Comments on: Do You Get the Signal?

By: Ralph Fleming

Ralph Fleming — Fri, 07 May 2010 19:36:25 +0000

Hard as it sounds, I agree with Norbert Mayer-Wittmann. The truth is that there are a lot of blogs about all kinds of subjects that do not cover any relevant information tha can be considered as worth reading. A nice layout, an attractive image and the ads are not enough content to make a blog. And a talented narrating style is not enough either. The information has to give something valuable to the reader other than attract them with lame and repetitive information.
It might not be the case here, but unfortunately this is the standard.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Thu, 06 May 2010 14:44:59 +0000

@John - It would be very helpful to me personally if a link to the signal showed up in the same feed as this blog. I loved reading the signal each day, but find that I miss it/don't think of it often enough.

The best of all worlds to me would be if The Signal showed up in it's full form in this RSS feed as well, but I recognize that you've got other reasons for posting it over at FM.

By: Norbert Mayer-Wittmann

Norbert Mayer-Wittmann — Wed, 05 May 2010 06:11:07 +0000

John, I imagine you might be able to argue that

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Perhaps you could use johnbattelle.com to create a John Battelle commercial firehose!

;D nmw

By: Soren

Soren — Tue, 04 May 2010 19:32:44 +0000

Cool.

By: Geoff Jackson

Geoff Jackson — Tue, 04 May 2010 19:04:14 +0000

I’m subscribed to both but if it were possible to incorporate both into one feed, that would be useful.

By: John

John — Tue, 04 May 2010 15:58:35 +0000

@Dylan, would it help if I put a link to Signal onto this blog and/or into my Battellemedia.com feed?

By: Dylan

Dylan — Tue, 04 May 2010 15:16:55 +0000

It kind’ve bums me out that I have to follow you in multiple places. I put you in my RSS reader for a reason – So that all your stuff would be in one place.

By: Dave Cunningham

Dave Cunningham — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:39:16 +0000

I think the Signal is a great idea. I have found it very useful in keeping up with the *most important* stories in the industry. The Web is only getting more crowded and will continue to do so. Curating content, like you are doing for us, is a subject I have come across a lot lately in the blogosphere. Seems like it’s something worth thinking about. Thanks for being ahead of the curve.

By: Norbert Mayer-Wittmann

Norbert Mayer-Wittmann — Mon, 03 May 2010 12:41:21 +0000

I’ve been following along a bit, but TBH I find this sort of “bundle” packaging anachronistic. I also can’t stand people who write blog posts that go on and on and so on and so on until you start getting sick before they’ve even gotten to the point (which is quite often that there was no point… as in: “we don’t make your head think, our blog is just plain + simple boring filler with a pretty picture and a whole bunch of ads that we really want you to click — why don’t you? This BS we wrote here was obviously extremely disappointing, so maybe if you do you, the result might be more satisfying than reading this crap!”

nmw

By: Geoff Jackson

Geoff Jackson — Mon, 03 May 2010 08:57:32 +0000

That’s great John, am sure you will uncover top stories that I would have not come across. Have subscribed via RSS.