I must admit, this is weird. AOL to dig up spammer parent’s yard for gold

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Pasture-ize (v.) past-your-eyes- To feed OPML into a Grazr. Originally may have stemmed from

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I found this Craig Barnes  of Attensa post about the River of News style aggregators very interesting. Since they have a great understanding of Attention in his company, it doesn’t surprise me that they want to apply that to NewsRivers in order to make our feed reading more efficient.
I’m not sure Craig gets river of news. I’m not quite sure I get it, but I’m a wee bit closer, methinks. But he does pose a good question of whether the river of news will  cause production slow down like email has.

Probably, but you can’t say that any reader has solved that one yet.

I guess he’s saying that he has some go-to blogs that he can’t miss, but others that are must reads.

I never know where the day’s gem will be. Sometimes Dave Winer has nothing for me and James Corbett does, other days it’s reversed.

I do think Craig confuses  the method of reading all your feeds, ordered by date, but in a three-pane window with a true news river that flows title, description, links and all into one pane. That makes a huge difference.
The River of News style of feed consumption leverages the best computing resource available. The human brain.
Without it, I scan headlines, but often click to find it wasn’t worth it after all.

On a side note, I’m glad to see Craig looking at Open Source . If you read this Craig, just go for it. Actually, I’d like to talk more about it with you later, cuz this post is done.

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I was just listening to a BloggerCon session on How to Make Money with Blogs hosted by Doc Searls.

ADDED: I forgot to mention the podcast is available at itconversations.com

Some felt advertising on blogs or in feeds was a viable solution while others like Dave Winer thought that was nickel and dime and missing the bigger opportunity.

I’m against ads in feeds for one reason, at least. The internet shuts off what it doesn’t want, and eventually gets what it wants.

If we haven’t yet learned this from the Music Recording Industry, Tivo etc., then I don’t think we are as far along as I thought.

Put another way, any unwanted or missing feature is an opportunity for another solution that will deliver a service without the unwanted feature or with the wanted feature.

The customer always wins on the web, because there is no scarcity.
So, the paradox works this way:
1. Ads in feeds will only work if users want them.

2. If users want them, they aren’t really ads, but content.

Most businesses use the phone. Most do not make money off phone traffic, ads, or even use it as a way to process an order. They use it to communicate in all kinds of ways.

Blogs will be used to communicate in all kinds of ways. Very few will have a business model tied directly to eyeballs or direct sales.

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I guess six weeks is about as long as I could go without blogging.

It was a good run.

To all  Everybuddy readers, I’ll be posting here from now on. Please subscribe.

It’s great to be back. Commenting on other’s blogs is just not enough.

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Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

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