{"id":374,"date":"2008-09-22T10:21:11","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T15:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bly.com\/blog\/general\/does-robert-scoble-need-600-news-feeds\/"},"modified":"2008-09-22T10:50:11","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T15:50:11","slug":"does-robert-scoble-need-600-news-feeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/general\/does-robert-scoble-need-600-news-feeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Robert Scoble REALLY Need 600 News Feeds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his October 2008 Fast Company column, Robert &#8220;Odd Bob&#8221; Scoble says he will never buy another physical newspaper again in his life but instead subscribes to more than <strong>600 news feeds <\/strong>in Google Reader.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but I don&#8217;t have time to look at 600 of ANYTHING &#8212; let alone RSS or Google feeds.<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking of telling Robert to do what I do: look through a daily newspaper for 10-15 minutes each month to find items of interest, and supplement with Google searches for facts and news you need right now.<\/p>\n<p>Advantages of a real newspaper over Google Reader:<\/p>\n<p>1. You get to read nice large type in print instead of tiny type on a screen.<br \/>\n2. It&#8217;s portable. You can carry the news with you without a power supply or gadget.<br \/>\n3. You can rip out articles of interest for passing along or filing.<br \/>\n4. It&#8217;s fun, entertaining, and relaxing. Do it while you eat breakfast or lunch.<br \/>\n5. It gives you clear coverage at just the right level of information density of what  happened within the last 24 hours (for news in real time, I go to cnn.com).<br \/>\n6. The newspaper is delivered free to my front door every morning. <\/p>\n<p>One newspaper &#8212; or 600 news feeds? Which would you prefer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his October 2008 Fast Company column, Robert &#8220;Odd Bob&#8221; Scoble says he will never buy another physical newspaper again in his life but instead subscribes to more than 600 news feeds in Google Reader. I don&#8217;t know about you, but I don&#8217;t have time to look at 600 of ANYTHING &#8212; let alone RSS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}