"Oh, and I gotta admit that TechMeme is kicking my behind. I'm reading more than 900 feeds and TechMeme usually picks stuff I would have picked to put on my link blog and does it 24 hours a day and a lot faster than I can"
Because "humans don't scale as well as software". The same applies to tech blogging. Is Scoble blogging for money or making money off blogging? ( the distinction is here ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=70863 ) If you are a "Scoble type" who blogs for money and generates "meta-stuff" in the form of tech commentary that is time dependent, this is what happens.
Software in the form of http://techmeme.com is displacing http://scobleizer.com. Now if Scoble could hack or was a bit more entrepreneurial he might have come up with Scoble platform/api to do this and licensed it.
Because "humans don't scale as well as software". The same applies to tech blogging. Is Scoble blogging for money or making money off blogging? ( the distinction is here ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=70863 ) If you are a "Scoble type" who blogs for money and generates "meta-stuff" in the form of tech commentary that is time dependent, this is what happens.
Software in the form of http://techmeme.com is displacing http://scobleizer.com. Now if Scoble could hack or was a bit more entrepreneurial he might have come up with Scoble platform/api to do this and licensed it.