How much is too much when it comes to blog posts per day?
I’ve been thinking about this question as I watch my Google Reader tip on average 100 blog posts or more per day from my various blog feeds. I realize that this number is probably low compared to some of the people out there with hundreds of blog feeds. On average, I follow about thirty blogs, which if you evened it out, that would make three posts per blog per day roughly. However, about 90% of the daily blog post count comes from Tech Crunch and the newly launched Massively. I will allow for the fact that the two blog feeds feature multiple authors, but at some point in time you have to ask yourself is 20-40 blog posts per day a bit excessive? Especially, when some posts are no more than a couple of sentences or a paragraph in length.
I tune in to each of the three aforementioned blog feeds for various reasons. Tech Crunch has great articles on happenings in the music industry with special notice to new media and technology. Massively I peruse to keep abreast of whats going on in Second Life (and other Virtual Worlds) during my sustained absence from SL.
I would hate to ditch the feeds solely on the signal to noise ratio argument. I’ve found myself wondering how some of the post heavy blogs with multiple authors could move towards a blog cluster format like myblog/tech or myblog/music or myblog/secondlife to provide more accurate filtering for readers who want to stay in tune, but not be inundated in blog fodder. The best example I can think of to illustrate this point is how the Electric Sheep Company handles their company blogs. Employees have individual blogs, which you can add piecemeal or you can add the We the Sheeple feed, which seems to be an amalgamation of all the other sheep blogs into one feed.
Update: Thanks Flipper for pointing me to the Massively feeds by category. I need to check Tech Crunch to see if they do something similar.
Massively is as different as night and day when compared to Second Life Insider. We no longer have the fancy categories. People now send us hatemail saying they either hate the layout and wish SLI were back, or that they love the entire site, but hate SL news.
As long as you have the Second Life RSS for Massively, you should receive no more than 10-15 posts in a day. From that, there are 5-6 writers doing the best that they can to keep you informed of the latest happenings in SL. I hope that you’ll keep us on your list.
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I do actually like the set up and flow of Massively more than SL Insider. It works even better now that I get the SL and WoW feeds only.