Did You Make The Cut?

posted on 11/27/05 at 01:06:56 am by Joel Ross

Well, it sounds like the Big Daddy of tech blogging is weeding out his feed list. What a way to spend a Thanksgiving vacation!

Anyway, he's removing any feed that isn't full text, hasn't been updated in a month, or just isn't interesting. I know at one time I was on his blogroll, but I'm not any longer. I don't know if I got cut this time around or if it happened earlier. It's been a while since I last knew I was on his list (back when he used Bloglines as his blogroll) anyway.

I can pretty well guess?why I got dropped though. Lately, all I've been posting are my NFL picks and RCWs. I'm betting he's not listening to the podcast, so I'm not providing any value for him (although, some find value in just the links).

Here's what I've realized though. It doesn't matter. For a couple of reasons.

First, I'm not blogging for fame, and frankly, Scoble's not my target audience. I'm blogging because it's what I want to do.?If some find value in that, then great!

Second, if I blog about something that would interest him (or any other A-lister that's not reading me - that would be all of them!), Technorati, Feedster, Memeorandum, or any number of other searches will deliver me to them anyway.

So, not only don't I care if they're reading, even if I did, they'll get what's interesting to them anyway.

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