Rob Diana Shares 51.2 Items a Day on Google Reader to 72 People. Robert Scoble Shares 0.4 Items a Day on Google Reader to 5,880. Who Has More Impact? - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
Louis has 18.1 shares a day out of 562 subscribers
- Jesse Stay
The stat really isn't a useful stat.
- Owen Greaves
Jenna, I read your shares on FriendFeed. That's why it says 2% in Reader :)
- Louis Gray
And Owen, what do you think is a more important stat? The Google Reader team is here and listening.
- Louis Gray
It would be interesting to also note the timeline, but mathematically the numbers favor Rob by a third. Taking social aspects as a weighting factor, my guess would be that the 72 people are more focused on Rob (and vice versa) than the 5880 are to Robert. Rob Diana wins by a landslide.
- JCunwired
Here, the power is in the network. Mr Scoble may share to way more people than me, but several people I share with then reshare my shares heavily. That would be the question for the Reader team, who has more "reach" once the network effects are taken into account.
- Rob Diana
The other issue is whether his one share in an given day is viewed more often than the one share from me that gets reshared by several people in my network.
- Rob Diana
I just don't see the value in the stat, it's not an important issue in the grand scheme of things for me.
- Owen Greaves
Without a definition of impact and a measurement of reach it's hard to debate. If I'm a cool new web service then Robert will have probably have a higher conversion ratio. Every social network is hierarchically composed of sub networks and each topic will flow differently across those subnets.
- Todd Hoff
Only traditional thinking would need the information, I just don't see that as a deal breaker or closer in the way business is changing. The numbers will mean nothing if you have a large following of eyeballs, companies want eye balls not ratio's and stats...not the new market place we are entering. Just my view at the moment.
- Owen Greaves
if slow movements have more staying power (critical mass) then this is an even more interesting question, Louis - going to ponder this - cheers.
- thinfilms
I used to be number one on Google Reader but have moved almost all of my sharing behavior here.
- Robert Scoble
"sharing behavior" - great name for a band
- thinfilms
Oh and I read all Rob Diana's stuff and frequently "like" those things here so Rob does win.
- Robert Scoble
Rob Diana has some choice stuff, Robert. But I like the mix of shares I currently have in Google Reader, it definitely fills out the picture in between my core feeds.
- Phil Glockner
The difference also comes from purpose or intent. I am a sharing whore, but I am a filter for many. Robert Scoble is almost pure signal. If you want to stay on top of tech news and social media info, check my reader shares. If you want just one really good opinion per day look at Scoble's shares.
- Rob Diana
Lastly, Scoble is all over the place. As Alex said, the one service is misleading and does not show what Scoble does. If you follow him here or on twitter, you get a much different experience.
- Rob Diana
I thought I share too often, but the numbers are kinda surprising :-O ..and Rob rules my stats by far :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev