I probably read 50+ weblogs via RSS each day. Some in my Radio Userland aggregator and others in NewsGator (within Outlook). Over the years I’ve also bookmarked various discussion boards or forums as favorite reads. I visit them daily. Some of my interests have also led me to subscribe to Yahoo! discussion groups. Those daily digests of threaded discussions also arrive in one of my inboxes daily.

What’s fascinating is when the information starts to intersect. I found Manila and then Radio at Userland software. That led to Robert Scoble and the Scobleizer weblog. (Yes, Scripting News too.)

I found CityDesk and Joel Spolsky (Fog Creek) via a link while looking for content management systems.

I read David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” and have been trying to implement that system for over a year.

Recently there was a GTD thread on one of Joel’s Fog Creek forums. Earlier this week Scoble started blogging about GTD and today points to Jason Womack’s new blog. I recognize names or aliases posting at the GTD forum, Ask Joel forum, Yahoo! Groups – GTD for Palm, etc.

Some people have suggested that the weblog world is just an echo chamber. I read your RSS feed and re-post or echo the item. Some of that does occur. But what is more interesting – is it reassuring or scary?- is that these intersections of information are available and increasingly obvious.

Robert Scoble, Microsoft’s evangelist for their future Longhorn operating system and and avid blogger read by one and all will be in Lafayette on Monday, March 22. Worth a look.

Won’t you join my RSS Neighborhood?

I’m going to be speaking in the “RSS Neighborhood” in Lafayette, CA, on March 22. Topic: Why is blogging hot and why does it matter for business? Hope to see you there.

[Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]

Greg Reinacker just posted about a new way to use RSS feeds through NewsGator – could be very useful..

Wow, I just get done talking about some cool extensions for NewsGator 2.0, and another one pops up.

John Bristowe and Jeff Julian have built an ESF extension for NewsGator. With this extension installed, if a feed publishes information about an event in a certain way, a new item will get added to Outlook’s calendar with the event details.

John has a sample feed and a screenshot in Outlook on his weblog…check it out. This is really beginning to demonstrate the power of RSS extensions, when used with an extension-aware client. Nice job, guys!

[Greg Reinacker’s Weblog]

Over the past several days my internet connection really started to slow down.

First I thought it must be storm related. At one point the digital portion of the TV cable went out for about an hour. I knew there was a problem when I used my GoToMyPC account to access my computer at work. It was no longer responding instantly…but dragging 15 to 20 second responses.

I called Comcast on Thursday to report the problem and the first tech suggested firmware corruption in my router. I didn’t think so – and he gave me a “ticket” number in case I wanted additional assistance. On Friday I called Comcast support again and they agreed there was “packet loss” to my modem and that they would send a guy out. I thought for sure it would be a week before anyone would be available and was pleasantly surprise when they asked if anyone would be home between 8 a.m. and noon on Saturday. “You mean tomorrow?” I said.

John – the Comcast Tech arrived at 11:05 today and tested the cable – good signal levels. He asked me how old my Toshiba modem was. I told him it was installed by @Home, two companies ago. He replaced the modem and everything now works fine.

It’s amazing how spoiled you get with high speed internet service. It makes almost any delay intolerable. It took John 16 minutes to figure out and fix the problem. Thanks, John. Thank you, Comcast.