 am
[...] a cheat sheet of the different combinations that you can access by simple typing ‘?’. Here’s a fairly old video from Tim Ferriss where Robert Scoble describes how he uses Reader with the keyboard to read over [...]
January 11th, 2009
3:26 pm
Thanks a few interesting points there some good pointers for handling a large amount of internet data
February 21st, 2009
6:01 am
[...] to Tim Ferriss and Robert Scoble for some of these tips. And here is a full list of Google Reader keyboard [...]
March 3rd, 2009
8:48 am
I usually dont take this kind of personal branding and hero worship seriously. Reading 600+ RSS feeds is not much to be heaved about. I manage 150 RSS feeds, 200 domain content, visit a thousand web sites each day and answer forum posts and blog comments. I know many people who do more than me. While that is admirable, it is not that only Scoble has this so-called :”talent”
March 15th, 2009
5:03 am
[...] How Scoble Reads 622 RSS Feeds Each Morning — this is a video post/interview filmed by Timothy Ferris which has shattered my belief that he’s only bad at one thing, and that’s hiding the fact he’s a superhero. Turns out he’s also quite bad at holding a camera. The video prompted me to examine my own feed-reading habits and share some tips in tutorial form. It’s a good visual aid for some of the principles in the resulting post. [...]
June 25th, 2009
5:47 pm
[...] I was originally skeptical of RSS, but once I bought in, I at the whole hog. I tried to pull a Scoble. I read thousands of blog posts a day, I was a [...]
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