JG etc.

I have been watching Boing Boing’s feed numbers for awhile and today they went over 2 million daily readers on their feed.
I think it begs the question, considering a person’s feed aggregator is like a customized morning newspaper, who has more reader’s *attention* in the morning, Boing Boing or the NY Times?

It is bright, cute, user-friendly, and it definitely confirms the idea of blog search as a portal.
Niall Kennedy points out some of the walled garden features:
Unlike many other search sites Technorati’s link structure seems designed to keep people within its pages. A linked blog post title on the site homepage points to a URL search […]

Marshall gives up some great trade secrets here. I like how he uses some web tools to be one of the first ones to break a story and how to find your way into a meme aggregator.
A little piece of his post:
Here’s some free advice: nonprofit organizations wanting to do issue-based outreach with their blogs […]

Congrats to Tony Conrad and Sphere for landing a deal with Time Magazine. I like the idea of getting away from link cosmos and going with something like content semantic analysis. I have been a fan of Tony’s ideas since I saw him speak of his Bmodel at SXSW. Anytime you can land a distribution […]

Great to see some of the new features that will be coming in Firefox 2.0 that are redefining how people will be able to detect and subscribe to feeds.
Feed Detection & Handling
-an IE7 compatible feed sniffer, to detect any feed content
regardless of how incorrectly it was served (e.g. as text/html)
- a Feed Processor - a […]