Colin Devroe - Latest Comments in Why I asked for your URL

Re: Why I asked for your URL

Derek Jay Steen — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:38:10 -0000

Twitter is where I get 98% of my news, links, videos, etc.

TweetDeck has made the experience so amazing! I'm able to read the majority of the tweets I receive from the 143 (at writing) people I follow. A good percentage of them tweet rarely or not at all, but then some tweet excessively; I guess there's a balance.

If I were to also read/watch the news, subscribe to blogs, and receive e-mail updates from people, I'd never have time to eat, sleep, and tweet. ;) I respect the people that manage to do that though.

Thanks for subscribing to my blog, Colin. :)

Re: Why I asked for your URL

Colin Devroe — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:12:29 -0000

Miiitch: Yeah. It is a struggle to keep a balance.

Chris Runoff: My reading your blog is a motivation? Awesome!

Re: Why I asked for your URL

chris runoff — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:27:54 -0000

I think this is something that most people struggle with, whether with Twitter or blogs.

My very loose rules of thumb for following goes something like this. 1. Friends and people I've met IRL. 2. People or shows with content I'm interested in. 3. People with ideas or projects I want to support.

I'm interested to know how this works out for you. If nothing else, you've inspired me to refocus more energy into my blog. I've struggled with it thus far and this is a very motivating reason to start putting more effort into my content. Thanks!

Re: Why I asked for your URL

Mitchell Bartlett — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:54:09 -0000

Hm, what an interesting idea. I've had the same problem. I'm struggling to keep the number of people I follow under 100. I've somehow managed to keep my friends list on Viddler relatively small, so I only receive emails about videos from people whose videos I actually care about. Perhaps I should go through the list of people I'm following and cut it down a bit, because as much as I like to read every tweet, I can't keep up any more.

Re: Why I asked for your URL

Colin Devroe — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:39:14 -0000

Joel: Good question. I check my feed reader every few days and, for the lack of a better term, skim through the posts pretty quickly. I don't just read the headlines, I read a bit more than that. But I do see every single post and look at it to see if it interests me. I then either read it then and there or star it for later.

So while it will increase the number of feeds I have loaded up (I gained over 250 unread with this little experiment) - I should be able to get through them relatively quickly and I may even end up finding some things I would have never seen otherwise. I am hoping, if nothing else, this extends the walls of my echo chamber a little bit.

Re: Why I asked for your URL

Joel Mark Witt — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:29:03 -0000

What a great idea Colin. It is difficult for me too in twitter to keep up. Sometimes I guess I found a good balance in following back a few hundred people that have valuable things to say.

But I question your solution. How are you going to keep up with potentially hundreds of longer blog posts if twitter at 140 characters is an issue? Seems like even more info that you'll have to wade through.

Joel Mark Witt