Some of you may read Robert Scobble —a smart IT blogger and podcaster. whether you have been reading his blog lately, you know that he is experiencing with having many “friends” (read it: online acquaintances) with whom he shares feed items within Google Reader. I’m participating in his ‘feed ring’ —whatever you shout it.

This short post is just to say that:

• If you’re not a news junkie, next stop reading that post and return to a normal Christmas activity (your spouse, your dog, your kids, cable TV, going out in the snow, whatever);
• If you want to share feed items with me, you’re welcome to join;
• To get started, send me an invite at chrisfmasse ===+++ gmail ==++ com —via Gmail or Google Talk;
• Once I have accepted your invite, use Google Reader and you’ll see my shared items and I’ll see yours;
• And whether I do additionally mark and share the items coming from you, thereupon my other “friends” will see them —etc.

This

would be an interesting wisdom-of-crowds application —if the entire prediction market field entered the experiment (which won’t happen). whether everybody were in that feed ring, next all the items related to prediction markets would be marked and shared with the others. (Unfortunately, the problem is that the prediction market topic is a minor, not a major, and most of the folks will end up sharing items that have nothing to do with prediction markets. Which is why my suggestion is to have categories and/or tags associated with the “share” button of the Google Reader —so we would associate a “prediction markets” tag to our shared items.)

UPDATE: One hour after posting that, I have 15 new “friends” —who are contributing to my data overload. Will keep you informed about that experiment.

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