Linkblogging.

I see some are doing linkblogs. My goodness, what quaint little attempts. You’re cute. I can bury you without even thinking. Fifteen minutes, timer starting now.

SeattlePI: Couple beat 4 yr old to death over spilled cereal. Proportionality?
Slate: The balanced budget amendment is deeply stupid. Obvious.
Axios: Trump still believes trade wars are easy to win. Speaking of deeply stupid.
CBS: Assault weapons ban doesn’t violate 2nd Amendment, judge says. The militia clause wasn’t a placeholder.
NYT: Markets Tumble Again. @&$^%$@%
History Today: The Lost Classics. To play ancient Greek music, perchance to hear songs of the muses.
Wirecutter: Best nonstick pan. I’ve bought too many, thrown away too many.
Capital & Main: Study: Forced Arbitration Contracts Cover 60 Million Workers. Arbitration sucks. You want a jury.
SLYT: The First Purge - Official Trailer.
New Scientist: Wasps drum with their stomachs to tell each other about food. Beat to eat.
Hyperallergic: How corporations harness – and hijack – the idea of the Museum. “Museum”, going the way of “curation”?
CBS: Sessions orders "zero tolerance" policy on illegal border crossings. There go the raft concessions on the Rio. And the ranchers will lose their wandering cows.
SeattlePI/AP: Yosemite will close on Friday. Expected floods.
New Yorker: The Revolutionary Genius of Cecil Taylor. Try Love For Sale [Spotify].
Facebook: Making Ads and Pages More Transparent. Repairing the chicken coop after the foxes got in, part 25.
CBS: Teens bored with their smartphones. YES! YES! Go out and experience reality.
The Nation: The murder of Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll has exposed 2 toxic racisms in France. “… and no religion, too.”
Chronicle of Higher Ed: Have Academics Finally Found the Perfect Meme? If’n you ain’t got the ‘stache …

Done. And that was just with one update in Newsblur. I'd manage even more volume if I was still using my old workflow with MarsEdit. Don't mess. Do better, if you're going to offer a linkblog. My beat in the '00's, to the tune of 60+/day, no compensation, in my spare time. I learned hoity-toity 'curation' by doing. It is now the way my grey matter sees things.

"Interestingness" + value-add.

You need more than just being first to the info; that's a no-win situation. There'll always be someone there before you, and then all you end up being is a manual RSS poster. If all you have is immediacy, and you can't guarantee it, what do you have? Your followers may respond to it, but you will start bleeding them eventually. 

The value-add must first and foremost be perspicacity, and then textured by character, voice of experience, authenticity and wit. Cultural references where appropriate. The wit should be as satisfying as a great wrist-snap when throwing a Frisbee. The audience should feel your archness, envision that raised eyebrow and inquiring look. Euan used to tease me about my rather 'painful concision'. I prefer to add more context these days - Rafe asked me to, way back, and I broke through my mental barriers to accommodate.