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POSSE - Publish Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere

This doesn't work for all topics though, for some popularity is an anti signal.

Sounds like it. But I personally don't even bother with the feed thing anymore, and I definitely don't use an aggregator or Twitter or any of that. I go to a couple information sources that I expect the good stuff to bubble up to, and spend my 10 or 15 minutes/day with that content.

It doesn't feel like there's critical mass keeping rss feeds up to date. And I had a pretty extensive Feely configured for awhile after the google blog reader went away, too.

But as he himself admits, he doesn't comment on anyone's posts. Social media posting for him just seems to be manually cross posting links to his blog.