Bulldog Financial’s Bullblog

I’m swamped and I feel guilty about it. I spend what seems like 20 hours a day on the net trying to keep up and the fact is, I just can’t seem to do it. At last count, I regularly ”consume” 212 RSS feeds, a bunch of podcasts, probably 2 dozen daily and monthly email newsletters, four or five monthly magazines that I read cover to cover, physical snail mail from both the house and the office, plus the regular phone calls and email we all get - both important and spam/telemarketers. There are all kinds of tricks that I use like, GTD, email filters and feed aggregators like Bloglines, but I have a very real sense of being flooded. I’m struggle daily trying to seperate the signal from the noise, but my real problem is that I have a fear of missing something. I’ll be the first to admit that this is a condition of my own making, but I’m addicted to “new”. I’m a self-diagnosed “neophiliac” - literally “in love with new things” and some other terms that have been used to describe people with this affliction are “Trendspotter” and “Cool Hunter”.  I don’t think I’m cool enough to call myself those things so I’m going to stick with the slightly more clinical, vauguely naughty term. I have a feeling that many tech obsessed geeks feel the same way. Unfortunately for me, no amount of data filters or editors are going to be able to tell me what I should see without me feeling like I haven’t done more that scratched the surface of a topic. With so many good content producers coming online everyday, I think that this problem will only get worse until I decide that I just don’t care as much anymore.

I just came across this Ebay auction for yet another Web 2.0 company called www.goldenfeed.com. I think that three companies ((Kiko, Huckabuck and now this one) doing this constitute a real trend. I do hope that they get what they want out of the auction and the site itself seems like a decent idea. I don’t know if this is good or bad for the liquidity of Web 2.0 companies, but I do know that it proves that Ebay is without a doubt the largest and most efficient capital market the world has ever known. More anecdotal evidence that proves this is the fact that I had lunch with a very good friend of mine yesterday who told me he sold his World of Warcraft avatar for $800 within hours of posting it earlier this week. It wouldn’t surprise me at all to see an “Ebay for Web 2.0 Companies” cropping up soon.