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Am I A Google Reader Over-Sharer? Are You?Yesterday

I’ve been taking a closer look at my Google Reader feeds lately, and, as always, I’m trying to stem the tide so the signal can rise above the noise. I’ve done a little spring cleaning, which for me doesn’t mean unsubscribing – I’m always hesitant to do that – but instead, I’ve been re-categorizing.

Is that feed really a “Can’t Miss” read? Shouldn’t that blogger be on my B-List? Doesn’t this feed belong in my “Ideas” folder?

One of the things that made the most difference was the addition of a brand-new folder I’m calling “noisy tech news.” This is now the home to any feed that drives me batty with zillions of posts per day yet doesn’t really provide that much signal. Why keep these feeds you may wonder? Well, for one thing, it’s great to have them in there for searches.

I’ve also put the aggregate feeds in here for sites like CNET and other producers of mass amounts of content. It’s not to say that CNET doesn’t have signal, but when you subscribe to a bunch of their feeds, you’re likely to see duplicate items and a lot of stuff that’s not relevant to you. However, other CNET favs, like Caroline McCarthy’s

Recent happeningsNovember 13

I wanted to let all of my friends and readers of this blog to know what’s been happening lately. I apologize about the lack of updates. I have been spending a majority of my time offline taking care of some family related issues.

I have been blogging on other sites. Most recently Louis Gray handed me the keys to his blog. If you have not been to Louisgray.com to read them, follow the two links below.

• 30 Different Uses for RSS

• How to Discover New Content

I also wrote a post for Mashable.com in mid October, titled “What Happens to Our Social Profiles After We Die?.”

I hope you enjoy these posts. I hope to resume with updates on this blog next week.

Thanks,

Mike

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30 Days Later: 22 Apps We're Still Using 1 Month After Finding ThemNovember 13

How easy is it to launch a new web application these days? Easy enough that we see scads of new ones every day, in our tips inbox, on other blogs, raining out of the sky like cats and dogs. We love many of them, we really do, but after that short period of excitement - how many of these apps do we keep using for the long haul?

We asked seven members of the ReadWriteWeb team to list apps they discovered about a month ago and that they still find useful today. The resulting list was 22 services long, with consensus around a few in particular. Whether you're a long-time early adopter or just discovering many of the apps that the new web has to offer, we think you'll find some things on this list that you'll really appreciate well into the future too.

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Some of these are new, some of them just new to us. We hope that some of them are new to you too. We'd love to find out which apps you've taken for more than just a first test drive, really spent some time with, and are still using a month later.

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Some of the apps I've tested and decided were keepers lately include:

Valleywag's demise shows Silicon Valley ain't HollywoodNovember 13

It's more than a rumor: The great Silicon Valley gossip-rag experiment has come to a humbling conclusion.

Two-and-a-half years after launching Valleywag, blog magnate Nick Denton has decided to fold the site into Gawker, which covers the media business. For the past month, Denton has been saying to everyone who will listen that online advertising is undergoing a sharp slowdown as the economy continues to tank, and Web publishers are going to get nailed.

After recently paring the Valleywag staff down to two, Denton is now keeping only one -- Editor Owen Thomas, who will write as many as a dozen daily posts about Silicon Valley gossip as a Gawker columnist. "Valleywag's traffic isn't enough to pay for two writers, even with Ketel One ads on every page," writer Paul Boutin wrote in a post explaining the move. Boutin's last day is Dec. 1. Thomas' explanation is here

Facebook Now 2/3rds the Size of MySpace in USNovember 13

Having already eclipsed MySpace in terms of worldwide traffic, Facebook is continuing to make gains in the US. The social network added nearly another million monthly visitors in September according to Nielsen Online, bringing its total to 39.9MM uniques. With MySpace’s traffic stagnant at 58.4MM uniques, Facebook is now more than 2/3rds the size of MySpace for the first time in the Nielsen report.

Stats elsewhere paint a similar picture. Compete has an even closer race: 54.9MM to 44.6MM, while Quantcast measures 66.8MM for MySpace and 45.2MM for Facebook. Here’s the comparative trend graph from Compete:

While we’ve known of this trend for a while, one interesting item to note: while Facebook continues to add visitors, MySpace isn’t really losing them – their traffic has hovered around 60MM uniques for most of this year. That implies that users aren’t necessarily leaving MySpace for Facebook, but rather, Facebook is reaching new demographics that MySpace was unsuccessful with previously – most likely, adults.

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