Darraghdoyle Might See

OCCASIONAL READER Darragh Doyle may see this short blog post because he uses Twitter to graze Irish blogs. This clever process happens because of bosca, an Irish aggregator that monitors content related to Ireland and then pushes out short summaries of the blog items as tweets. I think it's useful to aggregate bosca, then to read dozens of Irish blog summaries in each refresh of your blog reader. I get bosca aggregates delivered to my mobile phone and up to 40 line summaries hit my phone every time I open FreeNews, the Java-powered news reader that runs on my Nokia E90. I'm interested in seeing whether Darragh Doyle, an astute blogger in Ireland, will spot his name in this post and then click over to this blog item from his twitterstream. I'll only know for sure if he drops by and leaves behind a comment.

Here's the important thing about my little experiment--people use aggregators to handle information overload. Darragh Doyle probably uses the bosca aggregator on his mobile phone so he will see breaking news in Ireland before the news is read at the top of the hour. That's impressive, especially since his news alerts will extend beyond his home drone whenever he travels.

I have to follow too many items so the only way I can stay alert is to let technology like the bosca aggregator do some following for me.

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Check out twitter.com/bosca or subscribe to bosca yourself.

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