The ultimate fire hose

I've been having a lot of fun today watching random feeds pass through my Tech Memeorandum reading list. Wait a minute, that is kind of sad isn't it? Anyway, this type of automated aggregation from a meme hunter is the ultimate fire hose. There is something almost illicit about having all these feeds pass by. It is qualitatively different from choosing to subscribe to feeds. I never know what I'll find. Shelley Power's comment feed just passed by for some reason.

I already have over 150 feeds that I'm subscribed to, and I'd pretty much stopped adding to them, because I feel guilty when I have to flush a whole bunch of unread posts away. Using an automated reading list and an aggregator like BlogBridge allows me to read feeds I've never seen before with no guilt. I don't care if they disappear on the next hourly refresh, because new ones will take their place. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus is famous for saying that you can never step into the same river twice. I think Heraclitus would have liked this new model of a river of feeds. See, I knew my History of Science education would be useful someday.